Independent New York fashion designer Isabel Toledo, dead of breast cancer at 59.

Race car driver and former EXtreme 4x4 and Mythbusters star Jessi Combs, who earned the title of Fastest Woman On Four Wheels when she set a land speed record in her jet-powered car, killed in said car's crash at 39.

The Amazing Race Canada Season 5 co-runner-up Kenneth McAlpine, dead from a 251-metre (nearly-60-storey) fall from the peak of Mt. Gimli on his 28th birthday.

Actress Valerie Harper, best known for her role as Rhoda on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her eponymous spin-off, dead of brain cancer at 80.

Italian actor, author and bodybuilder and former Mr. Olympia Francesco "Franco" Columbu, dead at 78.

Former Yukon premier Dennis Fentie, dead of cancer at 58 a little over two months shy of his birthday.

French Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert, killed in a Belgian Grand Prix crash at 22.

Spanish pop singer Joana Sainz Garcia, killed in a freak fireworks accident at 30.

Alfred Jackson, half-brother and heir to Prince, dead Thursday at 66.

Detroit Tigers catcher Chace Numata, dead from injuries sustained in a skateboarding accident at 27.

American Idol season 11 contestant Haley Smith, killed Saturday in a motorcycle crash at 26.

Former Alpine ski racer and 1992 Winter Olympic bronze medalist Blanca Fernandez Ochoa, the first Spanish woman to achieve such a distinction, dead sometime in the last 11 days from causes yet unknown at 56.

Photographer Peter Lindbergh, who captured the rise of the supermodel in the early '90s (January 1, 1990 to April 30, 1993), dead at 74.

Grammy-winning songwriter LaShawn Daniels, dead Tuesday in a car crash at 41 a little under four months shy of his birthday.

Country singer Kylie Rae Harris, killed in a three-vehicle crash at 30.

Actress Carol Lynley, best known for her role in The Poseidon Adventure, in which she sang the Oscar-winning song, "The Morning After", dead of a heart attack at 77.

Former longtime Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, dead at 95.

Project Runway season 4 contestant and former Mad Fashion star Chris March, dead of a heart attack at 56.

Actor Robert Axelrod, best known for providing the voice of Lord Zedd on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, dead at 70.

Actor John Wesley, best known for his role as Dr. Hoover on The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, dead of complications, due to a long battle with multiple myeloma, at 72.

Former CBC host, producer and actor Rod Coneybeare, best known for voicing Rusty and Jerome on The Friendly Giant, dead at 89.

Former Veterans Affairs Minister Greg Thompson, dead at 72.

Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, dead at 91.

Influential singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, dead of natural causes at 58.

Singer Eddie Money, best known for "Two Tickets To Paradise" and "Take Me Home Tonight", dead of cancer at 70.

Screenwriter Mardik Martin, who penned such classics as Raging Bull and Mean Streets, dead Wednesday at 82.

Former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, dead of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with pulmonary emphysema as a contributing factor at 75.

Tony-winning actress Phyllis Newman, dead at 86.