Celebs We Lost in 2009

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Celebs we lost in 2009Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson: King of pop Michael Jackson was pronounceddead on June 25, 2009 after paramedics found him in a coma athis Bel-Air mansion in Los Angeles. He was 50. His deathtriggered an outpouring of grief from around the world. Michaelwas at that time preparing for This Is It concert. More 12 celebsafter a jump.

Michael Jacksons memorial was held on July 7, 2009, at theStaples Center in Los Angeles, preceded by a private family

service at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks Hall of Liberty. Jacksonscasket was present during the memorial but no information wasreleased about the final disposition of the body.

Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Mariah Carey, John Mayer,Jennifer Hudson, Usher, Jermaine Jackson, and Shaheen
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Jafargholi performed at the event. Jacksons 11-year-olddaughter, Paris Katherine, cried as she told the crowd, Eversince I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could everimagine I just wanted to say I love him so much.

Patrick Swayze
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Patrick Swayze: Patrick Swayze, the handsome actor whodanced his way into moviegoers hearts with Dirty Dancing and

then with Ghost, died on September 14, 2009 after a battle withpancreatic cancer. He was 57. Swayze, who was named byPeople magazine as its Sexiest Man Alive in 1991 wasdiagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer in January 2008.

Swayze was seriously injured in 1998 while filming Letters froma Killer near Ione, California when he fell from a horse and hit atree. Both of his legs were broken and he suffered four detached

tendons in his shoulder. Filming was suspended for two months,but the film aired in 1999. Swayze recovered from his injuries,but he had trouble resuming his career until 2000.

His last role was the lead in The Beast, which premiered onJanuary 15, 2009. Due to a prolonged decline in health, Swayzewas unable to promote the series.

Stephen Gately
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Stephen Gately: Stephen Gately, one of the lead singers of thepop group Boyzone, died on October 10 2009. The Irish popsinger, songwriter and actor, had a record-breaking sixteen

consecutive singles enter the top five of the UK Singles Chart.

Gately even released a successful solo album in 2000, after thegroups initial breakup, which charted in the UK top ten andyielded three UK hit singles, including the top three hit NewBeginning.

Gately went on to appear variously in successful stage

productions and on television programmes as well ascontributing further tracks to various projects. In 2008, herejoined his colleagues as Boyzone reformed for a series ofconcerts and recordings.

Gately wed Andrew Cowles, first in a commitment ceremony inLas Vegas in 2003 and more formally in a civil partnershipceremony in London in 2006. He made his sexuality known in

1999 and came out in a blaze of publicity. He was the first everboyband member to do so.

Upon Boyzones reformation, Gately featured as part of the firstgay couple in a boybands music video in what was to be his lastmusic video with the band, for the song Better.The singer wasdiscovered dead at an apartment he owned with Cowles inMajorca, Spain. (Text: Wikipedia)

Feroz Khan


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Feroz Khan: Feroz Khan better known as the Clint Eastwood ofthe East was famous for his flamboyant style. Famous for hisstyle quotient, Feroz Khan in a way revolutionaised theconventional Bollywood hero.

He appeared in over 50 films in the 1970s and 1980s, andbecame one of Indias best-loved heroes with his role in the1980 hit film Qurbani, which he also directed. Khan followedthis multi-disciplinary achievement by directing more successfulfilms like Dayavan (1988) and Janbaaz (1986). He was honouredwith the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.

Though he was not considered a superstar, Feroz Khan wasalways ahead of his time in terms of his unmatchable style,which reflected in his movies and music.The actor was sufferingfrom cancer and died on April 27, 2009.(Text: Wikipedia)
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Bina Rai

Bina Rai: Bina Rai is known for her roles in classics like Anarkali(1953) and Taj Mahal (1963).

Bina Rai was in her first year of college when she came across anadvertisement for a talent contest, she applied and received acall from the sponsors. Although she had been an active incollege dramatics, a film career was never within her field ofvision.

Nevertheless she went Bombay, to participate in the contestwhere she won along with the 25,000 rupees in prize money aleading role in Kishore Sahus Kali Ghata (1951).

In the 1950s she married actor Prem Nath, who being thebrother-in-law of the actor-director Raj Kapoor. The first moviein which the duo were paired opposite each other was Aurat
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(1953). The film was not a hit, but Bina Rai and Prem Nath fellin love with each other. They married and soon set up their ownproduction unit, known as P.N. Films. Their first film from P.N.Films was Shagufa (1954) and they had pinned high hopes on it,

but audiences rejected it.

Bina Rai stopped acting in films many years ago, claimingthat women of a certain age dont get good roles. She died ofcardiac arrest on December 6, 2009. (Text: Wikipedia)

Simple Kapadia
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Simple Kapadia: Dimple Kapadias younger sister SimpleKapadia was a Bollywood actress and costume designer.

She began her career when she was 18 years old. She made her

acting debut in 1977 in the film Anurodh, paired opposite herreal-life brother-in-law, actor Rajesh Khanna. The filmsdirector Shakti Samanta said that although the film had aninteresting story, he felt that audiences didnt want to see theleading man pursue his real life sister-in-law.

Simple appeared in about 20 movies and stopped acting in 1986and worked as a costume designer for films since then. In 1994,

she won a National award for her costume design in Rudaali.Simple Kapadia suffered from cancer and died on November 102009. (Text: Wikipedia)

Jade Goody


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Jade Goody: Jade Goody came into the public spotlight whileappearing on the third series of the reality TV programme BigBrother in 2002, an appearance which led to her own televisionprogrammes and the launch of her own products after hereviction.

During the show she was accused of racist bullying against Indianactress Shilpa Shetty. Following her eviction from the show, she

admitted her actions had been wrong and she subsequentlymade many public apologies.

In August 2008, she appeared on the Indian version of BigBrother, Bigg Boss, but withdrew early from the show andreturned to the UK after being told she had cervical cancer.
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She performed all over India and for All India Radio stations until1945. Hangal had initially performed light classical genres,including bhajan and thumri, but concentrated on khyal.

She also served as a honorary music professor of the KarnatakUniversity.

Hangal gave her last concert in March 2006 to mark her 75thcareer year. She had overcome bone marrow cancer in 2003,and died of cardiac arrest at the age of 96, on 21 July 2009, inHubli, where she resided. She had her eyes donated to increase

awareness for organ donation. (Text: Wikipedia)

Farrah Fawcett


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Farrah Fawcett: A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Awardnominee, Farrah Fawcett rose to international fame when shefirst appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the TV seriesCharlies Angels in 1976.

Fawcett was also a pop culture figure whose hairstyle wasemulated by millions of young women and whose poster salesbroke records, making her an international sex symbol in the1970s and 1980s.
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fawcett appeared in TVcommercials for consumer products. Beginning in 1978, afterachieving TV stardom, she developed her own brand of hair careproducts, for which she appeared in a series of commercials and

print ads.

Fawcett, who had steadfastly resisted appearing nude in films ormagazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s, caused a major stirby posing nude in the December 1995 issue of Playboy magazine,which became the best-selling issue of the 1990s, with over fourmillion copies sold worldwide.

At the age of 50, she returned to the pages of Playboy with apictorial for the July 1997 issue, which also became a top seller.That same year, Fawcett was chosen by Robert Duvall to play hiswife in an independent feature film he was producing, TheApostle. Fawcett received an Independent Spirit Awardnomination as Best Actress for the film.

Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006. She died on

June 25, 2009. (Text: Wikipedia)Natasha Richardson


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Natasha Richardson: Natasha Richardson was an English-American stage and screen actress. A member of the Redgravefamily, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave anddirector/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter ofMichael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

Early in her career she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearstin feature films, and she received critical acclaim and a TheatreWorld Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of AnnaChristie. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by aLeading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award forOutstanding Actress in a Musical, and the Outer Critics CircleAward for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadwayrevival of Cabaret.

Some of her notable films included Patty Hearst (1988), TheHandmaids Tale (1990), Nell (1994), The Parent Trap (1998) andMaid in Manhattan (2002).
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On 16 March 2009, Richardson sustained a head injury when shefell while taking a skiing lesson at the Mont Tremblant Resort inQuebec, about 130 km from Montreal. The injury was followedby a lucid interval, when Richardson seemed to be fine and was

able to talk and act normally. Paramedics and an ambulancewhich initially responded to the accident were told they werenot needed and left. Refusing medical attention, she returnedto her hotel room and about three hours later was taken to alocal hospital in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts after complaining of aheadache. She was transferred from there by ambulance toHpital du Sacr-Cur, Montreal, in critical condition and wasadmitted about seven hours after the fall. The following day she

was flown to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where shedied on March 18, 2009. An autopsy conducted by the New YorkCity Medical Examiners Office revealed the cause of death wasan epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head, andher death was ruled an accident. (Text: Wikipedia)

Shakti Samanta


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Shakti Samanta: Shakti Samanta was most known for films likeHowrah Bridge, China Town, Kashmir Ki Kali, An Evening inParis, Kati Patang and Amar Prem. He received Filmfare Awardsfor Best Film for Aradhana, Anuraag and Amanush, which wasalso made in Bengali, a language in which made six films,including a Indo-Bangladesh joint production in 1984.

Some of his films have been shown at international festivals inBerlin, Tashkent, Moscow, Cairo and Beirut.B Samanta was President of the Indian Motion Pictures ProducersAssociation for five years, Chairman of the Central Board of Film
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