That Derek's "Showbituaries," January-April 2020 (first third of 2020)

[That Derek]

JANUARY 2020:
01/01: NICK GORDON, 30 (drug overdose). boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown (daughter of singer Bobby Brown) legally found responsible for her 2015 drowning death
01/01: DON LARSEN, 90 (oesophageal cancer), 1950s/1960s MLB pitcher best known for World Series perfect game for the NY Yankees (1956 Game 5 vs. Brooklyn Dodgers)
01/01: DAVID STERN, 77 (brain haemorrhage), attorney; NBA Commissioner (1974-2014)
01/01: BARRY ZeVAN, 82 (leukaemia), comedic 1970s/1980s Minneapolis TV meteorologist
01/02: MARTY GREBB, 74 (suspected suicide following long-term cancer diagnosis and cryptic social media posting), keyboardist, 1960s pop group The Buckinghams (Kind Of A Drag; Susan; Don't You Care; Hey Baby, They're Playing Our Song; Mercy. Mercy. Mercy)
01/02: EDITH KUNHARDT DAVIS, 82 (acute pneumonia; lung failure), children's author; child inspiration for mother Dorothy Kunhardt's 1940 tactile children's book Pat the Bunny
01/03: DEREK ACORAH, 69 (sepsis), British paranormal-themed TV personality
01/03: ANDREA ARRUTI, 21 (respiratory complications), Mexican voice-over actress (as Spanish language "Elsa," Disney's Frozen)
01/03: CHRISTOPHER BEENY, 78 (undisclosed), British TV actor (Upstairs, Downstairs; Last of the Summer Wine; child actor, British TV's first serial The Grove Family, 1954)
01/03: QASEM SOLEIMANI, 62 (US airstrike at Baghdad International Airport), Iranian military leader/killer/terrorist
01/05: SYLVIA JUKES MORRIS, 84 (cancer), British-born biographer (Clare Boothe Luce; Eleanor Roosevelt); widow of biographer Edmund Morris (Theodore Roosevelt; Ronald Reagan)
01/06: Rep. MIKE FITZPATRICK, 56 (melanoma), US Congressman (R-PA/8th, split term 2005-2017)
01/07: HARRY HAINS, 27 (mental illness/addiction-fueled suicide); Australian-born actor; son of American-born/Australian-based actress Jane Badler (V: The Series)
01/07: SILVIO HORTA, 45 (suicide/gunshot), Cuban-American TV screenwriter/show adaptor (US version, Ugly Betty)
01/07: NEIL PEART, 67 (brain cancer), drummer/lyricist, Canadian rock band Rush (Tom Sawyer; Limelight)
01/07: ELIZABETH WURTZEL, 52 (complications: metastasized breast cancer), 1990s rock music critic; depression/addiction-themed author/memoirist (Prozac Nation)
01/08: EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES, 87 (natural causes), actor/teen idol (77 Sunset Strip; Grease); novelty pop singer (Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb); inspiration for Justice League of America honorary member Lucas "Snapper" Carr
01/08: BUCK HENRY, 89 (heart attack), screenwriter (The Graduate; Catch-22; What's Up, Doc?; Heaven Can Wait; Grumpy Old Men); sitcom co-creator (Get Smart; Captain Nice; Quark); actor (That Was the Week That Was; Saturday Night Live; Taking Off; The Man Who Fell to Earth)
01/08: DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY (2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CMG CBE), 91 (heart attack), British businessman/politician; son of WWII military leader Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery
01/09: BOBBY COMSTOCK, 79 (cancer), 1950s/1960s rock singer, Bobby Comstock and the Counts
01/09: LAN O'KUN, 87 (heart failure), TV writer (Insight; The Shari Lewis Show; Star Trek: The Next Generation; The Love Boat; Highway to Heaven; That Was the Week That Was; Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Littlest Angel); brother-in-law of both ventriloquist Shari Lewis and novelist Judith Krantz
01/09: IVAN PASSER, 86 (pulmonary complications), Czech-born film director (Silver Bears; Cutter's Way); 1960s Czech New Wave auteur
01/09: BILL RAY, 83 (atrial fibrillation), LIFE Magazine photographer (Marilyn Monroe/JFK birthday; Elvis Presley in Army)
01/09: MIKE RESNICK, 77 (cancer), science fiction author/editor
01/10: GLADYS SACKSMAN BOURDAIN, 85 (declining health; in hospice), copy editor. The New York Times; mother of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain
01/10: JOEL CHASEMAN, 93 (complications: fall), media executive; general manager who oversaw NYC's WINS's (1010 AM) 1965 transition to an all-news format
01/11: STAN KIRSCH, 51 (suicide/hanging), actor (Highlander: The Series)
01/11: MATTY MAHER, 80 (lung cancer), Irish-born owner/proprietor, NYC tavern McSorley's
01/11: NORMA MICHAELS, 95 (natural causes), TV character actress (The King of Queens)
01/12: WILLIAM BOGERT, 83 (undisclosed), actor (Small Wonder; Chappelle's Show; War Games)
01/13: CAROL KRAMER SERLING, 81 (undisclosed), widow of/literary executrix for author/screenwriter/TV personality Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone)
01/14: STEVE MARTIN CARO (a.k.a., Steve Martin), 71 (heart failure), 1960s pop singer, The Left Banke (Walk Away Renée; Pretty Ballerina)
01/14: JAMES KEHOE, 85 (complications: stroke), tough guy film character actor (Serpico; The Sting; Car Wash; The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh; The Untouchables; Reds; Melvin and Howard)
01/14: BRIAN MAYGER, 73 (brief illness), bassist, 1970s British rock group Chicory Tip (1972 British # 1 Son of My Father)
01/15: ROCKY JOHNSON, 75 (heart attack), Canadian-born 1970s wrestler "Soul Man"; father of wrestler/actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
01/16: CHRIS DARROW, 75 (complications: stroke), country rock singer/musician,1960s replacement member, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
01/16: ALAN PATTILLO, 90 (complications: Parkinson's disease), 1960s UK animation director for Gerry Anderson Productions (Thunderbirds; Supercar; Fireball XL-5; Stingray)
01/16: CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN, 95 (undisclosed), French citizen ex-patriate British academic/editor (The Silmarillion); youngest son of/literary executor for British fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings); "cartographer," A Map of Middle-earth
01/17: THÉRÈSE TANGUAY "MAMAN" DION, 92 (aliskirène overdose), Canadian TV culinary host; mother of Canadian-born singer Céline Dion
01/17: DEREK FOWLDS, 82 (sepsis-derived heart failure), British TV actor (The Basil Brush Show; Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister; Heartbeat)
01/18: FRIEDA RAPOPORT CAPLAN, 96 (brief illness), entrepreneur/importer of exotic produce; christener of the "kiwi fruit" (formerly the "Chinese gooseberry"), 01/18
01/18: EGIL "BUD" KROGH JR, 80 (congestive heart failure), attorney; Watergate scandal figure; facilitator of President Nixon/Elvis Presley photo-op
01/18: DAVID OLNEY, 71 (heart attack while performing on-stage), singer/songwriter (for Linda Rondstadt; Emmylou Harris)
01/18: ROBERT SAMPSON, 86 (undisclosed), TV actor (Bridget Loves Bernie, as Father Mike Fitzgerald; Star Trek: A Taste of Armageddon; The Twilight Zone: Little Girl Lost)
01/18: Dr. JACK VAN IMPE, 88 (complications: triple bypass heart surgery), televangelist; Biblical "end times" eschatologist
01/18: GEORGE HERBERT WALKER III, 88 (complications: stroke; in hospice), St. Louis businessman; ambassador to Hungary (2003-2006); cousin to Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
01/19: CHARLES "CHUCK" ALVERSON, 84 (undisclosed), US-born/Serbian-based British screenwriting collaborator with director Terry Gilliam (Jabberwocky; Brazil); journalist/humour magazine editor (Harvey Kurtzman's Help!); detective novelist (Joe Goodey series)
01/19: BILL GREENWOOD, 77 (heart ailments), ABC News broadcast journalist
01/19: JIMMY HEATH, 93 (natural causes), jazz saxophonist, The Heath Brothers; collaborator with Miles Davis, John Coltrane
01/19; GENE LONDON, 88 (cerebral haemorrhage resulting from a fall), Philadelphia children's TV show/cartoon host (various show titles, WCAU-TV/10, 1959-77); NYC-based dress designer
01/19: ROBERT PARKER, 89 (natural causes), 1960s R&B singer/songwriter (Barefootin')
01/20: WOLFGANG FUCHS, 74 (cancer), translator/historian of American comics; author (Comics: Anatomy of a Mass Medium, 1971)
01/20: CHRISTOPHER "KIT" HOOD, 76 (suddenly), British-born Canadian TV director/producer; show co-creator (DeGrassi High, and similarly titled spin-offs)
01/20: Rep. THOMAS RAILSBACK, 87 (undisclosed), US Congressman (R-IL/19th, including Moline, 1967-83) who backed 1974 Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon
01/20: JOE SHISHIDO, 86 (unspecified illness), prolific Japanese actor specializing in B-movie gangster/yakuza roles
01/21: MERITXELL NEGRE, 48 (cancer), Catalan/Spanish singer; sixth in series/first Caucasian "Peaches," R&B singing act Peaches & Herb
01/22: SALVATORE "SONNY" GROSSO, 89 (lengthy illness), German-born NYPD detective/consultant, book/film The French Connection; crime-themed film actor (The Godfather, owner of firearm in gun-in-toilet scene; The Seven-Ups; Cruising); TV producer (Night Heat)
01/22: TERRY JONES, 77 (frontotemporal dementia), Welsh-born comedic actor/director/screenwriter/co-founder, British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus; medieval historian/TV documentarian; children's author
01/22: JOHN KARLEN, 86 (congestive heart failure; in hospice), TV actor (Cagney and Lacey, as Harvey Lacey; original Dark Shadows, as Willie Loomis)
01/23: ROBERT HARPER, 68 (cancer), TV actor (Frank's Place; LA Law, Wiseguy)
01/23: STEPHEN JAMES JOYCE, 87 (undisclosed), Parisian-born Irish grandson of/last direct descendant of/literary executor for Irish author James Joyce
01/23: JIM LEHRER, 85 (peacefully, in his sleep), PBS broadcast journalist/news anchor (The PBS News Hour; The MacNeil-Lehrer Report); moderator of most presidential debates; novelist/memoirist
01/23: BARBARA REMINGTON, 90 (breast cancer), first US paperback cover illustrator for British fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy); poster artist, A Map of Middle-earth
01/24: SHELDON DROBNY, 74 (pancreatic cancer), investor/co-founder, mid-2000s Air America political talk radio network
01/24: MARSHA KRAMER, 74 (undisclosed), TV actress (semi-regular, Modern Family)
01/24: MARGO LION. 76 (brain aneurysm), Broadway producer (Hairspray; Angels in America; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; The Crucible, revival; Jelly's Last jam)
01/24: Rep. FORTNEY "PETE" STARK, 88 (leukaemia), first openly atheist US Congressman (D-California/8th/9th/13th, 1973-2013); proponent, Affordable Care Act
01/24: WES WILSON, 82 (cancer), 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock concert poster artist (Fillmore Auditorium; Fillmore West; Avalon Ballroom)
01/25: NINA GRISCOM, 65 (complications: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), NYC-based fashion industry socialite
01/25: ROBERT "BOB" MARKELL, 95 (declining health), 1960s TV producer (The Defenders; NYPD)
01/26: GIANNA "GIGI" BRYANT, 13 (helicopter crash), daughter of NBA player Kobe Bryant
01/26: KOBE BRYANT, 41 (helicopter crash), superstar NBA player – one day after being surpassed by LeBron James for third highest all-time NBA scoring record
01/26: LUCY JARVIS, 102 (undisclosed), TV documentary producer (subjects including Mary Martin, the Louvre, the Kremlin, the Peking Ballet)
01/26: MICHOU (né Michel Catty), 88 (pulmonary embolism), French cabaret/drag performer/club owner/impresario
01/26; BOB SHANE, 85 (complications: pneumonia; in hospice), folk singer/guitarist/co-founder/last surviving original member, vocal group The Kingston Trio (Tom Dooley; MTA)
01/27: DICK BALDUZZI, 91 (undisclosed), actor (Kelly's Heroes; 1960s/1970s episodic TV)
01/28: JACK BURNS, 86 (respiratory failure), comedy team member (opposite Avery Schreiber; George Carlin); TV comedy actor (The Andy Griffith Show; The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour); variety show producer/writer (The Muppet Show; Fridays); voice-over artist (as Vince, Crash Test Dummies PSA series; Wait Till Your Father Gets Home; Animaniacs)
01/28: MARJ DUSAY, 83 (natural causes), TV actress (Star Trek: Spock's Brain; The Facts of Life, as Monica Warner; Guiding Light; All My Children; Days of Our Lives)
01/28: HARRIET FRANK (JR.), 96 (undisclosed), screenwriter (with husband Irving Ravetch, The Long Hot Summer; The Sound and the Fury; Hud; The Reivers; Norma Rae; Murphy's Romance)
01/28: HARRY HARRISON, 89 (multiple health issues), long-time NYC morning Top 40/Oldies radio host The Morning Mayor (WMCA/570 AM; WABC/770 AM Musicradio; WCBS/101.1 FM)
01/28: BOB NAVE, 75 (undisclosed), keyboardist, 1960s pop group The Lemon Pipers (Green Tambourine); Cincinnati-based jazz radio air personality (WXVU/91.7 FM)
01/28: NICHOLAS PARSONS, 96 (brief illness), British radio/TV host; comedic actor (US sitcom The Ugliest Girl in Town)
01/28: DYANNE THORNE, 83 (pancreatic cancer), 1970s cult/exploitation film actress (Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS; Blood Sabbath; Star Trek: A Piece of the Action)
01/28: MONIQUE van VOOREN, 92 (cancer), Belgian-born actress (Tarzan and the She-Devil; Batman '66; Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein)
01/30: LUCIEN BARBARIN, 63 (prostate cancer), New Orleans jazz trombonist (Preservation Hall JazzBand; for Harry Connick Jr.)
01/30; BIL CANFIELD, 99 (peacefully), editorial/sports cartoonist, The (Newark NJ) Star-Ledger
01/30: JÖRN DONNER, 86 (lung disease), Finnish-born Swedish film producer (Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander)
01/30: FOTIS DULOS, 52 (suicide/carbon monoxide asphyxiation), Connecticut housing contractor; suspect in high-profile NYC-area death/disappearance of wife Jennifer Dulos
01/30: JOYCE REVENSON JAFFEE, 88 (undisclosed), wife of MAD Magazine artist Al Jaffee (Fold-Ins; Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions)
01/30: FRED SILVERMAN, 82 (cancer), TV programming executive: CBS (1963-75), ABC (1975-78), NBC (1979-81); independent 1980s/1990s TV producer; namesake of cartoon character of Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, a pet project)
01/31: ANNE COX CHAMBERS, 100 (natural causes), scioness, Cox Enterprises media conglomerate (including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution); daughter of Ohio Governor James M. Cox (1920 Democratic presidential candidate), ambassador to Belgium (1977-81)
01/31: MARY HIGGINS CLARK, 92 (natural causes), prolific best-selling suspense author
01/31: ALAN HARRIS, 81 (lung cancer), British actor, The Empire Strikes Back (as bounty hunter Bossk)
01/31: Dr. DONALD WEST, 95 (undisclosed), British criminologist/psychiatrist/author (1955 groundbreaking work "Homosexuality")
FEBRUARY 2020:
02/01; HAROLD BEANE, 73 (prescription drugs overdose), R&B/funk guitarist (Stax Records; Isaac Hayes; Funkadelic)
02/01: LILA GARRETT, 94 (lengthy illness), radical Los Angeles radio host (KPFK/Pacifica); screenwriter (The Barefoot Executive); sitcom writer (My Favorite Martian; Get Smart; The Addams Family; The Second Hundred Years; The Ugliest Girl in Town; Bewitched; All in the Family; Baby, I'm Back); mother-in-law of actor Eric Roberts
02/01: ANDY GILL, 64 (pneumonia), British guitarist, 1970s punk band Gang of Four (I Found That Essence Rare); album producer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
02/01: CHARLES WOOD, 87 (undisclosed), British dramatist/screenwriter (The Knack ... and How to Get it; Help!; How I Won the War; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Iris)
02/02: IVAN KRÁL, 71 (cancer), Czech-born musician/songwriter (Dancing Barefoot/Patti Smith)
02/02: LOVELADY POWELL, 89 (undisclosed), NYC cabaret performer; actress (I Never Sang for My Father; The Happy Hooker; The Secret Storm)
02/03: GENE REYNOLDS, 96 (heart failure), 1930s child actor (Babes in Toyland; Our Gang; Boys Town; Edison, the Man); 1950s episodic TV actor (The Lone Ranger; Dragnet; I Love Lucy); 1970s TV director/producer/writer (My Three Sons; Hogan’s Heroes; Room 222; M*A*S*H; Roll Out!; Anna and the King; Lou Grant)
02/04: BILL BRITTEN, 92 (undisclosed), actor; 1950s/1960s NYC children's TV show host (WABC/7's Time for Fun, as Johnny Jellybean; WPIX/11's Bozo, the Clown)
02/04: TERRY HANDS, 79 (brief illness), British theatrical producer/artistic director, Royal Shakespeare Company; producer, 1980s Broadway high-profile flop Carrie
02/04: BONNIE MACLEAN, 80 (in hospice), 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster artist; one-time wife of concert impresario Bill Graham
02/04: ALICE MAYHEW, 87 (complications; series of falls), Simon & Schuster editor noted for political/historical works (Robert Woodward; Carl Bernstein; Taylor Branch; Doris Kearns Goodwin)
02/04: JANE MILMORE, 64 (pancreatic cancer), sitcom writer/producer (Newhart; Martin; Daddy Dearest; The Hughleys); farcical dramatist (with writing partner Billy Van Zandt, Love, Sex, and the IRS; Lie, Cheat and Genuflect; Drop Dead!)
02/04: DANIEL arap MOI, 95 (multiple organ failure), President of Kenya (1978–2002)
02/04: BUDDY CAGE, 73 (multiple myeloma), pedal steel guitarist, country rock group New Riders of the Purple Sage (1970s "classic" line-up)
02/05: KEVIN CONWAY, 77 (heart attack), actor (Broadway: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1970s revival; The Elephant Man; TV: The Outer Limits revival, as Control voice; film: Thirteen Days, as Gen. Curtis LeMay; Gettysburg)
02/05: KIRK DOUGLAS, 103 (natural causes), actor (original Broadway, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Lust for Life; Spartacus; Paths of Glory; Champion; Young Man with a Horn; Ace in the Hole; The Bad and the Beautiful; The Strange Love of Martha Ivers; Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea); father of actor/producer Michael Douglas
02/05: F.X. FEENEY, 66 (stroke), film critic (LA Weekly); historian/theoretician/author (Orson Welles, Roman Polanski); screenwriter (The Big Brass Ring, unfinished Orson Welles project)
02/06: RAPHAËL COLEMAN, 25 (sudden collapse from existing health problems), British child actor turned climate activist (Nanny McPhee; It’s Alive remake)
02/06: LYNN EVANS (MAND), 95 (stroke), lead singer, 1950s vocal group The Chordettes (Mr. Sandman; Lollipop; Zorro; Eddie, My Love)
02/06: ROGER KAHN, 92 (declining health), sports journalist/author (The Boys of Summer)
02/07: ORSON BEAN, 91 (pedestrian victim/alleged jaywalker, double-auto traffic collision), actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis; The Lord of the Rings, animated, as Bilbo Baggins); perennial TV talk show/game show panelist/raconteur; husband of actress Alley Mills (The Wonder Years); one-time father-in-law of political commentator Andrew Breitbart
02/07: MARY GRIFFITH, 85 (lengthy illness), LBTQ activist; subject, TV-movie adapted book Prayers for Bobby: A Mother’s Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
02/07: ANN E. TODD, 88 (dementia), 1940s juvenile actress (How Green Was My Valley; Kings Row; The Blue Bird; Destry Rides Again; All This and Heaven, Too; The Stu Erwin Show)
02/07: STEVE WEBER, 76 (undisclosed), guitarist/singer, cult psychedelic folk group The Holy Modal Rounders (If You Want to Be a Bird, from Easy Rider soundtrack)
02/08: JOY VALDERRAMA ABBOTT, 88 (cancer), widow of Broadway theatrical dramatist/director/producer George Abbott
02/08: ROBERT CONRAD, 84 (heart failure), TV actor (Hawaiian Eye; The Wild Wild West; The D.A.; Baa Baa Black Sheep/Black Sheep Squadron; Centennial; A Man Called Sloane); 1970s TV commercial pitchman (Eveready Batteries)
02/08: VICTOR GORELICK, 78 (internal bleeding), long-time editor/executive, Archie Comics
02/08: RON McLARTY, 72 (complications: dementia), TV actor (Spenser: For Hire, as Sgt. Frank Belson; Law & Order franchises); audio-book narrator (Stephen King; Elmore Leonard)
02/08: VOLKER SPENGLER, 80 (undisclosed), German actor for director/auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (In a Year with 13 Moons; The Marriage of Maria Braun; Berlin Alexanderplatz; Veronika Voss
circa 02/09: PATRICK JORDAN, 96 (undisclosed), British actor (Dixon of Dock Green; 1977 Star Wars, as uncredited Imperial Officer Cass),
02/09: PAULA KELLY, 76 (COPD), stage/screen actress/dancer (Sophisticated Ladies; Sweet Charity; Night Court, The Women of Brewster Place, Soylent Green)
02/10: LYLE MAYS, 66 (lengthy illness), jazz keyboardist, the Pat Metheny Group
02/11: Dr. JOSEPH SHABALALA, 78 (lengthy illness), Zulu-born founder/musical director/bass vocalist, South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo
02/12: PAUL ENGLISH, 87 (pneumonia), long-time drummer for country singer Willie Nelson, 02/12
02/12: FREDERICK KOCH, 86 (heart failure), oldest of four Koch Brothers, co-founders of Koch Industries; arts patron/collector; philanthropist/political contributor
02/12: CHERYL WHEELER-DIXON (SANDERS), 59 (victim of gun violence, with husband Robert Sanders), stuntwoman (Batman and Robin; Back to the Future II; Thor)
02/13: WILLIAM “BUZZY” LINHART, 76 (declining health following 2018 heart attack), folksinger/songwriter (You Got to Have Friends/Bette Midler)
02/13: CHARLES "CHUCKIE" O'BRIEN, 86 (heart attack), teamster associate of union leader James. Hoffa, depicted in 2019 film The Irishman
02/14: ESTHER SCOTT, 66 (heart attack), actress (Boyz N the Hood; Dreamgirls; TV adaptation, The Help)
02/14: CLAYTON WILLIAMS, 88 (complications: pneumonia), oil industry executive; Republican candidate for 1990 Texas gubernatorial race (vs. Ann Richards)
02/15: CAROLINE FLACK, 40 (suicide/hanging, while awaiting trial for a domestic battery charge), British TV host (Love Island)
02/15: Dr. AMIE HARWICK, 38 (fall from a balcony caused by blunt force trauma/domestic violence), sex therapist; one-time fiancée of comedic performer/TV personality Drew Carey
02/15: A.E. (AARON EDWARD) HOTCHNER, 102 (undisclosed), author (film-adapted King of the Hill; The Man Who Lived at the Ritz); biographer (Ernest Hemingway; Doris Day; Paul Newman; Sophia Loren; Elaine Kaufman); TV screenwriter (Hemingway adaptations); entrepreneur/philanthropist (co-founder, Newman's Own, with actor Paul Newman)
02/15: DANIEL LEE MARTIN, 54 (suicide/gunshot, amid child sex abuse charges), 2000s country singer; hunting-themed TV host (Brotherhood Outdoors); accused child abuser
02/15: DANIEL STRATTON USN, 97 (in his sleep), antepenultimate surviving USS Arizona Pearl Harbor sailor; memoirist
02/15: NIKITA PEARL WALIGWA,15 (brain cancer/tumor), Ugandan-born child actress (Disney’s Queen of Katwe)
02/16: OWEN BIEBER, 90 (age related ailments), labour union leader (1980s/1990s president, United Auto Workers)
02/16: ZOE CALDWELL, 86 (complications: Parkinson’s disease), Australian-born Broadway actress (four-time Tony Award winner, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Master Class; Medea; Slapstick Tragedy)
02/16: PEARL CARR, 98 (undisclosed), British pop singer, 1950s duo Pearl Carr & Teddy Williams (Sing, Little Birdie, 1959 Eurovision entry)’
02/16: FRANCES CUKA, 83 (complications: stroke; cancer), British actress (Albert Finney Scrooge, as Mrs. Cratchit)
02/16: JASON DAVIS, 35 (fentanyl overdose), actor/voice-over artist (Disney’s Recess; Beverly Hills Ninja); grandson of oil industry/studio executive Marvin Davis
02/16: JACK GORDON, 90 (undisclosed), MGM international distribution executive; son of songwriter Mack Gordon (At Last; You’ll Never Know; Chattanooga Choo-Choo)
0216: KELLYE NAKAHARA (WALLETT), 72 (cancer), TV actress (M*A*S*H, as Nurse Kellye)
02/16: LARRY TESLER, 74 (declining health following bicycle accident), computer scientist credited with inventing “cut-and-paste” function
02/17: CHARLES PORTIS, 86 (complications: Alzheimer's disease/dementia), reclusive novelist (film-adapted True Grit)
02/18: JA’NET DuBOIS, 76 (cardiac arrest), TV sitcom actress (Good Times, as Willona Woods); theme-song singer/co-writer (The Jeffersons’ Movin’ On Up)
02/18: MICHAEL HERTZ, 87 (natural causes), graphic designer, modern NYC subway map
02/18: BOB PETTY, 79 (lung cancer), Chicago broadcast journalist/anchorman (ABC affiliate WLS-TV/7)
02/19: ROBERT COBERT, 95 (pneumonia), TV composer (Way Out; Dark Shadows; The Night Stalker; Trilogy of Terror; The Winds of War/War and Remembrance; TV game show theme song writer: Password, To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right, $100,000 Pyramid)
02/19: BASHAR JACKSON, 20 (victim of gun violence/home invasion), rap performer Pop Smoke
02/19: JENS NYGAARD KNUDSEN, 78 (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Danish designer/creator, LEGO’s mini-figures
02/20 (100th birthday): ZOE GAIL, 100 (undisclosed), South African-born singer noted for flipping switch re-lighting West End/Piccadilly Circus following WWII-era blackout restrictions (1949); actress (critically savaged 1948 gangster film No Orchids for Miss Blandish)
02/20: CLAUDETTE NEVINS, 82 (in hospice), TV actress (The Headmaster, as Andy Griffith’s wife; Return to the Planet of the Apes; TV movie Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case, as Marilyn Sheppard, Melrose Place, JAG)
02/20: SEYMOUR “SY” SPERLING, 78 (lengthy illness), founder/president/TV pitchman, Hair Club for Men
02/21: CAMILA MARÍA CONCEPCIÓN, 28 (suicide), screenwriter; Latina transgendered rights activist
02/21: NICOLA “NICK” CUTI, 75 (cancer), comic book artist (Charlton: E-Man, Popeye; Warren: Creepy, Vampirella); Disney background artist
02/21: JEANNE EVERT (DUBIN), 62 (ovarian cancer), tennis player; younger sister of tennis player Chris Evert
02/21; HISASHI KATSUTA, 92 (dementia), Japanese anime voice actor (Astro Boy, as Professor Ochanomizu; Kimba, the White Lion)
‘02/21: NICK MARINELLO, 82 (natural causes; in custody), New Orleans TV sportscaster; convicted murderer/wife killer
02/21: LISEL MUELLER, 96 (pneumonia), German-born, Pulitzer Price-winning poet
children’s show Supe’s On! With the Three Stooges; monster movie showcase Mad Theatre, 1969-89)
02/22: JOHNI CERNY 77 (coronary artery disease; congestive heart failure), genealogist; genealogy-themed TV personality (PBS’s Finding Your Roots)
02/22: “MAD” MIKE HUGHES, 64 (homemade rocket crash), daredevil/reality TV personality
02/22: B./BARBARA SMITH, 70 (early on-set Alzheimer’s disease), restaurateur; TV personality (B. Smith With Style); model (first African-American cover model, Mademoiselle magazine, 1976)
02/22: LINDA WOLFE, 87 (complications: bowel surgery), investigative journalist/author (Wasted: The Preppie Murder, 1989)
02/23: KATHERINE JOHNSON, 101 (natural causes), 1960s African-American female NASA mathematician depicted in 2016 film Hidden Figures
02/24: BOB ANDERMAN, 59 (rare form of cancer), St. Petersburg/Tampa area popular culture journalist/radio personality Mr. Media; author, Will Eisner: A Spiritual Life
02/24: RUSS COCHRAN, 82 (undisclosed), comic book historian/publisher (EC Comics Archives)
02/24: BEN COOPER, 86 (complications: dementia), actor (primarily westerms; Johnny Guitar; The Twilight Zone: Still Valley; The Fall Guy)
02/24: CLIVE CUSSLER, 88 (undisclosed), oceanographer; best-selling adventure-themed novelist (Raise the Titanic!; The Mediterranean Caper; Atlantis Found; Valhalla Rising; Pacific Vortex!; Sahara)
02/24: JOHN “SONNY” FRANZESE, 103 (natural causes), NYC Colombo crime family mobster; financier, film Deep Throat; oldest federal inmate (aged 100 on release in 2017)
02/24: “BABY” PEGGY MONTGOMERY (renamed DIANA SERRA CARY), 101 (declining health), silent film child actress
02/24: OLOF THUNBERG, 94 (undisclosed), Swedish actor/voice-over artist; grandfather of environmental activist Greta Thunberg
02/24: TOM WATKINS, 70 (multiple health issues), 1980s/1990s British music manager, (Pet Shop Boys)
02/25: LEE PHILLIP BELL, 91 (Alzheimer's disease), TV serial producer/co-creator (The Young and the Restless; The Bold and the Beautiful); broadcast journalist (CBS News’ The Lee Phillip Show)
02/25: HOSNI MUBAREK, 91 (kidney failure), President of Egypt (1981-2011)
02/25: DAVID ROBACK, 61 (metastatic cancer), guitarist/singer/songwriter, 1990s alternative rock duo Mazzy Star (Fade into You)
02/26: NICK APOLLO FORTE, 91 (undisclosed), lounge singer/entertainer featured in 1984 Woody Allen film Broadway Danny Rose
02/26: NEXHMIJE HOXHA, 99 (natural causes), widow/co-conspirator of Albanian Communist dictator Enver Hoxha (1944-1985)
02/26: MICHAEL MEDWIN, 96 (undisclosed), British actor (Albert Finney Scrooge, as Scrooge’s nephew)
02/27: GENE DYNARSKI, 86 (brief heart ailment), character actor (Seinfeld; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Hill Street Blues; Batman ’66/henchman to Egghead; Star Trek: Mudd’s Women)
02/28: JOE COULOMBE, 89 (lengthy illness), supermarket entrepreneur; founder of Trader Joe’s
02/28: BERNHARD DRIEST, 79 (pneumonia), German actor (Stroszek, for Werner Herzog; Querelle, for Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
02/28: FREEMAN DYSON, FRS, 96 (injuries sustained in a fall), British-born physicist/mathematician
02/28: JOYCE GORDON, 90 (undisclosed), actress; first female president, NYC Screen Actors’ Guild
02/29: LUIS ALFONSO MENDOZA, 55 (victim of gun violence/landlord-tenant dispute), Mexican voice dubbing actor for Latin American TV/cartoon/video-game market (Bugs Bunny; The Big Bang Theory)
MARCH 2020:
03/??: ELAINE HYMAN, 85 (undisclosed), old time radio actress (The Lone Ranger)
03/01: JACK WELCH, 84 (renal failure), high profile 1980s/1990s CEO, General Electric
03/02: RAFAEL CANCEL MIRANDA, 89 (multiple health issues), Puerto Rican nationalist/independence advocate; terrorist/participant, 1954 gunfire attack on US Congress (03/01/1954)
03/02: JAMES LIPTON, 93 (bladder cancer), old time radio actor (The Lone Ranger; Gasoline Alley); TV soap opera/TV special writer/producer (Guiding Light; Another World; Bob Hope specials); acting instructor (administrator, The Actors’ Studio); TV host (Inside the Actors’ Studio); one-time husband of actress Nina Foch
03/03: BOBBIE BATTISTA, 67 (cervical cancer), former CNN newscaster/anchorwoman (1981-2001)
03/03: ROSCOE BORN, 69 (bipolar-derived suicide), TV soap opera actor (Ryan’s Hope; All My Children; Days of Our Lives; The Young and the Restless; Santa Barbara; One Life to Live)
03/03: CC, 18 (kidney failure), female tabby cat; first cloned pet
03/03: WENDELL GOLER, 70 (kidney failure), senior White House Foreign Affairs correspondent, Fox News (1996-2014)
03/03: ROSALIND P. WALTER, 95 (undisclosed), philanthropist/PBS benefactor; WWII aircraft factory worker/claimant to be the namesake inspiration for the song Rosie, the Riveter
03/03: DAVID WISE, 65 (lung cancer), TV animation scriptwriter (Star Trek, animated; He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; Transformers; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Batman: The Animated Series)
03/04: Rep. AMORY "AMO" HOUGHTON JR, 93 (natural causes), scion, glass industry Houghton fsmily (Corning Inc.); US Congressman (R-New York state//24th/31st/29th Districts, 1987-2005)
03/04: BARBARA MARTIN, 76 (natural causes), early 1960s singer, pre-fame The Supremes
03/04: FRANK McLAUGHLIN, 84 (undisclosed), comic strip artist (Gil Thorp; The World’s Greatest Superheroes; assistant on Nancy, The Heart of Juliet Jones, Brenda Starr, Reporter;); comic book artist (Charlton: JudoMaster; Marvel: Captain Marvel, Captain America, The Defenders; DC: The Flash; Justice League of America; Batman; Black Lightning; Green Lantern)
03/04: JAVIER PÉREZ de CUÉLLAR, 100 (natural causes), Peruvian diplomat; United Nations Secretary General (1982-1991)
03/06: DAVID PAUL, 62 (in his sleep), 1980s/1990s bodybuilder/actor (with twin brother Peter, as the Barbarian Brothers)
03/06: McCOY TYNER, 81 (declining health), jazz pianist/virtuoso
03/07: MART CROWLEY, 84 (complications: heart surgery), LGBT-themed dramatist/screenwriter (The Boys in the Band); TV producer (Hart to Hart)
03/07: ED INGLES, 87 (cancer), NYC radio sportscaster (WCBS/880 AM)
03/07: EARL POMERANTZ, 75 (aneurysm), Canadian-born TV sitcom writer (The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Bob Newhart Show; Taxi; Major Dad; Cheers; Newhart; The Cosby Show)
03/07: JIM OWEN, 78 (undisclosed), country music singer /songwriter (for Mel Tillis; Porter Wagoner; Jerry Reed; duo Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man)
03/07: SETSUKO PAGLIA, 84 (Alzheimer's disease), Japanese-born mother of 1990s fitness personality Denise Paglia-Cole
]03/08: MAX VON SYDOW, 90 (undisclosed), Swedish-born film actor (The Seventh Seal; Wild Strawberries; The Greatest Story Ever Told; The Exorcist; Three Days of the Condor; Flash Gordon: Never Say Never Again; Dune; Hannah and Her Sisters; Pelle the Conqueror)
03/08: ALLEN BELLMAN, 96 (bleeding/brief illness), 1940s comic book artist for Timely/Marvel (Captain America; The Human Torch; The Sub-Mariner)
03/08: JOHNNY YUNE, 83 (cerebral haemorrhage), South Korean-born comedic film actor (The Cannonball Run; They Call Me Bruce? series)
03/09: LORENZO BRINO, 21 (automobile collision), 1990s/2000s quadruplet child TV actor (7th Heaven)
03/09: ANTON COPPOLA, 102 (undisclosed), Tampa-based operatic conductor/composer; uncle of film director Francis Ford Coppola
03/09: MERWIN FOARD, 59 (chronic liver disease), Broadway musical actor (1776; Annie; Disney's Aladdin; The Addams Family; La Cage aux Folles; Les Misérables; Kiss Me, Kate; Beauty and the Beast)
03/09: KEITH OLSEN, 74 (cardiac arrest), music producer (Fleetwood Mac; Grateful Dead; Foreigner; Pat Benatar; Jethro Tull; Heart; Whitesnake; Santana, Rick Springfield; REO Speedwagon; Ozzy Osbourne; Bad Company; Joe Walsh; Scorpions)
03/10: J. (JOHN) SEWARD JOHNSON II, 89 (cancer), sculptor; heir, Johnson + Johnson pharmaceutical fortune
03/10: MAL SHARPE, 83 (complications: heart surgery), San Francisco-area radio/TV personality specializing in "man on the street" comedy
03/12: GARY B. KIBBE, 79 (undisclosed), cinematographer (mostly for director John Carpenter, They Live; Village of the Damned; Escape from L.A.)
03/12: MICHEL ROUX, 78 (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis), French-born British chef/restaurateur; mentor to chef Gordon Ramsey
03/13: ARCH DEAL, 88 (choking on food; similar to daughter Karen Deal Balin's 2010 death), Tampa anchorman (WFLA/8; WTSP/10); 1970s lost parachute skydiving survivor; father-in-law of musician Marty Balin
03/14 (94th birthday), PHIL PHILLIPS (né Baptiste), 94 (undisclosed), 1950s pop singer/songwriter (Sea of Love)
03/15: SUZY DELAIR, 102 (undisclosed), French comedic film actress (leading lady, Atoll K/Utopia, Laurel and Hardy's final film); chanteuse (early version, C’est Si Bon, 1948)
03/15: Rep. RICHARD HANNA, 60 (cancer), US Congressman (R-New York state, 2011-2017); moderate Republican who refused to support President Trump’s 2016 presidential election
03/16: STUART WHITMAN, 92 (skin cancer), film/TV character actor (The Mark; The Longest Day; Night of the Lepus; TV's Cimarron Strip)
03/17: GERALD FREEDMAN, 92 (natural causes), 1960s/1970s theatrical director/artistic director, The New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater; first American director, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London
03/17: MAGGIE GRIFFIN, 99 (dementia), mother/TV co-star of comedienne Kathy Griffin (My Life on the D-List)
03/17: JERRY SLICK, 80 (cancer), drummer, 1960s band The Great Society; first husband of rock singer Grace Slick
03/17: LYLE WAGGONER, 84 (cancer), TV actor (The Carol Burnett Show; Wonder Woman); first centerfold, Playgirl Magazine (1973)
03/17: ALFRED "AL" WORDEN, 84 (stroke), 1970s NASA astronaut (Apollo XV, non-moonwalker)
03/18: BORIS YARO, 81 (natural causes), photojournalist (L.A. Times, 1968 kitchen photo of busboy and mortally wounded RFK); inspiration/consultant for Lou Grant TV character Animal
03/19: ROMÁN ARÁMBULA, 83 (heart attack), Mexican-born comic strip artist (1970s/80s syndicated Mickey Mouse); storyboardist/animator (Disney; Hanna-Barbera)
03/19: SUSAN KESLER, 60 (ovarian peritoneal cancer), TV editor (The X-Files; Crossing Jordan); TV historian/author (TV show The Wild, Wild West); TV automobile collector (autos from Get Smart!, The Rockford Files)
03/20: KENNY ROGERS, 81 (natural causes; in hospice), singer/musician/songwriter (Just Dropped In; Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town; Reuben James; Lucille; Lady; Through the Years; She Believes in Me; You Decorated My Life; The Gambler; Coward of the County; Islands in the Stream); actor (The Gambler, TV movies series); fast food entrepreneur (Kenny Rogers' Roasters)
03/20: ORLANDO STATON, 61 (COVID-19), drummer, NJ cult rock band The Fabulous Flemtones
03/21: DAVID CRUZ, 51 (heart disease), pre-fame boyfriend of singer/actress Jennifer Lopez
03/21: RICHARD S. KLINE, 79 (lengthy illness), 1970s TV producer/director (The Dick Cavett Show; The Joker's Wild; Break the Bank; Win, Lose or Draw)
03/22: ERIC WEISSBERG, 80 (complications; Alzheimer's disease), folk multi-instrumentalist (1950s folk music group The Tarriers; 1970s duo with Steve Marshall, Dueling Banjos)
03/23: LUCIA BOSÈ, 89 (pneumonia compounded by COVID-19), 1950s/1960s Italian film actress (for auteurs Michelangelo Antonioni; Jean Cocteau; Federico Fellini); one-time wife of Spanish matador Luis Miguel Dominguín; Miss Italia 1947
03/23: DAVID COLLINGS, 79 (undisclosed), British screen/radio actor (Albert Finney Scrooge, as Bob Cratchit; Blake's 7, first episode; Lord of the Rings, radio version)
03/23: ALFIO CONTINI, 92 (undisclosed), Italian cinematographer (Zabriskie Point, for Michelangelo Antonioni)
circa 03/23: VICTOR MILLROSE, 84/85 (undisclosed), 1960s songwriter (Last Chance to Turn Around/Gene Pitney; This Girl Is a Woman Now/Gary Puckett) – no official obituary has been issued as of 05/11/2020
03/23: GILES WALKER, 74 (cancer), Scots-born Canadian film director/documentarian
03/24: Judge JOHN G. DAVIES, 90 (cancer), Australian-born US Federal jurist (Rodney king police civil rights trial); Olympic swimmer (Australian team, 1948, 1952)
03/24: WILLIAM DUFRIS, 62 (cancer), voice-over actor (US version, Bob the Builder, title role; anime; audio books)
03/24: STUART GORDON, 72 (multiple organ failure syndrome), horror film director (Re-Animator); screenwriter (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
03/24: LORING MANDEL, 91 (cancer), dramatist (Advise and Consent); screenwriter (Countdown; Little Drummer Girl; Promises in the Dark)
03/24: TERRENCE McNALLY, 81 (complications: COVID-19; chronic COPD), Broadway dramatist (The Ritz; Master Class; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Love! Valour! Compassion!); librettist (Kiss of the Spider Woman; Ragtime; The Full Monty)
03/24: GERARD SCHURMANN, 96 (undisclosed), Dutch/Javanese-born British film composer (Dr Syn, Alias the Scarecrow; The Bedford Incident)
03/24: ALBERT UDERZO, 92 (heart attack), Italo-French illustrator/co-creator/writer, French serial comic strip Asterix
03/25: MARK BLUM, 69 (COVID-19), film actor (pivotal roles. Crocodile Dundee, Desperately Seeking Susan)
03/25: RICHARD REEVES, 83 (cardiac arrest), political author/columnist/historian (Infamy, re; Pearl Harbor; presidential administrations: Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton)
03/26: NEIL LANDON, 78 (undisclosed), 1960s British singer/songwriter (as solo act; The Ivy League, The Flower Pot Men; Fat Mattress)
03/26: BILL MARTIN, 81 (undisclosed), Scots-born British songwriter (Puppet on a String/Sandie Shaw; several Eurovision entries)
03/26: PETER MINER, 89 (undisclosed), 1930s Broadway juvenile actor (On Borrowed Time); director/producer (One Life to Live; Dark Shadows)
03/26: FRED “CURLY” NEAL, 77 (undisclosed), basketball player/entertainer (The Harlem Globetrotters)
03/27: BOB ANDY, 75 (brief illness), Jamaican-born British reggae singer (Bob and Marcia; The Paragons – original version, The Tide Is High)
03/27: HARRIET GLICKMAN, 93 (complications: myelodysplastic syndrome); schoolteacher who inspired first black character (Franklin Armstrong) in Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts
03/27: Rev. JOSEPH LOWERY, 98 (natural causes), civil rights activist; co-founder (with MLK), Southern Christian Leadership Conference
03/27: KEN SHIMURA, 70 (COVID-19), Japanese comedian/TV personality
03/27: DELROY WASHINGTON, 67 (COVID-19), Jamaican-born British reggae singer (back-up for Bob Marley)
03/28: JOHN CALLAHAN, 66 (stroke), TV serial actor (Falcon Crest; All My Children; Days of Our Lives; General Hospital)
03/28: Sen. TOM COBURN, 72 (prostate cancer), obstetrician; US congressman (R-Oklahoma/2nd District, 1995-2001; US Senator (R- Oklahoma, 2005-15)
03/28: JAN HOWARD, 91 (pneumonia), country singer (Evil on Your Mind; Vietnam-themed My Son)
03/28: DAVID SCHRAMM, 73 (heart attack), 1990s TV sitcom actor (Wings)
03/28: WILLIAM WOLF, 94 (COVID-19), theatre/film critic/historian (Cue/New York Magazine; 1970s Marx Brothers biography); one-time Drama Desk president
03/29: JOE DIFFIE, 61 (COVID-19), 1990s country singer (Pickup Man; John Deere Green, Third Rock from the Sun)
03/29: MARIA MERCADER, 54 (COVID-19), CBS News broadcast journalist/producer (60 Minutes; CBS Sunday Morning)
03/29: ALAN MERRILL, 69 (COVID-19), singer/musician (1970s group Arrows); songwriter (I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll/Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)
03/29: KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, 86 (lengthy illness), Polish avante-garde composer for film (The Exorcist; The Shining)
03/30: TOMIE dePAOLA, 85 (complications: surgery following a fall), children’s author/illustrator (Strega Nona series)
03/30: Dr. JAMES T. GOODRICH, 73 (COVID-19), neurosurgeon/conjoined twin separation specialist
03/30: STEVE KREINBERG, 73 (complications: diabetes), TV writer/producer (Archie Bunker’s Place; Mork & Mindy; It’s a Living; Herman’s Head/co-creator)
03/30: BILL WITHERS, 81 (complications: heart disease), R&B singer (Lean On Me; Lovely Day; Ain’t No Sunshine; Just the Two of Us)
03/31: CRISTINA (Cristina Monet-Palaci), 61 (COVID-19), early 1980s New Wave singer
03/31: JULIE BENNETT, 88 (COVID-19), cartoon and toy voice actress (Hanna-Barbera; Warner Bros.; Jay Ward Productions; UPA; Mattel, as Barbie)
03/31 HILLARY HEATH, 74 (COVID-19), British cult movie actress (opposite Vincent Price: Witchfinder General, The Oblong Box, Cry of the Banshee; Wuthering Heights)
03/31: ANDREW JACK, 76 (COVID-19), British actor/dialect coach (Lord of the Rings trilogy; Star Wars sequel trilogy; Chaplin; Pierce Brosnan James Bond/007 series)
03/31: ANDREW MARZELLO, 69 (complications: dementia), actor (The Witches; Superman i/II); voice-over actor (US version, Bob the Builder, as Farmer Pickles)
APRIL 2020:
04/01: ZEV BUFFMAN, 81 (natural causes), Broadway producer (Marat/Sade; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Blithe Spirit; Private Lives; The Little Foxes)
04/01: Judge KEVIN DUFFY, 87 (COVID-19), US District Judge (New York Southern District, 1993 World Trade Center terrorist bombing)
04/01: ED FARMER, 70 (kidney disease), MLB relief pitcher/sportscaster (Chicago White Sox)
04/01: ELLIS MARSALIS JR., 85 (COVID-19), jazz pianist; father of musicians Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis
04/01: JOHN “BUCKY” PIZZARELLI, 94 (COVID-19), jazz/big band guitarist (Clyde McCoy; Russ Morgan; Raymond Scott; Vaughn Monroe; The Three Suns; The Tonight Show Band); father of singer/musician John Pizzarelli; father-in-law of singer/actress Jessica Molaskey
04/01: ADAM SCHLESINGER, 52 (COVID-19), singer/musician/co-founder, group Fountains of Wayne; songwriter (That Thing You Do)
04/02: PATRICIA BOSWORTH, 86 (COVID-19), actress/model turned journalist/celebrity biographer (Montgomery Clift; Diane Arbus; Marlon Brando; Jane Fonda)
04/02: JUAN GIMÉNEZ, 76 (COVID-19), Argentine comic book/fantasy artiist (Heavy Metal magazine and film)
04/02: EDDIE LARGE, 78 (heart failure; COVID-19), Scots-born British TV comedian (comedy team Little and Large)
04/02: GIDEON McKEAN, 8 (drowning/canoe accident – with mother), great-grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
04/02: MAEVE KENNEDY TOWNSEND McKEAN, 40 (drowning/canoe accident – with eight-year old son), public health official/attorney; granddaughter of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
04/02: LOGAN WILLIAMS, 16 (suddenly; undisclosed), Canadian-born TV actor (CW’s The Flash, as young Barry Allen)
04/03: IRA EINHORN, 79 (natural causes; in custody), 1960s/1970s countercultural figure/ecological activist; convicted murderer/23 year fugitive (The Unicorn Killer)
04/03: JAMES KING, 49 (multiple health issues), reality TV subject (TLC’s My 600 Lb. Life)
04/03: ARLENE STRINGER-CUEVAS, 86 (COVID-19), 1970s NYC Councilwoman; mother of NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer
04/04: TIMOTHY BROWN, 82 (complications: dementia), 1960s NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles); actor (Nashville; film M*A*S*H; TV series M*A*S*H, early episodes as “Spearchucker” Jones)
04/04: FORREST COMPTON, 94 (COVID-19), TV actor (Gomer Pyle – USMC, as Colonel Gray; The Edge of Night; The FBI)
04/04: ALEX HARVEY, 73 (undisclosed), songwriter (Delta Dawn/Tanya Tucker/Helen Reddy; Reuben James/Kenny Rogers and the First Edition); film actor (Gettysburg)
04/04: OLAN MONTGOMERY, 56 (COVID-19), web series actor (Netflix’s Stranger Things)
04/05: HONOR BLACKMAN, 94 (natural causes), British actress (A Night to Remember; Jason and the Argonauts; The Avengers; Goldfinger; The Prisoner, voice-over)
04/05: SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, 86 (complications: pneumonia), Canadian-born film actress (Lolita; Dead Ringers); mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland; one-time wife of actor Donald Sutherland; daughter of 1940/1950s Saskatchewan premier Tommy Douglas
04/05: LEE FIERRO, 91 (COVID-19), actress (Jaws/Jaws 2, as grieving mother Mrs. Kintner)
04/05: PAT FINCH (PORTERFIELD), 93 (undisclosed), 1950s/1960s Broadway actress (South Pacific; Fanny: The Matchmaker; Bells Are Ringing; The Unsinkable Molly Brown); first contestant on TV’s What’s My Line?, 1950)
04/05: THOMAS L. MILLER, 79 (complications: heart disease), TV sitcom producer (Happy Days; Laverne & Shirley; Mork & Mindy; Perfect Strangers; Full House; The Hogan Family; Family Matters; Step by Step)
04/05: GEORGE OGILVIE, 89 (cardiac arrest), Australian film director (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome)
04/06: ROGER BEATTY, 87 (prostate cancer), comedy writer (film The Billion Dollar Hobo; The Carol Burnett Show; Mama’s Family)
04/06: JAMES DRURY, 85 (natural causes), actor (The Virginian/The Men from Shiloh)
04/06: VIC HENLEY, 57 (pulmonary embolism), Southern-themed stand-up comedian
04/06: AL KALINE, 85 (complications: recent stroke), MLB outfielder (Detroit Tigers, 1953-74)
04/07: BETTY BENNETT (LOWE), 98 (undisclosed), jazz/big band singer (Benny Goodman; Stan Kenton; Claude Thornhill; Alvino Rey); one-time wife of conductor/composer André Previn
04/07: FAITH DANE (CRANNITCH), 96 (in a nursing home), actress (original Broadway and film Gypsy, as Mazeppa, stripper with a bugle)
04/07: STEVE FARMER, 71 (coronary issues), guitarist, 1960s psychedelic group The Amboy Dukes; co-composer (with Ted Nugent, Journey to the Center of Your Mind)
04/07: ALLEN GARFIELD/ALLEN GOORWITZ, 80 (COVID-19), 1970s/1980s film character actor (Woody Allen’s Bananas; The Conversation; Nashville; The Stunt Man; Beverly Cops II)
04/07: HENRY GELLER, 96 (cancer), 1970s FCC attorney instrumental in banning cigarette ads from TV/radio
04/07: IRENE HIRANO INOUYE, 71 (leiomyosarcoma, a rare form of body tissue cancer), Japanese-American cultural/philanthropic leader; widow of Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI, 1963-2012)
04/07: DONNA KAUFFMAN, 60 (pancreatic cancer), journalist (USA Today); prolific best-selling romance novelist
04/07: JOHN PRINE, 73 (COVID-19), country/folk singer/songwriter/musician
04/07: STEVE RAVITZ, 73 (COVID-19), southern NJ supermarket entrepreneur/philanthropist (Shop Rite franchisee)
04/07: LEONARD “NIPPER” READ, 95 (COVID-19), 1960s British Scotland Yard detective (Kray Brothers)
04/07: ELIOT TIEGEL, 84 (heart attack), music journalist/author; one-time managing editor, Billboard magazine
04/07: GHYSLAIN TREMBLAY, 68 (COVID-19), Québécois/French-Canadian TV actor
04/07: HAL WILLNER, 64 (COVID-19), music producer (Lou Reed; Laurie Anderson; Disney theme album Stay Awake; SNL musical comedy sketches)
04/08: CARL DOBKINS JR, 79 (undisclosed), 1950s pop singer (My Heart Is an Open Book, 1959)
04/08: PAUL LAMBERT, 61 (suicide), British BBC TV political journalist
04/08: MICHAEL McCARTHY, 61 (cancer), 1980s comedy writer (SNL; Second City stage)
04/08: RUTH LITCHULT PIZZARELLI, 89 (undisclosed), widow of jazz guitarist John “Bucky” Pizzarelli; mother of singer/musician John Pizzarelli; mother-in-law of singer/actress Jessica Molaskey
04/08: CHYNNA ROGERS, 25 (drug overdose), Philadelphia-based rap performer
04/08: LINDA TRIPP, 70 (pancreatic cancer), 1990s US Pentagon official; player/whistleblower, 1990s President Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal
04/09: MORT DRUCKER, 81 (brief illness), comics artist/caricaturist (MAD Magazine; The Adventures of Bob Hope; 1950s DC war comics; JFK Coloring Book; 1980s political comic strip Benchley); movie poster artist (American Graffiti)
04/09: PHYLLIS LYON, 95 (natural causes), LGBT/feminist activist; co-founder, 1950s lesbian group Daughters of Bilitis; half of first same-sex couple legally to marry in San Francisco (2008, with Del Martin)
04/09: SAUL TURTLETAUB, 87 (natural causes), TV comedy writer/producer (Hey, Landlord!; The Carol Burnett Show; That Girl; Good Morning, World; The New Dick Van Dyke Show; Sanford and Son; What’s Happening!!!: Carter Country; Kate and Allie)
04/10: BRUCE BAILLIE, 88 (complications: Alzheimer’s disease), avante-garde film director (Castro Street)
04/10: CRAIG GILBERT, 94 (hepatitis C/HIV co-infection), 1970s TV documentarian (The Triumph of Christy Brown; PBS’s An American Family)
04/10: NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI, 82 (lung cancer), prolific Japanese film director
04/11: WYNN HANDMAN, 97 (pneumonia related to COVID-19), co-founder/artistic director, NYC’s American Place Theatre; acting teacher (Alec Baldwin; Michael Douglas; Richard Gere; Raul Julia; Frank Langella; Christopher Walken; Denzel Washington; Joanne Woodward)
04/11: MARGOT HARTMAN (TENNEY), 86 (undisclosed), 1960s horror/science-fiction film actress (The Curse of the Living Corpse; Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women)
04/12: NINA BALDUCCI, 91 (colon cancer), NYC greengrocer/gourmet food marketeer (Balducci’s)
04/12: MAURICE BARRIER, 87 (COVID-19), French comedic film actor (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe)
04/12: TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, OBE, 79 (COVID-19), British comedic performer, TV comedy/novelty singing group The Goodies (The Funky Gibbon; Black Pudding Bertha)
04/12: DANNY GOLDMAN, 80 (complications: series of strokes), actor (M*A*A*H film; Young Frankenstein, as inquisitive student; TV: The Good Life, Busting Loose, The New Mike Hammer); cartoon voice-over actor (The Smurfs, as Brainy Smurf)
04/12: Sir STIRLING MOSS, OBE, 90 (declining health), British auto-racing driver
04/12: JOEL M. REED, 86 (COVID-19), 1970s cult horror movie director/screenwriter (Bloodsucking Freaks; Night of the Zombies)
04/12: MILTON SCHAFER, 99 (undisclosed), 1960s Broadway composer (Bravo Giovanni!; Drat! The Cat!)
04/13: Bishop GERALD GLENN, 70 (COVID-19), Virginia evangelical pastor who openly defied COVID-19 social gathering restrictions
04/13: GLENNA MAXEY GOODACRE, 80 (natural causes), sculptor (Vietnam Women’s Memorial); numismatics designer (obverse, Sacagawea dollar coin); mother of 1980s model Jill Goodacre; mother-in-law of singer/actor Harry Connick Jr.
04/13: ANN SULLIVAN, 91 (COVID-19), animatrix (Filmation; Hanna-Barbera; Disney)
04/14: PHILIP “PIP” BAKER, 91 (complications: injuries sustained in a fall), British TV screenwriter (Z Cars; Space: 1999; 1980s Dr. Who)
04/14: HENRY GEORGE “HANK” STEINBRENNER III, 63 (lengthy illness), MLB franchise co-owner (New York Yankees, 2008-2020); son of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
04/14: JIMMY WEBB, 62 (cancer), NYC punk-era countercultural clothing designer/purveyor (Trash and Vaudeville boutique)
04/14 (79th birthday): KENNY YOUNG, 79 (cancer), Israeli-born expatriate American/British-based 1960s songwriter (Under the Boardwalk/The Drifters; Just a Little Bit Better/Herman’s Hermits; Arizona/Mark Lindsay)
04/15: SEAN ARNOLD, 79 (lengthy illness), British TV actor (Grange Hill; Bergerac)
04/15 (87th birthday): EDDIE COOLEY, 87 (undisclosed), 1950s R&B singer (Eddie Cooley and the Dimples); songwriter (Priscilla; Fever/Peggy Lee)
04/15: ALLEN DAVIAU, 77 (COVID-19), cinematographer for directors Steven Spielberg (ET: The Extra-Terrestrial; The Color Purple; Empire of the Sun) and Barry Levinson (Avalon; Bugsy)
04/15: BRIAN DENNEHY, 81 (sepsis derived cardiac arrest), character actor (Broadway revivals: Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey into Night; Inherit the Wind; film: Semi-Tough; F.I.S.T.; Foul Play; First Blood; Cocoon; Presumed Innocent; Tommy Boy; TV: Skokie; Pearl; To Catch a Killer, as serial killer John Wayne Gacy)
04/15: LEE KONITZ, 92 (pneumonia; COVID-19), jazz alto saxophonist; collaborator with Miles Davis
04/15: ASHLEY MATTINGLY, 33 (suicide), model/Playboy Playmate (Miss March 2011)
04/16: JOSEPH ADLER, 79 (cancer), 1960s film director (Sex and the College Girl; Scream Baby Scream); southern Florida regional theatre director
04/16: MIKE BUCHANAN, 78 (heart attack), Washington DC crime-beat broadcast journalist (WUSA-TV/9, CBS affiliate; WTOP/103/5 FM)
04/16: STEVE CASH, 40 (mental health derived suicide/gunshot), feline-themed YouTube personality/video producer
04/16: GENE DEITCH, 95 (complications: intestinal issues), US ex-patriate, Czech-based animator (Munro; Terrytoons: Tom Terrific; Paramount: Nudnik; King Features Syndicate: Popeye, Krazy Kat; MGM: post Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry); syndicated cartoonist (Terr’ble Thompson); father of underground cartoonist Kim Deitch
04/16: ANDREW J. FENADY, 91 (natural causes), producer (TV: The Rebel, Branded, Hondo; film: Terror in the Wax Museum, The Man with Bogart’s Face)
04/16: HOWARD FINKEL, 69 (declining health since 2018 stroke), WWE wrestling ring announcer
04/17: DEIRDRE BAIR, 84 (congestive heart failure), biographer (Samuel Beckett; Anaîs Nin; Simone de Beauvoir; Carl Jung; Al Capone)
04/17: MATTHEW SELIGMAN, 64 (COVID-19), 1970s/1980s British New Wave bassist (The Soft Boys; session work for Thompson Twins, David Bowie, Thomas Dolby)
04/17: ROBIN SEYMOUR, 94 (heart attack), old time radio actor (The Lone Ranger); 1960s/1970s Detroit music-themed TV/radio host
04/17: GENE SHAY, 85 (COVID-19), long-time Philadelphia folk music radio personality (WDAS/105.3 FM’ WMMR/93.3 FM; WIOQ/102.1 FM; WHYY/90.9 FM; WXPN/88.5 FM)
04/18: KAYE DOWD (BALD), 96 (undisclosed), 1940s ingénue film actress (An Angel Comes to Brooklyn; I Love a Mystery); widow of syndicated comic strip artist Ken Bald (Dr. Kildare; Dark Shadows)
04/18: PAUL O’NEILL, 84 (lung cancer), US Secretary of the Treasury (2001-2002/George W. Bush)
04/19 (body found): PETER BEARD, 82 (dementia-related disappearance, 03/31), wildlife photographer
04/19: STEVE DALKOWSKI, 80 (COVID-19; dementia), 1950s/1960s baseball pitcher (Baltimore Orioles minor league team); inspiration for Tim Robbins’ character Nuke LaLoosh, film Bull Durham
04/19: Judge NOACH DEAR, 66 (COVID-19), Brooklyn Supreme Court jurist; NYC city councilman (1983-2001)
04/19: TERRY DORAN, 8-(complications: Parkinson’s disease), British music manager (Apple Records acts Grapefruit; Mary Hopkin); one-time business partner of Beatles manager Brian Epstein; arguably reported inspiration for Beatles lyrics (A Day in the Life – holes/Albert Hall lyric; She’s Leaving Home – “man of the motor trade”)
04/19: ROBERT LOOMIS, 93 (complications: injuries sustained in a fall), Random House book editor (Maya Angelou; Calvin Trillin; Edmund Morris; Shelby Foote; Jim Lehrer; Neil Sheehan, William Styron)
04/19: IAN WHITCOMB, 79 (declining health since 2012 stroke), eccentric 1960s British-born singer/ukulelist (You Turn Me On); pop music historian (After the Ball)
04/20: MICHAEL COGSWELL, 66 (complications: bladder cancer), jazz archivist/historian; founding executive director, Queens NYC-based Louis Armstrong House Museum
04/20: TOM LESTER, 81 (complications: Parkinson's disease), actor (Green Acres, as Eb Dawson; Benji)
04/20: SIRIO MACCIONI, 88 (complications: dementia), Italian-born high-end NYC French restaurateur (Le Cirque)
04/21: JERRY BISHOP, 84 (heart disease; kidney failure), announcer (1960s/1970s Los Angeles morning drive radio; The Disney Channel; Judge Judy, since 1996)
04/21: MATTEO De COSMO, 52 (COVID-19), web TV series art director (Marvel Comics’ Luke Cage, The Punisher)
04/21: DIMITRI DIATCHENKO, 52 (complications: injuries sustained in electrical shock factory accident), actor (Sons of Anarchy; Chernobyl Diaries)
04/21: DONALD REED HERRING, 86 (COVID-19), eldest brother of stateswoman Senator Elizabeth Warren
04/21: JOEL ROGOSIN, 87 (COVID-19), TV producer (77 Sunset Strip; The Virginian; Ironside; The Blue Knight; Magnum P.I.; Knight Rider)
04/21: FLORIAN SCHNEIDER, 73 (cancer), German musician/co-founder, 1970s/1980s electronic music group Kraftwerk
04/21: BETSY JAMES WYETH, 98 (declining health), widow of/muse to painter Andrew Wyeth
04/22: MORT FALLICK, 86 (kidney failure), film/TV editor (Act One; Love at First Bite; Moonlighting)
04/22: TERENCE FRISBY, 87 (side effects of undiagnosed/unneeded bladder cancer treatments), British dramatist/farcicist (There’s a Girl in My Soup)
04/22: SHIRLEY KNIGHT, 83 (natural causes), film actress (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Sweet Bird of Youth; Dutchman; The Group; Petulia; The Rain People; Endless Love)
04/23: LEAH BERNSTEIN, 99 (COVID-19), executive secretary (director/producer Stanley Kramer, 28 films; animator Ralph Bakshi; talent manager Irving Fein)
04/23: CHEN LIANGTING, 91 (undisclosed), Chinese literary translator (Gone with the Wind; The Old Man and the Sea; The Chronicles of Narnia; The Maltese Falcon)
04/23: TERRY LENZNER, 80 (complications: pneumonia), attorney/scandal investigator (Watergate; Clinton/Lewinsky)
04/23: FREDRICK THOMAS, 35 (COVID-19), rap performer Fred the Godson
04/24: (HAMILTON) BOHANNON, 78 (undisclosed), 1970s disco/funk producer/recording artist; Motown touring percussionist (Diana Ross and the Supremes; Stevie Wonder; Marvin Gaye; The Four Tops)
04/24: RICHARD HAKE, 51 (natural causes), NYC-based NPR journalist/host/anchorman (Morning Edition from WNYC-AM/FM)
04/24: DEBORAH BYE KEAN, 76 (peacefully), First Lady of New Jersey (1982-1990); wife of former Governor Gov. Thomas Kean (R-NJ)
04/24: GRANDMA LEE, 85 (complications: fall/broken hip), stand-up comedienne (2009 contestant, TV talent showcase America’s Hot Talent)
04/24: HAROLD REID, 80 (kidney disease), bass singer/co-founder, vocal group The Statler Brothers (Flowers on the Wall; You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith, Too; Bed of Rose’s; Class of ’57; Do You Remember These?; Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?; The Movies; Elizabeth; More Than a Name on a Wall)
04/24: JUAN VLASCO, 51 (complications: appendicitis surgery), Mexican-born Marvel Comics inker (The Uncanny X-Men)
04/25: INDIA ADAMS, 94 (brief illness), 1950s Broadway actress (Can-Can; The Most Happy Fella; Brigadoon) MGM “ghost singer” (dubbed Cyd Charisse, The Band Wagon; Joan Crawford, Torch Song)
04/25: MADELINE KRIPKE, 87 (COVID-19), NYC-based dictionary/reference book collector (20,000+ volumes)
04/26: Dr. LORNA BREEN, 48 (PTSD derived suicide following COVID-19 recovery), medical director/administrator, New York Presbyterian Allen Hospital’s emergency department
04/26: BOB GARCIA, 82 (natural causes), 1970s/1980s record music executive (A&M Records: The Police; Squeeze; The Carpenters; Amy Grant; Joe Jackson; Joe Cocker)
04/26: PETER H. HUNT, 81 (Parkinson’s disease), director (Broadway: 1776, Good Time Charley; film: 1776; Give ‘Em Hell, Harry; TV: When Things Were Rotten, Touched by an Angel)
04/26: Rep. RON MARLENEE, 84 (lengthy illness), US Congressman (R-Montana/2nd District, 1977-1993)
04/26: RAYMOND REPP, 77 (complications: lymphoma, metastatic melanoma), 1960s/1970s contemporary Christian folk musician/publisher (Mass for Young Americans); "Father of the Guitar Mass”
04/27: CIS CORMAN, 93 (undisclosed), producer, Barbra Streisand films (The Prince of Tides; The Mirror Has Two Faces; Nuts); casting director (Death Wish; The Deer Hunter; Raging Bull; Heaven’s Gate; Eyes of Laura Mars; Once Upon a Time in America)
04/27: BERNARD GERSTEN, 97 (pancreatic cancer), NYC non-profit theatrical impresario (The New York Shakespeare Festival; The Public Theatre; Lincoln Center Theatre)
04/27: OBIE JESSIE/YOUNG JESSIE, 83 (undisclosed), 1950s R&B singer/songwriter (The Flairs; The Coasters – sang on Searchin'; Young Blood); brother of actor/singer DeWayne Jessie (aka, Otis Day)
04/27: ASHLEY ROSS, 34 (injuries sustained as victim of hit/run traffic collision), dwarf reality TV personality Ms. Minnie (Lifetime series Little Women: Atlanta)
04/27: TROY SNEED, 52 (COVID-19), gospel singer
04/28: JILL GASCOINE, 83 (complications; Alzheimer’s disease), British TV actress (The Gentle Touch; The Onedin Line); wife of British actor Alfred Molina
04/28: BOBBY LEWIS, 95 (undisclosed), early 1960s R&B singer (Tossin’ and Turnin’)
04/28: MARI WINSOR, 70 (complications: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), fitness/Pilates instructor to high-profile Hollywood personalities
04/29: BENNETT BENSON, 89 (heart and multiple organ failure), NYC steakhouse restaurateur (Smi9th & Wollensky; Ben Benson’s); 1960s singles bar marketer (first TGI Friday’s)
04/29: GALE HALDERMAN, 87 (liver cancer), automobile designer (the original Ford Mustang)
04/29: IRRFAN KHAN, 53 (colon infection), Indian-born film actor (Salaam Bombay!; Life of Pi; Slumdog Millionaire; Jurassic World)
04/29: JOHN LAFIA, 63 (suicide/hanging), screenwriter/director (Child’s Play horror series; Freddy’s Nightmares)
04/29: JI CHAOZHU, 90 (undisclosed), Chinese diplomat/interpreter (particularly for President Nixon’s 1972 trip to China)
04/29: MATTY SIMMONS, 93 (heart disease), co-founding publisher, National Lampoon; 1970s radio producer (The National Lampoon Radio Hour); comedy film producer (National Lampoon’s Animal House; National Lampoon’s Vacation series)
04/30: TONY ALLEN, 79 (ruptured aneurysm), Nigerian-born percussionist; 1970s Afrobeat innovator
04/30: RISHI KAPOOR, 67 (complications: bone marrow cancer), 1970s/1980s Indian film actor; scion, Kapoor family acting/film industry dynasty
04/30: MICHAEL KEENAN, 80 (natural causes), TV actor (Picket Fences, as Mayor Bill Pugen
04/30: SAM LLOYD, 56 (complications: lung cancer), TV sitcom actor (Scrubs, as Ted Buckland)
MAY 2020:
05/01: FRANCIS MEGAHY, 85 (cancer), British-born TV director (Lovejoy; Dempsey and Makepeace; Hammer House of Horror)
05/02: SAMUEL HORCHOW, 81 (cancer), Broadway producer (George Gershwin musical Crazy for You; Kiss Me, Kate revival; Curtains); luxury goods mail order entrepreneur
05/02: GIL SCHWARTZ/STANLEY BING, 68 (natural causes), CBS communications executive; humor columnist (Fortune; Esquire)
05/03: JOHN ERICSON, 93 (pneumonia), German-born actor (Honey West; 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; title role, Pretty Boy Floyd; Bad Day at Black Rock; Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
05/03: LEN FAGAN, 72 (COVID-19), Los Angeles rock music impresario (venue Coconut Teaszer; including early gigs for Guns ‘N’ Roses)
05/03: DAVE GREENFIELD, 71 (COVID-19 contracted while hospitalized for heart ailments), British keyboardist, 1970s/1980s punk band the Stranglers
05/04: MICHAEL McCLURE, 87 (complications: stroke), songwriter (co-writer, Mercedes Benz/Janis Joplin); San Francisco-based Beat Era poet/playwright
05/04: DON SHULA, 90 (undisclosed), 1950s NFL player (Cleveland Browns; Baltimore Colts); winningest NFL Coach (Baltimore Colts; Miami Dolphins) songwriter (co-writer, Mercedes-Benz/Janis Joplin)
05/05: HILLARD “SWEET PEA” ATKINSON, 74 (heart attack), singer, 1980s dance music group Was (Not Was) (Walk the Dinosaur)
circa 05/05: DAVID DENT, 97 (undisclosed), Scots-born 1950s British film producer (films featuring Peter Sellers; Diana Dors; Spike Milligan; Sid James; Petula Clark)
05/04: THOMAS REPPETTO, 88 (undisclosed), Chicago police detective turned crime and crime fighting historian (American Mafia; NYPD; Bringing Down the Mob; American Detective; Shadows over the White House; American Police, two volumes)
05/05: MILLIE SMALL, 73 (stroke), Jamaican-born British Invasion pop/ska singer (My Boy Lollipop)
05/06: BARRY FARBER, 90 + one day (natural causes), pioneering conservative NYC talk radio host (WINS/1010 AM; WOR/710 AM; WMCA/570 AM; ABC Radio Network); 1977 NYC Conservative Party mayoral candidatewalyers
05/06: STEVE HOWE, 66 (heart attack; complications; broken ribs injury), British singer/songwriter; lead vicalist, Ted Nugent’s band; 1980s Bad Company re-boot)
05/07: DANIEL CAUCHY, 90 (uCOVID-19), 1950s French film actor (Bob le flambeur/Bob the Gambler)
05/08: ANDRE HARRELL, 59 (heart failure), hop-hop impresario/producer/record label founder (Uptown Records); mentor to hip-hop performer Sean Combs
05/08: ROY HORN, 75 (COVID-19), German-born magician/illusionist,, large wild cat act Siegfried and Roy; one-time companion to performance partmer Siegfried Fischbacher
05/09: LITTLE RICHARD (PENNIMAN), 87 (bone cancer), 1950s early rock ‘n’ roll singer/songwriter/pianist (Tutti-Frutti; Long Tall Sally; Slippin’ and Slidin’; Rip It Up; Ready Teddy; The Girl Can’t Help It; Lucille; Jenny, Jenny; Keep a Knockin’; Good Golly, Miss Molly)
05/10: BETTY WRIGHT, 66 (cancer), early 1970s soul/R&B singer (Clean Up Woman)
05/10:: MARTIN PASKO, 65 (declining health), comic book writer (Justice League of America; Superman; Wonder Woman; Saga of the Swamp Thing); TV writer: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Roseanne); TV animation writer (Thundarr the Barbarian; G.I. Joe; Batman: The Animated Series/Mask of the Phantasm; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; My Little Pony; Bucky O’Hare)
05/11: JERRY STILLER, 92 (natural causes), comedian (comedy team Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara); TV sitcom actor (Joe and Sons; Seinfeld; The King of Queens); father of comedic actor/director Ben Stiller

2020 A-Z CROSS-REFERENCE:
JOY VALDERRAMA ABBOTT, 88, widow of Broadway theatrical impresario George Abbott, 02/08
DEREK ACORAH, 69, British paranormal-themed TV personality, 01/03
DIA ADAMS, 94, 1950s Broadway actress/ film “ghost singer,” 04/25
JOSEPH ADLER, 79, 1960s film director, 04/16
TONY ALLEN, 79, Nigerian-born percussionist, 04/30
CHARLES "CHUCK" ALVERSON, 84, US-born British screenwriting collaborator with Terry Gilliam, 01/19
BOB ANDERMAN, 59, popular culture journalist/radio personality Mr. Media, 02/24
BOB ANDY, 75, Jamaican-born British reggae singer, 03/27
ROMÁN ARÁMBULA, 83, Mexican-born comic strip artist, 03/19
SEAN ARNOLD, 79, British TV actor, 04/15
ANDREA ARRUTI, 21, Mexican Spanish language voice-over actress, 01/03
HILLARD “SWEET PEA” ATKINSON, 74, singer, Was (Not Was), 05/05
BRUCE BAILLIE, 88, avante-garde film director, 04/10
DEIRDRE BAIR, 84, literary biographer, 04/17
PHILIP “PIP” BAKER, 91, British TV screenwriter, 04/14
NINA BALDUCCI, 91, NYC greengrocer/gourmet food marketeer, 04/12
DICK BALDUZZI, 91, episodic TV actor, 01/27
LUCIEN BARBARIN, 63, jazz trombonist, 01/30
MAURICE BARRIER, 87, French comedic film actor, 04/12
BOBBIE BATTISTA, 67, CNN newscaster, 03/03
ORSON BEAN, 91, comedic actor; TV talk show/game show panelist/raconteur – pedestrian victim, double-auto traffic collision, 02/07
HAROLD BEANE, 73, 1960s/1970s R&B/funk guitarist, 02/01
PETER BEARD, 82, wildlife photographer, 04/19 (body found; disappearance, 03/31)
ROGER BEATTY, 87, TV comedy writer, 04/06
CHRISTOPHER BEENY, 78, British TV actor, 01/03
LEE PHILLIP BELL,, 91, TV serial producer/co-creator; broadcast journalist, 02/25
ALLEN BELLMAN, 96, 1940s comic book artist, 03/08
BETTY BENNETT (LOWE), 98, jazz/big band singer, 04/07
JULIE BENNETT, 88, cartoon voice actress, 03/31;
BENNETT BENSON, 89, NYC steakhouse restaurateur; 1960s singles bar marketer, 04/29
LEAH BERNSTEIN, 99, show business executive secretary, 04/23
OWEN BIEBER, 90, labour union leader, 02/16
JERRY BISHOP, 84, radio/TV/commercial announcer, 04/21
HONOR BLACKMAN, 94, British actress, 04/04
MARK BLUM, 69, 1980s film actor, 03/25
WILLIAM BOGERT, 83, TV/film actor, 01/12
(HAMILTON) BOHANNON, 78, 1970s disco/funk producer/recording artist/percussionist, 04/24
ROSCOE BORN, 69, TV soap opera actor – bipolar-derived suicide, 03/03
LUCIA BOSÈ, 89, 1950s/1960s Italian film actress, 03/23
PATRICIA BOSWORTH, 86, celebrity biographer, 04/02
GLADYS SACKSMAN BOURDAIN, 85, mother of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, 01/10
Dr. LORNA BREEN, 49, emergency department administrator – PTSD derived suicide following COVID-19 recovery, 04/26
LORENZO BRINO, 21, 1990s/2000s child TV actor – automobile collision, 03/09
BILL BRITTEN, 92, 1950s/1960s NYC children's show TV host/Bozo franchisee, 02/04
TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, OBE, 79, British comedy group performer, The Goodies, 04/12
TIMOTHY BROWN, 82, NFL player; actor, 04/04
GIANNA "GIGI" BRYANT, 13, daughter of NBA player Kobe Bryant – private helicopter crash, 01/26
KOBE BRYANT, 41, superstar NBA player – private helicopter crash, 01/26
MIKE BUCHANAN, 78, Washington DC broadcast journalist, 04/16
ZEV BUFFMAN, 81, Broadway producer, 04/01
JACK BURNS, 86, comedian/writer/sitcom actor/voice-over artist/TV producer/writer, 01/28
EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES, 87, 1950s/1960s actor/teen idol/novelty pop singer, 01/08
BUDDY CAGE, 73, pedal steel guitarist, rock group New Riders of the Purple Sage, 02/05
ZOE CALDWELL, 86, Australian-born Broadway actress, 02/16
JOHN CALLAHAN, 66, TV serial actor, 03/28
RAFAEL CANCEL MIRANDA, 89, Puerto Rican nationalist/terrorist/participant, 03/02
BIL CANFIELD, 99, NYC-area editorial/sports cartoonist, 01/30
FRIEDA RAPOPORT CAPLAN, 96, importer of exotic produce; christener of the kiwi fruit, 01/18
STEVE MARTIN CARO/STEVE MARTIN, 71, 1960s pop singer, The Left Banke, 01/14
PEARL CARR, 98, 1950s British pop singer, 02/16
STEVE CASH, 40, cat-themed YouTube personality – mental health derived suicide/gunshot, 04/16
DANIEL CAUCHY, 90, 1950s French film actor, 05/07
CC, 18, female tabby cat; first cloned pet, 03/03
JOHNI CERNY 77, genealogist/TV personality, 02/22
ANNE COX CHAMBERS, 100, media conglomerate scioness; daughter of James M. Cox (1920 Democratic presidential candidate), 01/31
JOEL CHASEMAN, 93, radio executive, NYC's first all-news radio format (1965), 01/10
CHEN LIANGTING, 91, Chinese literary translator, 04/23
MARY HIGGINS CLARK, 92, best-selling author, 01/31
ROBERT COBERT, 95, TV compose/game show theme song writer, 02/19
Sen. TOM COBURN, 72, US congressman/US Senator (R-Oklahoma, collectively 1985-2015), 03/28
RUSS COCHRAN, 82, EC Comics historian/publisher, 02/23
MICHAEL COGSWELL, 66, jazz archivist/historian (Louis Armstrong House Museum), 04/20
RAPHAËL COLEMAN, 25, British child actor turned climate activist, 02/06
DAVID COLLINGS, 79, British screen/radio actor, 03/23
FORREST COMPTON, 94, TV actor, 04/04
BOBBY COMSTOCK, 79, 1950s/1960s rock singer, Bobby Comstock and the Counts, 01/09
CAMILA MARÍA CONCEPCIÓN, 28, screenwriter; Latina transgendered rights activist – suicide, 02/21
ROBERT CONRAD, 84, TV actor, 02/08
ALFIO CONTINI, 92, Italian cinematographer for Michelangelo Antonioni, 03/23
KEVIN CONWAY, 77, actor, 02/05
EDDIE COOLEY, 87, 1950s R&B singer/songwriter, 04/15 (87th birthday)
BEN COOPER, 86, western TV/film actor, 02/24
ANTON COPPOLA, 102, operatic conductor/composer; uncle of Francis Ford Coppola, 03/09
CIS CORMAN, 93, producer, Barbra Streisand films; casting director, 04/27
CRISTINA (Cristina Monet-Palaci), 61, early 1980s New Wave singer, 03/31
JOE COULOMBE, 89, founder of Trader Joe’s supermarkets, 02/28
MART CROWLEY, 84, LGBT-themed dramatist/screenwriter, 03/07
DAVID CRUZ, 51, pre-fame boyfriend of Jennifer Lopez, 03/21
FRANCES CUKA, 83, British actress, 02/16
CLIVE CUSSLER, 88, best-selling adventure-themed novelist, 02/24
NICOLA “NICK” CUTI, 75, comic book artist/animator, 02/21
STEVE DALKOWSKI, 80, minor leagu baseball pitcher; inspiration for Bull Durham film character, 04/19
FAITH DANE (CRANNITCH), 96, “Gypsy” actress, circa 04/09:
CHRIS DARROW, 75, country rock singer/musician, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 01/16
ALLEN DAVIAU, 77, cinematographer for directors Steven Spielberg and Barry Levinson, 04/15
Judge JOHN G. DAVIES, 90, Australian-born US Federal jurist; Australian team Olympic swimmer, 03/24
EDITH KUNHARDT DAVIS, 82, child inspiration for children's book Pat the Bunny, 01/02
JASON DAVIS, 35, actor/voice-over artist; grandson of oil industry/studio executive Marvin Davis –fentanyl overdose 02/16
ARCH DEAL, 88, Tampa TV news anchorman – choking on food; similar to daughter Karen Deal (Mrs. Marty) Balin's 2010 death, 03/13
Judge NOACH DEAR, 66, Brooklyn jurist; 1980s/1990s NYC city councilman, 04/19
MATTEO De COSMO, 52, Marvel Comics-connected web TV series art director, 04/21
GENE DEITCH, 95, US ex-patriate, Czech-based animator, 04/15
SUZY DELAIR, 102, French comedic film actress, 03/16
BRIAN DENNEHY, 81, character actor, 04/15
DAVID DENT, 97, Scots-born 1950s British film producer, circa 05/05
TOMIE dePAOLA, 85, children’s author/illustrator, 03/30
DIMITRI DIATCHENKO, 52, actor -- complications: injuries from electrical shock accident, 04/21
JOE DIFFIE, 61, 1990s country singer, 03/29
THÉRÈSE TANGUAY "MAMAN" DION, 92, mother of Canadian-born singer Céline Dion, 01/17
CARL DOBKINS JR, 79, 1950s pop singer, 04/08
TERRY DORAN, 83/84, Beatles-connected British music manager, 04/19
JÖRN DONNER, 86, Finnish-born Swedish director.auteur Ingmar Bergman, 01/30
KIRK DOUGLAS, 103, actor; father of actor Michael Douglas, 02/05
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, 86, Canadian-born film actress; mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland, 04/05
KAYE DOWD (BALD), 96, 1940s ingénue actress; widow of syndicated comic strip artist Ken Bald. 04/18
BERNHARD DRIEST, 79, German actor for directors/auteurs Werner Herzog zndRainer Werner Fassbinder, 02/28
SHELDON DROBNY, 74, investor/co-founder, Air America political talk radio network, 01/24
MORT DRUCKER, 81, MAD Magazine comics artist/caricaturist, 04/09
JAMES DRURY, 85, actor, 04/06
JA’NET DuBOIS, 74, 1970sTV sitcom actress; theme-song singer/co-writer, 02/18
Judge KEVIN DUFFY, 87, US District Judge (1993 WTC terrorist bombing), 04/01
WILLIAM DUFRIS, 62, voice-over actor, 03/24
FOTIS DULOS, 52, suspect in Connecticut death of wife Jennifer Dulos – suicide/carbon monoxide asphyxiation, 01/30
MARJ DUSAY, 83, prolific TV soap opera actress, 01/28
GENE DYNARSKI, 86, TV/film character actor, 02/27
FREEMAN DYSON, FRS, 96, British-born physicist/mathematician 02/28
IRA EINHORN, 79; convicted murderer; fugitive from justice, 04/03
PAUL ENGLISH, 87, long-time drummer for Willie Nelson, 02/12
JOHN ERICSON, 93, German-born actor, 05/03
LYNN EVANS (MAND), 95, lead singer, 1950s vocal group The Chordettes, 02/06
JEANNE EVERT (DUBIN), 62, tennis player; sister of Chris Evert, 02/21
LEN FAGAN, 72, Los Angeles rock music live venue impresario, 05/03
MORT FALLICK, 86, film/TV editor, 04/22
BARRY FARBER, 90 + one day, pioneering NYC talk radio host, 05/06
ED FARMER, 70, MLB relief pitcher/sportscaster, 04/01
STEVE FARMER, 71, guitarist, 1960s psychedelic group The Amboy Dukes, 04/07
F.X. FEENEY, 66, film critic/historian/theoretician/author/screenwriter, 02/05
ANDREW J. FENADY, 91, TV/film producer, 04/16
LEE FIERRO, 91, Jaws actress, 04/05 -
PAT FINCH (PORTERFIELD), 93, 1950s/1960s Broadway actress; first contestant on What’s My Line?, 04/05
HOWARD FINKEL, 69, wrestling announcer, 04/16
Rep. MIKE FITZPATRICK, 56, US Congressman (R-PA/8th, split term 2005-2017), 01/06
CAROLINE FLACK, 40, British TV host – suicide, 02/15
MERWIN FOARD, 59, Broadway musical actor, 03/09
NICK APOLLO FORTE, 81, lounge singer/actor, 02/26
DEREK FOWLDS, 82, British TV actor, 01/17
HARRIET FRANK (JR), 96, screenwriter, 01/28
JOHN “SONNY” FRANZESE, 103, NYC mobster, 02/24
GERALD FREEDMAN, 92, 1960s/1970s Shakespearean theatrical director/artistic director, 03/17
TERENCE FRISBY, 87, British dramatist/farcicist, 04/22
WOLFGANG FUCHS, 74, German translator/historian of American comics, 01/20
ZOE GAIL, 100, South African-born WWII-era singer, 02/20 (her 100th birthday)
BOB GARCIA, 82, record music executive, 04/26
ALLEN GARFIELD/ALLEN GOORWITZ, 80, film character actor, 04/07
LILA GARRETT, 94, radical Los Angeles radio personality; 1960s/1970s sitcom writer, 02/01
JILL GASCOINE, 83, British TV actress;; wife of actor Alfred Molina, 04/28
HENRY GELLER, 96, FCC anti-cigarette advertising attorney, 04/07
BERNARD GERSTEN, 97, NYC non-profit theatrical impresario, 04/27
CRAIG GILBERT, 94, TV documentarian, 04/10
ANDY GILL, 64, British punk guitarist, Gang of Four, 02/01
JUAN GIMÉNEZ, 76, Argentine comic book/fantasy artiist, 04/02
Bishop GERALD GLENN, 70, pastor who openly defied COVID-19 social gathering strictures, 04/13
HARRIET GLICKMAN, 93; schoolteacher who inspired Peanuts’ character Franklin 03/27
DANNY GOLDMAN, 80, TV/cartoon voice-over actor, 04/12
WENDELL GOLER, 70, Fox News broadcast journalist, 03/03
GLENNA MAXEY GOODACRE, 80, sculptor; numismatics designer, 04/13
Dr. JAMES T. GOODRICH, 73, neurosurgeon/conjoined twin separation specialist, 03/30
JACK GORDON, 90, MGM executive; son of songwriter Mack Gordon, 02/16
JOYCE GORDON, 90, NYC-based actress/union official , 02/28
NICK GORDON, 30. scandal-connected boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown – overdose, 01/01
STUART GORDON, 72, horror/fantasy film director/screenwriter, 03/24
VICTOR GORELICK, 78, editor/executive, Archie Comics, 02/08
MARTY GREBB, 74, keyboardist, The Buckinghams – suspected suicide, 01/02
DAVE GREENFIELD, 71, British keyboardist, 1970s/1980s punk band the Stranglers, 05/03
BILL GREENWOOD, 77, ABC News broadcast journalist, 01/19
MAGGIE GRIFFIN, 99, mother/TV co-star of Kathy Griffin, 03/17
MARY GRIFFITH, 85, LBTQ activist; TV-movie subject, 02/07
NINA GRISCOM, 65, NYC-based fashion industry socialite, 01/25
SALVATORE "SONNY" GROSSO, 89, NYPD detective; crime-themed film producer/actor, 01/22
HARRY HAINS, 27; Australian-born actor; son of actress Jane Badler – suicide, 01/07
RICHARD HAKE, 51 NPR journalist/host/anchorman, 04/24
GALE HALDERMAN, 87, Ford Mustang designer, 04/29
WYNN HANDMAN, 97, NYC theatrical impresario/acting teacher, 04/11
TERRY HANDS, 79, British-born Broadway theatrical director/producer/artistic director, 02/04
Rep. RICHARD HANNA, 60, US Congressman (R-New York state, 2011-2017);, 03/15
ROBERT HARPER, 68, TV actor, 01/23
ANDRE HARRELL, 59, hop-hop impresario/producer/record label founder, 05/08
ALAN HARRIS, 81, 1980s British Star Wars actor, 01/31
HARRY HARRISON, 89, long-time NYC morning Top 40/Oldies radio host, 01/28
MARGOT HARTMAN (TENNEY), 86, 1960s horror/science-fiction film actress, 04/11
ALEX HARVEY, 73, songwriter; actor, 04/04
Dr. AMIE HARWICK, 38, one-time fiancée of Drew Carey – fall from a balcony caused by blunt force trauma/domestic violence, 02/15
HILLARY HEATH, 74, British cult movie actress, 03/31
JIMMY HEATH, 93, jazz saxophonist, The Heath Brothers, 01/19
VIC HENLEY, 57, stand-up comedian, 04/06
BUCK HENRY, 89, comedic screenwriter/actor/sitcom creator, 01/08
DONALD REED HERRING, 86, eldest brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren, 04/21
MICHAEL HERTZ, 87, designer, NYC subway map, 02/18
CHRISTOPHER "KIT" HOOD, 76, British-born Canadian TV director/producer, 01/20
SAMUEL HORCHOW, 91, George Gershwin-obsessed Broadway producer, 05/02
ROY HORN, 75, German-born magician/illusionist, Siegfried and Roy, 05/08
SILVIO HORTA, 45, TV screenwriter/Ugly Betty show adapter – suicide/gunshot, 01/07
A.E. HOTCHNER, 102, novelist/memoirist/biographer/TV screenwriter/entrepreneur/philanthropist, 02/15
Rep. AMORY "AMO" HOUGHTON JR, 93, glass industry executive; US Congressman (R-NY, 1987-2005), 03/04
JAN HOWARD, 91, country singer, 03/28
STEVE HOWE, 66, British superband singer/songwriter, 05/06
NEXHMIJE HOXHA, 99, widow/co-conspirator of Albanian Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, 02/26
“MAD” MIKE HUGHES, 64, daredevil/TV personality – homemade rocket crash, 02/22
PETER H. HUNT, 81, stage/screen director best known for 1776, 04/26
ELAINE HYMAN, 85, old time radio actress, 03/??
ED INGLES, 87, NYC radio sportscaster, 03/07
IRENE HIRANO INOUYE, 71, cultural/philanthropic leader; widow of Senator Daniel Inouye, 04/07
ANDREW JACK, 76 (COVID-19), British film actor/dialect coach, 03/31
BASHAR JACKSON, 20, rap performer Pop Smoke – gun violence/home invasion, 02/19
JOYCE REVENSON JAFFEE, 88, wife of MAD Magazine artist Al Jaffee, 01/30
LUCY JARVIS, 102, TV documentary producer, 01/26
OBIE JESSIE/YOUNG JESSIE 83, 1950s R&B singer/songwriter, 04/27
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JI CHAOZHU, 90, Chinese diplomat/interpreter for President Nixon’s 1972 trip to China, 04/29
J. (JOHN) SEWARD JOHNSON II, 89, sculptor; heir, Johnson + Johnson pharmaceuticals, 03/10
KATHERINE JOHNSON, 101, Hidden Figures African-American female NASA mathematician, 02/24
ROCKY JOHNSON, 75, Canadian-born wrestler; father of wrestler/actor Dwayne Johnson, 01/15
TERRY JONES, 77, Welsh-born comedic actor/director/screenwriter/co-founder, British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, 01/22
PATRICK JORDAN, 96, British Star Wars actor, circa 02/09
STEPHEN JAMES JOYCE, 87, Parisian-born Irish grandson of/literary executor for James Joyce, 01/23
ROGER KAHN, 92, baseball-themed sports journalist/author, 02/06
AL KALINE, 85, MLB outfielder, 04/06
RISHI KAPOOR, 67, 1970s/1980s Indian film actor, 04/30
JOHN KARLEN, 86, TV actor, 01/22
HISASHI KATSUTA, 92, Japanese anime voice actor, 02/21
DONNA KAUFFMAN, 60, romance novelist, 04/0
DEBORAH BYE KEAN, 76, 1980s First Lady of New Jersey, 01/14
MICHAEL KEENAN, 80, TV actor, 04/30
PAULA KELLY, 76, actress/dancer, 02/09
SUSAN KESLER, 60, TV editor; TV historian/autho/automobile collector, 03/19
IRRFAN KHAN, 53, Indian-born film actor, 04/29
GARY B. KIBBE, 79, cinematographer for director John Carpenter, 03/12
JAMES KING, 49, reality TV subject, 04/03
STAN KIRSCH, 51, TV actor – suicide/hanging, 01/11
RICHARD S. KLINE, 79, TV game/talk show producer/director, 03/21
SHIRLEY KNIGHT, 83, film actress, 04/22
JENS NYGAARD KNUDSEN, 78, Danish designer/creator, LEGO’s mini-figures, 02/19
FREDERICK KOCH, 86, co-founder, Koch Industries; philanthropist/political contributor, 02/12
LEE KONITZ, 92, jazz saxophonist, 04/15
IVAN KRÁL, 71, Czech-born musician/songwriter for Patti Smith, 02/02
MARSHA KRAMER, 74, TV actress, 01/24
STEVE KREINBERG, 73, TV sitcom writer/producer, 03/30
MADELINE KRIPKE, 87, dictionary/reference book collector, 04/25
EGIL "BUD" KROGH JR, 80, Watergate scandal figure, 01/18
JOHN LAFIA, 63, horror screenwriter/director – suicide/hanging, 04/29
PAUL LAMBERT, 61, British TV political journalist – suicide, 04/08
NEIL LANDON, 78, 1960s British singer/songwriter, 03/26
EDDIE LARGE, 78, Scots-born British TV comedian, 04/02
DON LARSEN, 90, MLB pitcher best known for 1956 World Series perfect game, 01/01
GRANDMA LEE, 85, stand-up comedienne/reality TV show contestant, 04/24
JIM LEHRER, 85, PBS broadcast journalist/news anchor, 01/23
TERRY LENZNER, 80, attorney/scandal investigator, 04/23
TOM LESTER, 81, actor, 04/20
BOBBY LEWIS, 95, 1960s R&B singer, 04/28
WILLIAM “BUZZY” LINHART, 76, folksinger/songwriter, 02/13
MARGO LION. 76, Broadway producer, 01/24
JAMES LIPTON, 93, old time radio actor; TV soap opera/TV special writer producer; acting instructor; TV host, 03/02
LITTLE RICHARD (PENNIMAN), 87, 1950s early rock ‘n’ roll singer/songwriter/pianist, 05/09
SAM LLOYD, 56, TV sitcom actor, 04/30
GENE LONDON, 88, Philadelphia children's TV show host-turned-dress designer, 01/19
ROBERT LOOMIS, 93 (undisclosed), Random House book editor (Maya Angelou; Calvin Trillin; Edmund Morris; Shelby Foote; Jim Lehrer; Neil Sheehan, William Styron), 04/1
Rev. JOSEPH LOWERY, 98, 1960s MLK-associated civil rights activist; co-founder, 03/27
PHYLLIS LYON, 95, early LGBT/feminist activist, 04/09
SIRIO MACCIONI, 88, Italian-born NYC restaurateur, 04/20
BONNIE MACLEAN, 80, 1960s psychedlic rock concert poster artist, 02/04
MATTY MAHER, 80 , Irish-born owner/proprietor, NYC tavern McSorley's, 01/11
LORING MANDEL, 91, dramatist; screenwriter, 03/24
NICK MARINELLO, 82, New Orleans TV sportscaster; convicted murderer/wife killer, 02/21
LISEL MUELLER, 96, German-born, Pulitzer Price-winning poet, 02/21
ROBERT "BOB" MARKELL, 95, 1960s TV producer, 01/25
Rep. RON MARLENEE, 84, US Congressman (R-Montana, 1977-1993), 04/26
ELLIS MARSALIS JR., 85, jazz pianist; father of Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis, 04/01
BARBARA MARTIN, 76, singer, pre-fame The Supremes, 03/04
BILL MARTIN, 81, Scots-born British songwriter, 03/26
DANIEL LEE MARTIN, 54, 2000s country singer; accused child abuser – suicide/gunshot, 02/15
ANDREW MARZELLO, 69, actor; voice-over actor, 03/31
ASHLEY MATTINGLY, 33, model/Playboy Playmate – suicide, 04/15,
BRIAN MAYGER, 73, bassist, 1970s British rock group Chicory Tip, 01/14
ALICE MAYHEW, 87, editor noted for political/historical works, 02/04
LYLE MAYS, 66, jazz keyboardist, the Pat Metheny Group, 02/10
MICHAEL McCARTHY, 61, 1980s SNL writer/Second City performer, 04/08
MICHAEL McCLURE, 87, songwriter for Janis Joplin); Beat Era poet/playwright, 05/04
GIDEON McKEAN, 8, great-grandson of RFK – accidental drowning with mother Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 04/02
MAEVE KENNEDY TOWNSEND McKEAN, 41, granddaughter of RFK – accidental drowning with 8 year-old son Gideon, 04/02
RON McLARTY, 72, TV actor/audio-book narrator, 02/08
FRANK McLAUGHLIN, 84 (undisclosed), comic strip/comic book artist, 03/04
TERRENCE McNALLY, 81, Broadway dramatist; librettist, 03/24
MICHAEL MEDWIN, 96, British actor, 02/26
FRANCIS MEGAHY, 85, British-born TV director, 05/01
LUIS ALFONSO MENDOZA, 55, Mexican voice dubbing actor for Latin American markets -– gun violence, 02/29
MARIA MERCADER, 54, CBS News broadcast journalist/producer, f03/29
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ALAN MERRILL, 69, singer/musician/songwriter, 03/29
NORMA MICHAELS, 95, TV character actress, 01/11
MICHOU (né Michel Catty), 88, French cabaret/drag performer/club owner/impresario, 01/26
THOMAS L. MILLER, 79, TV sitcom producer, 04/05
VICTOR MILLROSE, 84/85, 1960s songwriter, circa 03/23 (no official obituary has been issued as of 05/11/2020)
JANE MILMORE, 64, 1990s sitcom writer/producer; stage farcicist, 02/04
PETER MINER, 89, 1930s Broadway juvenile actor; 1970s TV serial director/producer, 03/26
DANIEL arap MOI, 95, President of Kenya (1978–2002), 02/04
Viscount DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY, 91, son of British Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 01/08
“BABY” PEGGY MONTGOMERY/DIANA SERRA CARY, 101, silent film child actress, 02/24
OLAN MONTGOMERY, 56, web series actor, 04/04
SYLVIA JUKES MORRIS, 84, British-born biographer, 01/05
Sir STIRLING MOSS, OBE, 90, British auto-racing driver, 04/12
HOSNI MUBAREK, 91, President of Egypt (1981-2011), 02/25
LISEL MUELLER, 96, German=born, Pulitzer Price-winning poet, 02/21
KELLYE NAKAHARA (WALLETT), 72, 1970s/1980s actress, 02/16
BOB NAVE, 75, keyboardist, 1960s pop group The Lemon Pipers, 01/28
FRED “CURLY” NEAL, 77, basketball player, 03/26
MERITXELL NEGRE, 48, Catalan/Spanish replacement singer, R&B singing act Peaches & Herb, 01/21
CLAUDETTE NEVINS, 82, TV actress, 02/20
NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI, 82, Japanese film director, 04/10
CHARLES "CHUCKIE" O'BRIEN, 86, James Hoffa associate depicted in film The Irishman, 02/13
GEORGE OGILVIE, 89, Australian film director, 04/05
LAN O'KUN, 87, TV writer; collaborator/brother-in-law of ventriloquist Shari Lewis, 01/09
DAVID OLNEY, 71, singer/songwriter – heart attack while performing on-stage, 01/18
KEITH OLSEN, 74, 1970s/1980s superstar music producer, 03/09
PAUL O’NEILL, 84. US Secretary of the Treasury (2001-2002), 04/18
JIM OWEN, 78, country music singer /songwriter, 03/07
SETSUKO PAGLIA, 84, Japanese-born mother of 1990s fitness personality Denise Paglia-Cole, 03/07
ROBERT PARKER, 89, 1960s singer/songwriter, 01/19
NICHOLAS PARSONS, 96, British radio/TV host/comedic actor, 01/28
MARTIN PASKO, 65, comic book/TV/animation writer, 05/10
IVAN PASSER, 86, Czech-born film director/auteur, 01/09
ALAN PATTILLO, 90, British TV animation director for Gerry Anderson, 01/16
DAVID PAUL, 62, 1980s/1990s bodybuilder/actor, 03/06
NEIL PEART, 67, drummer, Canadian rock band Rush, 01/07
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, 86, Polish avante-garde film-adapted composer for film, 03/29
JAVIER PÉREZ de CUÉLLAR, 100, Peruvian-born 1980s United Nations Secretary General, 03/04
BOB PETTY, 79, Chicago TV broadcast journalist/anchorman, 02/18
PHIL PHILLIPS (né Bapti, 94, 1950s pop singer, 03/14 (94th birthday)
JOHN “BUCKY” PIZZARELLI, 94, jazz/big band guitarist, 04/01
RUTH LITCHULT PIZZARELLI, 89, widow of jazz guitarist John “Bucky” Pizzarelli, 04/08EARL EARL POMERANTZ, 75, Canadian-born TV sitcom writer, 03/17
CHARLES PORTIS, 86, reclusive novelist, 02/17
LOVELADY POWELL, 89, cabaret performer/actress, 02/02
JOHN PRINE, 73, country/folk singer/songwriter/musician, 04/07
Rep. THOMAS RAILSBACK, 87, US Congressman (R-Illinois, 1967-83) who backed 1974 President Nixon impeachment, 01/20
STEVE RAVITZ, 73, southern NJ supermarket entrepreneur/philanthropist, 04/07
BILL RAY, 83, 1960s LIFE Magazine photographer, 01/09
LEONARD NIPPER” READ, 95, British Scotland Yard detective, 94/07
THOMAS REPPETTO, 88, Chicago police detective turned crime and crime fighting historian, 05/05
JOEL M. REED, 86, cult horror film director/screenwriter, 04/12
RICHARD REEVES, 83, political author/columnist/historian, 03/25
HAROLD REID, 80, bass singer, The Statler Brothers, 04/24
BARBARA REMINGTON, 90, paperback cover illustrator for works by J.R.R. Tolkien, 01/23
RAYMOND REPP, 77, 1960s/1970s Christian folk musician/publisher; "Father of the Guitar Mass," 04/26
THOMAS REPPETTO, 88, Chicago police detective turned crime and crime fighting historian, 05/05
MIKE RESNICK, 77, science fiction author/editor, 01/09
GENE REYNOLDS, 96, TV director/producer/writer, 02/03
DAVID ROBACK, 61, guitarist/singer/songwriter, Mazzy Star, 02/25
CHYNNA ROGERS, 25, rap performer, 04/08
KENNY ROGERS, 81, singer/musician/songwriter; actor; fast food entrepreneur, 03/20
JOEL ROGOSIN, 87, TV producer, 04/21
ASHLEY ROSS, 34, dwarf reality TV personality, 04/2
ROBERT SAMPSON, 86, TV actor, 01/18
MILTON SCHAFER, 99, Broadway composer, 04/12
ADAM SCHLESINGER, 52, singer/musician/co-founder, Fountains of Wayne, 04/01
FLORIAN SCHNEIDER, 73, German musician/co-founder, 1970s/1980s electronic music group Kraftwerk, circa 04/21
DAVID SCHRAMM, 73, TV sitcom actor, 03/28
GERARD SCHURMANN, 96, Dutch/Javanese-born British film composer, 03/24
GIL SCHWARTZ/STANLEY BING, 68, CBS executive; humor columnist, 05/02
ESTHER SCOTT, 66, actress, 02/14
MATTHEW SELIGMAN, 64, 1970s/1980s British New Wave bassist, 04/17
CAROL KRAMER SERLING, 81, widow of author/screenwriter/TV personality Rod Serling, 01/13
ROBIN SEYMOUR, 94, 1960s/1970s Detroit music-themed TV/radio host, 04/17
Dr. JOSEPH SHABALALA, 78 (lengthy illness), Zulu-born founder, South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, 02/11
BOB SHANE, 85, folk singer/guitarist, The Kingston Trio, 01/26
MAL SHARPE, 83, San Francisco-area radio/TV personality, 03/10
GENE SHAY, 85, Philadelphia folk music radio personality, 04/17
KEN SHIMURA, 70, Japanese comedian/TV personality, 03/27
JOE SHISHIDO, 86, prolific Japanese yakuza actor, 01/20
DON SHULA, 90, NFL player, coach, 05/04
FRED SILVERMAN, 82, TV programming executive for all three major 1970s TV networks, 01/30
MATTY SIMMONS, 93, humour magazine publisher/film producer, 04/29
JERRY SLICK, 80, drummer; first husband of rock singer Grace Slick, 03/17
MILLIE SMALL, 73, Jamaican-born British Invasion pop/ska singer, 05/05
B./BARBARA SMITH, 70, restaurateur/model/TV personality, 02/22
TROY SNEED, 52, gospel singer, 04/27
QASEM SOLEIMANI, 62. Iranian killer/terrorist – killed in US airstrike in Iraq, 01/03
VOLKER SPENGLER, 80, German actor for director/auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 02/08
SEYMOUR “SY” SPERLING, 78, founder/president/TV pitchman, Hair Club for Men, 02/20
Rep. FORTNEY "PETE" STARK, 88, first openly atheist US Congressman (D-California, 1973-2013), 01/24
ORLANDO STATON, 61, drummer, NJ cult rock band The Fabulous Flemtones, 03/20
HENRY GEORGE “HANK’ STEINBRENNER III, 63, MLB franchise co-owner, 04/14
DAVID STERN, 77, NBA Commissioner (1974-2014), 01/01
JERRY STILLER, 92, comedian; TV sitcom actor, 05/11
DANIEL STRATTON USN, 97, USS Arizona Pearl Harbor sailor, 02/15
ARLENE STRINGER-CUEVAS, 86, mother of NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, 04/03
ANN SULLIVAN, 91,; Disney animatrix, 04/13
MARTY SULLIVAN, 87, Cleveland TV personality Superhost. 02/21
LARRY TESLER, 74, computer scientist/inventor of “cut-and-paste” function, 02/16
FREDRICK THOMAS, 35, rap performer Fred the Godson, 04/23
DYANNE THORNE, 83, 1970s cult/exploitation film actress, 01/28
OLOF THUNBERG, 94, Swedish actor; grandfather of environmental activist Greta Thunberg, 02/24
ELIOT TIEGEL, 84, music journalist/author, 04/07
ANN E. TODD, 88, 1940s juvenile actress, 02/07
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN, 95, British academic; son of author J.R.R. Tolkien, 01/16
GHYSLAIN TREMBLAY, 68, Québécois French-Canadian TV actor, 04/07
LINDA TRIPP, 70, player/whistleblower, President Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, 04/08
SAUL TURTLETAUB, 87, TV comedy writer/producer, 04/09
McCOY TYNER, 81, jazz pianist/virtuoso, 03/06
ALBERT UDERZO, 92, Italo-French co-creator, Asterix comic strip, 03/24
Dr. JACK VAN IMPE, 88, televangelist/eschatologist, 01/18
MONIQUE van VOOREN, 92, Belgian-born actress, 01/28
JUAN VLASCO, 51, Mexican-born comic book inker, 04/24
MAX VON SYDOW, 90, Swedish-born actor, 03/08
LYLE WAGGONER, 84, TV actor, 03/17
NIKITA PEARL WALIGWA, 15, Ugandan-born latter-day Disney movie child actress, 02/15
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER III, 88, businessman; cousin to both Presidents Bush, 01/18
GILES WALKER, 74, Scots-born Canadian film director/documentarian, 03/23
ROSALIND P. WALTER, 95, claimant to be the inspiration for the song Rosie, the Riveter, 03/04
DELROY WASHINGTON, 67, Jamaican-born British Bob Marley-associated reggae singer, 03/27
TOM WATKINS, 70, 1980s/1990s British music act manager, (Pet Shop Boys), 02/24
JIMMY WEBB, 62, NYC punk-era countercultural clothing designer/purveyor, 04/14
STEVE WEBER 76, musician/singer, The Holy Modal Rounders, 02/07
ERIC WEISSBERG, 80, Dueling Banjos instrumentalist, 03/22
JACK WELCH, 84, 1980s/1990s CEO, General Electric, 03/01
Dr. DONALD WEST, 95 British criminologist/psychiatrist/author, 01/31
CHERYL WHEELER-DIXON (SANDERS), 59, film stuntwoman – victim of gun violence, with husband, 02/12
IAN WHITCOMB, 79, eccentric 1960s British singer/ukulelist, 04/19
STUART WHITMAN, 92, film character actor, 03/16
CLAYTON WILLIAMS, 88, Texas oil executive; 1990 Republican gubernatorial candidate, 02/14
LOGAN WILLIAMS, 16, Canadian-born TV actor, 04/02
HAL WILLNER, 64, music/TV comedy sketch producer, 04/07
WES WILSON, 82, 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster artist, 01/24
MARI WINSOR, 70, showbiz industry fitness/Pilates instructor, 04/28
DAVID WISE, 65, TV animation scriptwriter, 03/03
BILL WITHERS, 81, R&B singer, 03/30
WILLIAM WOLF, 94, theatre/film critic/one-time president, Drama Desk, 03/28
LINDA WOLFE, 87, investigative journalist/author, 02/22
CHARLES WOOD, 87, British Beatles-connected screenwriter, 02/01
ALFRED "AL" WORDEN, 84, Apollo XV astronaut, 03/17
BETTY WRIGHT, 66wright
, early 1970s soul/R&B singer, 05/10
ELIZABETH WURTZEL, 52, depression-themed memoirist, 01/07
BETSY JAMES WYETh, 98, widow of painter Andrew Wyeth, 04/21
BORIS YARO, 81, RFK photojournalist, 03/18
KENNY YOUNG, 79, Israeli-born expatriate American/British-based 1960s songwriter, 04/14 (79th birthday)
JOHNNY YUNE, 83, South Korean-born comedic actor, 03/08
BARRY ZeVAN, 82, 1970s/1980s Minneapolis TV meteorologist, 01/01