Stephen J. Cannell, creator and producer of The A-Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street, Wiseguy and The Greatest American Hero, died yesterday from complications due to melanoma. His legacy will live on in syndication and DVD. He was 69.

Tony Curtis, the Bronx-born actor and onetime heartthrob, star of The Defiant Ones and Some Like It Hot, and father of Jamie Lee Curtis, has died at the age of 85. His movie career spanned nearly six decades. [NYT]

Five days after being hospitalized for an accidental overdose from prescription pills, Comedy Central fixture, stand-up comedian, and Last Comic Standing judge Greg Giraldo has died. He was 44. [Image via Getty]

Jimi Heselden, the British man who owns Segway, died yesterday after accidentally driving a Segway over a cliff and into the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire. Local police said "he was pronounced dead at the scene." Heselden was 62. [Telegraph]

Eddie Fisher, the popular 1950's crooner, died Wednesday in California at age 82. Besides his successful music career, Fisher was married to Elizabeth Taylor, Connie Stevens and Debbie Reynolds. He and Reynolds were actress Carrie Fisher's parents.

Skinner, a Florida gym teacher who, in the 1960s, harshly cracked down on long hair and other hippieisms, died today. Skinner inspired a group of rebellious students to rename their band after him, calling it Lynyrd Skynyrd. Skinner was 77.

Jim Winner, the salesman who made "The Club" ubiquitous on American steering wheels, died in an auto accident this week at age 81. He was colorful; his corporate headquarters were "surmounted by six-foot pink neon letters spelling out WINNER." [WSJ]

Arrow, the soca musician who wrote "Hot Hot Hot," (you know: "Olé olé/Olé olé") has died.

French New Wave director Claude Chabrol died on Sunday at age 80.

Thomas Guinzburg, co-founder of The Paris Review and later the president of Viking Press, died in New York on Wednesday at 84. Guinzburg published Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," hired Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as an editor, and served in WW2. [NYT]

Rich Cronin, the lead rap-singer of boy-band LFO—you remember "Summer Girls," right?—died of cancer at age 35. He had been diagnosed with myelogenous leukemia in 2005, and apparently passed away on Wednesday after suffering a stroke.

Three time Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Paul Conrad died today at age 86 in California. He worked for over 30 years at The Los Angeles Times, and drew some of America's best political cartoons for more than 50 years.

Cedric the Tasmanian devil, who was hailed in Australia for being immune to a facial cancer that threatens to kill off his entire species, was euthanized after being injected with diseased cells and growing tumors. He was five years old.

George Smithey, a 70-year-old mentally retarded San Quentin Death Row inmate, hung himself in his cell Saturday, five days after his death sentence was commuted. A prison spokesman didn't know "whether Smithey had learned his death sentence had been overturned."

Songwriter George David Weiss, who wrote "Wonderful World" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," died at 89.

Harold Dow, a longtime correspondent for CBS' 48 Hours, died on Saturday in New Jersey.

Critic and scholar Frank Kermode has died at 90. Read some excerpts here, and essays here.

Plastic surgeon to the stars, Dr. Frank Ryan, accidentally drove his car off the Pacific Coast Highway yesterday and died. He performed 10 surgeries in one day on Heidi Montag, who is still surviving the car wreck of her life.

The bassist for the Gap Band, Robert Wilson died Sunday in Palmdale, Califfornia of an apparent heart attack at age 53. "My brother Robert was a bad boy on the bass," Charlie Wilson said in a statement.

In your murderous Monday media column: Mexico's reporters have a terrible job, the NYT Co. tests its paywall on a small stage, nobody trusts TV news, and James Kilpatrick dies.