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May 2007
Charles Nelson Reilly
January 2007
January 7 - NASCAR Driver Bobby Hamilton, Dead
at age 49
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Hefner
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Ford, Bob Barker
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Nick Nolte, Don Knotts
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Hugh Hefner, Rodney Dangerfield
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Nick Nolte, Tony Bennett
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Julia Child, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Joe Namath, B.B. King
July 2004
Rosa Parks, Courtney Love, Fidel Castro, Nick Nolte, Don Knotts, Larry Hagman,
Kirk Douglas, William Shatner
January 7, 2007: NASCAR driver Hamilton dead at 49
NASHVILLE
-- Bobby Hamilton, the longtime NASCAR driver who won the 2001 Talladega 500
and was the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series champion, died Sunday of cancer, said
Liz Allison, a family friend who co-hosted a radio show with Hamilton. He
was 49.
Hamilton was at home with his family when he died, said Allison, the widow of former NASCAR star Davey Allison.
"The thing I loved about Bobby Sr. so much is that he treated everybody the same," Allison said. "It didn't matter if you were one of the drivers he competed against or a fan he'd never laid eyes on before.
"He didn't have a pretentious bone in his body. I think that's why people were drawn to him. He was just very real and had a way of relating to everyone."
Hamilton was diagnosed with head and neck cancer in February. A malignant growth was found when swelling from dental surgery did not go down.
He raced in the season's first three events, with a best finish of 14th at Atlanta Motor Speedway, before turning over the wheel to his son, Bobby Hamilton Jr. The senior Hamilton then started chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
By August, he had returned to work at Bobby Hamilton Racing in Mount Juliet, about 20 miles east of Nashville, and doctors indicated his CAT scans looked good. But microscopic cancer cells remained on the right side of his neck.
"Cancer is an ongoing battle, and once you are diagnosed you always live with the thought of the disease in your body," Hamilton said in an article posted on NASCAR's Web site last month. "It is the worst thing you could ever imagine."
Hamilton won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series O'Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park during his championship season in 2004.
He had just finished a first round of chemotherapy and radiation treatments in July and was already targeting a date for his return to the racetrack.
"Racing's the only thing I've ever done all my life. I've got the itch (to race) but I've got my priorities in line. Homestead's my race," he said to The Commerial Appeal. "I need to do a little testing first. I'm ahead of schedule (in his recovery). If I can keep that going, it'll make me that much better toward the end of the year."
Hamilton, born in Nashville in 1957, drove in all of NASCAR's top three divisions, making 371 starts and winning four times in what is now the Nextel Cup series.
"I love what I do; I love this business," he said in March 2006 when he disclosed that he had cancer. "NASCAR has been good to me, and I just don't feel comfortable when I am not around it."
Hamilton's Nextel Cup wins, in addition to Talladega, came at Phoenix, Rockingham and Martinsville. His best season was in 1996 when he finished ninth in the points standings. He won his first Cup race that year, at Phoenix.
Hamilton drove in the top-level NASCAR series from 1989-05, earning $14.3 million and racing to 20 top-five finishes.
From the Associated Press, Teresa M. Walker
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