Pour Out a Little Liquor

I was going to do this days ago with the shock of the death of the world's best comedian, but I decided to wait to see if I had to add the name of a person that shouldn't even be on this list. These are the names of some of the notable people that have passed in 2005.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams, 51, co-founder of the Crips, Youth activist, author
Richard Pryor, 65, comedian, actor, writer, director
Rosa Parks, 92, civil rights activist
Nipsey Russell, 80, actor, comedian, poet, The Tin Man in The Wiz
August Wilson, 60, playwright, Fences, The Piano Lesson
Pat Morita, 73, actor, best known for his role as Mr. Miyogi in The Karate Kid ("Wax on, wax off.")
Don Adams, 82, actor, best known as Maxwell Smart on Get Smart
Bob Denver, 70, actor, best known for his role as Gilligan on Gilligan's Island
Leo Sternbach, 97, chemist, invented Valium
Peter Jennings, 67, news anchor, ABC News
Ashley Burns, 14, Massachusetts cheerleader
LaToyia Figueroa, 24, Disappearance sparked the "Missing White Women Syndrome" because it was ignored by media focusing on Natalee Holloway
Luther Vandross, 54, song-writer, R&B artist, (This was the real King of R&B, Whitney!)
Anne Bancroft, 73, Oscar-winning actress, best known for role as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
Pope John Paul II, 84, 20th century pope of the Roman Catholic Church
William J. Bell, 78, creator of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful
Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer
John DeLorean, 80, auto maker (Back to the Future car), also known for being a drug dealer
Arthur Miller, 89, playwright, The Crucible (one of my favorite books)
Ossie Davis, 87, actor
Johnnie Carson, 79, comedian, host of The Tonight Show
Shirley Chisolm, 80, politican, first Black woman to serve in Congress, first woman to run for President
H. David Dalquist, 86, creator of Bundt cake pan
Makgatho Mandela, 54, son of Nelson Mandela
Lamont Bentley, 31, actor, best known as Hakeem on Moesha