"The Redwoods are falling..."
~Larry Gelbart,
in his eulogy for Jack Lemmon
"They were Hollywood's royalty,
and now they're gone,
and not likely to be replaced."
~Chris Lemmon,
~Chris Lemmon,
A Twist of Lemmon: A Tribute to My Father
2013
Deanna Durbin (Apr 30)
Jonathan Winters (Apr 11)
Annette Funicello (Apr 8)
Patti Page (Jan 1)
2012
Phyllis Diller (Aug 20)
Celeste Holm (Jul 15)
Ernest Borgnine (Jul 8)
Andy Griffith (Jul 3)
Ann Rutherford (June 11)
Patricia Medina (Apr 28)
Robert Sherman (Mar 6)
2011
Anne Francis (Jan 2)
Margaret Whiting (Jan 10)
Doc Williams (Jan 31)
Peggy Rea (Feb 5)
Kenneth Mars (Feb 12)
Jane Russell (Feb 28)
Elizabeth Taylor (Mar 23)
Clarice Taylor (May 30)
James Arness (June 4)
Harry Morgan (Dec 7)
2010
Pernell Roberts (Jan 29)
Lionel Jeffries (Feb 19)
Fess Parker (March 18)
Dorothy Provine (April 25)
Lena Horne (May 9)
Patricia Neal (Aug 8)
Eddie Fisher (Sep 22)
Tony Curtis (Sep 29)
Barbara Billingsley (Oct 16)
James MacArthur (Oct 28)
Leslie Nielson (Nov 28)
Blake Edwards (Dec 15)
2009
Dom DeLuise (May 4)
Ed McMahon (Jun 23)
Karl Malden (Jul 1)
Virginia Davis (Aug 15)
2008
Suzanne Pleshette (Jan 19)
Charleton Heston (Apr 5)
Ollie Johnston (Apr 14)
Harvey Korman (May 29)
Mel Ferrer (Jun 2)
Cyd Charisse (Jun 17)
Jo Stafford (Jul 16)
Edie Adams (Oct 15)
Nina Foch (Dec 5)
Bettie Page (Dec 11)
Van Johnson (Dec 12)
Eartha Kitt (Dec 25)
2007
Yvonne DeCarlo (Jan 8)
Sidney Sheldon (Jan 30)
Peter Ellenshaw (Feb 12)
Betty Hutton (Mar 11)
Kitty Carlisle (Apr 17)
Jane Wyman (Sep 10)
Deborah Kerr (Oct 16)
Joey Bishop (Oct 17)
Michael Kidd (Dec 23)
2006
MOira Shearer (Jan 31)
Al Lewis (Feb 3)
Don Knotss (Feb 24)
Darren McGavin (Feb 25)
Richard Fleischer (Mar 25)
Robert Donner (June 8)
June Allyson (Jul 8)
Glenn Ford (Aug 30)
Jane Wyatt (Oct 20)
Betty Comden (Nov 23)
2005
Virginia Mayo (Jan 17)
Johnny Carson (Jan 23)
Aurthur Miller (Feb 10)
Sandra Dee (Feb 20)
Ruth Hussey (Apr 19)
Sir John Mills (Apr 23)
Frank Gorshin (May 17)
Howie MOrris (May 21)
Eddie Albert (May 26)
Anne Bancroft (Jun 6)
June Haver (July 4)
Kevin HAgen (Jul 9)
Brock Peters (Aug 23)
Robert Wise (Sep 14)
Sid Luft (Sep 15)
Louis Nye (Oct 9)
Sheree North (Nov 4)
Mary Hayley Bell (Dec 1)
Mary Jackson (Dec 10)
2004
Uta Hagen (Jan 14)
Ann Miller (Jan 22)
Jack Paar (Jan 27)
Ronald Reagan (Jun 5)
Ray Charles (Jun 10)
Marlon Brando (Jul 1)
Jerry Goldsmith (Jul 21)
David Raksin (Aug 9)
Janet Leigh (oct 3)
Rodney Dangerfield (Oct 5)
Howard Keel (Nov 7)
2003
Fred Rogers (Feb 27)
Wendy Hiller (May 14)
Martha Scott (May 28)
Gregory Peck (jun 12)
Buddy Hackett (Jun 29)
Katharine Hepburn (Jun 29)
Buddy Ebsen (Jul 6)
Bob Hope (Jul 27)
Donald O'Connor (Sep 27)
Jack Elam (Oct 20)
Helen Kleeb (dec 28)
2002
MIlton Berle (Mar 27)
Dudley Moore (Mar 27)
Billy Wilder (Mar 27)
Rosemary Clooney (Jun 29)
Adolph Green (Oct 23)
Eddie Bracken (Nov 14)
James Coburn (Nov 18)
2001
Les Brown (Jan 4)
Deborah Walley (May 10)
Perry COmo (May 12)
Arlene Francis (May 31)
Jack Lemmon (Jun 27)
Kathleen Freeman (Aug 23)
Troy Donahue (Sep 2)
Dorothy McGuire (Sep 13)
2000
Hedy Lamarr (Jan 19)
Douglas Fairbanks JR. (May 7)
David Tomlinson (Jun 24)
Walter Matthaur (Jul 1)
Sir Alec Guinness (Apr 2)
Loretta Young (Aug 12)
Elvera Davis (Sep 2)
Richard Farnsworth (Oct 6)
Steve Allen (Oct 30)
Billy Barty (Dec 23)
1999
Ellen Corby (Apr 14)
Al Hirt (Apr 27)
Mel Torme (Jun 5)
Guy Mitchell (jul 1)
George C. Scott (Sep 22)
Hoyt Axton (Oct 25)
Madeline Kahn (Dec 3)
1998
Henny Youngman (Feb 24)
Alice Faye (May 9)
Frank Sinatra (May 14)
Roy Rogers (Jul 6)
Gene Autry (Oct 2)
Roddy McDowall (Oct 3)
Flip Wilson (Nov 25)
1997
Sheldon Leonard (Jan 11)
Brian Keith (Jun 24)
James Stewart (Jul 2)
Red Skelton (Sep 17)
1996
Gene Kelly (Feb 2)
Audrey Meadows (Feb 3)
George Burns (Mar 9)
Greer Garson (Apr 6)
Ella Fitzgerald (jun 15)
Claudette Colbert (Jul 30)
Dorothy Lamour (Sep 22)
1995
Burl Ives (Apr 14)
Ginger Rogers (Apr 25)
Elizabeth Montgomery (May 18)
Lana Turner (Jun 29)
Eva Gabor (Jul 4)
Phil Harris (Aug 11)
Mary Wickes (Oct 22)
Butterfly McQueen (Dec 22)
Dean Martin (Dec 25)
1994
George Peppard (May 8)
Henry Mancini (Jun 14)
Burt Lancaster (Oct 20)
1993
Dizzy Gillespie (Jan 6)
Audrey Hepburn (Jan 20)
Lillian gish (Feb 27)
Ruby Keeler (Feb 28)
Helen Hayes (Mar 17)
Fred Gwynne (Jul 2)
Vincent Price (Feb 27)
Bill Bixby (Nov 21)
Myrna Loy (Dec 14)
1992
Judith Anderson (Jan 3)
Sandy Dennis (March 2)
Neville Brand (Apr 16)
Benny Hill (Apr 20)
Marlene Dietrich (May 6)
Lawrence Welk (May 17)
Shirley Booth (Oct 16)
Cleavon Little (Oct 22)
Sterling Holloway (Nov 22)
1991
Nancy Kulp (Feb 3)
Danny Thomas (Feb 6)
Wilfrid Hyde-White (May 6)
Jean Arthur (Jun 19)
Lee Remick (Jul 2)
Colleen Dewhurst (Aug 22)
Frank Capra (Sep 3)
Fred MacMurray (Nov 5)
Gene Tierney (Nov 6)
Eleanor Audley (Nov 25)
1990
Terry-Thomas (Jan 8)
Barbara Stanwyck (Jan 20)
Ava Gardner (Jan 25)
Greta Garbo (Apr 15)
Paulette Goddard (Apr 23)
Sammy Davis, Jr. (May 16)
Rex Harrison (Jun 2)
Irene Dunne (Sep 4)
Leonard Bernstein (Oct 14)
Mary Martin (Nov 3)
1989
Lucille Ball (Apr 26)
Mel Blanc (Jul 10)
Sir Laurence Olivier (Jul 11)
Irving Berlin (Sep 22)
Bette Davis (Oct 6)
Frances Bavier (Dec 6)
John Payne (Dec 6)
1988
Trevor Howard (Jan 7)
Andrew Duggan (May 15)
1987
Ray Bolger (Jan 15)
Liberace (Feb 4)
Danny Kaye (Mar 3)
Rita Hayworth (May 14)
Fred Astaire (Jun 22)
Jackie Gleason (Jun 24)
Richard Egan (Jul 20)
John Huston (Aug 28)
Lorne Greene (Sep 11)
Bob Fosse (Sep 23)
1986
Donna Reed (Jan 14)
Gordon MacRae (Jan 24)
Ray Milland (Mar 10)
James Cagney (Mar 30)
Kate Smith (jun 17)
Rudy Vallee (Jul 3)
Vincente Minnelli (Jul 25)
Ted Knight (Aug 26)
Keenan Wynn (Oct 14)
Cary Grant (Nov 29)
Desi Arnaz (Dec 2)
Elsa Lancester (Dec 26)
1985
Margaret Hamilton (May 16)
Grayson Hall (aug 7)
Rock Hudson (oct 2)
Yul Brynner (Oct 10)
Orson Welles (Oct 10)
Phil Silvers (Nov 1)
Anne Baxter (Dec 12)
Rickey Nelson (Dec 31)
1984
Ethel Merman (Feb 15)
William Powell (Mar 5)
Count Basie (Apr 26)
Ned Glass (Jun 15)
Lillian Hellmann (Jun 30)
James Mason (Jul 27)
Richard Burton (Aug 5)
Peter Lawford (Dec 24)
1983
George Balanchine (Apr 30)
Norma Shearer (Jun 12)
David Niven (Jul 29)
Ira Gershwin (Aug 17)
Joan Hackett (Oct 8)
Pat O'Brien (Oct 15)
Slim Pickens (Dec 8)
William Demarest (Dec 28)
1982
Reta SHaw (Jan 8)
Paul Lynde (Jan 9)
Hugh Beaumont (May 14)
Henry Fonda (Aug 12)
Ingrid Bergman (Aug 29)
Grace Kelly (Sep 14)
1981
Bill Haley (Feb 9)
Ross Martin (jul 3)
Gloria Grahame (Oct 5)
William Holden (Nov 16)
Natalie Wood (Nov 29)
1980
Jimmy Durante (Jan 29)
Alfred Hitchcock (Apr 29)
Peter Sellers (Jul 24)
Mae West (Nov 22)
George Raft (Nov 24)
1979
Mary Pickford (May 29)
Jack Haley (Jun 6)
John Wayne (Jun 11)
Vivian Vance (Aug 17)
Sally rand (Aug 31)
Merle Oberon (Nov 23)
Zeppo Marx (Nov 30)
1978
Will Geer (Apr 22)
Louis Prima (Aug 24)
Edgar Bergen (Sep 30)
Ed Wood (Dec 10)
1977
Joan Crawford (May 10)
Groucho Marx (Aug 19)
Sebastian Cabot (Aug 23)
Ethel Waters (Sep 1)
Bing Crosby (Oct 14)
Charlie Chaplin (Dec 25)
1976
Vince Guaraldi (Feb 6)
Johnny Mercer (jun 25)
Alastair Sim (Aug 19)
Rosalind Russell (Nov 28)
1975
Susan Hayward (Mar 14)
Moe Howard (May 4)
Arthur Treacher (Dec 14)
Bernard Herrmann (Dec 24)