The Ghoul Pool: Notable 2008 Passings

IRINA BARONOVA (Prima ballerina)

MR. BLACKWELL (Worst-dressed list progenitor)

CEDELLA BOOKER (Mother of Bob Marley)

SARAH BRYANT (First British servicewoman to be killed in Afghanistan)

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY Jr. (Conservative pundit)

CORNEL CAPA (Crusading photojournalist)

GEORGE CARLIN (Funny guy)

CYD CHARISSE (Hollywood dancer extraordinaire)

ARTHUR C. CLARKE (Author who saw science fiction become real)

DANNY FEDERICI (E-Street Band keyboardist)

OTTO FUERBRINGER (Time editor, Vietnam War cheerleader)

ISAAC HAYES (Funky singer-songwriter)

CHARLTON HESTON (Actor and activist)

TONY HILLERMAN (Navajo Nation mystery writer)

ALBERT HOFFMAN (Inventor of LSD)

GEORGE "WYDELL" JONES (Author of "Rama Lama Ding Dong")

PHILIP JONES-GRIFFITHS (Vietnam War photojournalist)

ALTON KELLEY (Rock poster artist)

STEVEN LICZBINSKI (Murdered Philadelphia police officer)

MIRIAM MAKEBA (Singer and civil-rights activist)

PATRICK McDONALD (Murdered Philadelphia police officer)

BUDDY MILES (Rock drummer)

MITCH MITCHELL (Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer)

LeROI MOORE (Dave Matthews Band saxophonist)

IMAD FAYEZ MUGNIYAH (Hezbollah thug and murderer)

PAUL NEWMAN (Actor and philanthropist)

CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN (Irish iconoclast)

ODETTA (Singer and civil-rights activist)

LORENZO ODONE (Youngster who inspired Lorenzo's Oil)

BETTIE PAGE (Pin-up girl and cult figure)

UTAH PHILLIPS (Folk singer-songwriter)

SIDNEY POLLACK (Oscar-winning director and producer)

DITH PRAN (Photographer and Cambodian genocide survivor)

DAN ROWAN (Funny guy)

MERLE SAUNDERS (Keyboardist)

SCARLETT (Hero cat)

TONY SCHWARTZ (Groundbreaking ad man)

ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN (Soviet writer, exile, paleoconservative)

STUDS TERKEL (Author and Chicago symbol)

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE (Novelist)

RICHARD WRIGHT (Pink Floyd keyboardist)