Lotsa dead folks

I've noticed that a lot of people have been croaking with a higher degree of regularity so far this year. Here's a short list:

Saul Bellow, Nobel prize winning author, died April 4 at the age of 89.
Pope John Paul II, Karol Joseph Wojtyla, died April 2 at the age of 84.
Mitch Hedberg, Comedian and actor, died April 1 at the age of 36.
Frank Perdue, Chicken magnate, died April 1 at 84.
Johnnie Cochran, lawyer best known for his work on the O.J. defense, died March 29 at the age of 67.
John Zachary DeLorean, auto executive, died March 19 at the age of 80.
Simone Simon, actress best known for Cat People, died February 22 at the age of 93.
Sandra Dee, actress best known as Gidget, died February 20 at the age of 63.
Hunter S. Thompson, journalist, died February 20 at the age of 67.
Arthur Miller, playwright, died February 10 at the age of 89.
Ossie Davis, actor, died February 4 at the age of 87.
Max Schmeling, boxer, died February 2 at the age of 99.
John Vernon, actor best known as Dean Wormer in National Lampoon's Animal House, died February 2 at the age of 72.
Philip Johnson, architect, died January 25 at the age of 98.
Johnny Carson, talk show host, died January 23 at the age of 79.
Frank Kelly Freas, illustrator, died January 2 at the age of 84.
Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress, died January 1 at the age of 80.

note: Terri Schiavo is not on the list because she was not famous... just a famous vegetable.