That Derek's Showbituaries, 2016 round-up

[That Derek]

LATE 2015/NOT REPORTED UNTIL 2016/NOT EVIDENT IN OTHER 2015 NECROLOGIES

12/25/15: Dr. Richard Ash, age unavailable, alternative medicine advocate; NYC radio host
12/25/15: George Clayton Johnson, 86, novelist/screenwriter (“Logan’s Run”; “”The Twilight Zone”)
12/25/15: Jason Wingreen, 95, actor (“All in the Family”/“Archie Bunker’s Place”); one-time voice of “Star Wars” character “Boba Fett”
12/27/15: George “Meadowlark” Lemon, 83, basketball player (“The Harlem Globetrotters”); actor
12/27/15: Haskell Wexler, 93, cinematographer (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” – Academy Award; “Bound for G;ory” – Academy Award)
12/27/15: Stevie Wright, 68, singer/musician, “The Easybeats” (“Friday on My Mind”)
12/28/15: John “Brad” Bradbury, 62, drummer, British ska band “The Specials”
12/28/15: Lemmy (ne Ian Kilmister), 70, frontman, “Motörhead”
12/29/15: Billie Allen, 90, early African-American TV actress (“Car 54, Where Are You?” as Nipsey Russell’s wife)
12/31/15: Robert Flick, 84, NBC news producer; survivor, Jonestown massacre and airport attack
12/31/15: Natalie Cole, 65, popular singer; daughter of singer Nat “King” Cole
12/31/15: Beth Howland, 74, stage/sitcom actress (Broadway’s “Follies”; TV’s “Alice”); wife of TV actor Charles Kimbrough – not reported/publicized until May 2016
12/31/15: Lester “Rusty” G. Paul, 74, son of musician/luthier Les Paul
12/31/15: Wayne Rogers, 82, actor (“Cool Hand Luke”; TV’s “M*A*S*H”)

2016
01/01: Lennie Bluett, 96, actor (uncredited black Union soldier, “Gone with the Wind”)
01/01: Vilmos Zsigmond, 85, Hungarian-born cinematographer (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” – Academy Award)
01/02: Stanley Siegel, 78, 1970s NYC TV talk show host
01/02: Leonard White, 99, British producer/co-creator, TV’s “The Avengers”
01/04: Michel Galabru, 93, French film actor (for Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras; “La Cage aux Folles”)
01/04: Olwyn Hughes, 87, literary agent for poet brother Ted Hughes; sister-in-law of poet/memoirist Sylvia Plath
01/04: Robert Stigwood, 81, Australian music impresario; film producer
01/05: Pierre Boulez, 90, French composer/conductor
01/05: Nick Caldwell, 71, R&B singer, “The Whispers” (“And the Beat Goes On”)
01/05: Elizabeth Swados, 64, Broadway composer (“Runaways”; “Doonesbury: The Musical”)
01/06: Douglas Greer, 94, Canadian-born child actor (second-tier player, early 1930s “Our Gang”)
01/06: Pat Harrington Jr, 86, comedic actor (“The Steve Allen Show”; “One Day at a Time”), cartoon voice-over artist (“The Inspector”)
01/07: Kitty Kallen, 94, 1950s popular singer (“Little Things Mean a Lot”)
01/07: Richard Libertini, 82, TV/film character actor (“Catch-22”; Robert Altman’s “Popeye”; “The In-Laws”; “Soap”)
01/07: William Needles, 97, Canada’s oldest living working stage actor; inspiration for Jon Lovitz character “Master Thespian”
01/07: Troy Shondell, 76, early 1960s pop singer (“This Time”)
01/08: Otis Clay, 73, soul/R&B singer/songwriter
01/08: Royal Parker, 86, Baltimore broadcast journalist; 1950s/1960s children’s show host “Mr.Poplolly”
01/08: Red Simpson, 81, Bakersfield Sound country singer/songwriter (“I’m a Truck”)
01/09: Myra Carter, 86, Broadway actress noted for Edward Albee roles (“Three Tall Women”)
01/10: David Bowie, 69, singer/actor; “The Man Who Sold the World,” 01/10
01/11: Stanley Mann, 87, screenwriter (“The Collector”; “The Mouse That Roared”)
01/11: John Mansbridge, 98, draftsman, “Citizen Kane”; art director, 1970s Disney films
01/11: David Margulies, 78, character actor (“Ghostbusters” series as NYC mayor)
01/12: Meg Mundy, 101 British-born TV/film actress (mostly US soap operas)
01/13: Brian Bedford, 80, British-born Canadian stage actor; voice of Disney’s “Robin Hood”
01/13: Conrad Phillips, 90, 1950s British swashbuckling TV actor (“William Tell”)
01/14: René Angélil, 74, Canadian-born husband of singer Celine Dion
01/14: Alan Rickman, 69, British film actor (“Harry Potter” series; “Die Hard”; “Galaxy Quest”)
01/15: Noreen Corcoran, 72, TV sitcom actress (“Bachelor Father”)
01/15: Dan Haggerty, 74, actor (“The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams”)
01/16: Daniel Dion, 59, Canadian-born brother of singer Celine Dion
01/16: Gary Loizzo, 70, singer/musician, “The American Breed” (“Bend Me, Shape Me”)
01/17: Jo de Winter, 94, TV actress (“Soap”; “Gloria”; “The Brady Bunch” one-shot as “Dear Libby”)
01/17: Mic Gillette, 64, musician/co-founder, “Tower of Power”
01/17: Dale Griffin, 67, drummer, “Mott, the Hoople” (“All the Young Dudes”; “All the Way from Memphis”)
01/17: Clarence “Blowfly” Reid, 76, R&B singer
01/17: Chester “Chet” Stover, 90, 1960s adman; co-creator (with Buck Biggers), "Underdog”
01/18: Glenn Frey, 67, singer/songwriter/guitarist, “The Eagles”
01/18: Gary Menteer, 76, sitcom writer/producer/director (“Family Matters”)
01/19: Ettore Scola, 84, Italian film director/screenwriter
01/19: Sheila Sim, Lady Attenborough, 93, actress; widow of actor/director Sir Richard Attenborough
01/24: Jimmy Bain, 68, bassist, “Rainbow”; “Dio”
01/24: Edward Pavone, 90, theatre director; early champion for Edward Albee, LeRoi Jones, John Guare, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson
01/24: Nick Wiltgen, 39, TV meteorologist – traffic collision in an Atlanta parking garage
01/25: Monty Brinson, 58, supermarket franchise heir; ex-husband of reality TV personality Kim Richards
01/25: Mike Minor 75, TV sitcom actor (“Petticoat Junction”); son of TV producer Don Fedderson
01/26: Tommy Kelly, 90, 1930s juvenile film actor (“Tom Sawyer”; “Peck’s Bad Boy”; small part, “Gone with the Wind”)
01/26: Abe Vigoda, 94, actor (“The Godfather”; “”Barney Miller”; “Fish”)
01/27: Bill Martin, 70, songwriter for “The Monkees”; actor/director, Michael Nesmith projects; co-creator, TV’s “Harry and the Hendersons”
01/28: Signe Toly Anderson, 74, original female vocalist, “Jefferson Airplane”
01/28: Paul Kantner, 74, singer/songwriter, “Jefferson Airplane”
01/29: Linus Maurer, 90, commercial artist; inspiration for “Peanuts: character “Linus Van Pelt”
01/29: Jacques Rivette, 87, French "New Wave" film director
01/30: Frank Finlay, 89, British film actor (Laurence Olivier’s “Othello”; “The Three Musketeers”)
01/31: George Harvey (aka “Crackhead Bob”), 56, radio personality (Howard Stern’s “Wack Pack”)
01/31: Sir Terry Wogan, 77, Irish-born British TV personality/game show host (“Blankety Blank,” British version of “The Match Game”)
02/02: Bob Elliott, 92, radio/TV comedian (“Bob and Ray”); founder, “The Slow Talkers of America”
02/02: Mary Fiumara, 88, Bostonian actress (1970s Prince Spaghetti TV commercial)
02/03: Joe Alaskey, 63, cartoon voice-over artist (replaced Mel Blanc as “Daffy Duck”)
02/03: Jack Elrod Jr., 91, syndicated comic strip writer/author (“Mark Trail”)
02/04: Joe Dowell, 76, early 1960s pop singer (“Wooden Heart,” # 1 Billboard hit)
02/04: David Mirra, 41, bicyclist/BMX spokesman; M-TV personality – suicide by gunshot
02/04: Edgar Mitchell, 85, Apollo 14 astronaut; sixth man to walk on the Moon (one day shy of the 45th anniversary of Apollo 14)
02/04: Maurice White, 74, founder/singer/songwriter, “Earth, Wind & Fire”
02/05: Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, 86, US District Court judge who presided over TV personality Martha Stewart’s criminal trial
02/05: William H. Tankersley, 98, longtime head of CBS “Standards and Practices” especially versus “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”
02/06: Dan Hicks, 74, singer/songwriter, “Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks”; “Grateful Dead” forerunner “The Warlocks”
02/08: Ken Delo, 77, singer, “The Lawrence Welk Show”
02/08: Johnny Duncan, 92, cult film actor (“Bedtime for Bonzo”; “Plan 9 from Outer Space”; “Spartacus”; “Batman and Robin” serial as “Robin”)
02/08: Margaret Forster, 77, British novelist (“Georgy Girl,” basis for film)
02/08: Nicholas Hudis, 93, British screenwriter (six “Carry On” films; US episodic TV dramas)
02/09: Donald E. Thorin, 81, cinematographer (“Purple Rain”; “An Officer and a Gentleman”)
02/11: Warren Manzi, 60, playwright (“Perfect Crime” – longest running non-musical play in NYC theatre history)
02/11: Bob Raymond, 69, bassist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
02/11: Kim Williams, 68, country songwriter (for Randy Travis, Joe Diffie, Reba McIntire, Garth Brooks)
02/14: Drewe Henley, 75, British actor (“Red Leader” X-Wing Commander in “Star Wars IV: A New Hope”)
02/15: Mary Weaver Dodson, 83, TV art director (“Murder, She Wrote”); widow of actor Jack Dodson; sister of actor Fritz Weaver
02/15: George Gaynes, 98, Helsinki-born Dutch/Russian TV/film character actor (“Tootsie”; “Punky Brewster”; “Police Academy” series)
02/15: Jean Rabier, 88, French cinematographer (“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”)
02/15: Vanity (nee Denise Katrina Matthews), 57, Canadian-born singer/actress-turned-evangelist
02/16: Alexa McAllister, 31, TV reality show contestant (“The Bachelor”) – depression-fueled suicide by prescription drug overdose
02/16: Monsignor Thomas J. Hartman, 69, print journalist; TV personality (“The God Squad”)
02/17 (102nd birthday): Virginia Campbell, 102, 1920s-1940s stage/screen actress
02/17: Angela "Big Ang" Raiola, 55, reality TV personality (VH-1’s “Mob Wives”)
02/17: Clive Rice, 75, old time radio juvenile actor (“Bobby Benson”); career US Navy officer
02/17: George “Ray” West, 90, film sound mixer (“Star Wars IV: A New Hope” Academy Award Best Sound)
02/19: Humberto Allen Astredo, 86, stage/film/TV actor (“Dark Shadows”)
02/19: Umberto Eco, 84, Italian philosopher/novelist (“The Name of the Rose”)
02/19: Harper Lee, 89, novelist (“To Kill a Mockingbird”)
02/19: Charlie Tuna, 71, Los Angeles radio personality; TV announcer
02/21: Len Stuart, 73, comedy impresario; co-owner, Chicago club “The Second City”
02/22: Bridget Hedison, 71, film/TV producer; wife of actor David Hedison; mother-in-law of actress/director Jodie Foster
02/22: Sonny James, 87, country singer/songwriter (crossover hit “Young Love”; “’The Mary Tyler Show’ Theme”)
02/22: Cara McCollum, 24, Miss New Jersey 2013; local TV personality – traffic collision and from not wearing a seat belt
02/22: Douglas Slocombe, 103, British-born cinematographer (“Raider of the Lost Ark” – Academy Award; “Julia” – Academy Award; many seminal films)
02/23: Burt Nodella, 91, TV producer (“Get Smart”); ex-boyfriend of actress Barbara Feldon
02/24: Lennie Baker, 69, singer/saxophonist, “Sha Na Na”
02/24: Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, 88, Elvis Presley’s “Dr. Nick,” acquitted of overprescribing
02/25: Tony Burton¬, 78, actor (“Rocky” series)
02/25: Jim Clark, 84, British film editor (“Marathon Man”; “The Killing Fields” – Academy Award)
02/28: George Kennedy, 91, character actor (“Cool Hand Luke” – Academy Award; “Airport” series)
02/28: Craig Windham, 68, NPR news announcer
02/29: Alice Arlen, 75, screenwriter (“Silkwood”)
02/17: Gil Hill, 84, Detroit policeman-turned-actor (“Beverly Hills Cop”)
03/01: Coca Crystal (nee Jacqueline Diamond, 68, Yippie activist/writer, NYC cable-access host
03/01: Gayle McCormick, 68, lead singer, “Smith” (soulful version, “Baby, It’s You”)
03/01: Tony Warren, 79, British TV screenwriter/creator, “Coronation Street”
03/01: Martha Wright, 92, Broadway actress/soprano (“South Pacific”; “The Sound of Music”)
03/02: Tony Dyson, 69, British designer of the original “R2-D2”
03/03: Gavin Christopher, 66, R&B singer/songwriter (“Once You Get Started” for Rufus/Chaka Khan)
03/04: Joey Martin Feek, 40, singer/songwriter, country duo “J¬oey + Rory”
03/04: Pat Conroy, 70, novelist/screenwriter (“The Prince of Tides”; “The Great Santini”)
03/05: James Douglas, 86, TV soap opera actor (“As the World Turns”; “Peyton Place”)
03/06: Lana Rae Meisner, 63, wife of Randy Meisner (“The Eagles”) – accidental self-shooting
03/06: Clare Alden MacIntyre-Ross, 73, financier; inspiration for Harry Chapin’s song “Taxi”
03/06: Nancy Davis Reagan, 94, actress (“The Next Voice You Hear”; “Hellcats of the Navy”); widow of actor Ronald Reagan
03/06: Paul C. Ryan, 66, comic book (Marvel, DC) and comic strip (“The Phantom”) artist
03/06: Kathryn Trosper Popper, 100, last surviving cast member, “Citizen Kane”
03/07: Michael White, 80, Scots-born film producer (“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”; “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”)
03/08: Richard Davalos, 85, film actor (“East of Eden”; “Cool Hand Luke”; “Kelly’s Heroes”)
03/08: Ron Jacobs, 78, radio personality; co-creator, “American Top 40”; producer, “Cruisin’” oldies records,
03/08: Sir George Martin, 90, music producer/arranger (primarily for “The Beatles”)
03/09: Sir Kenneth Adam, 95, British art director (“James Bond” films; “Dr. Strangelove”; “Barry Lyndon” – Academy Award)
03/09: Kathryn Reed Altman, 91, widow of film director Robert Altman
03/09: Robert Horton, 91, TV actor (“Wagon Train”; “A Man Called Shenandoah”)
03/10: Keith Emerson, 71, keyboardist, “The Nice,” “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer” – suicide by gunshot
03/10: Gogi Grant, 91, 1950s popular singer (“The Wayward Wind”)
03/11: Shawn Elliott, 79, NYC stage musical singer/actor (“Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris”)
03/11: Ruth Terry, 95, 1930s/1940s Hollywood actress (mostly Westerns)
03/12: Tommy Brown, 87, R&B singer
03/12: James Sheldon, 95, prolific 1960s TV director
03/13: Adrienne Corri, 85, Italo-Scottish film actress (“Dr. Zhivago”; “A Clockwork Orange”; Hammer horror films)
03/13: Ned Miller, 90, country music songwriter (“From a Jack to a King”)
03/15: Sylvia Anderson, 88, British animator; co-creator/voice actor, 1960s “Supermarionation” cartoons,
03/16: Lee Andrews, 79, Philadelphia doo-wop singer, “Lee Andrew and the Hearts
03/16: Frank Sinatra Jr., 72, singer; son of singer/actor Frank Sinatra; 1963 kidnapping victim
03/17: Larry Drake, 66, TV actor (“LA Law”)
03/17: Steve Young, 73, “outlaw” country singer/songwriter (“Seven Bridges Road” for the Eagles)
03/18: Cherylene Lee, 69, Chinese-American TV actress (“Bachelor Father” as “Blossom”)
03/18: Joe Santos, 84, TV actor (“The Rockford Files”)
03/20: Andy Newman, 73, pianist, “Thunderclap Newman” (“Something in the Air”)
03/21: Peter Brown, 80, TV actor (westerns and soap operas)
03/21: Leon Charney, 77, real estate mogul; NYC-based financial TV host
03/22: Richard Bradford, 78, TV actor (“Cagney and Lacey”; “Man in a Suitcase”)
03/22: Rita Gam, 88, 1950s film actress; first wife of film director Sidney Lumet
03/22: David Smyrl, 80, TV actor (“Sesame Street”)
03/22: Malik Taylor (aka Phife Dawg), 45, member, rap group “A Tribe Called Quest”
03/23: Joe Garagiola, 90, baseball player; sportscaster; TV news and game-show host
03/23: Ken Howard, 71, actor (“The White Shadow”; “1776”); sitting president of SAG-AFTRA
03/23: Tom Whedon, 83, TV screenwriter (sitcoms, children’s shows), father of screenwriter Joss Whedon
03/24: Peter Anders. 75, singer/songwriter, 1960s pop group “The Trade Winds” (“New York’s a Lonely Town”)
03/24: Maggie Blye, 73, film/TV character actress (“The Italian Job”)
03/24: Earl Hamner Jr., 92, radio/TV writer/producer (“Spencer’s Mountain”; “The Waltons”)
03/24: Garry Shandling, 66, actor/comedian/writer (“It’s Gary Shandling’s Show”; “The Larry Sanders Show”)
03/26: Jim Harrison, 78, novelist/screenwriter (“Legends of the Fall”)
03/27: Mother Mary Angelica, 92, Catholic nun; TV host/founder, EWTN cable network
03/27: Howard Berk, 91, TV screenwriter (“Columbo”; “Mission: Impossible”; “The Rockford Files”)
03/27: Eric Enberg, 74, CBS News correspondent/investigative reporter
03/27: Toni Grant, 73, Los Angeles psychologist; syndicated radio personality
03/28: James Noble, 94, actor (“1776” – stage and screen; TV’s “Benson”)
03/29: Frank De Felitta, 94, novelist/screenwriter (““Audrey Rose,” basis for film); TV documentarian
03/29: Patty Duke, 69, actress (“The Miracle Worker” – Academy Award; “The Patty Duke Show”; “Valley of the Dolls”); one-time president, SAG; mental health advocate
03/30: Frankie Michaels, 60, juvenile stage/screen actor; youngest performer ever to win a Tony Award (age 11 for “Mame”)
03/31: Maryan Baadi, age unavailable, Somalian-born mother of Iman; mother-in-law of singer David Bowie
03/31: Ronnie Corbett, 85, Scots-born TV comedian/actor (“The Two Ronnies”)
03/31: Douglas Wilmer, 96, British actor (title role, 1960s BBC-TV series “Sherlock Holmes”)
04/02: Leandro "Gato" Barbieri, 83, Argentine-born jazz saxophonist; film composer (“Last Tango in Paris”)
04/02: Mike Gibbons, 71, lead singer, 1970s pop group “Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods” (“Billy, Don’t Be a Hero”)
04/03: Eric Bauersfeld, 93, “Star Wars” voice-over actor (“Return of the Jedi”; “The Force Awakens”)
04/03: Bill Henderson, 90, jazz vocalist (for Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson); actor
04/03: Dick Hodgins Jr., 84, syndicated cartoonist (inherited comic strips “Half Hitch”, “Henry”, “Hägar the Horrible”), 1970s editorial cartoonist (“New York Daily News”), 04/03
04/04: Carlo Mastrangelo, 77, doo-wop singer, “The Belmonts”
04/05: E. M. Nathanson, 87, novelist (“The Dirty Dozen,” basis for film)
04/05: Barbara Turner, 79, screenwriter (“Petulia”; “Pollock”); mother of actress Jennifer Jason Leigh
04/06: Dennis Davis, 64, drummer for David Bowie
04/06: Leon Haywood, 74, R&B singer/songwriter (“She’s a Bad Mama Jama”)
04/06 (79th birthday): Merle Haggard, 79, “outlaw” country singer/songwriter (“Okie from Muscogee”; “Mama Tried”)
04/07: Phillip Scheffler, 85, longtime segment producer, “60 Minutes”
04/07: Jimmie Van Zant, 59, musician; cousin to Van Zant musicians, “Lynyrd Skynyrd,” “.38 Special”
04/08: Paul Fung Jr., 93, comic strip artist (Chic Young’s assistant, “Blondie”, 1949-1965)
04/08: Keith Hefner, 87, “Playboy” executive; brother of “Playboy” founder Hugh Hefner
04/09: Arthur Anderson, 93, radio/stage/TV/voice-over actor; voice of “Lucky,” the Lucky Charms cereal mascot; juvenile actor with Orson Welles and “The Mercury Theater”
04/09: Leonard Brenner, age unavailable, MAD Magazine art director who appeared in its parody ads
04/10: Melinda Rose “Linda” Woodward, 75, wife of singer Tom Jones
04/11: Doug Banks, 57, Chicago-based urban music radio personality
04/11: Emile Ford, 78, West Indian-born British singer, “Emile Ford and the Checkmates”; first black artist in “rock era” to top British charts (1960)
04/11: David Gest, 62, TV/music producer; one-time husband of singer/actress Liza Minnelli
04/11: Jack Hammer, 90, songwriter (“Great Balls of Fire”)
04/12: Floyd “Gil” Guilbreau, 78, musician, “The Flying Burrito Brothers”
04/12: Anne Jackson, 90, stage/screen actress, widow of actor Eli Wallach
04/12: Sir Arnold Wesker, 83, prolific British “Angry Young Men” playwright
04/13: Frank Freda, 79, TV actor (“Diver Dan”)
04/13: Gareth Thomas, 71, Welsh-born British TV actor (“Blake’s 7”)
04/13: John von Soosten, 71, NYC and XM radio personality
04/16: Rod Daniel, 73, TV sitcom/film director (“WKRP in Cincinnati”; “Everybody Loves Raymond”; “Teen Wolf”)
04/17; Doris Roberts, 90, TV sitcom actress (“Soap”; “Angie”; ““Everybody Loves Raymond”)
04/17: Elton Spitzer, 84, Long Island-based radio executive; overseer, 1980s WLIR-FM’s “New Wave”/ progressive programming
04/17: Kit West, 80, British special effects artist (“Raiders of the Lost Ark” – Academy Award: “Return of the Jedi”)
04/18: Scott Nimerfro, 54, TV writer/producer (“Pushing Daisies”; “Hannibal”)
04/19: Les Waas, 94, Philadelphia-based jingle writer (“Mister Softee”)
04/19: Peter Zorn, 65, musician, “Richard Thompson Band”; “Steeleye Span”
04/20: Chyna (nee Joan Laurer), 46, wrestler; reality TV personality – accidental prescription drug overdose
04/20: Guy Hamilton, 93, French-born British director (“James Bond” series: “Goldfinger”; “Live and Let Die; “Diamonds Are Forever”; “The Man with the Golden Gun”)
04/21: Dick Darley, 92, early TV director/producer (“Space Patrol”; “The Mickey Mouse Club”; “Space Angel”)
04/21: Lonnie Mack, 74, blues guitarist
04/21: Prince (ne Prince Rogers Nelson), 57, performing artist
04/22: Michelle McNamara, 46, crime writer; wife of actor/comedian/blogger Patton Oswalt
04/23: Wayne Hull, 89, 1930s child film actor (“The Great Man Votes,” with twin brother Warren Hull)
04/23: Madeleine Sherwood, 93, Canadian-born stage/screen actress (“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”; “The Flying Nun”)
04/23: A. Martin Zweiback, 85, screenwriter (1960s/1970s episodic TV; Patty Duke film “Me, Natalie”; “Grace Quigley”)
04/24: Billy Paul, 81, R&B singer (“Me and Mrs. Jones”)
04/24: Papa Wemba, 66, Congolese rumba musician
04/25: Remo Belli, 88, rock-‘n’-roll era drumwright
04/27: Philip Kives, 87, Canadian entrepreneur; founder, K-tel Records
04/29: Harry Falk, 83, TV director; first husband of Patty Duke
04/29: Delia Fine, 64, TV producer (“Live, with Regis and Kathie Lee”; “Geraldo”: A&E literary miniseries)
04/29: Gino Grimaldi, 74, TV producer (“Emergency!”; “Knight Rider”)
04/30: Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J., 94, Catholic priest; political activist
04/30: Wayne Crawford, 69, 1980s film writer/producer (“Valley Girl”)
04/30: Peter Thomas, 91, TV/radio voice-over artist; audio-book narrator
05/01: Madeleine LeBeau, 92), French 1940s actress; last surviving cast member, “Casablanca”
05/02: Afeni Shakur, 60, Black Panther activist; mother of rapper Tupac Shakur
05/02: Ret Turner, 87, wardrobe/costume designer (TV variety shows)
05/03: Abel Fernandez, 85, pugilist-turned-actor (TV’s “The Untouchables”)
05/03: Marianne Gaba, 76, Playboy Playmate (September 1959); TV/film actress
05/03: Nicolas Noxon, 73, TV documentarian (“Secrets of the Titanic”)
05/03: Ian Sander, 68, TV/film producer (“Ghost Whisperer”; “Profiler”; “DOA” remake)
05/05: Isao Tomita, 84, synthetic music pioneer; anime theme song composer ("Kimba, the White Lion”)
05/06: Dick Estell, 90, early NPR radio host (“The Radio Reader”)
05/06: Candye Kane, 50, jazz/blues singer/songwriter
05/06: Rickey Smith, 36, “American Idol” Season Two finalist – traffic collision
05/07: Arlington Rand Brooks III, 66, only grandson of film comedian Stan Laurel – victim of a DUI hit-and-run driver
05/07: Harriet Carell, 90, mother of actor Steve Carell
05/07: John Krish, 52, British TV director (“The Saint”; “The Avengers”; graphic public safety films)
05/08: John Bradshaw, 82, self-help author/TV host
05/08: Nick Lashaway, 38, TV actor – automobile accident
05/08: William Schallert, 93, TV character actor (“The Patty Duke Show”); one-time president, SAG
05/08: James Travis, 93, adman (Meow Mix; Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America”)
05/09: Gareth Gwenlan, 79, Welsh TV producer, BBC Comedy (many well-known sitcoms)
05/10: Gene Gutowski, 90, Polish film producer (Roman Polanski films including “The Piano”). 05/10
05/10: William Herz Jr., 99, last surviving cast member, radio’s “War of the Worlds” (1938)
05/11: Peter Behrens, 68, German musician, “Trio” (“Da Da Da”)
05/11: Andrew Gosling, 71, British TV director/producer (Eric Idle’s “Rutland Weekend Television”)
05/12: Julius La Rosa, 86, singer/actor connected to Arthur Godfrey (“Eh, Cumpari”)
05/13: Bill Backer, 89, adman (Coca-Cola’s “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”)
05/14: Tony Barrow, 80, 1960s press officer for the Beatles (coined the term “Fab Four”)
05/14: Darwyn Cooke, 53, comic book writer/artist, DC Comics (“Catwoman”; “DC: The New Frontier”)
05/24: Johnny Seay, 75, country singer/songwriter – plane crash
05/15: Michael Roberds, 52, Canadian-born TV actor (“The New Addams Family” as “Uncle Fester”)
05/16: Julia Meade, 90, 1950’s singer/actress; early TV commercial pitchwoman
05/17: Guy Clark, 74, country singer/songwriter (“L. A. Freeway”)
05/19: Alexandre Astruc, 92, French “New Wave” film critic and director
05/19: Irving Benson, 102, vaudeville comic who portrayed Milton Berle heckler “Sidney Spritzer”
05/19: John Berry, 55, original pre-fame member, “The Beastie Boys”
05/19: Morley Safer, 84, Canadian-born TV journalist, CBS’s “60 Minutes”
05/19: Terry Tomalin, 55, Tampa Bay journalist/editor; brother of actress/activist Susan Sarandon
05/19: Alan Young, 96, Scots-Canadian TV/radio comic actor/voice-over artist (“Mister Ed”)
05/20: Rosanna Huffman, 77, TV actress; widow of screenwriter/impresario Richard Levinson
05/20: Betty Sue Palmer, 81, mother of actor Johnny Depp
05/20: Fred Papert, 89, adman (Maypo, Xerox, RFK); Grand Central Terminal preservationist
05/20: Jeanne Parr, 92, 1960s CBS correspondent; author; mother of actor Christopher Noth
05/21: Nick Menza, 51, former drummer, “Megadeth” – heart failure/on-stage collapse
05/22: George Wildman, 88, comic book artist, Charlton Comics, Western Publications (“Popeye”: “Underdog”)
05/23: Joe Fleishaker, 62, character actor, Troma Films stock company (“The Toxic Avenger”)
05/23: Dr. Howard Mele, 88, Princeton psychiatrist who treated John Nash (“A Beautiful Mind”)
05/23: Nannette Rainone, 73, NYC political activist, radio personality (WBAI-FM)
05/24: Buck Kartalian, 93, body builder-turned-character actor (“Planet of the Apes”; “Cool Hand Luke”)
05/24: Bert Kwouk, 85, Sino-British actor (“Cato” in seven “Pink Panther” films)
05/24: Mell Lazarus, 89, syndicated cartoonist (“Miss Peach”; “Momma”)
05/25: Nancy Dow, 79, 1960s actress/model; mother of actress Jennifer Aniston
05/25: Bronwyn FitzSimons, 71, 1960s actress; daughter of actress Maureen O’Hara
05/25: Peggy Spencer, 95, British dancer/choreographer (TV's “Come Dancing”; Beatles' video "Your Mother Should Know”)
05/26: Angela Paton, 86, late-in-life character actress (innkeeper, “Groundhog Day”)
05/27: Michael Dann, 94, 1960s CBS programming executive
05/27: Marshall "Rock" Jones, 75, bassist, "The Ohio Players”
05/28: Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, Italian stage/film actor (“Last Year in Marienbad”)
05/28: Floyd Robinson, 83, 1950s country singer
05/29: Wendy Leigh, 65, British celebrity biographer (David Bowie, JFK, Arnold Schwarzenegger) – building fall; possible suicide
05/30: Carla Lane, 87, British TV sitcom writer/creator (“Butterflies”; “Bread”; “The LIverbirds”)
05/31: Jan Crouch, 78, televangelist; co-founder, Trinity Broadcasting Network
05/31: Violet Stitt Morrison, 90s, mother of Irish singer Sir Van Morrison
06/01: Roger Enrico, 71, CEO, Pepsi (during “Cola Wars”); later chairman, DreamWorks Animation
06/01: David Spielberg, 77, prolific TV character actor
06/02: James H. Burns, 54, actor; pop culture historian (“Starlog” magazine)
06/02: Fred “Cappy” Capitani, 83, New Jersey-based cable access personality (“Cappy’s Casino Corner”)
06/02: Pamela Buttery, 54, provocative TV cult figure “Baby Bonzo” associated with NYC-area “The Uncle Floyd Show”
06/02: Willis Pyle, 101, animator (UPA, Disney); brother of actor Denver Pyle
06/03: Muhammad Ali, 74, “The Greatest”
06/03: Mark Parenteau, 65, Boston disc jockey once involved in an underage sex scandal
06/03: Dave Swarbrick, 75, fiddler/singer-songwriter, folk group “Fairport Convention”
06/03: Marcy Vosburgh-Myers, 64, TV writer (“The Jeffersons”; “Married: With Children”)
06/04: Bobby Curtola, 73, early 1960s Canadian teen idol singer
06/04: Johnny “The Greek” Karagiorgis, 41, restaurateur (Rutt’s Hut, Clifton NJ); reality TV personality
06/04: Bill Richmond, 94, co-screenwriter (seven Jerry Lewis films); 1970s variety show/sitcom writer
06/05: David Gilkey, 50, NPR photojournalist – grenade attack by the Afghani Taliban
06/06: Al Ackerman, 90, 1970s/1980s Detroit Tigers sportscaster
06/06: Theresa Saldana, 61, actress (“Raging Bull”; “The Commish”); crime victims’ rights advocate
06/06: Sir Peter Shaffer, 90, playwright/screenwriter (“Equus”: “Amadeus”)
06/07: Leonard Hill, 69, TV writer (“Adam-12”); TV producer (TV films and mini-series)
06/07: Mary MacLeod, 78, Scottish stage/screen actress (“Equus,” British stage version; “If…”; “O Lucky Man”; “Mapp & Lucia”)
06/08: Charles M. Zacha Jr. (aka Paui Sorra), 86, TV actor; designer of Disneyland attractions
06/09: Darcie Denkert, 61, Broadway producer (“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”; “Legally Blonde”)
06/09: Bob Yeazel, 68, guitarist/vocalist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
06/10: Christina Grimmie, 22, pop singer (TV competition “The Voice”) – victim, murder/suicide by obsessed fan
06/11: Dana Giacchetto, 53, 1990s “stockbroker to the stars” – after a night of hard partying
06/12: Charles “Chuck” Briles, 70, TV actor (“The Big Valley”)
06/12: Janet Waldo, 96, radio/cartoon voice-over actress (most notably as “Judy Jetson”); widow of playwright Robert E. Lee
06/13: Fred Caruso, 41, Off-Broadway/film producer/director (“The Big Gay Musical”) – suicide, pre-publicized on social media
06/13: Mihaly “Michu” Meszaros, 76, diminutive Hungarian circus performer; TV actor (in-costume as “ALF”)
06/13: Lincoln “Chips” Moman, 79, Memphis-based music producer/songwriter
06/14: Ronnie Claire Edwards, 83, TV actress (“The Waltons”)
06/14: Ann Morgan Guilbert, 87, TV sitcom actress (“The Dick Van Dyke Show”; “The Nanny”)
06/14: Henry McCullough, 72, Ulster-born guitarist (“Spooky Tooth”; “Wings”; at Woodstock with Joe Cocker)
06/15: Julie Payne, 64, TV/film producer, collaborator with director Ridley Scott
06/15: Dr. Richard Selzer, 87, surgeon-turned-author (“A Question of Mercy,” inspiration for stage play)
06/16: Mary Ann King, 82, Los Angeles “Romper Room” TV host (1966-1976)
06/16: Richard O. Linke, 98, associate producer, “The Andy Griffith Show”
06/17: Rubén Aguirre, 82, Spanish-language TV actor (“El Chavo del Ocho”)
06/17: Attrell Cordes, 46, lead singer, R&B group “PM Dawn”
06/17: Ron Lester, 45, film/TV character actor (“Varsity Blues”; “Freaks and Geeks”)
06.18: Robert Cox, 78, adman (“Just Say No”; Ford’s “Quality Is Job One”; “All Aboard Amtrak”)
06/18: Sharon Douglas, 96, 1940s radio/film actress (radio’s “The Life of Riley” as “Babs Riley”)
06/18: Alejandro “Jano” Fuentes, 45, singer/contestant, Mexican version of TV’s “The Voice” –gun violence
06/19: Anton Yelchin, 27, actor (“Pavel Chekhov,” J. J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” series) – freak automobile accident
06/20: Bill Ham, 79, longtime manager, “ZZ Top”
06/20: Barry Hanson, 72, British TV producer (telefilm “The Naked Civil Servant”)
06/20: Goro Hasegawa, 83, Japanese creator, “Othello” board game
06/20: James Victor, 76, TV actor (“Viva Valdez!”; 1990’s “Zorro”)
06/20: Ron Watts, 74, 1970s British punk music promoter (“The Sex Pistols”; “The Clash”)
06/21: “Dandy” Dan Daniel, 82, NYC top 40 radio disc jockey (WMCA-AM; WYNY-FM; WCBS-FM)
06/21: Wayne Jackson, 74, Stax Records trumpeter (“The Mar-Key”; “The Memphis Horns”)
06/21: Pierre Lalonde, 75, French-Canadian singer/TV host
06/21: Harry Rabinowitz, 100, South African-born composer/conductor for British films/TV/stage
06/21: Freddy Powers, 84, country singer; songwriter (for Merle Haggard); producer (for Willie Nelson)
06/22: Danny Davis, 87, music promotion executive (record labels Philles, Motown, Screen Gems, Casablanca)
06/22: Mike Hart, 72, 1960s "Liverpool Scene" poet; singer/songwriter, "The Road Runners”
06/23: Bill Fahan, 82, NYC radio newscaster (WCBS-AM)
06/23: Michael Herr, 76, Vietnam War correspondent (“Dispatches”); co-screenwriter, “Full Metal Jacket”
06/23: Mike Flynn, 48, founding editor, “Breitbart News”
06/23: Stuart Nisbet, 82, TV character actor (“Dragnet” TV stock company); Scottish history authority
06/23: Ralph Stanley, 89, Grammy-winning bluegrass musician
06/24: Gwen Hiller, 92, Canadian-born wife of 1970s film director Arthur Hiller
06/24: Bernie Worrell, 72, keyboardist, “Parliament-Funkadelic”.
06/25: Bill Cunningham, 87, “New York Times” fashion photographer
06/25 (body found): Elliot Wolff, 61, producer/songwriter (for Paula Abdul) – missing since 06/07 while on a New Mexico camping trip
06/26: Barbara Goldsmith, 85, founding co-editor, “New York” magazine; author (“Little Gloria … Happy at Last”)
06/27: Mack Rice, 82, songwriter (“Mustang Sally”; “Respect Yourself”: “Cheaper to Keep Her”)
06/27: Bud Spencer, 86, Italian “spaghetti western” film actor
06/28: Pat Lysinger, 73, Broadway musical actress (“No, No, Nanette” revival; “Dames at Sea”)
06/28: Scotty Moore, 84, 1960s lead guitarist for Elvis Presley
06/28: Alvin Toffler, 87, futurist author (“Future Shock”)
06/29: Rob Wasserman, 64, bassist, “Ratdog” (“Grateful Dead” offshoot band)
07/01: Robin Hardy, 86, British film director (“The Wicker Man” – original 1973 version)
07/02: Michael Cimino, 77, screenwriter/director (“The Deer Hunter” – Academy Award; “Heaven’s Gate”)
07/02: Alphonse McCourt, 75, Irish-born memoirist; brother of authors Frank McCourt, Malachy McCourt
07/02: Teddy Rooney, 66, child actor-turned-musician; son of actors Mickey Rooney and Martha Vickers
07/02: Elie Wiesel, 87, Romanian-born Nobel Peace Prize-winning Holocaust memoirist/activist
07/03: Noel Neill, 95, film/TV actress (“The Adventures of Superman” as “Lois Lane”)
07/05: Carl Grimes Jr., age unavailable, original guitarist/vocalist, “The Untouchables” (arguably the US’s first ska band)
07/05: Janine “Nine” Devroye Culliford, 86, Belgian comics colorist; widow of “Smurfs” creator Pierre “Peyo” Culliford
07/05: Doris Tiffany Gere, 91, mother of actor/activist Richard Gere
07/06 John McMartin, 86, TV/film actor: Broadway leading man (“Follies”; “Sweet Charity”; “Showboat” revival)
07/06: Danny Smythe, 67, original drummer, “The Box Tops” (“The Letter”: “Cry Like a Baby”)
07/07: Jimmy Gilbert, 93, Scots-born BBC comedy producer (many well-known series)
07/07: Tom Marr, 73, Baltimore conservative radio personality; Baltimore Orioles sportscaster
07/08: William Lucas, 91, British TV actor (“The Adventures of Black Beauty”)
07/09: Norman Abbott, 93, prolific TV sitcom director; nephew of comedian Bud Abbott
07/09: Vaughn Harper, 71, NYC radio personality (WBLS-FM's "The Quiet Storm”)
07/09: Sydney Schanberg, 82, Pulitzer Prize-winning “New York Times” journalist (“The Killing Fields”)
07/09: Carole Switala, 69, puppeteer/voice actress (“Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”)
07/09: Matt Villines, 39, “Saturday Night Live” segment director
07/11: Robert Mason Pollock, 99, radio/TV scriptwriter (“My True Story”; “The Doctors”; “Dynasty”)
07/12: Janet Marylyn Frager, 84, mother of actor Tom Hanks
07/12: Seamon Glass, 90, pugilist-turned-character actor (“Sleeper”: “Deliverance”; TV’s “Star Trek”)
07/12: Melvin Kampmann, 85, Philadelphia TV news producer; creator of 1970s “Action News” format
07/12: Esther Geddes McVey, 99, widow of old time radio actor Tyler McVey; perennial on old time radio convention circuit
07/13: Hector Babenco, 70, Argentine-born film director (“Kiss of the Spider Woman”; “Ironweed”)
07/14: Paul Bergren, 62, screenwriter (“The Elephant Man”; “Frances”)
07/14: Lisa Gaye, 81, 1950/1960s film/TV actress (TV’s “How to Marry a Millionaire”)
07/15: Johnny Craviotto, 68, drumwright; drummer, Neil Young’s 1970s side band “The Ducks”
07/15: Josephine Schlieffer Moonves, 92, mother of CBS CEO Leslie Moonves
07/16: Bonnie Brown, 77, vocalist, “The Browns” (“The Three Bells”)
07/16: Alan Vega, 78, electronic music pioneer; frontman, “Suicide”
07/17: Gary S. Paxton, 77, pop singer (“Skip and Flip”); songwriter (“Monster Mash”); producer; gospel singer
07/17: Fred Tomlinson, 88, British singer/choral director; co-writer, Monty Python’s “Lumberjack Song”
07/18: John Kerr, 66, biographer (Sigmund Freud, Carl S. Jung); son of drama critic Walter Kerr
07/18: Billy Name, 76, photographer; one-time lover of Andy Warhol
07/19: Garry Marshall, 81, prolific TV/film director, producer, writer, actor
07/21: Bill “'Chilly Billy" Cardille, 87, Pittsburgh radio personality; TV horror/wrestling host; inspiration for Joe Flaherty’s “Count Floyd” character (“SCTV”)
07/21: Lewie Steinberg, 82, bassist, “Booker T and the MGs” (“Green Onions”). 07/21
07/21: Taylor Terrell, 24, news anchor (WMGT-TV, Channel 41, Macon GA) – accidental fall while hiking
07/22: David Bald Eagle Jr., 97, Lakota chief; D-Day veteran; actor (“Dances with Wolves”)
07/22: Thomas Sutherland, 85, Scots-born American academic held hostage in Lebanon (1985-91),
07/23: Joe Napolitano, 67, TV director (“Quantum Leap”; “The X-Files”; “Picket Fences”; “ER”)
07/24: Frank Hodsoll, 78, National Endowment for the Arts chairman under Ronald Reagan who fended off agency’s elimination
07/24: Marni Nixon, 86, Hollywood “ghost” singer; mother of singer Andrew Gold
07/24: Chris Costner Sizemore, 89, mental health patient; inspiration for book/film “The Three Faces of Eve”
07/25: Tom Clegg, 81, British TV/film director (“Space: 1999” “Rosemary & Thyme”; “McVicar”)
07/25: Reverend Tim LaHaye, 90, evangelist-turned-novelist (co-author, “Left Behind” series)
07/25: James M. Nederlander Jr., 94, dominant Broadway impresario/theatre chain owner
07/26: Anne Balfour-Fraser, 92, British documentary producer with an illustrious lineage (Balfours, Bulwer-Lyttons)
07/26: Allan Barnes, 66, saxophonist/flutist, “The Blackbyrds” (“Walking in Rhythm”)
07/26: Youree Dell Harris (aka “Miss Cleo”), 53, discredited TV psychic/huckster
07/26: Mohammad Khan, 73, Anglo-Egyptian film director
07/26: Sandy Pearlman, 72, record producer (“Blue Oyster Cult”; “The Clash” “The Dictators”)
07/26: Sylvia Peters, 90, 1950s BBC-TV news anchor (Queen Elizabeth’s coronation)
07/27: Jack Davis, 91, comic artist/caricaturist (film posters; EC Comics; “MAD”; “TV Guide”)
07/27: Jerry Doyle, 60, TV actor (“Babylon 5”); conservative radio talk personality
07/27: Sue Gibson, 64, British-born cinematographer (“Mrs. Dalloway”; “AVP: “Alien Vs. Predator”)
07/27: Richard Thompson, 58, syndicated comic strip writer/author (“Cul de Sac”)
07/28: Robert Crawford Sr., 95, TV editor (“The Monkees”; “Gidget”); father of actor Johnny Crawford
07/29: Marianne Ihlen, 81, Norwegian-born muse to/lover of/LP cover model for Leonard Cohen
07/29: Suzanne Wright, 69, co-founder (with husband Bob Wright, former NBC CEO), “Autism Speaks”
07/30: Gloria DeHaven, 91, singer/actress (MGM musicals)
07/30: Dave Schwartz, 63, TV meteorologist, The Weather Channel
08/01: Jonathan D. Krane, 65, film producer (“Look Who’s Talking”); husband of actress Sally Kellerman
08/02: Terence Bayler, 86, New Zealand-born British cult stage/TV/film actor (“Monty Python’s Life of Brian”; “The Rutles”; “Harry Potter” series; Roman Polanski’s “Macbeth”)
08/02: James Houghton, 57, founder, Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre
08/02: David Huddleston, 85, comic actor (“Blazing Saddles”; “The Big Lebowski”; title role, “Santa Claus: The Movie”)
08/03: Ricci Martin, 62, musician/entertainer: son of entertainer Dean Martin
08/03: Robert Rosencrans, 89, first board chairman, C-SPAN
08/03: Gaspar Saladino, 88, comic book letterer/logo designer, DC Comics and Marvel
08/03: Elliot Tiber, 81, Woodstock behind-the-scenes player; LGBT activist (present at Stonewall Uprising, 1969)
08/04: Patrice Munsel, 91, coloratura soprano, Metropolitan Opera; Broadway/TV musical actress
08/04: Edith Tolkin, 93, Canadian-born film studio legal executive; widow of comedy writer Mel Tolkin
08/05: Richard Fagan, 69, 1980s/1990s country songwriter implicated in the 2008 death of comic actress Cheri Oteri's father
08/06: Pete Fountain, 83, New Orleans-based jazz clarinetist
08/06: Gerald Hughes, 85, brother of poet Ted Hughes; brother-in-law of poet/memoirist Sylvia Plath
08/06: Norman Twain, 85, producer (Broadway: “Bajour!”; TV: “It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman!”; film: “Lean on Me”)
08/07: Sagan Lewis, 63, TV actress (“St. Elsewhere”; “Homicide: Life on the Street”; “M*A*S*H” finale)
08/08: Barry Jenner, 75, TV actor (recurring roles, “Family Matters”; “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”)
08/08: W. Carter Merbreier, 90, Philadelphia children’s TV show host “Captain Noah” (1967-1994)
08/09: Jimmy Levine, 61/62, R&B musician; songwriter (Barry White, Gene Chandler; The Dells)
08/09: Donna Wold, 87, inspiration for “Peanuts” character "the little red-haired girl”
08/09: John Woolford (ne Wulff Scherchen), 96, 1930s lover of/muse to composer Benjamin Britten
08/10: John Saunders, 61, Canadian-born ESPN sports journalist
08/11: Michael Enthoven, 72, British “art rock” manager (“King Crimson,” “Emerson, Lake and Palmer”; Marc Bolan; “Roxy Music”)
08/11: Thomas Steinbeck, 72, author/screenwriter; eldest son of author John Steinbeck
08/11: Len Steckler, 88, TV director ("Free to Be You & Me”; Joe Namath pantyhose ads)
08/11: Glenn Yarbrough, 86, folksinger, “The Limeliters”; solo artist (“Baby, the Rain Must Fall”; theme to “The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t”)
08/12: Barbara Gibb, 95, mother of singers Barry, Maurice, Robin, Andy Gibb
08/12: Ruby Wilson, 68, blues/soul/gospel singer known as the “Queen of Beale Street”
08/13: Kenny Baker, 81, diminutive actor (“Star Wars” series as “R2-D2”)
08/13: Gita Hall, 82, Swedish model/ film actress; former wife of actor Barry Sullivan
08/14: Philip “Fyvush” Finkle, 93, stage/screen actor rooted in NYC’s Yiddish theatre
08/15: Dick Assman, 82, Saskatchewan-based gas station owner; cult figure/punchline, “The Late Show with David Letterman”
08/15: Bobby Hutcherson, 75, jazz vibraphonist
08/15: Matt Null, 34, adult film actor-turned-TV news network producer (“On the Record with Greta Van Susteren”; CNN’s “Early Start”)
08/15: James Woolley, 50, former keyboardist, “Nine Inch Nails”
08/16: Ronald DeLuca, 91, adman (Chrysler and Lee Iacocca)
08/16: John McLaughlin, 89, political commentator/TV host (“The McLaughlin Group”)
08/17: Arthur Hiller, 92, Canadian-born film director (“Love Story”; “The In-Laws”; “Man of La Mancha”)
08/17: Preston Hubbard, 63, former bassist, "The Fabulous Thunderbirds” (“Tuff Enuff”)
08/18: Helen Stuart Marcovicci, 97, 1940s nightclub torch singer; mother of musical actress Andrea Marcovicci
08/19: Lou Pearlman, 62, 1990s boy band impresario (“Backstreet Boys”; “*NSYNC”) convicted for a 2009 Ponzi scheme – in custody
08/19: Jack Riley, 81, film/TV actor (“The Bob Newhart Show”; three Mel Brooks films)
08/20: Irving Fields, 101, pianist; orchestra leader; songwriter (“Managua, Nicaragua”)
08/20: Matt Roberts, 38, former guitarist, “3 Doors Down”
08/21: Headley Bennett, 85, reggae/ska session saxophonist (for Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff)
08/21: Mario Novelli, 76, Italian actor (1960s “spaghetti westerns”)
08/21: Sir Antony Jay, 86, co-creator/director/co-author, British TV’s “Yes, Minister”
08/22: Michael Leader, 78, British actor (“EastEnders”; “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” as “clumsy” Stormtrooper”)
08/22: Jacqueline Bouvier Pagnol, 95, French film actress (“Topaze”); widow of director Marcel Pagnol
08/22: Gillian “Gilli” Smyth, 83, British musician, avant-garde group “Gong”
08/22: Jean-Baptiste “Toots” Thielemans, 94, Belgian jazz harmonica virtuoso
08/23: Steven Hill, 94, film/TV actor (“Mission: Impossible”; “Law & Order”)
08/24: George Kaczender, 83, Hungarian-born Canadian film/TV director (“In Praise of Older Women”; “Falcon Crest”)
08/24: Jeanne Biegger Martin, 89, fashion model; second wife of entertainer Dean Martin (1949-1972)
08/25: Warren Hinckle, 77, 1960s countercultural “gonzo” journalist (“Ramparts” magazine)
08/25: Marvin Kaplan, 89, radio/TV/film/voiceover actor (“Meet Millie”; “Top Cat”; “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”; “Alice”)
08/25: Rudy Van Gelder, 91, jazz recording engineer (for Miles Davis, John Coltrane)
08/26: Paul Comi, 84, TV character actor (“Ripcord”; “Rawhide”; “Star Trek”; “The Twilight Zone”)
08/26: William “Jerry” Buck, 85, longtime television columnist, Associated Press
08/26: Monty Lee Wilkes, 54, sound engineer/roadie (Prince; “Nirvana”; “The Replacements”)
08/27: Dr. Joy Browne, 71, psychologist/radio personality (NYC’s WOR-AM); self-help author
08/27: Jaime Davidovich, 79, Argentine-born NYC cable access host “Dr. Videovich”
08/28: Juan Gabriel, 66, superstar Mexican singer
08/28: Darrell Ward, 52, reality TV personality (“Ice Road Truckers”) – plane crash, en route to Montana to begin filming a documentary series involving plane crash recoveries
08/29: Gene Wilder, 83, comedic actor/director/screenwriter
08/30: Eleanor Barooshian/Baruchian (aka Chelsea Lee), 66, 1960s girl rocker (group “The Cake”; “I’ve Got You, Babe” reverse-gender duet with Tiny Tim)
08/30: Susan Pears Phipps, 84, niece of opera singer Sir Peter Pears; assistant to Pears and composer Sir Benjamin Britten Britten
08/31: Rick Gunter, 65, TV cinematographer (“Dallas”; “Beverly Hills 90210”)
09/01: Fred Hellerman, 89, folksinger, “The Weavers” (last surviving member); son-in-law of screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr.
09/01: Kacey Jones, 66, comic country singer/songwriter (for Mickey Gilley, David Allan Coe)
09/01: Jon Polito, 65, film character actor (“The Big Lebowski,” “Barton Fink”)
09/02: John Hostetter, 69, film/TV actor (“Murphy Brown” as stage manager “John”)
09/02: Islam Karimov, 78, sitting President of Uzbekistan (1991-2016),
09/02: Margrit Biever Mondavi, 91, Swiss-born arts patron; widow of vintner Robert Mondavi
09/03: Leslie H. Martinson, 101, prolific TV director (including 1966 “Batman” film spin-off)
09/03: Clifford “Pee Wee” Trahan (aka “Johnny Rebel”), 77, self-denying racist singer/songwriter
09/05: Fred McFarlane, 55, R&B music producer/songwriter
09/05: Hugh O’Brian, 91, TV actor (“The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp”); scholarship philanthropist
09/05: Phyllis Schlafly, 92, conservative activist/author; founder, the Eagle Forum
09/06: Lewis Merenstein, 81, music producer (Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks”; John Cale; Cass Elliott)
09/07: Clifford Curry, 79, 1960s R&B/North Carolina beach music singer (“She Shot a Hole in My Soul”)
09/07: Richard "Sparky" Moore, 91, Hanna-Barbera animator; comic book artist (Disney titles for Western/Gold Key)
09/08: Hazel Douglas, 92, British stage/TV/film actress (“Harry Potter” series)
09/08: Greta Zimmer Friedman, 92, Austrian-born nurse in Alfred Eisenstadt's “Life” magazine photo “VJ Day in Times Square”
09/08: Russ Kavanaugh, 63, 1990s film producer (“Money Train”; “Jack Frost”)
09/08: The Lady Chablis (nee Benjamin Knox), 59, transgender performer/actress (“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”)
09/08: Prince Buster (ne Cecil Campbell), 78, 1960s Jamaican/British ska musician (“One Step Beyond”)
09/09: James Stacy, 79, TV actor (“Lancer”), double amputee convicted for child molestation; one-time husband of actress Kim Darby
09/10: “Crazy” Eddie Antar, 68, NYC electronics/appliance store entrepreneur convicted for securities fraud
09/11: Alexis Arquette (nee Robert Arquette), 47, transgender actress/activist; granddaughter of comic performer Clifford “Charley Weaver” Arquette
09/11: Michel Bergerac, 94, French former Revlon CEO; brother of actor/Revlon executive Jacques Bergerac
09/11: Leonard Haze, 61, drummer, 1970s/1980s heavy metal band “Y&T”
09/11: Lyn Wilde, 93, 1940s film actress (with sister Lee Wilde as “The Wilde Twins”)
09/13: Jack Hofsiss, 65, youngest Tony Award winning director (1979’s “The Elephant Man”)
09/14: Don Buchla, 79, electronic music pioneer; synthesizer designer
09/14: D. Keith Mano, 74, novelist (“Take Five”); TV screenwriter (“St. Elsewhere”; “LA Law”)
09/14: Kim McGuire, 60, cult film/TV actress (John Waters’ “Cry-Baby”; David Lynch’s “On the Air”)
09/14: Dennis Shryack, 80, screenwriter (“The Gauntlet”; “Pale Rider”; “Turner & Hooch”)
09/14: James Westmoreland (aka Rad Fulton), 80, TV actor (“The Monroes”); husband of actress Kim Darby
09/15: Phil Tracy, 74, anti- Reverend Jim Jones journalist (“San Francisco Chronicle”; “The Village Voice”)
09/16: Edward Albee, 88, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
09/16: Hagan Beggs (aka Jim Beggs), 79, Ulster-born Canadian actor (early episodes, original “Star Trek” as “Lieutenant Hansen”)
09/16: Audre Breen, 92, wife of singer/actor Bobby Breen
09/16: Jerry Corbetta, 68, lead vocalist/keyboardist, “Sugarloaf” (“Green-Eyed Lady”)
09/16: Todd Kimsey, 54, TV/film actor (“The Perfect Storm”, “Seinfeld” one-shot)
09/16: W. P. [William Patrick] Kinsella, 88, Canadian novelist (“Shoeless Joe,” basis for film “Field of Dreams”) – Canadian legally sanctioned physician assisted suicide
09/16: Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, 84, French-born billionaire lawyer/businessman; father of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus
09/16: Trisco Pearson, 53, singer, 1980s R&B group “Force MDs”
09/16: Gabe Rygaard, 45, reality TV personality (“Ax Men”) – traffic collision
09/17: Charmian Carr, 73, singer/actress (film version, “The Sound of Music”)
09/18: C. Martin Croker, 54, cartoon voice-over actor (“Space Ghost: Coast to Coast”)
09/18: David Kyle, 97, science fiction fan/organizer-turned-author/historian
09/18: Edwin “Countryman” Lothan, 70, promoter, Rastafarian lifestyle (“Rolling Stone” cover, 1973)
09/18: Tom Mintier, 68, longtime CNN correspondent/bureau chief (London, Bangkok)
09/18: Freda Rosen, 87, actress (“The Honeymooners” one-shot as “Rita Wedemeyer”); wife of comedy writer Arnie Rosen
09/19: Bobby Breen, 88, 1930s film/radio child singer/actor
09/20: Billy Franks, 60, lead singer, British band “The Faith Brothers”
09/20: Curtis Hanson, 71, director (“Wonder Boys”; “8 Mile”); screenwriter (“LA Confidential” – Academy Award)
09/20: Micki Marlo, 88, 1950s singer/recording artist (“The Steve Allen Show”)
09/20: David S. Siegel, 84, pre-eminent old time radio historian/archivist; book collecting/bookstore authority
09/21: Thaddeus Wilk Farrow, 27, Indian-born paraplegic adopted son of Mia Farrow – suicide by gunshot
09/21: John D. Loudermilk, 82, songwriter (“Tobacco Road”; “Indian Reservation”; “Waterloo”; “Abilene”; “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye”)
09/21: George T. Odom, 66, film/TV actor (“The Hurricane”; “Malcolm X”; “Law & Order”)
09/21: Richard Trentlage, 87, adman/jingle writer (“Oscar Mayer Wiener,” “McDonald’s Is Your Kind of Place”)
09/22: Gian Luigi Rondi, 94, Italian film director/screenwriter/critic (clashed with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni)
09/22: Shawty Lo (ne Carlos Walker), 40, hip-hop performer (rap act “D4L”) – automobile crash
09/23: Fern Buchner, 87, film make-up artist (Woody Allen, 1977-1996; many seminal 1970s-1990s films)
09/24: Bill Nunn, 63, actor (“Do the Right Thing”; “Sister Act”; Sam Raimi's “Spider-Man” trilogy)
09/24: Buckwheat Zydeco (ne Stanley Durel Jr.), 68, accordionist, zydeco band “Buckwheat Zydeco”
09/25: Arnold Palmer, 87, professional golfer; co-founder, The Golf Channel
09/25: Kashif Saleem (ne Michael Jones), 59, R&B musician, “B.T. Express”; producer (Whitney Houston),
09/25: Jean Shepard, 82, Grand Ole Opry country/honky-tonk singer/songwriter
09/25: Robert Weinberg, 70, science fiction/Marvel Comics writer; pulp magazine historian/editor
09/25-10/01, week of (exact date unavailable): Rod Temperton, 66, British songwriter for disco group “Heatwave” and Michael Jackson (“Thriller,” “Off the Wall”)
09/26: Joe Clay, 76, Louisiana rockabilly musician (1956 appearance, “The Ed Sullivan Show”)
09/26: Herschell Gordon Lewis, 87, horror film director specializing in “splatter” and “gore” sub-genres
09/26: Milt Moss, 93, comedian/comic actor (Alka-Seltzer TV ad “I Can’t Believe I Ate the Whole Thing”)
09/26: Gloria Naylor, 66, novelist ("The Women of Brewster Place")
09/27: Suzanne Mitchell, 72, 1970s/1980s director/marketer, “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders”
09/27: Mike “Taffy” Taylor, age unavailable, vocalist, 1970s British heavy metal band “Quartz”
09/28: Gary Glasberg, 50, executive producer/show-runner ("NCIS”; "The Mentalist”)
09/28: Larkin Malloy, 62, soap opera actor (“All My Children”; “As the World Turns”; “Guiding Light”)
09/28: Robert L. “Bob” Mott, 92, TV/radio sound effects artist; comedy writer
09/28: Agnes Nixon, 93, producer/writer/creator, “All My Children”; “One Life to Live”
09/29: Nora Dean, 72, Jamaican popular/gospel singer (“Barbwire,” 1969)
09/29: Royal Torrence, 82, soul/R&B singer, “Little Royal and the Swingmasters”; half-brother of singer James Brown
09/30: George Barris, 94, 1960s celebrity photographer (last photos of Marilyn Monroe, July 1962)
09/30: Oscar Brand, 96, Canadian-born folk singer; folk music historian; radio host; inspiration for “Sesame Street” character “Oscar, the Grouch”
09/30 Michael Casswell, 53, British session/tour guitarist (for Brian May; Dean Friedman; Wang Chung)
10/01: Ian Liston, 68, British stage actor/producer; screen actor (“Dr. Who”; “The Empire Strikes Back”)
10/01: Fred Stampa, 91, Neapolitan-born Italian language Talking Books narrator
10/02: Steve Byrd, 61, British session/tour guitarist (for Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, the Buggles)
10/02: Gordon Davidson, 83, theatrical producer/director; founder, Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles); screen director (“The Trial of the Catonsville Nine”)
10/02: Sir Neville Marriner, 92, British conductor; educator; overseer, Mozart selections for film “Amadeus”
10/02: Gary Reed, 60, comic book writer; publisher/founder, Caliber Comics
10/02: Bryan Russell, 63, 1960s juvenile actor (“Safe at Home”; Disney films; TV westerns)
10/02: Lowell Thomas Jr., 92, son of radio newscaster Lowell Thomas; Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1974-1978)
10/02: Trinh Thi Ngo (aka “Hanoi Hannah”), 87, Vietnam War-era anti-US radio propagandist for Radio Hanoi
10/03: Phyllis Jeanne Creore (Westermann), 100, WWII-era radio singer "Canteen Girl": 1939 World's Fair "Miss Television”
10/05: Bobby J. Copeland, 81, B-Westerns film historian/author; numismatist
10/05: Joan Marie Johnson, 72, singer, "The Dixie Cups" ("Chapel of Love," "Iko Iko”)
10/05: Austin Kalish, 95, sitcom writer with wife Irma Kalish (“Gilligan’s Island”; “F Troop”; “Maude”; “All in the Family”)
10/05: Brock Yates, 82, editor, “Car and Driver” magazine; screenwriter, “The Cannonball Run”; CBS sportscaster
10/06: James Colaianni, 94, Catholic lay theologian; anti-war activist (editor, “Ramparts” magazine); theatrical producer (“One Mo’ Time”)
10/06: Paul Cowan, 77, British film producer (“The Crying Game”; “The Krays”; “Dance with a Stranger”)
10/07: Kathleen Miller, 71, film actress for director Hal Ashby (“The Last Detail”; “Shampoo”; “Coming Home”)
10/07: Wolfgang Suschitzky, 104, Viennese-born London street photographer: cinematographer (“Get Carter”)
10/07: Bill Warren, 73, science fiction/horror film historian; writer (“Famous Monsters,” “Eerie,” “Creepy”)
10/08: Peter Allen, 96, NYC radio announcer for WQXR’s Metropolitan Opera broadcasts (1975-2004)
10/08: Don Ciccone, 70, singer/songwriter, “The Critters” (“Mr. Dyingly Sad”; “Younger Girl”); 1970s “Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons”
10/08: Gary Dubin, 57, 1970s juvenile actor (“The Partridge Family”; “The Aristocats”; “Diamonds Are Forever”; “Jaws 2”)
10/08: Morton Silverstein, 86, Emmy-winning documentarian (“Heritage: History and the Jews”)
10/08: Pierre Tchernia, 88, French screenwriter/narrator, "Asterix" film series
10/09: Andrzej Wajda, 90, Polish film director/auteur (Honorary Academy Award)
10/11: Patricia Barry, 93, film/stage/TV actress (“All My Children”; “Days of Our Lives”; “The Twilight Zone”)
10/12: Robert Bateman, 77, Motown songwriter (“Please, Mr. Postman”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”
10/12: Thomas Ford, 52, TV sitcom actor (“Martin”)
10/12: William "Sonny" Sanders, 77, Motown songwriter (“Higher & Higher”); singer, early Motown group “The Satintones”
10/13: Dario Fo, 90, politically charged Nobel Laureate Italian playwright
10/13: Joyce Gibson (aka Joyce Mandell), 66, 1970s well-endowed model/actress
10/13: Tonino Valerii, 82, Italian “spaghetti western” director (“My Name Is Nobody”)
10/14: Kathryn Adams, 96, 1940’s actress (“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”); former wife of actor Hugh Beaumont
10/14: Pierre Étaix, 87, French slapstick film comedy actor/director
10/15: Robert “Big Sonny” Edwards, 74, soul singer, “The Intruders” (“Cowboys to Girls,” “I'll Always Love My Mama”)
10/16: Gloria Fong (aka Maylia), 90, 1940s Chinese-American film actress; widow of actor Benson Fong; restaurateur
10/16: Cecilia Hart (Jones), 68, stage/TV actress; wife of actor James Earl Jones
10/16: Ted V. Mikels, 87, cult B-horror filmmaker (“The Astro-Zombies”)
10/16: Jeffrey Slonim, 56, entertainment/red carpet journalist – depression-fueled suicide by jumping from a roof/event space at NYC’s Lincoln Center in front of gathered crowd
10/17: Eddie Applegate, 81, TV sitcom actor (“The Patty Duke Show”)
10/18: Annemarie Huste, 73, German-born personal chef to Jacqueline Kennedy discharged for leaking family secrets
10/19: Anthony Addabbo, 56, TV soap actor (“The Bold and the Beautiful”; “Guiding Light”)
10/19: Phil Chess, 95, Polish-born co-founder (with brother Lester Chess), Chess Records
10/20: Michael Massee, 61, actor in the film “The Crow” who accidentally shot/killed Brandon Lee (1993)
10/21: Sheela Allen-Stephens, 73, Philadelphia TV news journalist
10/21: Dave Cash, 74, British radio personality (partnered with Kenny Everett); sporadic host, TV’s “Top of the Pops”
10/21: Michael Gleason, 78, TV writer (“Peyton Place”; “Rich Man, Poor Man”; “Marcus Welby, MD”); co-creator, “Remington Steele”
10/21: Kevin Meaney, 60, stand-up comedian/comic actor (TV’s “Uncle Buck”)
10/21: Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, 87, British stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales; daughter of romance novelist Barbara Cartland
10/22: Steve Dillon, 54, British-born comic-book artist (“Hulk UK”; “2000 AD”; “Preacher”: “Hellblazer”)
10/22: Herb Kent, 88, long-time Chicago radio/TV personality (since 1944)
10/22: Gavin MacFadyen, 76, journalist; founder, Center for Investigative Journalism; WikiLeaks player
10/23: Jack T. Chick, 92, hatemongering cartoonist/publisher of Christian fire-and-brimstone tracts
10/23: Tom Hayden, 76, anti-war/civil rights political activist (Chicago Seven); California State Assemblyman/Senator (1976-2000); former husband of actress Jane Fonda; author, “Rebellion in Newark”
10/23: Jimmy Perry, 93, British TV comedy writer; co-creator, sitcoms “Dad's Army,” “Hi-de-Hi!”
10/23: Bobby Vee, 73, 1960s pop singer (“Take Good Care of My Baby”)
10/24: Sophia Cranshaw, 45, M-TV producer of social issue campaigns
10/25: Kevin Curran, 59, TV comedy writer (“The Simpsons”); creator, David Letterman’s “Top Ten” lists
10/25: Howard Davies, 71, British-born Broadway stage director (“Private Lives”; “The Iceman Cometh”)
10/27: Hazel Shermet, 96, radio/TV/screen actress (“Duffy's Tavern”; “The New Zoo Revue”; “A Star Is Born”)
10/27: John Zacherle (The Cool Ghoul), 98, NYC TV horror host, rock music radio personality; recording artist, "Dinner with Drac”
10/29: Norman Brokaw, 89, talent agent (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bill Cosby, Alexander Haig, Clint Eastwood)
10/30: James Galanos, 92, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan; Marlene Dietrich; Judy Garland)
10/30: Tammy Grimes, 82, Broadway/screen/radio actress (“The Unsinkable Molly Brown”; “Can’t Stop the Music”; “The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre”)
10/30: Don Marshall, 80, TV actor (“Land of the Giants”; “Julia”; “Star Trek” episode “Galileo 7”)
10/30: Claude “Curly” Putman, 85, songwriter (“Green, Green Grass of Home,” “She Stopped Loving Her Today”); inspiration for Paul McCartney’s song “Junior’s Farm”
10/31: Natalie Babbitt, 84, children's author/illustrator (“Tuck Everlasting”)
10/31: Vladimir Zeldin, 101, Russian reportedly the world's oldest active stage actor
11/01: John Travers, 57, documentary writer/editor (“Never Surrender”); half-brother of singer Mary Travers,
11/02: Max Alexander, 63, comedian/comic actor (Amy Schumer film “Trainwreck”)
11/02: Bob Cranshaw, 83, jazz bassist/session man (Sonny Rollins; original “Saturday Night Live” band)
11/02: Jud Kinberg, 91, film/TV producer (“Lust for Life”; “The Collector”; “Quincy, ME”)
11/02: Miriam Postal Weinstein, 90, mother of film producers Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein
11/03: Marc Michel, 83, Franco-Swiss film actor for director Jacques Demy (“Lola”; “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”)
11/03: Kay Starr, 94, 1940s/1950s pop singer (“The Wheel of Fortune”)
11/03: Rick Steiner, 69, Broadway producer (“Big River”; “Mel Brooks’ The Producers”; “Hairspray”; “Jersey Boys”)
11/04: Eddie Harsch, 59, Canadian-born former keyboardist, "The Black Crowes”
11/04: Jean-Jacques Perrey, 87, French electronic music composer (“Baroque Hoedown,” basis for Disney World’s “Electrical Parade”)
11/04: Fred Wostbrock (aka Fred Westbrook), 56, celebrity talent manager (Adam West, Phyllis Diller, Jack Narz); co-author, “The Encyclopedia of Game Shows”
11/07: Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian singer/songwriter (“Suzanne”; “Hallelujah”), poet/novelist
11/07: Julie Gregg, 79, film/TV actress (“The Godfather” series; “Man of La Mancha”; TV’s “Batman”)
11/07: Willard Smith Sr., age unavailable, father of actor/rapper Will Smith
11/07: Sir Jimmy Young, 95, BBC radio personality; 1950s pop singer/cover artist
11/08: Raoul Coutard, 92, French New Wave cinematographer (for Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Costa-Gavras)
11/08: Claire Labine, 82, TV soap opera writer; co-creator, “Ryan's Hope”
11/09: Al Caiola, 96, session guitarist (top 1960s hits); solo artist (“Bonanza,” “The Magnificent Seven”)
11/10: Martin Stone, 69, guitarist, British blues band “Savoy Brown”
11/11: Victor Bailey, 56, bassist, "Weather Report"; for Madonna, Sting, Lady Gaga
11/11: Aileen “Suzy” Mehle (aka Suzy Knickerbocker), 98, gossip/society/fashion columnist (“New York Post”; “Women’s Wear Daily”)
11/11: Raynoma Singleton, 79, Motown producer/songwriter once married to its founder Berry Gordy Jr..
11/11: Robert Vaughn, 83, actor (“The Magnificent Seven”; “The Man from UNCLE”; “Superman IV”); Hollywood blacklist author/historian (“Only Victims”)
11/12: Jerry Dumas, 86, syndicated comic strip writer/author (“Sam’s Strip”/”Sam and Silo”): assistant artist, Mort Walker’s “Beetle Bailey”
11/12: Frank Konigsberg, 83, film/TV producer (Bing Crosby specials; “9½ Weeks”; “The Guyana Tragedy”)
11/12: Tom Neyman, 80, B-horror film actor (1966’s “Manos: The Hands of Fate”)
11/12: Dick Oliver, 77, NYC journalist (“New York Daily News” and its radio “Bulldog Edition” version; TV’s “Good Day, New York”)
11/12: Howard Ruff, 85, conservative economist/author; TV host ("The Ruff House”)
11/12: Lupita Tovar, 106, Mexican actress (Spanish-language “Dracula” opposite Bela Lugosi); mother of actress Susan Kohner
11/12: Anna Warhola, 92, Pittsburgh trolley operator; sister-in-law of Andy Warhol
11/12: Ruth Baron Ziff, 92, sociologist-turned-adwoman ("Please, Don’t Squeeze the Charmin)
11/13: Leon Russell, 74, songwriter (“Delta Lady,” “Tight Rope”); session musician, “The Wrecking Crew”
11/13: Billy Miller, 62, co-founder (with wife Miriam Linna), Norton Records (Link Wray, Hasil Adkins), Kicks Publications; band member, “The Zantees,” “The A-Bones”
11/14: Gwen Ifell, 61, broadcast news journalist (“PBS Newshour”); 2004/2008 vice-presidential debate moderator
11/14: David Mancuso, 72, 1970s/1980s NYC underground party organizer/club disk jockey (“The Loft”)
11/15: Cornelia "Cory" Adams, 58, roller derby competitor; comic book colorist with former husband Neal Adams
11/15: Mose Allison, 89, jazz/blues singer/songwriter, pianist,
11/15: Cliff Barrows, 93, musical director, Billy Graham Global Ministries
11/15: Holly Dunn, 59, 1980s country singer/songwriter (“Daddy’s Hands”)
11/15: Ken Grieve, 74, Scots-born British TV director (“Doctor Who”; “Coronation Street”)
11/15: Lisa Lynn Masters, 53, model/actress (“The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”; “Ugly Betty) – suicide by hanging
11/15: Milt Okun, 92, producer/arranger (John Denver; “Peter Paul and Mary”); songbook compiler (“New York Times' Great Songs ... Of the Sixties”)
11/15: George Ortiz, 45, former hairstylist, TV’s “Project Runway” – suicide by asphyxiation 11/15
11/15: Steve Truglia, 54, British stuntman (“James Bond,” “Mission: Impossible” film series) – fall from a helicopter while filming a stunt
11/16: Joan Carroll, 85, 1940s child actress (“The Bells of St. Mary's”; “Meet Me in St. Louis”)
11/16: Albert "Diz" Russell, 83, doo-wop singer ("The Regals"; "The Orioles”)
11/16: Mentor Williams, 70, songwriter (“Drift Away”); brother of songwriter/actor Paul Williams; partner of singer Lynn Anderson
11/17: Pierre Picton, 82, British children’s clown; original owner/stunt driver of “Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang” prototype
11/17: Dan Waller, 65, Los Angeles-based music journalist/author (“The Motown Story”)
11/18: Sharon Jones, 60, soul singer, “Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings”
11/20: William Trevor, 88, Irish novelist/playwright
11/22: Peter Sumner, 74, Australian actor (“Star Wars IV: A New Hope” as “Lieutenant Pol Treidum)
11/23: Joe Esposito, 78, road manager for Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees; Presley pallbearer; one of two best men at Presley’s wedding
11/23: Jerry Tucker (aka Jerry Schatz), 91, 1930s child actor (“Our Gang,” usually as adversarial “rich kid”)
11/23: Andrew Sachs, 86, German-born British actor (“Fawlty Towers”; “Hitler: The Last Ten Days”)
11/24: Colonel Abrams, 67, homeless1980s urban contemporary/house music recording artist
11/24: Al Brodax, 90, animation producer (film: “Yellow Submarine”; TV: “Popeye”; “The Beatles”; “Cool McCool”)
11/24: Florence Henderson, 82, stage/film/TV actress (“The Brady Bunch”)
11/24: Renato López Uhthoff, 33, Mexican TV host for the E! Channel – gun violence; probable drug cartel assassination
11/24: William Mandel, 99, political activist/broadcast journalist who stared down Senator Joseph McCarthy (1953)
11/25: Ron Glass, 71, TV sitcom actor (“Barney Miller”; “The New Odd Couple”)
11/25: David Hamilton, 83, British erotic photographer – suicide by overdose, amid historical rape allegations
11/26: Fritz Weaver, 90, character actor (Tony Award, “Child’s Play”; “Fail Safe”; “Holocaust”; “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Obsolete Man”)
11/27: Bernard Gallagher, 87, British TV actor (“Downton Abbey”; medical series “Casualty”)
11/27: Valerie Gaunt, 84, 1950s Hammer Horror actress (“Horror of Dracula”; “The Curse of Frankenstein”)
11/27: Tony Martell, 90, music industry executive/A&R man; founder, “T. J. Martell Foundation” cancer research charity
11/28: Michael James Deligatti, 98, Pittsburgh-area McDonald's franchisee; creator of the "Big Mac”
11/28: Stanley Reynolds, 82, firebrand US-born British-based journalist; crime novelist
11/29: C. Wyatt Dickerson, 92, Washington DC entrepreneur/socialite; former husband of news journalist Nancy Dickerson; father of CBS news anchor John Dickerson
11/29: Grant Tinker, 90, CEO, NBC (1981-1986); co-founder, MTM Enterprises
11/29: Van Williams, 82, TV actor actor (“The Green Hornet”; “Surfside Six”; “Bourbon Street Blues”; “Westwind”)
11/30: Alice Drummond, 88, character actress (“Awakenings”; “Ghostbusters”; early Albee stage roles; TV’s “Dark Shadows”)
11/30: Leonard Lewis, 79, British celebrity hairdresser “Leonard of Mayfair” (Twiggy; Liza Minnelli; JFK; Stanley Kubrick films),
11/29: Robert A. Wilson, 94, publisher; owner, NYC's Phoenix Book Shop (famed literary hang-out)
12/01: Don Calfa, 76, cult film actor (“The Return of the LIving Dead”; “Weekend at Bernie's”; “Chopper Chicks in 12/01Zombietown”)
12/02: Billy Chapin, 72, 1950s child actor (“Night of the Hunter"; “Dragnet” episode “The Big Little Jesus”); brother of child actor Lauren Chapin
12/02: Mark Gray, 64, country singer (group "Exile"; solo artist); songwriter ("Take Me Down" for Alabama)
12/03: Herbert Hardesty, 91, long-time saxophonist for Fats Domino (solo on “Blue Monday”)
12/04: Christopher Pearce, 73, British-born 1980s production head/CEO, low-budget Cannon Films
12/04: Margaret Whitton, 67, actress (“Major League” series; “9½ Weeks”; Broadway’s “Steaming”)
12/05: Cindy Stowell, 41, “Jeopardy!” six time winning contestant – a week before her first appearance aired
12/06: Peter Vaughan, 93, British character actor (“Porridge”; “Game of Thrones”; “Time Bandits”)
12/07: Greg Lake, 69, vocalist/guitarist, “King Crimson”; “Emerson, Lake, and Palmer”
12/07: Adrianne Tolsch, 78, stand-up comic/emcee; wife of comedy writer Bill Scheft
12/08: Colonel/Senator John H. Glenn (D-Ohio), 95, astronaut (first American to orbit the earth; oldest American in space); last survivor, “Mercury Seven” astronauts); US Senator (1974-1999)
12/08: Joseph Mascolo, 87, TV soap opera actor ( Days of Our Lives”)
12/09: Clif St. James, 91, St. Louis broadcast journalist/meteorologist; kiddie-show host "Corky the Clown” (1954-1980)
12/10: Gil David, 85, Long Island radio personality (WGBB, WGSM, WHLI)¬¬¬¬
12/10: A. A. [Adrian Anthony] Gill, 62, British restaurant/culinary writer, TV critic, author/social critic
12/10: Ken Hechler, 102, former US Congressman (D-West Virginia); military historian ("The Bridge at Remagen”); political activist against unsafe mining conditions
12/10: George Mantalis, 81, singer, 1950s vocal group "The Four Coins" (“Shangri-La”)
12/11: Valerie Gell, 71, singer/guitarist, Liverpool/Hamburg girl group "The Liverbirds” inspired by the Beatles, 12/11
12/11: Bob Krasnow, 81, music executive (Elektra Records); co-founder, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
12/11: Joe Ligon, 80, founder/lead singer, gospel group "The Mighty Clouds of Joy”
12/11: Kevin O'Morrison, 100, playwright; character actor believed to be penultimate surviving member, Orson Welles' “The Mercury Theater”
12/12: E.R. [Edward Ricardo] Braithwaite, 104, Guyanese-born British novelist (roman à clef "To Sir, With Love”); diplomat
12/12: Jim Lowe, 93, 1950s pop singer (“The Green Door”); standards/big band radio personality/host (NYC’s WNEW-AM)
12/13: Alan Thicke, 69, Canadian-born sitcom actor (“Growing Pains”); talk show host (“Thicke of the Night”); TV theme song co-writer (“Diff’rent Strokes”; “The Facts of Life”); father of singer Robin Thicke
12/14: Bernard Fox, 89, Welsh-born actor (recurring roles: “Bewitched”; “Hogan’s Heroes”; “The Andy Griffith Show”)
12/14: Jeremy Summers, 85, British TV/film director (“The Saint”; “Ferry 'Cross the Mersey”; “The Punch and Judy Man”)
12/14: Bunny Walters, 63, Maori/New Zealander pop singer (“Brandy” – remade as “Mandy” by Barry Manilow)
12/15: Howard Bingham, 77, photographer (for friend Muhammad Ali; Black Panthers; 1960s political unrest)
12/15: Fran Jeffries, 79, 1960s singer/dancer/actress (“The Pink Panther”; “Sex and the Single Girl”)
12/15: Craig Sager, 65, colorfully dressed TNT Network basketball sportscaster
12/16: Joan D'Incecco, 89, casting director (“Car 54, Where Are You?”; “The Patty Duke Show”; “The Producers”; “Kojak”; “All My Children”)
12/16: Cecil Howard, 85, adult film director ("The Last X-Rated Movie”)
12/17: Guillermo Benites, 75, Argentine-born Miami-based Spanish language newscaster, Univision
12/17: Bob Coburn, 68, Los Angeles radio personality; host, syndicated show “Rockline”
12/17: Dr. Henry Heimlich, 96, physician creator, "Heimlich Maneuver"; son-in-law of dance instructor Arthur Murray
12/17: Gordon Hunt, 87, TV sitcom/animation vocal director; father of actress Helen Hunt
12/18: Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, Hungarian-born actress/socialite
12/18: China Machado, 87, Chinese-born model; first non-white cover model for major US glamour magazine (“Harper's Bazaar,” 1959)
12/18: Léo Marjane, 104, WWII-era French chanteuse/recording star popular with both the French Resistance and the German occupiers
12/18: Gordie Tapp, 94, Canadian TV host, “Country Hoedown”; writer/comic performer, TV’s “Hee Haw”
12/19: Rabbi Lionel Blue, 86, British religious leader; BBC Radio homilist
12/19: Jean Paul Guerrero (aka DJ Jinx Paul), 39, NYC Spanish language radio personality – victim, hit-and-run
12/19: Dick Latessa, 87, Broadway character actor (Tony Award, “Hairspray”)
12/20: Andrew Dorff, 40, country songwriter (for Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney); brother of actor Stephen Dorff
12/20: Michèle Morgan, 1940s French-born actress with “the most beautiful eyes in cinema” (“Passage to Marseilles”; “The Fallen Idol”)
12/20: Paul Peter Porges, 89, Austrian-born writer/artist (“MAD”; “The New Yorker”; “The Saturday Evening. Post”)
12/21: Charles Aidikoff, 101, Hollywood industry projectionist/screening room
12/21: Valerie Fairman, 23, reality TV personality (M-TV's “16 & Pregnant”) – suspected overdose
12/21: Sam Leach, 81, British concert promoter for early Beatles gigs in Liverpool
12/22: Frank Murray, 66, Irish band manager (“The Pogues”); tour manager (“Thin Lizzy”; “The Specials”)
12/22: Philip Saville, 86, prolific British TV director (film “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off”)
12/22: Robert Tucker, age unavailable, Broadway choreographer (assistant to directors/choreographers Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse)
12/23: Joseph Bassolino (aka Joey Boots), 49, radio personality (Howard Stern’s “Wack Pack”); popularizer, catchphrase “Baba Booey”
12/23: Warren Bodow, 77, playwright; general manager, NYC’s WQXR-AM/FM (1983-1998)
12/23: Willa Kim, 99, Broadway costume designer (“Sophisticated Ladies”; “The Will Rogers Follies”)
12/24: Richard Adams, 96, British author (“Watership Down”; “Shardik”)
12/24: Jeffrey Hayden, 90, TV/stage director; husband of actress Eva Marie Saint
12/24: Rick Parfitt, 68, British rock guitarist, “Status Quo” (“Pictures of Matchstick Men”; “Rockin’ All over the World”)
12/24: Gil Parrondo, 95, Spanish art director (“Patton” – Academy Award; “Nicholas and Alexandra” – Academy Award)
12/24: Carole F. Smith, 95, country songwriter (for Sonny James, Marie Osmond)
12/25/16 (date of disappearance): Tricia Lynn Macauley, 46, DC-based actress (Channing Tatum fil “Step Up”) – homicide by strangulation/blunt force trauma
12/25/16: Sandra Giles, 84, 1960s/1970s film/TV actress; one-time girlfriend of tennis player Bobby Riggs
12/25/16: George Michael, 53, British pop singer/songwriter (“Wham!”; prolific solo artist)
12/25/16: Alphonse Mouzon, 68, soul/jazz/fusion drummer, "Weather Report”
12/25/16: Oliver Prinz von Anhalt, 45, German-born son of Zsa Zsa Gabor’s widower Frederic Prinz von Anhalt -- injuries from motorcycle accident on 12/18 (the same day Zsa Zsa Gabor died)
12/25/16: Bruce Toms, 55, reality-TV producer (“Road Rules”; “Wife Swap”)
12/25/16: Carl Weber, 91, German theatrical director; protégé of dramatist Berthold Brecht
12/26/16: Don "Duck" Edwing, 84, artist, "MAD Magazine”
12/26//16: Ricky Harris, 54, hip-hop based sitcom actor/comedian ("Everybody Hates Chris”)
12/26/16: George S. Irving, 94, Tony Award-winning actor; voice-over artist (“Underdog”; “The Year without a Santa Claus”), penultimate survivor, original 1944 cast, “Oklahoma!,” 12/26/16
12/26/16 (exact date?): Bubba John Stevens (ne John Laboranti), 66, Philadelphia rock music air personality (WMMR-FM; WMGK-FM)
12/27/16: Carrie Fisher, 60, actress (“Star Wars” series); memoirist/screenwriter (Postcards from the Edge); daughter of singers/actors Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher
12/27/16: Barbara Tarbuck, 74, actress (“General Hospital”)
12/28/16: Pierre Barouh, 82, French composer/singer (title song, "A Man and a Woman”)
12/28/16: Debbie Reynolds, 84, screen/stage actress/singer; mother of actress/memoirist Carrie Fisher
12/29/16: Laurie Carlos, 67, Obie Award-winning winning stage actress (“For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf”)
12/29/16: F. Ross Johnson, 85, Canadian-born 1980s CEO, RJR Nabisco; key player, book/film “Barbarians at the Gate”
12/29/16: Cyril deGrasse Tyson, 89, educator; civil rights activist; father of astronomer/TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson
12/30/16: Rich Conaty, 62, NYC nostalgia radio personality (WFUV's "The Big Broadcast”)
12/30/16: Allan Williams, 86, British music promoter; original manager, “The Beatles”
12/30/16: Tyrus Wong (ne Wong Gen Yeo), 106, Cantonese-born animator/painter, Disney's “Bambi”
12/31/16: Johnny Canton, 75, Twin Cities radio/TV personality (WDGY-AM; WCCO-FM; “Bowling for Dollars”); actor (small role, “Airport”)
12/31/16: William Christopher, 84, TV sitcom actor (“M*A*S*H”; “Gomer Pyle – USMC”)