THE BUTCHER'S BILL 2005 During World War II, Winston Churchill inquired about the day's casualties by asking "What's the Butcher's Bill today?" Here are a few of the noted personalities who left this mortal coil in 2005: Shirley Chisolm, politician Will Eisner, graphic novel artist "The Spirit", "A Contract With God" Rosemary Kennedy Ruth Warrick, actress "Citizen Kane" Virginia Mayo, actress Jim Aparo, comic artist "Brave and the Bold", "Batman" Johnny Carson, host of The Tonight Show John Vernon, actor "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" Max Schmeling, boxer Ossie Davis, actor Jimmy Smith, jazz organist Arthur Miller, playwright "The Crucible" Sammi Smith, singer "Help Me Make It Through the Night" Dan O'Herlihy, actor "Halloween III", "Macbeth", "Fail Safe" Hunter S. Thompson, author "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" Sandra Dee, actress "The Dunwich Horror" John Raitt, singer/actor "Carousel" Harry Simeone, choral director "Little Drummer Boy" Martin Denny, musician "Quiet Village" Teresa Wright, actress "Shadow of a Doubt" Debra Hill, producer "Halloween" Andre Norton, science fiction author "The Beastmaster" Bobby Short, singer Paul Henning, TV producer "Beverly Hillbillies", "Petticoat Junction", "Green Acres" Paul Hester, drummer "Crowded House" Johnnie Cochran, lawyer Bass Wolf, musician "Wild Zero" Pope John Paul II Saul Bellow, author John Sichel, director "Someone at the Top of the Stairs", "The Avengers" Debralee Scott, actress "Welcome Back Kotter" Prince Rainier of Monaco John Brosnan, science fiction author Jaime Fernandez, actor "Santo vs. the Vampire Women" Kay Walsh, actress "The Witches", "Scarecrow of Romney Marsh", "Scrooge" Ruth Hussey, actress "Philadelphia Story", "The Uninvited" Sir John Mills, actor "39 Steps", "Gandhi", "Quatermass Conclusion", "Dr Strange", "Great Expectations" Maria Schell, actress "Superman" Frank Gorshin, actor "Batman", "Invasion of the Saucer Men" Howard Morris, actor "High Anxiety" Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor "Tony the Tiger" Ismail Merchant, producer "Remains of the Day", "Howard's End", "Room With A View" Eddie Albert, actor "Green Acres" Anne Bancroft, actress "The Graduate", "Miracle Worker", "84 Charing Cross Road" Robert Clarke, actor "The Hideous Sun Demon" Paul Winchell, actor "Stop Look & Laugh" "Wacky Races (as Dick Dastardly)" "Winnie the Pooh (as Tigger)" John Fiedler, actor "Winnie the Pooh (as Piglet)", "Star Trek", "The Night Stalker" Shelby Foote, historian Luther Vandross, singer June Haver, actress "Love Nest" Frances Langford, actress "The Bickersons" Laurel Aitken, reggae singer Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress "Wilson", "Wuthering Heights", "Arthur" Edward Heath, British prime minister William Westmoreland, Vietnam general James Doohan, actor "Star Trek" Long John Baldry, musician Eugene Record, singer "The Chi-Lites" Pat McCormick, comedian Hildegarde, entertainer King Fahd, Saudi Arabia ruler Loulie Jean Norman, singer "Spike Jones In Stereo" Little Milton, blues singer Ibrahim Ferrer, singer "Buena Vista Social Club" Peter Jennings, TV news anchor Barbara Bel Geddes, actress "Vertigo" Mel Welles, actor "The She Beast" "Attack of the Crab Monsters" Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer Brock Peters, actor "To Kill A Mockingbird" R. L. Burnside, blues singer Bob Denver, actor "Gilligan's Island" William Rehnquist, chief justice of supreme court Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, blues singer Robert Wise, director "The Haunting" Richard E. Cunha, director "Frankenstein's Daughter", "Giant From the Unknown" Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter Don Adams, actor "Get Smart" Nipsey Russell, comedian Ronnie Barker, comedian "The Two Ronnies", "Open All Hours" Louis Nye, comedian Ursula Howells, actress "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors", "Torture Garden" Wolf Rilla, director "Village of the Damned" Shirley Horn, jazz singer Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer Skitch Henderson, band leader "The Tonight Show" Link Wray, musician Moustapha Akkad, producer "Halloween" Ralph Edwards, TV host "This is Your LIfe" Chris Witley, blues singer Constance Cummings, actress "Blithe Spirit" Pat Morita, actor "Happy Days", "The Karate Kid" Stan Berenstain, author "The Berenstain Bears" Wendie Jo Sperber, actress "Bosom Buddies" Herbert L. Strock, director "The Crawling Hand", "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" "Blood of Dracula" Jean Parker, actress "Little Women", "Bluebeard" Jack Colvin, actor "The Incredible Hulk", "Rooster Cogburn" Eugene McCarthy, former Senator/presidential candidate Richard Pryor, comedian Vincent Schiavelli, actor "Ghost", "Amadeus", "Batman Returns"