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In 2021, Hollywood lost dozens of achieved performers who've entertained audiences for years: legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, honour-winning actress Cicely Tyson, rapper DMX, actress and music video star Tawny Kitaen, Saved by the Bell's Dustin Diamond, The Mary Tyler Moore Testify alums Cloris Leachman, Ed Asner and Gavin MacLeod, plus many, many others.
Below are just some of the people we wrote almost. Keep in mind that we didn't list people such as Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer killed tragically on the set of the motion-picture show Rust, who we've extensively covered elsewhere on Yahoo Entertainment. And please annotation that an even longer list can be found hither. — by Suzy Byrne, Erin Donnelly, Lyndsey Parker, Taryn Ryder and Raechal Shewfelt
Gerry Marsden
Engagement: Jan. 3
Cause of death: Blood infection
Age: 78
Marsden was the frontman and co-founder of Liverpool rock combo and Beatles contemporaries/rivals Gerry & the Pacemakers. As the second act to sign with the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, Gerry & the Pacemakers scored big U.K. hits with "How Do You Exercise It?," "Ferry Cross the Mersey," "I Like It," a embrace of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone" (which became the anthem of Liverpool Football Order) and "Don't Allow the Sun Take hold of You Crying," which also went to No. iv in America. Later on the band broke up in 1967, Marsden became a British tv set personality and West Cease theater actor.
Tanya Roberts
Appointment: Jan. four
Cause of death: Urinary tract infection
Age: 65
Roberts, a former Bond girl, was mistakingly reported dead after she complanate at her home. The former That '70s Show extra ultimately passed abroad after the premature reports. Roberts's publicist announced she died "from a urinary tract infection which spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and then blood stream."
Marion Ramsey
Date: January. 7
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 73
Perhaps best known for her part as soft-spoken Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police force Academy movies, Ramsey also appeared in TV shows, such as The Jeffersons, Bill Cosby's 1976 sketch evidence, Cos, and Beverly Hills, 90210. In 2015, she reunited with her Police Academy co-star Steve Guttenberg for the sci-fi Goggle box moving picture Lavalantula and reprised her office in its 2016 sequel, 2 Lava ii Lantula!. Her career also included work in theater.
Sylvain Sylvain
Engagement: Jan. 13
Cause of death: Cancer
Historic period: 69
Sylvain Mizrahi, aka guitarist and pianist Sylvain Sylvain, was a founding member of the highly influential glam-rock band the New York Dolls. Although their two '70s albums were commercial disappointments, the ring, which has been twice-nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, inarguably laid the groundwork for the punk revolution of the 1970s and the pilus-metal scene of the '80s with their sleazy audio and androgynous manner sense. Sylvain and frontman David Johansen (who is now the merely surviving member of the group) reunited the Dolls in 2004, after two acclaimed concerts at London's Meltdown Festival at the invitation of Morrissey (who was once the president of the Dolls' U.K. fan club), and released three more albums in the 2000s.
Phil Spector
Date: January. 16
Crusade of death: COVID-nineteen complications
Age: 81
The famed music producer, who was imprisoned since 2009 for the murder of Lana Clarkson, died at a California hospital. Known for his "Wall of Sound," in his younger years he helped create hits for the Ronettes, the Righteous Brothers and the Beatles amongst others. He long had personal issues, with married woman Ronnie Spector (of the Ronettes) claiming abuse. In 2003, later on a night of drinking, he shot and killed Clarkson at his dwelling house. He was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison house, and was serving time at a prison infirmary due to long-term medical issues. Spector's girl said he tested positive for COVID in Dec 2020 and died several weeks after existence intubated.
Larry King
Date: January. 23
Cause of death: Sepsis
Age: 87
The veteran newsman, known for his matter-of-fact interview style and signature suspenders, died after a series of health problems. He started every bit a radio host and went on to become a TV staple, hosting CNN's Larry King Live from 1985 to 2010. Male monarch got celebrities, world leaders and other newsmakers talking, which he credited to his "impaired" questions. Subsequently CNN, he continued to work creating content through his own product company, including Politicking With Larry Rex. Male monarch, who was married viii times to seven women, had health issues throughout his life, including suffering a stroke in 2019. He was hospitalized in December 2020 with COVID and developed sepsis, which is when the infection-fighting processes turn on the body, causing organ malfunction. His estranged married woman, Shawn King, said his body gave out.
Hal Holbrook
Date: Jan. 23
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Historic period: 95
A five-time Emmy winner who scored an Oscar nomination, at age 82, for his poignant performance in 2008's Into the Wild, Holbrook was regarded as an esteemed character actor in films similar The Firm, Magnum Strength, Lincoln and All the President's Men. He played Deep Pharynx in the latter film, only his most famous function was undoubtedly his Tony-winning portrayal of Mark Twain in a long-running one-man bear witness he kept going until retiring, in 2017, at age 92. Preceded in death a decade before past actress wife Dixie Carter — whom he also romanced in a recurring office on her '80s sitcom, Designing Women — Holbrook was less than a month shy of his 96th altogether when he died.
Cloris Leachman
Date: January. 27
Cause of expiry: Natural causes
Age: 94
Leachman won an Oscar for her role in The Last Picture Prove in 1972. The aforementioned decade, she played the iconic graphic symbol of Phyllis Lindstrom on Goggle box'south The Mary Tyler Moore Show and one of its spinoffs, Phyllis. And she didn't ho-hum downwardly in the post-obit decades, racking upwardly credits in the 1993 big-screen adaptation of The Beverly Hillbillies, The Muppet Movie, TV shows such as Raising Hope, Touched by an Angel and Malcolm in the Middle, besides as dozens of other projects.
Cicely Tyson
Date: Jan. 28
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 96
The celebrated actress, who counted an Emmy, a Tony and an honorary Oscar amongst her many accolades, died 2 days later the release of her memoir, Merely As I Am. Her primeval credits were on stage and in TV shows, including I Spy and Guiding Lite. She was nominated for an University Award for her turn as Rebecca in the 1972 picture show Sounder, about a family of Black sharecroppers in Low-era Louisiana. Tyson accumulated more than xc credits over the decades, including roles in the film Fried Green Tomatoes, TV miniseries such every bit Roots and King, and, equally tardily as last yr, Shonda Rhimes'south How to Get Away With Murder. Tyson, who took home the Tony for her work in the play The Trip to Bountiful, was recognized with a prestigious Kennedy Center Accolade in 2015 and, the next twelvemonth, was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Liberty.
Sophie
Date: Jan. xxx
Cause of death: Adventitious fall
Age: 34
Sophie was a trailblazing experimental pop creative person and producer who worked with Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Camila Cabello, Charli XCX, Vince Staples, Kim Petras and many others. Sophie — who often eschewed samples, instead using Elektron Monomachine and Ableton applied science to build instrumentals from waveforms that mimicked the unorthodox found sounds of metallic, h2o and plastic — was heralded for a signature surrealist sound that incorporated elements of Japanese and Korean pop, Eurodisco, U.K. garage, '90s house and hip-hop and millennial pop. The visionary British musician, who preferred non to use gendered or nonbinary pronouns, made history equally one of the three first openly transgender women to be nominated for a Grammy, when the total-length sophomore effort Oil of Every Pearl'due south Un-Insides received a nod for Best Dance/Electronic Album. According to statements by the creative person's tape label and publicist, Sophie was in Athens, Greece, and "climbed up to scout the total moon" then "slipped and fell."
Dustin Diamond
Date: Feb. i
Cause of death: Stage IV small cell carcinoma
Age: 44
Diamond played nerdy pal Samuel "Screech" Powers in the original Saved by the Bell serial, which was must-meet TV in the early '90s. He reprised the role in two spinoffs, Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Saved past the Bell: The New Course, and ii TV movies. Diamond alienated himself from the rest of the cast at times — his tell-all book most the show, sex tape, arrests, a jail stint — and was not invited to join them for the 2020 reboot. He was hospitalized in Jan after noticing a lump on his throat, which was determined to be stage IV cancer. He started chemo, merely the cancer had spread, and he died.
Christopher Plummer
Appointment: Feb. 5
Historic period: 91
Cause of death: Head injury following a fall
Virtually 50 years after cementing his screen icon status as the dashing only stern Captain Von Trapp in 1965's The Audio of Music — a film experience for which he afterward voiced contempt — the Canadian star at last took home his commencement Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor, at the tender age of 82. Plummer's performance of a father who comes out late in life in 2011's Beginners made him the oldest person to have home the accolade for the better role of a decade, a record usurped by Anthony Hopkins this February. Though his trophy case was hardly bare — the father of extra Amanda Plummer likewise had ii Tonys and ii Emmys — the recognition was certainly a highlight of a golden years renaissance of sorts, thanks to films including The Insider, Inside Man, The Last Station, Knives Out and All the Money in the Globe; the latter resulted in another Oscar nod after he was hastily cast to replace Kevin Spacey amid the actor'south #MeToo scandal. Sadly, that renaissance was cut short after Plummer suffered a fall this winter, striking his head and dying only a couple of weeks later, according to widow Elaine Taylor.
Brayden Smith
Date: Feb. 5
Cause of death: Complications from surgery
Age: 24
Smith was one of the final Jeopardy! champions before legendary host Alex Trebek'due south death in November 2020. In a five-game winning streak, which fabricated him eligible for the show'due south annual Tournament of Champions, Smith had earned $115,798. He described sharing the stage with Alex every bit "a dream come up truthful."
Mary Wilson
Date: Feb. 8
Crusade of death: Hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular affliction
Historic period: 76
Wilson was an original and the longest-running member of the Supremes, Motown Records' most successful signing, one of the biggest groups of the 1960s (at some points but rivaled by the Beatles) and the virtually successful American vocal group of all fourth dimension. Wilson and her bandmates in the archetype lineup, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, scored a dozen No. one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 in the '60s and paved the way for girl groups like the Pointer Sisters, En Vogue, TLC and Destiny'south Child. After the Supremes, Wilson went solo. She scored her last Billboard hit in 2015 with "Fourth dimension to Move On," which peaked at No. 17 on the Dance Gild Songs nautical chart; with that feat, she set a record for the longest gap between hits on that chart. Her disco single "Crimson Hot" had debuted there in 1979, 36 years earlier. In 2019, Wilson was introduced to a new audience when she competed on Dancing With the Stars. But two days earlier her decease, she had excitedly announced on her YouTube aqueduct that she was working on diverse projects to celebrate Black History Calendar month and this twelvemonth'southward 60th ceremony of the Supremes, and that she had been negotiating with Universal to put out "new recordings," four "wonderful songs that were never released" and her shelved 1979 album Carmine Hot.
Chick Corea
Date: February. 9
Crusade of expiry: Cancer
Historic period: 79
Armando "Chick" Corea was an architect of the jazz fusion genre equally a fellow member of Miles Davis'southward showtime electrical ensemble and one of the well-nigh important pianists of the post-John Coltrane era. He played on the seminal Davis albums Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way, Miles Davis at the Fillmore, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, On the Corner and i of the most influential albums in jazz history, Bitches Mash. In 1970, he and his Davis ring colleague Dave Holland left to form the free jazz ensemble Circle; 2 years after, he inverse course again and formed the seminal fusion grouping Return to Forever, which revolutionarily mixed elements of stone, funk and Latin American music and, along with Atmospheric condition Report and John McLaughlin'south Mahavishnu Orchestra, spearheaded the jazz-stone movement of the '70s. Corea is the fourth-virtually-nominated creative person in the history of the Grammy Awards, with 65 nominations, besides as 25 total Grammy trophies, two of which were posthumous at the Grammys ceremony that took identify in March 2021.
Larry Flynt
Date: Feb. x
Crusade of decease: Centre failure
Age: 78
Pornographer and founder of Hustler magazine, Flynt also was known for his court battles in the name of the Outset Amendment. In 1978, he was shot and paralyzed in an attempted assassination. He was famously played by Woody Harrelson in the 1996 movie The People vs. Larry Flynt.
Rush Limbaugh
Date: Feb. 17
Crusade of death: Lung cancer
Age: 70
Limbaugh was one of the loudest voices in right-fly politics beginning in the '80s, when The Rush Limbaugh Show was the highest-rated of whatsoever radio evidence in the country. In 2009, the Washington Post estimated that he regularly reached betwixt xiv.2 and 25 million people in the broadcast. His brash style of criticizing those who disagreed with his political behavior was influential on the politics of today, and paved the style for commentators including Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. When he died, old President Trump chosen Fox News to sing Limbaugh's praises.
Prince Markie Dee
Engagement: Feb. eighteen
Cause of death: Congestive heart failure
Historic period: 52
Marker Anthony Morales was better known as rapper Prince Markie Dee of the pioneering beatboxing trio the Fat Boys, one of the start recording artists to bring hip-hop to the mainstream. They had four successful albums — they were in fact the second-almost successful rap act of the '80s, later Run D.M.C., in terms of number of LPs to either gold or platinum — their own comedy movie, 1987's Disorderlies; and crossover hits like the Beach Boys collaboration "Wipeout" and a remake of "The Twist" with Chubby Checker himself. Dee likewise hosted The Prince Markie Dee Show on LL Cool J's SiriusXM aqueduct Rock the Bells and did songwriting and production work for Male parent MC, Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey, amidst others.
Bunny Wailer
Engagement: March two
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 73
Wailer was a fellow member of the original Wailers trio (alongside Bob Marley and Peter Tosh) and a reggae music legend whose career spanned vii decades. As a solo artist, he was extremely prolific and successful, winning the Grammy for Best Reggae Album iii times. No cause of expiry was given, but Wailer had been in and out of the hospital since suffering his 2nd stroke in 2020.
Yaphet Kotto
Date: March 15
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 81
In the 1973 James Bond film Alive and Let Die, Kotto played the villain, Kananga, who as well went by the name of Mr. Big. He also co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man. On Television set, he was a regular on Homicide: Life on the Street and For Love and Laurels, while he fabricated appearances on shows such as Colina Street Blues and The Wire.
George Segal
Date: March 23
Crusade of expiry: Complications of bypass surgery
Age: 87
Since 2013, Segal played Pops on ABC's The Goldbergs, simply the actor had worked steadily since 1960. His long listing of credits includes the role of Nick in Mike Nichols's classic Who'due south Agape of Virginia Woolf?, for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1967; Jack Gallo, the owner and publisher of the magazine where the characters worked in Just Shoot Me!; and Sloan's uncle, talent manager Murray Berenson, in Entourage.
Jessica Walter
Date: March 24
Crusade of death: Undisclosed
Historic period: 80
All-time known every bit Bluth family unit dame Lucille on TV sitcom Arrested Development, Walter won an Emmy in 1975 (for playing the title character in limited series Amy Prentiss) and was nominated for another four: for The Streets of San Francisco, Trapper John, Thou.D., animated series Archer and, yes, Arrested Development, the series she starred in during both of its runs, from 2003 to 2006 and again between 2013 and 2019.
Samuel E. Wright
Appointment: March 24
Crusade of decease: Prostate cancer
Age: 74
While Wright leaves a trunk of work that dates back to the '70s, he'due south all-time remembered equally the voice of Sebastian the crab in The Piffling Mermaid, a role he reprised for TV shows and video games. He also earned a Tony nomination in 1998 for playing another Disney character, Mufasa in The Lion Kin1000, when he originated the role on Broadway.
Beverly Cleary
Engagement: March 25
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 104
The beloved children's writer introduced immature readers to beloved characters, including Ramona Quimby and her large sis Beezus, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, Ralph Southward. Mouse and many more in a career that spanned half a century. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the Newberry Medal and many other awards, she was recognized as a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000.
Larry McMurtry
Engagement: March 25
Cause of death: Congestive heart failure
Age: 84
A true-bluish Texan whose nostalgic novels set up Hollywood on burn, Pulitzer Prize winner McMurtry saw many of his works, from Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment to The Terminal Picture Bear witness and Horseman, Pass Past (the basis of the Paul Newman Western Hud) adapted into accolade-winning miniseries and films. Simply it was his accommodation of a story originally written by E. Annie Proulx — Brokeback Mountain — which earned the writer his ain Oscar, which he accepted in jeans and cowboy boots.
DMX
Date: Apr 9
Cause of expiry: Cardiac abort
Age: fifty
The multiplatinum-selling rapper and actor, whose real name was Earl Simmons, was one of the most successful hip-hop artists of all time, with his get-go three albums selling a combined 15 meg copies. During this top career era, he was recognized as the new reigning king of hardcore rap and garnered frequent comparisons to the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. His final album, Exodus, released seven weeks after his death, featured appearances by Jay-Z, Nas, Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg, Conductor, U2's Bono and others.
Prince Philip
Date: Apr 9
Cause of decease: Old age
Historic period: 99
The longest-serving royal consort in world history was just two months shy of his 100th birthday — an occasion typically recognized in the U.Chiliad. with a letter of the alphabet written by Queen Elizabeth II, his married woman of 73 years — when he died of what his official death certificate lists as "one-time age." Though he retired from his royal duties in 2017 and had been beset by diverse health complications in recent years, the Greek-born prince'southward gradual retreat from the spotlight strangely coincided with a raised public profile thanks to the Netflix drama The Crown, in which he was portrayed by actors Matt Smith, Tobias Menzies and, before long, Jonathan Pryce. Indeed, his life had no shortage of drama, from beingness exiled from Greece at just xviii months old, to serving in the Royal Navy upward until his immature wife's becoming queen in 1952, to being renown for his off-colour remarks. Father to hereafter king Charles and siblings Anne, Andrew and Edward, the prince famously once insisted that he had "no desire whatsoever" to achieve the historic period of 100 and was laid to residue following a subdued, socially distanced memorial service a calendar week after his death.
Helen McCrory
Engagement: April sixteen
Crusade of decease: Breast cancer
Age: 52
Her nearly high-profile role was sinister Slytherin Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter film franchise, but McCrory's stage and screen work was rife with rich performances, from Lady Macbeth and Medea to the seductively scheming Aunt Polly on Peaky Blinders. Married to fellow role player Damian Lewis, with whom she shared two children, McCrory earned Club of the British Empire honors in her native England in 2017. Though she and Billions star Lewis made headlines for campaigning to help feed U.K. health care workers early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple chose to keep the actress'southward breast cancer diagnosis individual. In April, Lewis broke the news over Twitter that McCrory had died "peacefully at home."
Black Rob
Engagement: Apr 17
Cause of death: Cardiac arrest
Historic period: 51
Robert Ross, aka Buffalo rapper Black Rob, was a former Bad Boy Records recording artist best known for the solo hit "Whoa!"; he likewise guested on tracks by the Notorious B.I.One thousand., Diddy, Ma$eastward, Cru, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Faith Evans and 112. Shortly before Rob'due south death, another sometime Bad Boy artist, Mark Back-scratch, organized a GoFundMe to assist the rapper, who had been contesting numerous health problems in contempo years, including diabetes, lupus, kidney failure and multiple strokes.
Jim Steinman
Date: April 19
Cause of death: Kidney failure
Age: 73
Steinman was a record producer, theater composer and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee whose flatulent, theatrical, Wagnerian rock 'n' roll earned him the nickname "Lord of Excess" — a title he proudly used on his own website. He was perhaps best known for his work on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell (and later on the improvement anthology Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell), ane of the all-time-selling albums of all fourth dimension, with more than l million copies sold worldwide; this established Steinman as the only creative person in music history's top xx best-selling albums to have written all songs, both music and lyrics, solo. Steinman as well wrote and/or produced such epics as Bonnie Tyler'due south "Total Eclipse of the Heart," Celine Dion'due south "Information technology'southward All Coming Back to Me Now," the Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion," Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Naught at All" and the Streets of Burn soundtrack.
Les McKeown
Date: Apr xx
Crusade of death: Natural causes
Historic period: 65
Scottish pop singer McKeown was all-time known as the frontman of the wildly successful 1970s bubblegum-glam band the Bay City Rollers, who during the height of their "Rollermania" teen idol era were heralded as the adjacent Beatles. Music journalist Danny Fields once told the BBC, "The invention of boy bands became an manufacture cheers to the Bay City Rollers." McKeown sang on the band's biggest hits, including "Remember (Sha-La-La-La)," "Shang-a-Lang," "Summerlove Sensation," "Give a Little Love" and "All of Me Loves All of You," and a cover of the 4 Seasons' "Bye, Bye, Baby," all of which cracked the peak 10 in U.k.. Their albums Rollin' and In one case Upon a Star both went to No. 1 in the U.Chiliad. chart, and the Rollers eventually went on to sell 120 one thousand thousand records worldwide. After leaving the group in 1978, McKeown released ix solo albums, enjoying success in Nihon with his 1979 solo debut, the cheekily titled All Done Up, but his solo output failed to chart elsewhere. In 2015, he reunited with beau Rollers Stuart Woo and Alan Longmuir for a Bay City Rollers nostalgia tour. His nigh recent album was 2016'south The Lost Songs, featuring tunes he'd written while touring with the Bay City Rollers in the '70s.
Stupor G
Engagement: Apr 22
Cause of death: Accidental overdose of fentanyl, methamphetamine and alcohol
Age: 57
Rapper and producer Gregory Jacobs, better known as Shock Yard, made his marking on the '80s/'90s hip-hop scene every bit office of Oakland's Digital Secret. The grouping Parliament-Funkadelic-inspired political party jams and campy image was led by the charismatic Shock Thousand and his many alter egos, but it was his most famous character — the prosthetic-nosed, plaid-suited, Groucho-spectacled, Burger Rex bathroom-frequenting Humpty Hump — that turned Digital Hole-and-corner into MTV superstars with "The Humpty Dance." In addition to his work with Digital Underground, as a solo recording artist, and as a invitee rapper on tracks by everyone from George Clinton to Too $hort, Shock Thousand was also a successful music producer. He produced Tupac Shakur's tracks "I Become Around" and "So Many Tears" in 1993 and 1995, respectively, and co-produced Shakur's debut anthology, 2Pacalypse At present. His product and remixing discography also included work with Bobby Chocolate-brown, Dr. Dre, KRS-One, Monie Love, Prince, the Luniz Operation, Murs and Sir Mix-a-Lot.
Ray Reyes
Appointment: April 30
Crusade of death: Cardiac arrest
Age: 51
Reyes was a member of Latin boy band Menudo during its golden era, joining in 1983, shortly before the add-on of Ricky Martin and Robi Draco Rosa. He reportedly was forced to leave the group in 1985 due to a sudden growth spurt and was replaced by Raymond Acevedo. He released two solo albums in 1986, but found it hard to escape the shadow of Menudo, according to a statement he made in i of his final interviews for Telemundo. In 1988, he joined sometime Menudo members Rene Farrait and Johnny Lozada in a group called Proyecto Thousand, and in 1997 he organized a Menudo reunion featuring Farrait, Lozada and former bandmates Miguel Abolish, Ricky Melendez and Charlie Massó, for a successful worldwide tour and live album.
Olympia Dukakis
Date: May 1
Cause of death: Undisclosed illness
Age: 89
Volumes could be written about the woman who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1987'south Moonstruck. The daughter of Greek immigrants and a cousin to former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, the actress also shined as a wealthy, wise-dandy Southern belle in Steel Magnolias; an overbearing mother in Look Who's Talking; the Italian mother of Ol' Blueish Eyes in the 1992 miniseries Sinatra; and trans landlady Anna Madrigal in 1993's Tales of the City, a role she reprised in 1998, 2001 and 2019. The Obie winner was also a mainstay of the theater scene, co-founding the Whole Theater Company with her husband, the belatedly role player Louis Zorich (Mad About You). At the time of her death, the star was under hospice care later suffering from ill health, though her exact cause of death has not been released.
Tawny Kitaen
Date: May seven
Crusade of decease: Dilated cardiomyopathy
Age: 59
The video vixen memorably starred in the videos for Whitesnake's hits "Is This Honey?" and "Hither I Get Again." She likewise appeared aslope Tom Hanks in the 1984 film Bachelor Party.
Charles Grodin
Date: May 18
Cause of expiry: 86
Historic period: Os marrow cancer
An Emmy winner known for his piece of work in The Heartbreak Kid, Sky Can Wait, Beethoven, Dave, Midnight Run and many more productions, Grodin was as well well known for his appearances on The This night Show, when it was hosted by Johnny Carson, and on Late Night With David Letterman. At that place, he would spar with the comedy legends, though it was oftentimes unbeknownst to the audience that he was in on the joke.
Paul Mooney
Date: May nineteen
Crusade of death: Heart attack
Historic period: 79
Although his name isn't every bit recognizable as those of Richard Pryor or Dave Chappelle, Mooney was equally equally influential every bit them. He was the caput writer on Pryor's self-titled show and co-wrote the comedian'southward material on Sat Dark Live and his smash-hit one-act albums. Mooney, who was also an actor, wrote for shows including Sanford and Son, Expert Times, In Living Color, The Larry Sanders Evidence, Chappelle's Show and Real Husbands of Hollywood, too.
Eric Carle
Engagement: May 23
Cause of death: Kidney failure
Historic period: 91
It'due south difficult to imagine a child'south bookshelf upon which an Eric Carle classic — most likely The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but besides The Grouchy Ladybug and Brownish Bear, Brown Bear, What Practice Yous Meet?, a collaboration with writer Pecker Martin Jr. — doesn't take pride of place. Born in New York just raised in his family'due south native Germany, the beloved author and illustrator's legacy lives on not just in his charming and colorful work but in the eponymous Amherst, Mass., children'south picture book fine art museum he founded in 2002.
Kevin Clark
Appointment: May 26
Cause of death: Accident
Historic period: 32
The erstwhile kid actor appeared in Jack Black's Schoolhouse of Rock. He did not pursue a career in Hollywood after playing Freddy Jones in the hit 2003 film, but was a professional person drummer instead. The Chicago Sunday Timesreported that he played in local bands. Tragically, he was killed in a cycling accident later on being struck past a motorist.
Gavin MacLeod
Date: May 29
Crusade of decease: Undisclosed
Age: 90
MacLeod is known to many sitcom lovers every bit Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and cheerful Capt. Stubing on The Love Boat. His stepdaughter attributed his death to sometime age, telling the Associated Printing he had been good for you until recently.
B.J. Thomas
Date: May 29
Cause of death: Lung cancer
Age: 78
Thomas was a Grammy-winning pop/state/gospel vocalist known for hits like "Hooked on a Feeling" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Caput." The latter tune, penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, won an Oscar for All-time Original Song as function of the soundtrack for the 1969 Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, although Thomas was non the first artist offered the vocal (Ray Stevens turned information technology downwards). Thomas continued to nautical chart big land hits in the '70s and '80s with "Whatever Happened to Old-Fashioned Love" and "New Looks from an Former Lover" and was a successful gospel recording artists, winning two Pigeon Awards and v Grammys in the gospel category. He also sang the theme song to the '80s sitcom Growing Pains and acted in several films. Prior to his expiry, he had reportedly planned to tape in 2020 in Muscle Shoals, just those sessions were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ernie Lively
Date: June three
Cause of decease: Cardiac complications
Historic period: 74
The actor, who perhaps well-nigh memorably played the begetter of his daughter Blake'southward character in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies, appeared in dozens of films and TV shows beginning in the '70s, with a part on The Waltons. He later on played Longstreet B. Davenport on The Dukes of Hazzard, several different single-episode characters on Murder, She Wrote, Mr. Loch on The West Wing'southward revered two-parter In the Shadow of Two Gunmen and more than.
Clarence Williams 3
Date: June 4
Cause of death: Colon cancer
Age: 81
The actor was all-time known for his roles every bit Linc Hayes in the iconic '60s and '70s TV series Modernistic Squad and as Prince's male parent in 1984 movie Imperial Pelting. He popped up on shows, such as Hill Street Blues and Twin Peaks, besides as movies, like I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Half Baked, Reindeer Games and Lee Daniels's The Butler, over six decades in the entertainment manufacture. He was nominated for four NAACP Epitome Awards along the way.
Ned Beatty
Date: June 13
Cause of death: Natural causes
Age: 83
The Oscar and Emmy-nominated player was famous for films like Network and Superman. Other credits include All the President'southward Men, Back to Schoolhouse, Deliverance and Toy Story three, in which he voiced the evil pink comport Lotso.
Lisa Banes
Appointment: June 14
Cause of decease: Traumatic encephalon injury
Historic period: 65
The actress, who appeared in the films Gone Girl and Cocktail, died ten days later on being the victim of a hitting-and-run in NYC. She was struck past an electric scooter while crossing the street, in a crosswalk, on Manhattan's Upper West Side on her mode to meet friends for dinner. Banes, who had more than 80 picture show and television receiver roles during her career, suffered a traumatic brain injury. A 26-year-old Manhattan man was later arrested.
Souvenir of Gab
Date: June 18
Cause of decease: Natural causes
Age: 50
Timothy J. Parker (aka Gift of Gab) was the verbally agile rapper known every bit one-half of the acclaimed Bay Area hip-hop duo Blackalicious. The duo's virtually famous rail, 1999's "Alphabet Aerobics," iconically showcased his warp-speed, tongue-twisting manner and became a viral awareness in 2014 afterwards Daniel Radcliffe performed it on The Tonight Show. The prolific rapper also released three solo albums and 2 albums every bit part of the supergroups Quannum MCs and the Mighty Underdogs, and left behind about 100 tracks for future Blackalicious releases. Gift of Gab had suffered from kidney failure in recent years, and had received a new kidney in January 2020.
Richard Donner
Date: July 5
Cause of death: Heart failure
Historic period: 91
Donner was an accomplished manager, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, when he helmed a cord of hits that included Superman, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon and vacation favorite Scrooged. His production company with his wife, which is now called The Donner'due south Company, had its outset success with Free Willy, the 1993 heartwarmer virtually a male child's friendship with a killer whale. In addition, his producing credits include 10-Men and Any Given Sunday.
Suzzanne Douglas
Appointment: July 6
Cause of death: Cancer
Age: 64
Douglas famously played the mother on the WB's The Parent 'Hood, from 1995 to 1999, but her credits stretch dorsum to the early '80s. Amongst them were School of Rock, Touched by an Angel, the 2015 TV movie Whitney (playing Cissy Houston) and Ava DuVernay'south critically acclaimed series When They See Us.
Charlie Robinson
Engagement: July 11
Crusade of death: Cardiac arrest
Age: 75
Robinson, who played Mac the court clerk in the sitcom Night Courtroom, passed away later on battling cancer. His manager said he suffered multi-organization organ failures due to septic shock and metastatic adenocarcinoma. The veteran player appeared in more than than 125 films and boob tube shows, including Honey & War, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Habitation Improvement and Greyness's Anatomy.
Biz Markie
Date: July 16
Cause of decease: Complications from a stroke
Age: 57
Marcel Theo Hall, aka Biz Markie, was the "Clown Prince of Hip-Hop" all-time known for his 1989 global smash "But a Friend." The rapper, vocaliser, DJ, producer, role player, comedian and writer, who launched his career in the Manhattan society scene and Eastward Coast college excursion every bit a human beatbox for acts like Roxanne Shanté and MC Shan, was an icon of the alternative hip-hop genre, collaborating with the Beastie Boys, Slick Rick, Will Smith, Wu-Tang Clan, Coolio, Fat Joe, the Avalanches, Kesha, the Flaming Lips, Canibus, the Aquabats, Len and — in recorded-sample form — even the Rolling Stones. Biz too reached new audiences by appearing in Men in Black Two, Black-ish, SpongeBob SquarePants, Empire, In Living Color, Wild 'n Out, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Sharknado ii and the start season of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, which he won. He also hosted a daily radio show on LL Absurd J'south SiriusXM channel Stone the Bells. Biz was hospitalized in Apr 2020 due to complications from Type ii diabetes, and, every bit of Dec 2020, had reportedly been living in a Maryland rehabilitation facility after suffering a diabetic coma and stroke.
Robby Steinhardt
Date: July 17
Crusade of expiry: Acute pancreatitis/septic shock
Age: 71
Robert Steinhardt was the violinist, co-frontman and co-founder of classic stone group Kansas, performing with them from 1972 (when they were originally called White Clover) through 1983 and and then again from 1997 to 2006. The interplay of his violin playing with the group's guitar and keyboards, and his harmonies with the band'southward other vocalist, loftier tenor Steve Walsh, helped ascertain the unique Kansas sound.
Siegfried Fischbacher
Date: July 24
Crusade of death: Pancreatic cancer
Age: 81
Siegfried in the famed duo of Siegfried and Roy, who wowed audiences with their large cats and magic tricks for decades in Las Vegas and elsewhere, died roughly viii months after his longtime showbiz partner. The 2 were then strongly associated with Sin City that, in the wake of Roy's death, a street near the strip was named for them. "From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would alter the earth," Siegfried said in a argument when Roy died. "There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried."
Jackie Mason
Date: July 24
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 93
A comedian whose career took him from a rabbi at synagogues in Due north Carolina and Pennsylvania to, by the early '60s, The Ed Sullivan Show. In the late '80s, he earned a Tony and an Emmy for his 1988 HBO special, The Earth According to Me!, and an additional Emmy for voicing the character of Rabbi Krustofsky in a 1989 episode of The Simpsons. "I very rarely write anything downwards. I just think about life a lot and endeavour to put it into phrases that will get a joke," the frequently politically wrong star told the Associated Press about his style of comedy. "I never practise a joke that has a signal that I don't believe in. To me, the message and the joke is the same."
Joey Jordison
Engagement: July 26
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Historic period: 46
Jordison was best known as the former drummer/co-songwriter of Slipknot — one of the most successful, pioneering and enduring bands of belatedly-'90s/early-2000s nu-metal explosion, selling 30 million albums worldwide and earning 10 Grammy nominations — as well equally the guitarist for horror-punk group Murderdolls. He also played in Scar the Martyr, Vimic and Sinsaenum, and worked with Rob Zombie, Metallica, Korn, Ministry, Otep and Satyricon. In 2010, Rhythm magazine'due south readers voted Jordison the best drummer of the previous 25 years, ranking him above the likes of Dave Grohl and Rush'south Neil Peart.
Saginaw Grant
Date: July 28
Cause of death: Natural causes
Age: 85
A genuine Native American leader — hereditary primary and medicine man of the Oklahoma-based Sac and Fox Nation — Grant portrayed Chief Big Bear in Disney's 2013 version of The Lone Ranger. He as well appeared in Community, American Horror Story, Breaking Bad, Baywatch and many other TV shows and movies.
Dusty Hill
Appointment: July 28
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 72
For 52 years, Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill was bassist and secondary lead vocalizer for legendary Stone & Roll Hall of Fame inductees ZZ Top. The band was starting time known as a more traditional, heavy Texas blues-rock group with archetype rock radio hits like "La Grange," "Tush" and "Cheap Sunglasses," simply they enjoyed their most commercially successful period in the 1980s as unlikely MTV superstars; 1983'due south Eliminator anthology, which incorporated synthesizers and was reportedly influenced by Depeche Way, spawned three massive pop singles, sold more than 10 million copies and spent a whopping 183 weeks on the Billboard album chart. While no cause of expiry was given, Hill died five days later he was forced to pull out of a ZZ Top concert due to an injury; this was reported to be the showtime time that ZZ Top had played without Hill since 1969.
Ron Popeil
Date: July 28
Cause of expiry: Brain hemorrhage
Age: 86
It's Popeil who is largely credited with creating infomercials as Television viewers know them. (If you've ever heard the words, "Only look, there'south more," that was Popeil's handiwork.) Peradventure the greatest instance of his influence on the culture is Dan Akroyd'southward archetype "Bass-o-matic" sketch on Sabbatum Night Live, which outset aired in 1975.
Markie Post
Date: Aug. 7
Cause of death: Cancer
Historic period: seventy
The extra worked in Television set for 40 years, but will always exist remembered for her role equally public defender Christine Sullivan on Night Court from 1984 to 1992. Mail service had many other roles, including recurring ones on Scrubs and Chicago P.D., and appeared in There's Something About Mary (playing the mom of Cameron Diaz's character). She was diagnosed with cancer iv years before her death, just she kept working while getting chemotherapy.
Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas
Date: Aug. 7
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Historic period: 70
As the co-founder, multi-instrumentalist, and master of ceremonies of Kool & the Gang, Thomas helped create many timeless soul-funk classics, including "Celebration," "Cherish," "Jungle Boogie," "Hollywood Swinging," "Summer Madness," "Open Sesame," "Ladies' Dark," "Joanna" and "Fresh." Over the course of their career, Kool & the Gang earned ii Grammys, charted 25 summit ten R&B hits and nine top x pop hits, and sold 70 million albums worldwide; they too notwithstanding hold the tape equally the most sampled band of all fourth dimension, with their music featured on tracks by the Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, P. Diddy, the Killers and many others. Thomas's concluding concert with the grouping was at the Hollywood Bowl's fireworks spectacular on July iv.
Sonny Chiba
Date: Aug. xix
Cause of death: COVID-19 complications
Age: 82
A black belt in karate, judo and other forms of martial arts, Chiba displayed his skills in the Kill Bill movies, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and other productions. He began acting in the 1950's and had earned more than 200 credits by the time he died.
Don Everly
Date: Aug. 21
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Historic period: 84
As one-one-half of the 1950s' Everly Brothers duo, Everly was one of early rock 'due north' curl's most of import pioneers. Don and his older blood brother Phil set the standard for rock/popular two-part harmony, laid down the groundwork for roots-stone and alt-country and influenced anybody from the Beatles, Beach Boys and Byrds to even Green 24-hour interval's Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, who recorded a articulation album of Everly Brothers covers, Foreverly, in 2013.
Charlie Watts
Appointment. Aug. 24
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Age: 80
Information technology was more than a drum kit that set Watts apart from his long-haired, hard-living Rolling Stones bandmates. Married to married woman Shirley for nearly 57 years, the drummer was known for his cropped silver cutting, dapper manner and passion for jazz. Though he eventually battled substance corruption in the 1980s — something he chalked up to a midlife crisis — Watts was more probable to sketch his hotel room than trash it; he reportedly had more than than a dozen journals filled with illustrations of his lodgings. Despite a previous battle with throat cancer, Watts had kept upwardly with the Stones' notoriously exhaustive tour schedule until this year. In August, the ring appear that he'd be sitting out the remaining No Filter shows due to a heart procedure; past month's stop, he had died, though no exact cause of expiry has been publicly revealed.
Ed Asner
Date: Aug. 29
Cause of expiry: Natural causes
Age: 91
Asner will be forever remembered for his role equally newsman Lou Grant, showtime on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, from 1970 to 1977, and so in a spinoff, chosen merely Lou Grant, from 1977 to 1982. His cranky demeanor endeared him to fans from the moment he told Moore's Mary Richards in the sitcom'south very starting time episode, "You've got spunk. I hate spunk!" (He was the tertiary regular cast member of The Mary Tyler Moore Bear witness, after Cloris Leachman and Gavin MacLeod, to dice this year.) Asner'due south portrayal of Grant earned him five Emmy Awards. He took dwelling house 2 others for his turns in a pair of miniseries from the same era: Rich Human, Poor Man and Roots. Among his other notable parts were those of Santa in holiday favorite Elf, Carl Fredricksen in the heartfelt Disney/Pixar movie Up and FBI agent Guy Bannister in Oliver Stone'due south JFK.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Date: Aug. 29
Crusade of decease: Unspecified illness
Age: 85
Rainford Hugh Perry was an eccentric, Grammy-winning Jamaican producer, songwriter and reggae creative person, and a pioneer in the 1970s' development of dub music through his Upsetter record characterization. Keith Richards compared him to both Phil Spector and Salvador Dali. Over the grade of his 60-year career, he released more than 70 albums under his ain name, and he worked with and produced for Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Congos, Adrian Sherwood, King Tubby, the Disharmonism, the Beastie Boys, Bill Laswell, Andrew W.K. and the Orb. He also founded the Black Ark studio in Kingston, where Paul and Linda McCartney, Robert Palmer and John Martyn all recorded. His colorful life was captured in three documentaries, 2008's The Upsetter, 2015'southward Lee Scratch Perry'due south Vision of Paradise and 2019's The Revelation of Lee "Scratch" Perry.
Gregg Leakes
Date: Sept. 1
Cause of death: Colon cancer
Historic period: 66
NeNe Leakes's husband, who she married in 1997, had appeared aslope her on The Real Housewives of Atlanta since 2008. The couple split in 2010, but they remarried three years later, with Gregg becoming a fan favorite. Later on he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2018, his cancer battle was documented on the striking Bravo show.
Willard Scott
Appointment: Sept. 4
Crusade of expiry: Undisclosed
Age: 87
The legendary Today show weatherman was known for his infectious personality. In the '60s, he hosted children's idiot box shows and appeared on WRC-Tv set playing several characters, like Bozo the Clown. He was the very first person to play Ronald McDonald. Scott'southward decease was confirmed by his wife. She did not specify a crusade, merely noted that he had died subsequently a cursory illness.
Sarah Harding
Appointment: Sept. 5
Cause of death: Breast cancer
Age: 39
Every bit a member of the British popular group Girls Aloud — which formed over the course of the 2002 reality prove Popstars: The Rivals — Harding and her bandmates dominated the airwaves with hits similar "Audio of the Underground" and "Dearest Motorcar." All told, the group enjoyed 20 consecutive top x singles in their native U.Thou. before disbanding for good in 2013. Outside of music, Harding explored modeling, acting (St. Trinian's 2) and reality stardom, winning Celebrity Big Brother U.One thousand. in 2017. In August 2020 she broke the news of her chest cancer diagnosis, telling fans the following March that it had spread and was considered concluding. That same calendar month she released her autobiography, Hear Me Out.
A.J. Johnson
Engagement: Sept. half dozen
Cause of expiry: Undisclosed
Age: 55
The stand-upwardly comedian bankrupt out playing East.Z.E. in 1990'south Business firm Party, though he was all-time known for his hilarious functioning equally Ezal in Fri. No cause of death was disclosed.
Michael K. Williams
Date: Sept. 6
Cause of death: Accidental overdose
Historic period: 54
Williams created unforgettable characters on The Wire (Omar Little) and Boardwalk Empire (Chalky White) — the former getting high praise from so-President Barack Obama. Overall, the actor received 5 Emmy nominations for his piece of work, including Lovecraft Country and the miniseries When They Meet Us. Williams, who was open about his habit struggle, died at his Brooklyn home of acute intoxication by a mixture of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl.
Norm Macdonald
Date: Sept. 14
Cause of expiry: Cancer
Age: 61
An anchor of Saturday Dark Alive staple Weekend Update in the '90s, Macdonald was known for his biting wit, as he took shots at O.J. Simpson, President Bill Clinton and many more during his time at the news desk-bound. Electric current anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost even paid tribute to him on the SNL season premiere in October, with Jost explaining that Macdonald was the one who fabricated him want to work on Update. Macdonald likewise was beloved for his turns as Burt Reynolds on the prove'due south Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches. When he wasn't in Studio 8H, McDonald establish fourth dimension to appear in shows such equally The Orville, where he voiced the character of Yaphit, The Middle and, from 1999 to 2001, his own sitcom, Norm. He counted Muddy Piece of work (which he also wrote), Billy Madison and Funny People among his movie credits.
Willie Garson
Date: Sept. 21
Cause of death: Pancreatic cancer
Age: 57
While filming the Sex and the City spinoff, And Just Like That..., the beloved role player who played Stanford Blatch, lost his private boxing with cancer. In add-on to beingness Carrie Bradshaw's male bestie, he appeared on White Neckband and Hawaii Five-0 and in movies including Being John Malkovich and Groundhog Day. His favorite role was being "papa" to a son adopted from foster care.
Melvin Van Peebles
Date: Sept. 21
Cause of expiry: Undisclosed
Age: 89
The groundbreaking director was known for films similar Watermelon Homo and Sweetness Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. His passing was appear by his son, who noted how Peebles "knew that Black images matter." Mario Van Peebles wrote, "If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a movie worth? Nosotros want to exist the success we see, thus we need to meet ourselves beingness gratuitous. True liberation did not mean imitating the colonizer'southward mentality. It meant affectionate the power, beauty and interconnectivity of all people."
Alan Kalter
Engagement: October. 4
Cause of death: Undisclosed
Historic period: 78
Kalter served as Tardily Show With David Letterman announcer from 1995 to Letterman'southward retirement in 2015. He was more of a utility player, participating in whatever giddy skits Letterman had planned. The red-head besides did many commercial voiceovers and was the journalist on game shows including To Tell the Truth. He died at Stamford Hospital, near his domicile, with no cause of death shared past his family. Letterman recalled his "wonderful voice and eagerness to play a goofy character of himself. Did I mention he could sing? Yeah he could. He enthusiastically did information technology all."
Peter Scolari
Engagement: Oct. 22
Crusade of decease: Leukemia
Age: 66
An '80s sitcom favorite who starred on Bust Buddies alongside future superstar Tom Hanks — and, later on, Newhart, for which he racked up iii supporting role player Emmy nominations — Scolari died from leukemia this fall after a two-year illness. In addition to being a frequent Broadway presence who reunited with Hanks for Lucky Guy in 2013, Scolari at last struck Emmy gilt in 2016 with his functioning every bit Hannah Horvath'south doting dad, who comes out every bit gay in middle historic period, on Girls. Despite his illness, the male parent of two had continued to act, with recent credits including Evil, Lisey's Story and Blue Bloods.
James Michael Tyler
Date: Oct. 24
Crusade of expiry: Phase Iv prostate cancer
Age: 59
Best known for his part as Cardinal Perk managing director Gunther on Friends, Tyler revealed in June he had been quietly battling prostate cancer since 2018. Information technology wasn't caught early and spread to his bones. Tumors on his spine left him unable to walk, just he hid it when actualization well-nigh on the HBO Max Friends reunion in May considering, "I didn't want to be like, 'Oh, and Gunther has cancer,'" he said. He passed away peacefully at his L.A. abode.
Mort Sahl
Date: October. 26
Cause of decease: Natural causes
Age: 94
A legendary funny homo, Sahl was the showtime to record an anthology of stand-upwards comedy, 1955'due south At Sunset and, in 1960, he was the first comedian to cover Fourth dimension magazine. His approach to basing his act on the news of the day inspired generations of his fellow comics, from Elaine May to George Carlin to Jon Stewart and Dave Chappelle. "Every comedian who is not doing wife jokes has to give thanks him for that," histrion Albert Brooks told the Associated Press in 2007. "He actually was the commencement, even before Lenny Bruce, in terms of talking about stuff, not merely doing dial lines."
Dean Stockwell
Date: Nov. 7
Crusade of decease: Natural causes
Age: 85
The actor racked upwardly more than than 200 acting credits throughout his decades-long career, earning an Emmy nomination for Quantum Spring and supporting Oscar nomination for Married to the Mob. He had memorable roles in Blue Velvet, Battlestar Galactica and Dune. The actor died peacefully at home of natural causes, a rep for the family confirmed to Deadline.
Stephen Sondheim
Date: Nov. 26
Cause of Death: Cardiovascular disease
Age: 91
The celebrated composer and lyricist was responsible for some of the biggest Broadway successes of our lifetimes, including A Little Night Music, for which he penned Grammy-winning tune "Ship in the Clowns"; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Sweeney Todd; Into the Wood and Company. He won a long list of accolades, including an Oscar for the Madonna song "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" in Dick Tracy; a Pulitzer Prize; a Kennedy Center award; the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and viii Tony Awards. (The 1 he received in 2008 was for lifetime achievement.) In 2010, a Broadway venue on West 43rd Street was named the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Mike Nesmith
Appointment: Dec. 10
Crusade of decease: Undisclosed
Age: 78
Robert Michael Nesmith was a musician, songwriter and pop-culture innovator all-time known as the dry out-witted, wooly-hatted guitarist/co-frontman of the 1960s' zeitgeist-capturing goggle box stone band the Monkees. While that band was often unfairly dismissed as a "Prefab Iv" Goggle box creation, and the creators of The Monkees tv set series famously did not allow the group to play on their first two albums, Nesmith had a serious musical background (his pre-Monkees songwriting credits included Linda Ronstadt and the Rock Poneys' "Different Pulsate") and he was the Monkees' nearly prolific songwriter, penning classics "Mary, Mary," "Papa Gene's Blues," "Y'all Just May Be the One," "Heed to the Band" and "The Daughter I Knew Somewhere." Subsequently the Monkees divide up, he formed the seminal country-rock outfit First National Band, and he later made music telly history over again when a program he created for Nickelodeon, PopClips, was sold to the Time Warner and developed into MTV. His collection of video shorts, Elephant Parts, won the outset-ever Grammy in the Music Video category in 1981, and in 1984 he served as an executive producer of the 1984 punk/cult film Repo Man. Over the years he participated in desultory Monkees reunions, and he died less than a month after he and his bandmate Micky Dolenz wrapped the Monkees' farewell tour with an emotional performance at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre.
Anne Rice
Date: December. xi
Crusade of death: Complications of a stroke
Age: eighty
The New Orleans author's very first published novel, 1976'due south Interview With the Vampire, which had evolved from a brusk story she wrote in the '60s, was a large hitting. In addition to establishing her gothic way and spawning more books, the story of blood-thirsty characters Lestat and Louis became a successful motion-picture show, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, in 1994. Over the grade of Rice's career, she wrote more a dozen books in The Vampire Chronicles serial, likewise equally many others, including romances.
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