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That Derek's "Showbituaries" -- January 2018
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That Derek
Feb 6, 2018, 3:54:49 PM2/6/18
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This monthly necrology reflects the post-er’s interests which skewer toward UK/US popular culture; history and politics; literature; and the New Jersey/New York City area. It’s low on sports. Many of the names on this list will be expunged should it be incorporated into an end-of-the-year 2018 Necrology.
MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORTHAND TERMS used in this list:
age = age related illnesses; ALS = amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease); AZD = Alzheimer’s disease; brief – brief/short/sudden illness; C = cancer; c’s = complications; CHF = congestive heart failure; DH = declining health; EM = emphysema; fall = injuries sustained in a fall; flu = influenza; H = heart; HA = heart attack/cardiac arrest; HF = heart failure; lengthy = lengthy/long illness; LK = leukemia; NC = natural causes; OD = overdose; PD = Parkinson’s disease; PN = pneumonia; SK = stroke; SU = suicide; UD = undisclosed/unavailable
SELECTED OTHER ABBREVIATIONS and SHORTHAND TERMS used in this list:
AA = Academy Award/Oscar; AL = Alabama; CA = California; CT = Connecticut; D = Democrat; DC = Washington, DC/District of Columbia; EVS = [Belgian manufacturer, video production equipment]; exec = executive; FR = French/France; GA = Georgia: ID = Idaho; JFK = President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; MA = Massachusetts; MD = Maryland; MLB – Major League Baseball; MLK = Doctor Martin Luther King Junior NBA- National Basketball Association; NJ = New Jersey; OH = Ohio; OR = Oregon; Rep. = Representative/Congressman/Congresswoman; Sen. = Senator; TX = Texas; UK = United Kingdom/Great Britain/British; WA – Washington state
JANUARY 2018
01/01: JON PAUL STEUER, 33 (suspected H failure), 1990s child TV actor (“Grace under Fire”; “Star Trek: The Next Generation” as Worf’s son); Portland OR punk musician/vegan restaurateur
01/01: MARK TENSER, 87 (UD), CEO, Crown International Pictures, specialist in “teensploitation” films (“The Pom Pom Girls”; “The Van”; “My Tutor”; “Van Nuys Blvd.”)
01/01: WOLFGANG TREU, 87 (UD), prolific German cinematographer (“Das Boot”)
01/01: BETTY WILLIS, 76, (homicide/strangulation – allegedly by homeless rapist), homeless 1960s soul singer
01/02: ROBERT “BOB” BURCHETT, 84 (C), commercial artist; old time radio impresario (Cincinnati Old Time Radio & Nostalgia Convention); publisher (“Old Time Radio Digest” fanzine)
01/02: FRANK BUXTON, 87 (DH), voice-over artist (“What’s Up, Tiger Lily?”; as “Batfink”; as “Arm & Hammer Man”); TV host (“Discovery”); old time radio encyclopaedist (“The Big Broadcast”); TV director/producer (“The Odd Couple”; “Love, American Style”)
01/02: TONY CALDER, 74 (c’s: PN), UK music promoter/publicist (Beatles; Rolling Stones; Black Sabbath; Fleetwood Mac; Bay City Rollers); producer (Marianne Faithfull)
01/02: ROE ERISTER “RICK” HALL, 85 (C), Muscle Shoals AL-based record producer (Percy Sledge; Aretha Franklin; Etta James; Wilson Pickett; Tom Jones; Osmonds; Gatlin Brothers)
01/02: THOMAS MONSON, 90 (age), sitting president, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Mormon (2008-2018)
01/03: FRED BASS, 89 (CHF), entrepreneur, NYC’s Strand Book Store; father-in-law of US Sen. Robert Wyden (D-Oregon)
01/03: JESSE DAVID CRUMB, 49 (injuries from automobile accident), son of comics artist Robert Crumb
01/04: AHARON APPELFELD, 85 (UD), Romanian-born, Holocaust-surviving Israeli author
01/04: Gov. BRENDAN T. BYRNE, 93 (lung infection), Governor, NJ (D; 1974-1982)
01/04: RAY THOMAS, 76 (prostate C), UK flautist/vocalist/founding member, The Moody Blues
01/05: PEARL SOMNER DEBUSKEY, 94 (UD), costume designer (film “Love Story”; NYC stage: “Shenandoah,” “I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road”)
01/05: CAROLE HART, 74 (C), children’s TV writer/producer (“Sesame Street” as its first female writer; “Free to Be … You and Me”; “Hot Hero Sandwich”)
01/05: JOSÉ MOLINA (QUIJADA), 80 (lung C), Spanish-born flamenco dancer/choreographer; regular guest performer, “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”
01/05: CHRISTA LEIGH STEELE-KNUDSLIEN, 42 (homicide/stabbing, blunt force trauma),
MA-based transgendered activist/pageant impresario
01/05: JERRY VAN DYKE, 86 (HF), TV sitcom actor (“My Mother, The Car”; “Accidental Family”; “Coach”); brother of comedic actor Dick Van Dyke
01/05: JOHN W. YOUNG, 87 (c’s: PN), longest-serving NASA astronaut (42 years); commander, first Space Shuttle, Columbia (1981); Gemini/Apollo astronaut (Gemini III; Gemini X; Apollo X; Apollo XVI as “moonwalker” # 9)
01/06: THOMAS BOPP, 68 (liver failure), amateur astronomer; co-discover, “Comet Hale-Bopp” (1995)
01/06: Rep. MARJORIE HOLT, 97 (UD), US Congresswoman (R-MD, 1973-1987)
01/06: RITA CROCKER CLEMENTS, 86 (c’s: AZD), widow of/First Lady to TX Governor Bill Clements (R, 1979-83; 1987-91)
01/06: JAMES “JIMMY” ROBINSON, 67 (UD), recording engineer (Buddy Miles; Jimi Hendrix; David Bowie; Led Zeppelin)
01/06: GRETA THYSSEN, 90 (PN), Danish-born “blonde bombshell”/B-movie actress (three “Three Stooges” shorts: “Quiz Whizz”; “Pies and Guys”; “Sappy Bullfighters”)
01/06: DAVE TOSCHI, 86 (PN), San Francisco investigative detective (1960s/1970s “Zodiac” serial killer case)
01/06: CHRIS TSANGARIDES, 61 (PN; HF), UK rock music producer (Black Sabbath; Judas Priest; Thin Lizzy; Depeche Mode)
01/07: CLAUDE DIXON, 92 (UD), Connecticut-based journalist (print: “Connecticut Sunday Herald,” “Bridgeport Sunday Post”; radio: WSTC-AM/Stamford, WGCH-AM/Greenwich)
01/07: ISABELLE "FRANCE" GALL, 70 (infection from C c’s), 1960s/1970s FR pop singer; winner, 1965 Eurovision competition (representing Luxembourg)
01/07: US Army Brigadier-General ANNA MAE McCABE HAYS, 97 (c’s: HA), first female general in US armed forces
01/07: TOM NETHERTON, 70 (flu; PN), baritone, TV’s “The Lawrence Welk Show”
01/07: OLIVIA NOVA, 20 (urinary tract infection), pornographic film actress
01/07: DON SULLIVAN, 88 (UD), 1950s B-movie actor (“The Giant Gila Monster”; “Teenage Zombies”)
01/07: DOUG YOUNG, 98 (UD), old time radio actor; 1960s cartoon voice-over artist for Hanna-Barbera (“Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy”; “Hokey Wolf”; “Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey”)
01/08: BILL HARRIS, 84 (UD), 1960s comic book writer/editor (Western Publications: “Bullwinkle,” “The Phantom”: Warren: “Creepy,” “Eerie”)
01/08: DONNELLY RHODES, 80 (C), Canadian-born TV actor (“Soap”; “Double Trouble”; “Battlestar Galactica” remake)
01/08: DAVID SHERWIN, 75 (sepsis), UK screenwriter, primarily for UK director Lindsay Anderson (“If…”; “O Lucky Man!”; “Brittania Hospital”)
01/09: PAUL GORESH, 58 (lengthy), security guard; amateur photographer who took the December 8th 1980 photo of John Lennon with his killer Mark David Chapman
01/09: BRANDON HIXON, 36 (SU/gunshot), legislator, ID House of Representatives (R, 2012-2017) under investigation for sexual abuse
01/09: DENISE LaSALLE, 79 (lengthy), blues/R&B singer (“Trapped by a Thing Called Love”)
01/09: TERENCE MARSH, 86 (C), UK-born production designer/set decorator (“Doctor Zhivago” – AA; “Oliver!” – AA; “Spaceballs”; “The Shawshank Redemption”)
01/09: JOSEPH WAYNE MILLER, 36 (suspected c’s: sleep apnea), 1990s juvenile actor (“Heavyweights,” as “Salami Sam”)
01/09: MILTON ROSENBERG, 92 (PN), psychologist/academician; Chicago radio personality (WGN-AM, “Extension 720”)
01/09: JOHN THOMPSON, 71 (LK), producer/exec, Millennium Films (“The Expendables” series)
01/10: “FAST” EDDIE CLARKE, 67 (PN), guitarist, UK heavy metal band Motörhead (last surviving original/”classic” line-up member)
01/10: DAVID FISHER, 88 (UD), UK TV writer (Tom Baker/“Doctor Who”; “Dixon of Dock Green”; “Hammer House of Horror”)
01/10: KATHERINE KELLGREN (nee Kjellgren), 48 (C), audio-book narratrix (Audible.com); wife of theatre critic David Cole (“Time Out New York” magazine)
01/10: WILTON LANNING, 81 (brief), entrepreneur (Padgitt’s Department Store); Waco TX historian; founding president, Doctor Pepper Museum
01/10: Rep. TOM LUKAN, 92 (UD), US Congressman (D-OH, 1st District, 1974-1975; D-OH, 2nd District, 1977-1991); Mayor of Cincinnati (1971-1972)
01/10: DOREEN TRACEY, 74 (PN; C), UK-born juvenile actress (“Westward Ho, The Wagons!”; “The Mickey Mouse Club” – original “Mouseketeer”); 1970s centerfold, “Gallery” magazine
01/11: Rep. DOUG BARNARD JR., 95 (UD), US Congressman (D-GA, 10th District, 1977-1993)
01/11: JON CASTLE, 67 (UD), UK environmentalist/activist/mariner; captain, Greenpeace's ship “The Rainbow Warrior”
01/11: EDGAR RAY KILLEN, 92 (UD; in custody), Klansman convicted in 2005 for 1964 "Mississippi Burning" killings (James Chaney; Andrew Goodman; Michael Schwerner)
01/11: UMBERTO LOMBARDI, 78 (bus/pedestrian accident), Neapolitan-born Belleville NJ hairstylist “Umberto of Naples”; local Essex County NJ public access TV personality/impresario/ventriloquist
01/12: BELLA EMBERG, 80 (UD), UK TV comic actress (“The Russ Abbot Show” as “Blunderwoman”; “The Benny Hill Show”; “Doctor Who”; “Pennies from Heaven”; “Z-Cars”)
01/12: KEITH JACKSON, 89 (UD), sportscaster, ABC Sports (“The Voice of College Football”; “Monday Night Football” – first season; Olympics: 1972, 1976, 1980)
01/12: BERNARDINE MORRIS, 92 (UD), fashion writer/reporter/critic (“Women’s Wear Daily”: “The New York Times,” 1963-1994)
01/12: Senator JOHN TUNNEY, 83 (prostate C), US Congressman (D-California, 38th District, 1965-1971); US Senator (D-California, 1971-1977); son of pugilist Gene Tunney; reportedly the inspiration for the film “The Candidate”
01/13: DOUG HARVEY, 87 (UD), Hall of Fame MLB umpire referred to by players as “God”
01/13: C. S. KEYS, 54 (UD); Pittsburgh and San Diego sportscaster and radio/TV personality
01/13: JEAN PORTER, 95 (NC), 1930s/1940s ingénue actress (“Abbott and Costello in Hollywood”; “Hellzapoppin’”; “That Hagen Girl”); widow of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk
01/13: BOBBY ZARIN, 71 (C), textile industry entrepreneur; husband of reality TV personality Jill Zarin (“The Real Housewives of New York City”)
01/14: DAN GURNEY, 86 (c’s: PN), race car driver/team owner (Indianapolis 500; NASCAR)
01/14: WILLIAM “BILL” HUGHES, 87 (UD), jazz/big band trombonist, The Count Basie Orchestra
01/14: YOSUKE NATSUKI, 91 (kidney C). Japanese film actor (“Storm over the Pacific”: Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo”; Toho Studios’ “Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster,” “Godzilla 1984”)
01/14: MARLENE VerPLANCK, 84 (pancreatic C), 1950s big band/jazz vocalist (Charlie Spivak, Tommy Dorsey); jingle singer (Campbell’s “Mm-Mm-Good”; Michelob’s “Yeah”; “Nationwide Is on Your Side”)
01/14: HUGH WILSON, 74 (lung C; EM), TV sitcom creator/writer/director (“WKRP in Cincinnati”; “Frank’s Place”; “The Famous Teddy Z”; “Easy Street”); film writer/director (“Police Academy”)
01/15: ROMANA ACOSTA BAÑUELOS, 92 (PN), Mexican-American US Treasurer (1971-1974, under Nixon)
01/15: BARBARA COPE, 67 (East Dallas TX house fire). 1970s rock music groupie “The Butter Queen” (Traffic; Jimi Hendrix; Joe Cocker; Rolling Stones; David Cassidy)
01/15: EDWIN HAWKINS, 74 (pancreatic C), gospel music singer/choir director, “The Edwin Hawkins Singers” [“Oh Happy Day”’ “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” with folk singer Melanie]
01/15: JOE FRANK, 79 (DH), FR-born radio writer/host/humorist/monologist (WBAI-FM’s “In the Dark”: NPR’s “NPR Playhouse,” “Weekend All Things Considered”)
01/15: Dr. MATHILDE KRIM, 91 (UD), Italian-born HIV/AIDS researcher/founding chairperson, amFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research); widow of film exec Arthur Krim (United Artists); co-host, 1962 Madison Square Garden JFK birthday party attended by Marilyn Monroe
01/15: DOLORES O’RIORDAN, 46 (suspected mental health-derived SU), Irish lead singer/musician, 1990s rock band “The Cranberries” (”Zombie”)
01/15: Gov. JOHN SPELLMAN, 91 (PN), Governor of Washington state (R, 1981-1985)
01/15: PETER WYNGARDE, 90 (UD), FR-born UK actor (“Department S”/”Jason King”; “The Prisoner” as “Number Two”; “Burn, Witch, Burn!”; “Flash Gordon”); one-time companion to actor Alan Bates
01/16: WILLIAM “BILL” BAIN JR., 80 (UD), founder, management company Bain & Company; mentor to 2012 presidential candidate Willard “Mitt” Romney
01/16: BRADFORD DILLMAN, 87 (c’s: PN), actor (film: “Compulsion,” “The Way We Were”; Broadway: original 1956 cast, “Long Day’s Journey into Night”)
01/16: JACINTE GISCARD d’ESTAING, 57 (UD), FR veterinarian; daughter of 1970s FR President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
01/16: TYLER HILINSKI, 21 (SU/gunshot), college football player (Washington State University)
01/16: DAVE HOLLAND, 69 (UD), UK rock drummer (“Trapeze”; 1980s “Judas Priest”); convicted sex offender
01/16: MICKI VARRO, 75 (HA), jazz vocalist; 1970s Miami TV meteorologist (ABC affiliate WPLG-TV); actress (“The Champ” remake’ “Airport ‘77”; “The New Howdy Doody Show”)
01/16: JOSEPH “JO JO” WHITE, 71 (PN), Hall of Fame NBA player (Boston Celtics)
01/17: SIMON SHELTON (aka SIMON BARNES), 52 (hypothermia following outdoor collapse and overnight unconsciousness/exposure), UK children’s TV actor (“Teletubbies,” as purple “Tinky Winky”)
01/18: JOHN BARTON, 89 (UD), UK stage director/impresario; co-founder, Royal Shakespeare Company
01/18: BOB CARLTON, 67 (UD), UK theatrical producer; dramatist, jukebox musical “Return to the Forbidden Planet”
01/18: ECHO STAR HELMSTROM CASEY, approx. 75 (UD), singer Bob Dylan’s 1950s high school girlfriend/musel reportedly the inspiration for Dylan’s song “Girl from the North Country”
01/18: JULIUS LESTER, 78 (EM), academician; children’s author (“To Be a Slave”; “Let’s Talk about Race” – Newbery; “John Henry” – Caldecott); convert to Judaism
01/18: OLIVIA LUA (aka OLIVIA VOLTAIRE), 23 (UD), pornographic film actress
01/18: PETER MAYLE, 78 (brief), FR-based, UK expatriate memoirist (“A Year in Provence”)’; 1970s children’s sex education author (“Where Did I Come From?”)
01/18: EDWARD McLAUGHLIN, 91 (UD), ABC Radio exec noted for advancing the careers of Casey Kasem, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Dean Edell; creator, Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story”
01/18: STEVE “GRIZZLY” NISBETT, 69 (UD), Nevis-born UK drummer, 1970s reggae group Steel Pulse
01/18: NANCY RICHLER, 60 (C), Canadian novelist; second cousin of author Mordecai Richler
01/18: HARRY SELBY, 92 (UD), South African-born, Botswana-based big game hunter/safari agent made famous by author/journalist Robert Ruark in his book “Horn of the Hunter”
01/18: BOB SMITH, 59 (c’s: ALS), comedic actor (“Funny Gay Males”); first openly gay male comedian to headline his own HBO comedy special (1994)
01/18: Adm. STANSFIELD TURNER, 94 (UD), naval officer (33 years); Director, CIA (1977-1981, under Carter)
01/19: LIN BOLEN, 76 (UD), 1970s NBC programming exec (cancelled “Concentration” and the original “Jeopardy!”; commissioned “Wheel of Fortune”; expanded soap operas to one hour)
01/19: OLIVIA COLE, 75 (HA), TV actress (“Szysznyk”; “Roots”; “Backstairs at the White House”; “The Women of Brewster Place”)
01/19: JOHN CONBOY, 83 (UD), TV soap opera producer (“Love Is a Many Splendored Thing”; “The Young and the Restless”; “Capitol”; “Santa Barbara”; “Guiding Light”)
01/19: DOROTHY MALONE, 92 (lengthy), actress (“Written on the Wind” – AA; “The Big Sleep”; “Man of a Thousand Faces”; “Artists and Models”; “Beach Party”; TV’s “Peyton Place”)
01/19: ALLISON BRECKER SHEARMUR, 54 (c’s: lung C), quadruplet-born studio exec/producer (“Rogue One”; “Hunger Games” series; “Pride + Prejudice + Zombies”)
01/20: PAUL BOCUSE, 91 (PD), celebrity FR chef noted for nouvelle cuisine
01/20: US Marshall RICHARD KIRKLAND “KIRK” BOWDEN, 82 (CHF), DC law enforcement official who provided protection for civil rights figures James Meredith; MLK (1963 March on Washington)
01/20: JOHN COLEMAN, 83 (UD), TV meteorologist/co-founder, The Weather Channel; original meteorologist, ABC’s “Good Morning, America” (1975-1982); reportedly a climate change skeptic
01/20: TERRY EVANS, 80 (UD), blues/R&B/soul singer/musician/session man (Bobby King; Ry Cooder; John Fogerty; Eric Clapton; Joan Armatrading; John Lee Hooker; Boz Scaggs; Maria Muldaur)
01/20: HOWARD LEW LEWIS, 76 (dementia), UK comedic TV actor (TV: “Maid Marian and her Merry Men,” “Brush Strokes,” “Blackadder”)
01/20: NAOMI PARKER FRALEY, 96 (UD), WWII-era munitions factory worker; credible claimant to having been the model for character “Rosie the Riveter” in the “We Can Do It!” poster
01/20: JIM RODFORD, 76 (fall), UK bassist, Argent; 1970s The Kinks; re-grouped The Zombies; cousin of keyboardist Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent)
01/20: Gen. DORON RUBIN, 74 (UD), Israeli Defense Forces battalion commander, 1973 Yom Kippur War
01/20: WALTER SKOLD, 57 (HA), academician; poetry enthusiast/founder, The Dead Poets Society of America known for having visited over 600 poets’ gravesites – one month following purchasing his own headstone
01/21: ROBERT ARTHUR, 89 (UD), long-time music coordinator for “The Ed Sullivan Show” mostly noted for compromising the Rolling Stones’ performance of “Let’s Spend the Night Together”
01/21: BARBARA ESPY, 64 (head-on automobile collision), wife of TV producer/talk show staffer/bookkeeper Daniel Espy
01/21: DANIEL ESPY, 61 (head-on automobile collision), EVS operator/bookkeeper for NBC-Universal TV (“The Maury Povich Show”; “The Jerry Springer Show”); 1970s NJ-based TV producer (WBTB-TV/ 68’s “The Danny Tarantino Show”)
01/21: JOEL FREEMAN, 95 (AZD; lung C), film producer (“Finian’s Rainbow”; “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”; “Shaft”; “Love at First Bite”); nephew of film producer/exec Dore Schary
01/21: BERT PADELL, 84 (UD), showbiz talent manager and “accountant to the stars” name-referenced in a Notorious B.I.G. song
circa 01/21: STEVE BROWN, 42 (UD), Rhodesian-born UK music producer (Elton John – first LP “Empty Sky”; Alison Moyet; ABC ; The Cult; The Pogues; Wham!)
01/22: BILLY HANCOCK, 71 (c’s: cirrhosis), rockabilly singer/guitarist (UK #1 “Rootie Tootie”)
01/22: URSULA KROEBER LeGUIN, 88 (peacefully), science fiction/fantasy author (“The Left Hand of Darkness”; “Earthsea” series)
01/22: CONNIE SAWYER, 105 (peacefully), film actress, reportedly the “Oldest Working Hollywood Actress” (“A Hole in the Head”; “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”; “The Man in the Glass Booth”)
01/22: LARI WHITE, 52 (peritoneal C), country singer/songwriter; actress (“Cast Away”)
01/23: ROBERT DOWDELL, 85 (NC), 1960s TV actor (“Stoney Burke”; “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”)
01/23: HUGH MASEKELA, 78 (prostate C), South African jazz trumpet virtuoso (1968 #1 instrumental hit “Grazin’ in the Grass”); anti-apartheid activist
01/23: EZRA SWERDLOW, 64 (pancreatic C; ALS), NYC-oriented film producer/exec producer (“Cop Land”; “The Equalizer”; “Radio Days”; “The First Wives’ Club”)
01/23: JOEL TAYLOR, 38 (suspected drug OD aboard cruise ship), storm-themed reality TV personality (Discovery’s "Storm Chasers")
01/23: The Rev. Dr. WYATT TEE WALKER, 88 (UD), Harlem NYC minister/pastor; civil rights activist (close associate of MLK)
01/24: JACK KETCHUM (pseudonym of DALLAS MAYR), 71 (C), horror novelist (“The Box”; “Off Season”; “The Girl Next Door); screenwriter (“Offspring”)
01/24: WARREN MILLER, 93 (UD), skiing/snow sports film documentarian
01/24: MARK E. SMITH, 60 (UD), founding singer/songwriter/front man, 1980s UK post-punk/alternative band The Fall
01/25: MAO KANKAN, 34 (SU/gas asphyxiation), Chinese gaming industry entrepreneur
01/25: FLOYD MILES, 74 (UD), R&B singer/musician; mentor to teenaged rock musicians Gregg Allman, Duane Allman
01/25: JOHN MORRIS, 91 (respiratory infection), film composer/songwriter, primarily for director Mel Brooks (“The Producers”; “The Twelve Chairs”; “Blazing Saddles”; “Young Frankenstein”; “Silent Movie”; “High Anxiety”; “The Elephant Man”; “History of the World, Part I”; “To Be or Not To Be”)
01/25: CLIFF WHITE, 72 (CA), UK music journalist/interviewer (“NME: New Music Express”)
01/25: CYRUS YAVNEH, 76 (lung C), TV/film producer (“24”; “Supernatural”; “It’s Pat: The Movie”)
01/26: EUGEN WEIDMANN, 88 (UD), Swiss-born circus animal/big cats trainer
01/26: KENDALL CARLY BROWNE, 99 (NC), actress (“The Jack Benny Program”); mother of actor Bart Braverman; one-time receptionist, Zeppo Marx Talent Agency
01/27: LINDA CARLSON, 50s (NC), exec, several title sequence creating firms (“Game of Thrones”; “Five Came Back”; “Justice League”)
01/26: REESE “BUZZ” CLIFFORD, 76 (c’s: flu), 1960s novelty singer/songwriter (“Baby Sittin’ Boogie”)
01/26: ELIZABETH HAWLEY, 94 (UD), journalist noted for Himalayan expeditionary reportage
01/26: STACEY SMITH YOUNG, 52 (brain C), UK model; wife of UK pop singer Paul Young
01/27: ROBERT M. ADAMS, 91 (UD), anthropologist; secretary/curator, The Smithsonian Institute (1984-1994)
01/27: JERRY BUTLER, 58 (UD), 1980s pornographic actor/industry memoirist; one-time husband of actress Lisa Loring (“The Addams Family”)
01/27: JEFF HUNTER, 91 (UD), talent agent/manager for William Morris Agency (Morgan Freeman; Mandy Patinkin: Marlene Dietrich; Mary Martin; Barbra Streisand; Nathan Lane: many others)
01/27: ROBERT PARRY, 68 (c’s: series of SKs), Associated Press investigative reporter among the first to report Iran/Contra scandal
01/27: DENNIS PERON, 71 (lung C), LGBT and medical marijuana advocate/activist
01/27: FRANKLIN STICKLE, 85 (UD), 1960s NYC radio personality/newsman (WMCA-AM’s “The Good Guys”)
01/27: (ADDISON) MORTON WALKER, 94 (c’s: PN), syndicated cartoonist (“Beetle Bailey”; “Hi and Lois”; “Sam’s Strip”; “Boner’s Ark”); founder, the International Museum of Cartoon Art
01/28: JANET CANTOR GARI, 90 (DH), memoirist; youngest/last surviving daughter of entertainer Eddie Cantor; mother of songwriter/Broadway composer Brian Gari (“Late Nite Comic”)
01/28: NEIL HARRIS, 63 (C), UK guitarist/founder, 1970s/1980s punk band Sham 69
01/28: INGVAR KAMPRAD, 91 (PN), Swedish entrepreneur; founder, furniture retailer IKEA
01/28: HEINZ JAKOB "COCO" SCHUMANN, 93 (UD), Holocaust-surviving German jazz guitarist (for Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald)
01/29: RICK McKAY, 57 (UD), theatre historian/film documentarian (“Broadway: The Golden Age”)
01/30: MARK SALLING, 35 (SU/hanging), TV actor (“Glee”) convicted of possessing child pornography
01/30: LOUIS ZORICH, 93 (UD), TV character actor(“Mad About You”; “Brooklyn Bridge”); husband of actress Olympia Dukakis; NJ theatrical actor/director/impresario (The Whole Theatre, Montclair NJ)
01/31: DAN ALON, 72 (C), Israeli fencer; survivor/hero (rescued four others), 1972 Munich Olympics massacre,
01/31: RASUAL BUTLER, 38 (high-speed single-car automobile collision), former NBA player; husband of R&B singer Leah LeBelle (“American Idol,” Season 3 contestant – died in same crash)
01/31: LARRY COEN, 59 (UD), Boston-based comedic theatrical actor/director/dramatist (Broadway’s “Epic Proportions”)
01/31: OSCAR GAMBLE, 68 (ameloblastic carcinoma – rare jawbone-originating C), 1970s/1980s MLB player with New York Yankees (two stints) known for his large Afro hairstyle
01/31: ANN GILLIS, 90 (UD), UK-based American expatriate 1930s/1940s actress (“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”; “Little Orphan Annie”; “The Time of Their Lives”; “2001: A Space Odyssey”)
01/31: LEAH LeBELLE, 31 (high-speed single-car automobile collision), Canadian-born R&B singer (”American Idol,” Season 3 finalist); wife of former NBA player Rasual Butler (died in same crash)
01/31: WILLIAM “BILL” O’CONNOR, 47 (SY), fantasy artist (“Dungeons & Dragons”; “Magic: The Gathering”; “Dracopedia”)
01/31: ANDRÉ SURMAIN, 97 (UD), FR-born NYC restaurateur (high-end FR haute cuisine restaurant Lutèce)
ALPHABETICAL CROSS-REFERENCE, JANUARY 2018
ROMANA ACOSTA BAÑUELOS, 92, US Treasurer (1971-1974), 01/15
ROBERT M. ADAMS, 91, anthropologist/museum director. 01/27
DAN ALON, 72, Israeli fencer; survivor/hero, 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, 01/31
AHARON APPELFELD, 85, Romanian-born, Holocaust-surviving Israeli author, 01/04
ROBERT ARTHUR, 89, music coordinator for “The Ed Sullivan Show,” 01/21
WILLIAM “BILL” BAIN JR., 80, financier; mentor to presidential candidate Willard “Mitt” Romney, 01/16
Rep. DOUG BARNARD JR., 95, US Congressman (D-GA), 01/11
JOHN BARTON, 89, UK stage director/impresario, 01/18
FRED BASS, 89, NYC bookstore entrepreneur, 01/03
PAUL BOCUSE, 91, celebrity FR chef, 01/20
LIN BOLEN, 76, 1970s NBC programming exec, 01/19
THOMAS BOPP, 68, co-discover, “Comet Hale-Bopp,” 01/06
RICHARD K. “KIRK” BOWDEN, 82, DC civil rights era, MLK-connected law enforcement official, 01/20
KENDALL CARLY BROWNE, 99, actress; mother of actor Bart Braverman, 01/26
ROBERT “BOB” BURCHETT, 84, commercial artist; old time radio impresario, 01.02
JERRY BUTLER, 58, pornographic actor/industry memoirist, 01/27
RASUAL BUTLER, 38, NBA player – high-speed single-car automobile collision, 01/31
FRANK BUXTON, 87, TV actor/director/writer/voice-over artist, old time radio encyclopaedist, 01/02
Gov. BRENDAN T. BYRNE, 93, 1970s Governor of NJ (D), 01/04
TONY CALDER, 74, UK music promoter/publicist, 01/02
LINDA CARLSON, 50s, film/TV title sequence artist, 01/27
BOB CARLTON, 67, UK theatrical producer/dramatist, 01/18
ECHO STAR HELMSTROM CASEY, approx. 75, singer Bob Dylan’s 1950s high school girlfriend/muse, 01/18
JON CASTLE, 67, UK environmentalist/activist/mariner, 01/11
“FAST” EDDIE CLARKE, 67, UK guitarist, 01/10
RITA CROCKER CLEMENTS, 86, First Lady to 1980s Texas Gov. Bill Clements, 01/06
REESE “BUZZ” CLIFFORD, 76, 1960s novelty singer/songwriter, 01/26
LARRY COEN, 59, Broadway dramatist, 01/31
OLIVIA COLE, 75, TV actress, 01/19
JOHN COLEMAN, 83, TV meteorologist/impresario, 01/20
JOHN CONBOY, 83, TV soap opera producer, 01/19
BARBARA COPE, 67, 1970s rock music groupie – house fire, 01/15
JESSE DAVID CRUMB, 49, son of comics artist Robert Crumb, 01/03
PEARL SOMNER DEBUSKEY, 94, stage/screen costume designer, 01/05
BRADFORD DILLMAN, 87, stage/screen actor, 01/16
CLAUDE DIXON, 92, CT-based print/radio journalist, 01/07
ROBERT DOWDELL, 85, 1960sTV actor, 01/23
BELLA EMBERG, 80, UK TV comedic actress, 01/12
BARBARA ESPY, 64, wife of TV producer Daniel Espy – automobile collision, 01/21
DANIEL ESPY, 61, TV producer; various positions, NBC-Universal TV – automobile collision, 01/21
TERRY EVANS, 80, blues/R&B/soul singer/musician/session man, 01/20:
DAVID FISHER, 88, UK TV writer, 01/10
NAOMI PARKER FRALEY, 96, WWII-era “Rosie the Riveter” claimant, 01/20:
JOE FRANK, 79, FR-born radio writer/host/humorist/monologist, 01/15
JOEL FREEMAN, 95, film producer; nephew of film producer Dore Schary, 01/21
ISABELLE "FRANCE" GALL, 70, 1960s FR pop singer, 01/07
OSCAR GAMBLE, 68, baseball player, 01/31
JANET CANTOR GARI, 90, youngest/last surviving daughter of entertainer Eddie Cantor, 01/28
ANN GILLIS, 90, actress, 01/31
JACINTE GISCARD d’ESTAING, 57, daughter of 1970s FR President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 01/16
PAUL GORESH, 58, amateur photographer of John Lennon with Lennon’s killer, 01/09DAN GURNEY, 86, race car driver/team owner, 01/14
ROE ERISTER “RICK” HALL, 85, record producer, 01/02
BILLY HANCOCK, 71, rockabilly singer/guitarist, 01/22
BILL HARRIS, 84, 1960s comic book writer/editor, 01/08
NEIL HARRIS, 63, UK punk musician, 01/28
CAROLE HART, 74, children’s TV writer/producer, 01/05
DOUG HARVEY, 87, MLB umpire, 01/13
EDWIN HAWKINS, 74, gospel music singer/choir director, 01/15
ELIZABETH HAWLEY, 94, mountaineering=oriented journalist, 01/26
Brig. Gen. ANNA MAE McCABE HAYS, 97, first female general in US armed forces, 01/07
TYLER HILINSKI, 21, college football player – SU/gunshot, 01/16
BRANDON HIXON, 36, Idaho legislator under sexual abuse investigation – SU/gunshot, 01/09
DAVE HOLLAND, 69, UK rock drummer, 01/16
Rep. MARJORIE HOLT, 97, US Congresswoman (R-MD, 1973-1987), 01/06
WILLIAM “BILL” HUGHES, 87, jazz/big band trombonist, 01/14
JEFF HUNTER, 91 talent agent/manager, 01/27
KEITH JACKSON, 89, sportscaster, 01/12
INGVAR KAMPRAD, 91, Swedish furniture entrepreneur; 01/28
KATHERINE KELLGREN, 48, audio-book narratrix, 01/10
JACK KETCHUM (pseudonym of DALLAS MAYR), 71, horror novelist/screenwriter, 01.24
C. S. KEYS, 54, San Diego radio/TV sportscaster/air personality, 01/13
EDGAR RAY KILLEN, 92, "Mississippi Burning" murderer, 01/11
Dr. MATHILDE KRIM, 91, Italian-born HIV/AIDS researcher/activist, 01/15
WILTON LANNING, 81, founding president, Doctor Pepper Museum, 01/10
DENISE LaSALLE, 79, blues/R&B singer, 01/09
LEAH LeBELLE, 31, Canadian-born R&B singer – high-speed single-car automobile collision, 01/31
URSULA KROEBER LeGUIN, 88, science fiction/fantasy author, 01/22
JULIUS LESTER, 78, academician; children’s non-fiction author, 01/18:
HOWARD LEW LEWIS, 76, UK comedic TV actor, 01/20
OLIVIA LUA (aka OLIVIA VOLTAIRE), 23, pornographic film actress, 01/18
UMBERTO LOMBARDI, 78, Neapolitan-born NJ TV personality “Umberto of Naples” – bus/pedestrian accident, 01/11
Rep. TOM LUKAN, 92, US Congressman (D-OH, 1974-1991), 01/10
DOROTHY MALONE, 92, film/TV actress, 01/19
TERENCE MARSH, 86, UK-born production designer/set decorator, 01/09
MAO KANKAN, 34, Chinese gaming industry entrepreneur – SU/gas asphyxiation, 01/25
HUGH MASEKELA, 78, South African chart-topping jazz trumpet virtuoso, 01/23
PETER MAYLE, 78, FR-based, UK expatriate memoirist, 01/18
RICK McKAY, 57, theatre historian/film documentarian, 01/29
EDWARD McLAUGHLIN, 91, radio exec/impresario, 01/18
FLOYD MILES, 74, R&B singer/musician, 01/25
JOSEPH WAYNE MILLER, 36, 1990s juvenile actor, 01/09
WARREN MILLER, 93, skiing/snow sports film documentarian, 01.24
JOSÉ MOLINA (QUIJADA), 80, Spanish-born flamenco dancer/choreographer, 01/05
THOMAS MONSON, 90, sitting president, Mormon church, 01/02
BERNARDINE MORRIS, 92, fashion journalist, 01/12
JOHN MORRIS, 91, film composer/songwriter, 01/25
YOSUKE NATSUKI, 91, Japanese film actor, 01/14
TOM NETHERTON, 70, “Lawrence Welk Show” baritone, 01/07
STEVE NISBETT, 69, Nevis-born UK reggae percussionist, 01/08
OLIVIA NOVA, 20, pornographic film actress, 01/07
WILLIAM “BILL” O’CONNOR, 47, fantasy artist, 01/31
DOLORES O’RIORDAN, 46, Irish singer/musician, 01/15
BERT PADELL, 84, showbiz talent manager/“accountant to the stars,” 01/21
ROBERT PARRY, 68, investigative print journalist, 01/27
DENNIS PERON, 71, LGBT and medical marijuana advocate/activist, 01/27
JEAN PORTER, 95, 1930s/1940s ingénue film actress, 01/13
DONNELLY RHODES, 80, Canadian-born TV actor, 01/08
NANCY RICHLER, 60, Canadian novelist related to author Mordecai Richler, 01/18
JAMES “JIMMY” ROBINSON, 67, 1970s rock music recording engineer, 01/06
JIM RODFORD, 76, UK musician, 01/20
MILTON ROSENBERG, 92, Chicago radio personality, 01/09
Gen. DORON RUBIN, 74, Israeli battalion commander, 1973 Yom Kippur War, 01/20
MARK SALLING, 35, TV actor convicted child pornography possession – SU/hanging, 01/30
CONNIE SAWYER, 105, actress, 01/22
HEINZ JAKOB "COCO" SCHUMANN, 93, German jazz guitarist, 01/28
HARRY SELBY, 92, South African-born big game hunter/safari agent, 01/18
ALLISON BRECKER SHEARMUR, 54, quadruplet-born studio exec/film producer, 01/19
SIMON SHELTON (aka SIMON BARNES), 52, UK children’s TV actor, 01/17
DAVID SHERWIN, 75, UK screenwriter, 01/08
WALTER SKOLD, 57, poetry/deceased poets enthusiast, 01/20:
BOB SMITH, 59, 1990s openly gay comedian/comic performer, 01/18
MARK E. SMITH, 60, UK singer/songwriter/musician, 01/24
Gov. JOHN SPELLMAN, 91, 1980s Governor. WA (R), 01/15
CHRISTA LEIGH STEELE-KNUDSLIEN, 42, transgendered activist – homicide, 01/05
JON PAUL STEUER, 33, 1990s child TV actor, 01/01
FRANKLIN STICKLE, 85, NYC radio personality/newsman, 01/27
DON SULLIVAN, 88, B-movie actor, 01/07
ANDRÉ SURMAIN, 97, FR-born NYC restaurateur, 01/31
EZRA SWERDLOW, 64, film producer/exec producer, 01/23
JOELTAYLOR, 38, storm-themed reality TV personality, 01/23
MARK TENSER, 87, film producer, 01/01
RAY THOMAS, 76, UK musician, 01/04
JOHN THOMPSON, 71, film producer/exec, 01/09
GRETA THYSSEN, 90, Danish-born B-movie actress, 01/06
DAVE TOSCHI, 86, “Zodiac Killer” investigative detective, 01/06
DOREEN TRACEY, 74, UK-born juvenile actress/“Mouseketeer,” 01/10
WOLFGANG TREU, 87, German cinematographer, 01/01
CHRIS TSANGARIDES, 61, UK rock music producer, 01/06
Sen. JOHN TUNNEY, 83, 1960s/1970s US Congressman/Senator (D-CA), 01/12
STANSFIELD TURNER, 94, US Navy admiral; 1970s Director, CIA, 01/18
JERRY VAN DYKE, 86, TV sitcom actor, 01/05
MICKI VARRO, 75, jazz vocalist; 1970s Miami TV meteorologis/actress, 01/16
MARLENE VerPLANCK, 84, jazz vocalist; jingle singer, 01/14
(ADDISON) MORTON WALKER, 94, syndicated cartoonist, 01/27
WYATT TEE WALKER, 88, civil rights activist/minister, 01/23
EUGEN WEIDMANN, 88, Swiss-born circus animal trainer, 01/26
CLIFF WHITE, 72, UK music journalist, 01/25
JOSEPH “JO JO” WHITE, 71, NBA player, 01/16
LARI WHITE, 52, country singer/songwriter; film actress, 01/22
BETTY WILLIS, 76, 1960s soul singer – homicide, 01/01
HUGH WILSON, 74, film/TV sitcom creator/writer/director, 01/14
PETER WYNGARDE, 90, FR-born UK actor, 01/15
CYRUS YAVNEH, 76, TV/film producer, 01/25
DOUG YOUNG, 98, cartoon voice-over artist, 01-07
JOHN W. YOUNG, 87, astronaut, 01/05
STACEY SMITH YOUNG, 52, UK model; wife of UK pop singer Paul Young, 01/26
BOBBY ZARIN, 71, textile business entrepreneur; husband of reality TV personality Jill Zarin, 01/13
LOUIS ZORICH, 93, TV character actor; NJ theatrical actor/impresario, 01/30
MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORTHAND TERMS used in this list:
age = age related illnesses; ALS = amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease); AZD = Alzheimer’s disease; brief – brief/short/sudden illness; C = cancer; c’s = complications; CHF = congestive heart failure; DH = declining health; EM = emphysema; fall = injuries sustained in a fall; flu = influenza; H = heart; HA = heart attack/cardiac arrest; HF = heart failure; lengthy = lengthy/long illness; LK = leukemia; NC = natural causes; OD = overdose; PD = Parkinson’s disease; PN = pneumonia; SK = stroke; SU = suicide; UD = undisclosed/unavailable
SELECTED OTHER ABBREVIATIONS and SHORTHAND TERMS used in this list:
AA = Academy Award/Oscar; AL = Alabama; CA = California; CT = Connecticut; D = Democrat; DC = Washington, DC/District of Columbia; EVS = [Belgian manufacturer, video production equipment]; exec = executive; FR = French/France; GA = Georgia: ID = Idaho; JFK = President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; MA = Massachusetts; MD = Maryland; MLB – Major League Baseball; MLK = Doctor Martin Luther King Junior NBA- National Basketball Association; NJ = New Jersey; OH = Ohio; OR = Oregon; Rep. = Representative/Congressman/Congresswoman; Sen. = Senator; TX = Texas; UK = United Kingdom/Great Britain/British; WA – Washington state
JANUARY 2018
01/01: JON PAUL STEUER, 33 (suspected H failure), 1990s child TV actor (“Grace under Fire”; “Star Trek: The Next Generation” as Worf’s son); Portland OR punk musician/vegan restaurateur
01/01: MARK TENSER, 87 (UD), CEO, Crown International Pictures, specialist in “teensploitation” films (“The Pom Pom Girls”; “The Van”; “My Tutor”; “Van Nuys Blvd.”)
01/01: WOLFGANG TREU, 87 (UD), prolific German cinematographer (“Das Boot”)
01/01: BETTY WILLIS, 76, (homicide/strangulation – allegedly by homeless rapist), homeless 1960s soul singer
01/02: ROBERT “BOB” BURCHETT, 84 (C), commercial artist; old time radio impresario (Cincinnati Old Time Radio & Nostalgia Convention); publisher (“Old Time Radio Digest” fanzine)
01/02: FRANK BUXTON, 87 (DH), voice-over artist (“What’s Up, Tiger Lily?”; as “Batfink”; as “Arm & Hammer Man”); TV host (“Discovery”); old time radio encyclopaedist (“The Big Broadcast”); TV director/producer (“The Odd Couple”; “Love, American Style”)
01/02: TONY CALDER, 74 (c’s: PN), UK music promoter/publicist (Beatles; Rolling Stones; Black Sabbath; Fleetwood Mac; Bay City Rollers); producer (Marianne Faithfull)
01/02: ROE ERISTER “RICK” HALL, 85 (C), Muscle Shoals AL-based record producer (Percy Sledge; Aretha Franklin; Etta James; Wilson Pickett; Tom Jones; Osmonds; Gatlin Brothers)
01/02: THOMAS MONSON, 90 (age), sitting president, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Mormon (2008-2018)
01/03: FRED BASS, 89 (CHF), entrepreneur, NYC’s Strand Book Store; father-in-law of US Sen. Robert Wyden (D-Oregon)
01/03: JESSE DAVID CRUMB, 49 (injuries from automobile accident), son of comics artist Robert Crumb
01/04: AHARON APPELFELD, 85 (UD), Romanian-born, Holocaust-surviving Israeli author
01/04: Gov. BRENDAN T. BYRNE, 93 (lung infection), Governor, NJ (D; 1974-1982)
01/04: RAY THOMAS, 76 (prostate C), UK flautist/vocalist/founding member, The Moody Blues
01/05: PEARL SOMNER DEBUSKEY, 94 (UD), costume designer (film “Love Story”; NYC stage: “Shenandoah,” “I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road”)
01/05: CAROLE HART, 74 (C), children’s TV writer/producer (“Sesame Street” as its first female writer; “Free to Be … You and Me”; “Hot Hero Sandwich”)
01/05: JOSÉ MOLINA (QUIJADA), 80 (lung C), Spanish-born flamenco dancer/choreographer; regular guest performer, “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”
01/05: CHRISTA LEIGH STEELE-KNUDSLIEN, 42 (homicide/stabbing, blunt force trauma),
MA-based transgendered activist/pageant impresario
01/05: JERRY VAN DYKE, 86 (HF), TV sitcom actor (“My Mother, The Car”; “Accidental Family”; “Coach”); brother of comedic actor Dick Van Dyke
01/05: JOHN W. YOUNG, 87 (c’s: PN), longest-serving NASA astronaut (42 years); commander, first Space Shuttle, Columbia (1981); Gemini/Apollo astronaut (Gemini III; Gemini X; Apollo X; Apollo XVI as “moonwalker” # 9)
01/06: THOMAS BOPP, 68 (liver failure), amateur astronomer; co-discover, “Comet Hale-Bopp” (1995)
01/06: Rep. MARJORIE HOLT, 97 (UD), US Congresswoman (R-MD, 1973-1987)
01/06: RITA CROCKER CLEMENTS, 86 (c’s: AZD), widow of/First Lady to TX Governor Bill Clements (R, 1979-83; 1987-91)
01/06: JAMES “JIMMY” ROBINSON, 67 (UD), recording engineer (Buddy Miles; Jimi Hendrix; David Bowie; Led Zeppelin)
01/06: GRETA THYSSEN, 90 (PN), Danish-born “blonde bombshell”/B-movie actress (three “Three Stooges” shorts: “Quiz Whizz”; “Pies and Guys”; “Sappy Bullfighters”)
01/06: DAVE TOSCHI, 86 (PN), San Francisco investigative detective (1960s/1970s “Zodiac” serial killer case)
01/06: CHRIS TSANGARIDES, 61 (PN; HF), UK rock music producer (Black Sabbath; Judas Priest; Thin Lizzy; Depeche Mode)
01/07: CLAUDE DIXON, 92 (UD), Connecticut-based journalist (print: “Connecticut Sunday Herald,” “Bridgeport Sunday Post”; radio: WSTC-AM/Stamford, WGCH-AM/Greenwich)
01/07: ISABELLE "FRANCE" GALL, 70 (infection from C c’s), 1960s/1970s FR pop singer; winner, 1965 Eurovision competition (representing Luxembourg)
01/07: US Army Brigadier-General ANNA MAE McCABE HAYS, 97 (c’s: HA), first female general in US armed forces
01/07: TOM NETHERTON, 70 (flu; PN), baritone, TV’s “The Lawrence Welk Show”
01/07: OLIVIA NOVA, 20 (urinary tract infection), pornographic film actress
01/07: DON SULLIVAN, 88 (UD), 1950s B-movie actor (“The Giant Gila Monster”; “Teenage Zombies”)
01/07: DOUG YOUNG, 98 (UD), old time radio actor; 1960s cartoon voice-over artist for Hanna-Barbera (“Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy”; “Hokey Wolf”; “Yippee, Yappee, and Yahooey”)
01/08: BILL HARRIS, 84 (UD), 1960s comic book writer/editor (Western Publications: “Bullwinkle,” “The Phantom”: Warren: “Creepy,” “Eerie”)
01/08: DONNELLY RHODES, 80 (C), Canadian-born TV actor (“Soap”; “Double Trouble”; “Battlestar Galactica” remake)
01/08: DAVID SHERWIN, 75 (sepsis), UK screenwriter, primarily for UK director Lindsay Anderson (“If…”; “O Lucky Man!”; “Brittania Hospital”)
01/09: PAUL GORESH, 58 (lengthy), security guard; amateur photographer who took the December 8th 1980 photo of John Lennon with his killer Mark David Chapman
01/09: BRANDON HIXON, 36 (SU/gunshot), legislator, ID House of Representatives (R, 2012-2017) under investigation for sexual abuse
01/09: DENISE LaSALLE, 79 (lengthy), blues/R&B singer (“Trapped by a Thing Called Love”)
01/09: TERENCE MARSH, 86 (C), UK-born production designer/set decorator (“Doctor Zhivago” – AA; “Oliver!” – AA; “Spaceballs”; “The Shawshank Redemption”)
01/09: JOSEPH WAYNE MILLER, 36 (suspected c’s: sleep apnea), 1990s juvenile actor (“Heavyweights,” as “Salami Sam”)
01/09: MILTON ROSENBERG, 92 (PN), psychologist/academician; Chicago radio personality (WGN-AM, “Extension 720”)
01/09: JOHN THOMPSON, 71 (LK), producer/exec, Millennium Films (“The Expendables” series)
01/10: “FAST” EDDIE CLARKE, 67 (PN), guitarist, UK heavy metal band Motörhead (last surviving original/”classic” line-up member)
01/10: DAVID FISHER, 88 (UD), UK TV writer (Tom Baker/“Doctor Who”; “Dixon of Dock Green”; “Hammer House of Horror”)
01/10: KATHERINE KELLGREN (nee Kjellgren), 48 (C), audio-book narratrix (Audible.com); wife of theatre critic David Cole (“Time Out New York” magazine)
01/10: WILTON LANNING, 81 (brief), entrepreneur (Padgitt’s Department Store); Waco TX historian; founding president, Doctor Pepper Museum
01/10: Rep. TOM LUKAN, 92 (UD), US Congressman (D-OH, 1st District, 1974-1975; D-OH, 2nd District, 1977-1991); Mayor of Cincinnati (1971-1972)
01/10: DOREEN TRACEY, 74 (PN; C), UK-born juvenile actress (“Westward Ho, The Wagons!”; “The Mickey Mouse Club” – original “Mouseketeer”); 1970s centerfold, “Gallery” magazine
01/11: Rep. DOUG BARNARD JR., 95 (UD), US Congressman (D-GA, 10th District, 1977-1993)
01/11: JON CASTLE, 67 (UD), UK environmentalist/activist/mariner; captain, Greenpeace's ship “The Rainbow Warrior”
01/11: EDGAR RAY KILLEN, 92 (UD; in custody), Klansman convicted in 2005 for 1964 "Mississippi Burning" killings (James Chaney; Andrew Goodman; Michael Schwerner)
01/11: UMBERTO LOMBARDI, 78 (bus/pedestrian accident), Neapolitan-born Belleville NJ hairstylist “Umberto of Naples”; local Essex County NJ public access TV personality/impresario/ventriloquist
01/12: BELLA EMBERG, 80 (UD), UK TV comic actress (“The Russ Abbot Show” as “Blunderwoman”; “The Benny Hill Show”; “Doctor Who”; “Pennies from Heaven”; “Z-Cars”)
01/12: KEITH JACKSON, 89 (UD), sportscaster, ABC Sports (“The Voice of College Football”; “Monday Night Football” – first season; Olympics: 1972, 1976, 1980)
01/12: BERNARDINE MORRIS, 92 (UD), fashion writer/reporter/critic (“Women’s Wear Daily”: “The New York Times,” 1963-1994)
01/12: Senator JOHN TUNNEY, 83 (prostate C), US Congressman (D-California, 38th District, 1965-1971); US Senator (D-California, 1971-1977); son of pugilist Gene Tunney; reportedly the inspiration for the film “The Candidate”
01/13: DOUG HARVEY, 87 (UD), Hall of Fame MLB umpire referred to by players as “God”
01/13: C. S. KEYS, 54 (UD); Pittsburgh and San Diego sportscaster and radio/TV personality
01/13: JEAN PORTER, 95 (NC), 1930s/1940s ingénue actress (“Abbott and Costello in Hollywood”; “Hellzapoppin’”; “That Hagen Girl”); widow of blacklisted director Edward Dmytryk
01/13: BOBBY ZARIN, 71 (C), textile industry entrepreneur; husband of reality TV personality Jill Zarin (“The Real Housewives of New York City”)
01/14: DAN GURNEY, 86 (c’s: PN), race car driver/team owner (Indianapolis 500; NASCAR)
01/14: WILLIAM “BILL” HUGHES, 87 (UD), jazz/big band trombonist, The Count Basie Orchestra
01/14: YOSUKE NATSUKI, 91 (kidney C). Japanese film actor (“Storm over the Pacific”: Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo”; Toho Studios’ “Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster,” “Godzilla 1984”)
01/14: MARLENE VerPLANCK, 84 (pancreatic C), 1950s big band/jazz vocalist (Charlie Spivak, Tommy Dorsey); jingle singer (Campbell’s “Mm-Mm-Good”; Michelob’s “Yeah”; “Nationwide Is on Your Side”)
01/14: HUGH WILSON, 74 (lung C; EM), TV sitcom creator/writer/director (“WKRP in Cincinnati”; “Frank’s Place”; “The Famous Teddy Z”; “Easy Street”); film writer/director (“Police Academy”)
01/15: ROMANA ACOSTA BAÑUELOS, 92 (PN), Mexican-American US Treasurer (1971-1974, under Nixon)
01/15: BARBARA COPE, 67 (East Dallas TX house fire). 1970s rock music groupie “The Butter Queen” (Traffic; Jimi Hendrix; Joe Cocker; Rolling Stones; David Cassidy)
01/15: EDWIN HAWKINS, 74 (pancreatic C), gospel music singer/choir director, “The Edwin Hawkins Singers” [“Oh Happy Day”’ “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” with folk singer Melanie]
01/15: JOE FRANK, 79 (DH), FR-born radio writer/host/humorist/monologist (WBAI-FM’s “In the Dark”: NPR’s “NPR Playhouse,” “Weekend All Things Considered”)
01/15: Dr. MATHILDE KRIM, 91 (UD), Italian-born HIV/AIDS researcher/founding chairperson, amFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research); widow of film exec Arthur Krim (United Artists); co-host, 1962 Madison Square Garden JFK birthday party attended by Marilyn Monroe
01/15: DOLORES O’RIORDAN, 46 (suspected mental health-derived SU), Irish lead singer/musician, 1990s rock band “The Cranberries” (”Zombie”)
01/15: Gov. JOHN SPELLMAN, 91 (PN), Governor of Washington state (R, 1981-1985)
01/15: PETER WYNGARDE, 90 (UD), FR-born UK actor (“Department S”/”Jason King”; “The Prisoner” as “Number Two”; “Burn, Witch, Burn!”; “Flash Gordon”); one-time companion to actor Alan Bates
01/16: WILLIAM “BILL” BAIN JR., 80 (UD), founder, management company Bain & Company; mentor to 2012 presidential candidate Willard “Mitt” Romney
01/16: BRADFORD DILLMAN, 87 (c’s: PN), actor (film: “Compulsion,” “The Way We Were”; Broadway: original 1956 cast, “Long Day’s Journey into Night”)
01/16: JACINTE GISCARD d’ESTAING, 57 (UD), FR veterinarian; daughter of 1970s FR President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
01/16: TYLER HILINSKI, 21 (SU/gunshot), college football player (Washington State University)
01/16: DAVE HOLLAND, 69 (UD), UK rock drummer (“Trapeze”; 1980s “Judas Priest”); convicted sex offender
01/16: MICKI VARRO, 75 (HA), jazz vocalist; 1970s Miami TV meteorologist (ABC affiliate WPLG-TV); actress (“The Champ” remake’ “Airport ‘77”; “The New Howdy Doody Show”)
01/16: JOSEPH “JO JO” WHITE, 71 (PN), Hall of Fame NBA player (Boston Celtics)
01/17: SIMON SHELTON (aka SIMON BARNES), 52 (hypothermia following outdoor collapse and overnight unconsciousness/exposure), UK children’s TV actor (“Teletubbies,” as purple “Tinky Winky”)
01/18: JOHN BARTON, 89 (UD), UK stage director/impresario; co-founder, Royal Shakespeare Company
01/18: BOB CARLTON, 67 (UD), UK theatrical producer; dramatist, jukebox musical “Return to the Forbidden Planet”
01/18: ECHO STAR HELMSTROM CASEY, approx. 75 (UD), singer Bob Dylan’s 1950s high school girlfriend/musel reportedly the inspiration for Dylan’s song “Girl from the North Country”
01/18: JULIUS LESTER, 78 (EM), academician; children’s author (“To Be a Slave”; “Let’s Talk about Race” – Newbery; “John Henry” – Caldecott); convert to Judaism
01/18: OLIVIA LUA (aka OLIVIA VOLTAIRE), 23 (UD), pornographic film actress
01/18: PETER MAYLE, 78 (brief), FR-based, UK expatriate memoirist (“A Year in Provence”)’; 1970s children’s sex education author (“Where Did I Come From?”)
01/18: EDWARD McLAUGHLIN, 91 (UD), ABC Radio exec noted for advancing the careers of Casey Kasem, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Dean Edell; creator, Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story”
01/18: STEVE “GRIZZLY” NISBETT, 69 (UD), Nevis-born UK drummer, 1970s reggae group Steel Pulse
01/18: NANCY RICHLER, 60 (C), Canadian novelist; second cousin of author Mordecai Richler
01/18: HARRY SELBY, 92 (UD), South African-born, Botswana-based big game hunter/safari agent made famous by author/journalist Robert Ruark in his book “Horn of the Hunter”
01/18: BOB SMITH, 59 (c’s: ALS), comedic actor (“Funny Gay Males”); first openly gay male comedian to headline his own HBO comedy special (1994)
01/18: Adm. STANSFIELD TURNER, 94 (UD), naval officer (33 years); Director, CIA (1977-1981, under Carter)
01/19: LIN BOLEN, 76 (UD), 1970s NBC programming exec (cancelled “Concentration” and the original “Jeopardy!”; commissioned “Wheel of Fortune”; expanded soap operas to one hour)
01/19: OLIVIA COLE, 75 (HA), TV actress (“Szysznyk”; “Roots”; “Backstairs at the White House”; “The Women of Brewster Place”)
01/19: JOHN CONBOY, 83 (UD), TV soap opera producer (“Love Is a Many Splendored Thing”; “The Young and the Restless”; “Capitol”; “Santa Barbara”; “Guiding Light”)
01/19: DOROTHY MALONE, 92 (lengthy), actress (“Written on the Wind” – AA; “The Big Sleep”; “Man of a Thousand Faces”; “Artists and Models”; “Beach Party”; TV’s “Peyton Place”)
01/19: ALLISON BRECKER SHEARMUR, 54 (c’s: lung C), quadruplet-born studio exec/producer (“Rogue One”; “Hunger Games” series; “Pride + Prejudice + Zombies”)
01/20: PAUL BOCUSE, 91 (PD), celebrity FR chef noted for nouvelle cuisine
01/20: US Marshall RICHARD KIRKLAND “KIRK” BOWDEN, 82 (CHF), DC law enforcement official who provided protection for civil rights figures James Meredith; MLK (1963 March on Washington)
01/20: JOHN COLEMAN, 83 (UD), TV meteorologist/co-founder, The Weather Channel; original meteorologist, ABC’s “Good Morning, America” (1975-1982); reportedly a climate change skeptic
01/20: TERRY EVANS, 80 (UD), blues/R&B/soul singer/musician/session man (Bobby King; Ry Cooder; John Fogerty; Eric Clapton; Joan Armatrading; John Lee Hooker; Boz Scaggs; Maria Muldaur)
01/20: HOWARD LEW LEWIS, 76 (dementia), UK comedic TV actor (TV: “Maid Marian and her Merry Men,” “Brush Strokes,” “Blackadder”)
01/20: NAOMI PARKER FRALEY, 96 (UD), WWII-era munitions factory worker; credible claimant to having been the model for character “Rosie the Riveter” in the “We Can Do It!” poster
01/20: JIM RODFORD, 76 (fall), UK bassist, Argent; 1970s The Kinks; re-grouped The Zombies; cousin of keyboardist Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent)
01/20: Gen. DORON RUBIN, 74 (UD), Israeli Defense Forces battalion commander, 1973 Yom Kippur War
01/20: WALTER SKOLD, 57 (HA), academician; poetry enthusiast/founder, The Dead Poets Society of America known for having visited over 600 poets’ gravesites – one month following purchasing his own headstone
01/21: ROBERT ARTHUR, 89 (UD), long-time music coordinator for “The Ed Sullivan Show” mostly noted for compromising the Rolling Stones’ performance of “Let’s Spend the Night Together”
01/21: BARBARA ESPY, 64 (head-on automobile collision), wife of TV producer/talk show staffer/bookkeeper Daniel Espy
01/21: DANIEL ESPY, 61 (head-on automobile collision), EVS operator/bookkeeper for NBC-Universal TV (“The Maury Povich Show”; “The Jerry Springer Show”); 1970s NJ-based TV producer (WBTB-TV/ 68’s “The Danny Tarantino Show”)
01/21: JOEL FREEMAN, 95 (AZD; lung C), film producer (“Finian’s Rainbow”; “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”; “Shaft”; “Love at First Bite”); nephew of film producer/exec Dore Schary
01/21: BERT PADELL, 84 (UD), showbiz talent manager and “accountant to the stars” name-referenced in a Notorious B.I.G. song
circa 01/21: STEVE BROWN, 42 (UD), Rhodesian-born UK music producer (Elton John – first LP “Empty Sky”; Alison Moyet; ABC ; The Cult; The Pogues; Wham!)
01/22: BILLY HANCOCK, 71 (c’s: cirrhosis), rockabilly singer/guitarist (UK #1 “Rootie Tootie”)
01/22: URSULA KROEBER LeGUIN, 88 (peacefully), science fiction/fantasy author (“The Left Hand of Darkness”; “Earthsea” series)
01/22: CONNIE SAWYER, 105 (peacefully), film actress, reportedly the “Oldest Working Hollywood Actress” (“A Hole in the Head”; “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”; “The Man in the Glass Booth”)
01/22: LARI WHITE, 52 (peritoneal C), country singer/songwriter; actress (“Cast Away”)
01/23: ROBERT DOWDELL, 85 (NC), 1960s TV actor (“Stoney Burke”; “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”)
01/23: HUGH MASEKELA, 78 (prostate C), South African jazz trumpet virtuoso (1968 #1 instrumental hit “Grazin’ in the Grass”); anti-apartheid activist
01/23: EZRA SWERDLOW, 64 (pancreatic C; ALS), NYC-oriented film producer/exec producer (“Cop Land”; “The Equalizer”; “Radio Days”; “The First Wives’ Club”)
01/23: JOEL TAYLOR, 38 (suspected drug OD aboard cruise ship), storm-themed reality TV personality (Discovery’s "Storm Chasers")
01/23: The Rev. Dr. WYATT TEE WALKER, 88 (UD), Harlem NYC minister/pastor; civil rights activist (close associate of MLK)
01/24: JACK KETCHUM (pseudonym of DALLAS MAYR), 71 (C), horror novelist (“The Box”; “Off Season”; “The Girl Next Door); screenwriter (“Offspring”)
01/24: WARREN MILLER, 93 (UD), skiing/snow sports film documentarian
01/24: MARK E. SMITH, 60 (UD), founding singer/songwriter/front man, 1980s UK post-punk/alternative band The Fall
01/25: MAO KANKAN, 34 (SU/gas asphyxiation), Chinese gaming industry entrepreneur
01/25: FLOYD MILES, 74 (UD), R&B singer/musician; mentor to teenaged rock musicians Gregg Allman, Duane Allman
01/25: JOHN MORRIS, 91 (respiratory infection), film composer/songwriter, primarily for director Mel Brooks (“The Producers”; “The Twelve Chairs”; “Blazing Saddles”; “Young Frankenstein”; “Silent Movie”; “High Anxiety”; “The Elephant Man”; “History of the World, Part I”; “To Be or Not To Be”)
01/25: CLIFF WHITE, 72 (CA), UK music journalist/interviewer (“NME: New Music Express”)
01/25: CYRUS YAVNEH, 76 (lung C), TV/film producer (“24”; “Supernatural”; “It’s Pat: The Movie”)
01/26: EUGEN WEIDMANN, 88 (UD), Swiss-born circus animal/big cats trainer
01/26: KENDALL CARLY BROWNE, 99 (NC), actress (“The Jack Benny Program”); mother of actor Bart Braverman; one-time receptionist, Zeppo Marx Talent Agency
01/27: LINDA CARLSON, 50s (NC), exec, several title sequence creating firms (“Game of Thrones”; “Five Came Back”; “Justice League”)
01/26: REESE “BUZZ” CLIFFORD, 76 (c’s: flu), 1960s novelty singer/songwriter (“Baby Sittin’ Boogie”)
01/26: ELIZABETH HAWLEY, 94 (UD), journalist noted for Himalayan expeditionary reportage
01/26: STACEY SMITH YOUNG, 52 (brain C), UK model; wife of UK pop singer Paul Young
01/27: ROBERT M. ADAMS, 91 (UD), anthropologist; secretary/curator, The Smithsonian Institute (1984-1994)
01/27: JERRY BUTLER, 58 (UD), 1980s pornographic actor/industry memoirist; one-time husband of actress Lisa Loring (“The Addams Family”)
01/27: JEFF HUNTER, 91 (UD), talent agent/manager for William Morris Agency (Morgan Freeman; Mandy Patinkin: Marlene Dietrich; Mary Martin; Barbra Streisand; Nathan Lane: many others)
01/27: ROBERT PARRY, 68 (c’s: series of SKs), Associated Press investigative reporter among the first to report Iran/Contra scandal
01/27: DENNIS PERON, 71 (lung C), LGBT and medical marijuana advocate/activist
01/27: FRANKLIN STICKLE, 85 (UD), 1960s NYC radio personality/newsman (WMCA-AM’s “The Good Guys”)
01/27: (ADDISON) MORTON WALKER, 94 (c’s: PN), syndicated cartoonist (“Beetle Bailey”; “Hi and Lois”; “Sam’s Strip”; “Boner’s Ark”); founder, the International Museum of Cartoon Art
01/28: JANET CANTOR GARI, 90 (DH), memoirist; youngest/last surviving daughter of entertainer Eddie Cantor; mother of songwriter/Broadway composer Brian Gari (“Late Nite Comic”)
01/28: NEIL HARRIS, 63 (C), UK guitarist/founder, 1970s/1980s punk band Sham 69
01/28: INGVAR KAMPRAD, 91 (PN), Swedish entrepreneur; founder, furniture retailer IKEA
01/28: HEINZ JAKOB "COCO" SCHUMANN, 93 (UD), Holocaust-surviving German jazz guitarist (for Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald)
01/29: RICK McKAY, 57 (UD), theatre historian/film documentarian (“Broadway: The Golden Age”)
01/30: MARK SALLING, 35 (SU/hanging), TV actor (“Glee”) convicted of possessing child pornography
01/30: LOUIS ZORICH, 93 (UD), TV character actor(“Mad About You”; “Brooklyn Bridge”); husband of actress Olympia Dukakis; NJ theatrical actor/director/impresario (The Whole Theatre, Montclair NJ)
01/31: DAN ALON, 72 (C), Israeli fencer; survivor/hero (rescued four others), 1972 Munich Olympics massacre,
01/31: RASUAL BUTLER, 38 (high-speed single-car automobile collision), former NBA player; husband of R&B singer Leah LeBelle (“American Idol,” Season 3 contestant – died in same crash)
01/31: LARRY COEN, 59 (UD), Boston-based comedic theatrical actor/director/dramatist (Broadway’s “Epic Proportions”)
01/31: OSCAR GAMBLE, 68 (ameloblastic carcinoma – rare jawbone-originating C), 1970s/1980s MLB player with New York Yankees (two stints) known for his large Afro hairstyle
01/31: ANN GILLIS, 90 (UD), UK-based American expatriate 1930s/1940s actress (“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”; “Little Orphan Annie”; “The Time of Their Lives”; “2001: A Space Odyssey”)
01/31: LEAH LeBELLE, 31 (high-speed single-car automobile collision), Canadian-born R&B singer (”American Idol,” Season 3 finalist); wife of former NBA player Rasual Butler (died in same crash)
01/31: WILLIAM “BILL” O’CONNOR, 47 (SY), fantasy artist (“Dungeons & Dragons”; “Magic: The Gathering”; “Dracopedia”)
01/31: ANDRÉ SURMAIN, 97 (UD), FR-born NYC restaurateur (high-end FR haute cuisine restaurant Lutèce)
ALPHABETICAL CROSS-REFERENCE, JANUARY 2018
ROMANA ACOSTA BAÑUELOS, 92, US Treasurer (1971-1974), 01/15
ROBERT M. ADAMS, 91, anthropologist/museum director. 01/27
DAN ALON, 72, Israeli fencer; survivor/hero, 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, 01/31
AHARON APPELFELD, 85, Romanian-born, Holocaust-surviving Israeli author, 01/04
ROBERT ARTHUR, 89, music coordinator for “The Ed Sullivan Show,” 01/21
WILLIAM “BILL” BAIN JR., 80, financier; mentor to presidential candidate Willard “Mitt” Romney, 01/16
Rep. DOUG BARNARD JR., 95, US Congressman (D-GA), 01/11
JOHN BARTON, 89, UK stage director/impresario, 01/18
FRED BASS, 89, NYC bookstore entrepreneur, 01/03
PAUL BOCUSE, 91, celebrity FR chef, 01/20
LIN BOLEN, 76, 1970s NBC programming exec, 01/19
THOMAS BOPP, 68, co-discover, “Comet Hale-Bopp,” 01/06
RICHARD K. “KIRK” BOWDEN, 82, DC civil rights era, MLK-connected law enforcement official, 01/20
KENDALL CARLY BROWNE, 99, actress; mother of actor Bart Braverman, 01/26
ROBERT “BOB” BURCHETT, 84, commercial artist; old time radio impresario, 01.02
JERRY BUTLER, 58, pornographic actor/industry memoirist, 01/27
RASUAL BUTLER, 38, NBA player – high-speed single-car automobile collision, 01/31
FRANK BUXTON, 87, TV actor/director/writer/voice-over artist, old time radio encyclopaedist, 01/02
Gov. BRENDAN T. BYRNE, 93, 1970s Governor of NJ (D), 01/04
TONY CALDER, 74, UK music promoter/publicist, 01/02
LINDA CARLSON, 50s, film/TV title sequence artist, 01/27
BOB CARLTON, 67, UK theatrical producer/dramatist, 01/18
ECHO STAR HELMSTROM CASEY, approx. 75, singer Bob Dylan’s 1950s high school girlfriend/muse, 01/18
JON CASTLE, 67, UK environmentalist/activist/mariner, 01/11
“FAST” EDDIE CLARKE, 67, UK guitarist, 01/10
RITA CROCKER CLEMENTS, 86, First Lady to 1980s Texas Gov. Bill Clements, 01/06
REESE “BUZZ” CLIFFORD, 76, 1960s novelty singer/songwriter, 01/26
LARRY COEN, 59, Broadway dramatist, 01/31
OLIVIA COLE, 75, TV actress, 01/19
JOHN COLEMAN, 83, TV meteorologist/impresario, 01/20
JOHN CONBOY, 83, TV soap opera producer, 01/19
BARBARA COPE, 67, 1970s rock music groupie – house fire, 01/15
JESSE DAVID CRUMB, 49, son of comics artist Robert Crumb, 01/03
PEARL SOMNER DEBUSKEY, 94, stage/screen costume designer, 01/05
BRADFORD DILLMAN, 87, stage/screen actor, 01/16
CLAUDE DIXON, 92, CT-based print/radio journalist, 01/07
ROBERT DOWDELL, 85, 1960sTV actor, 01/23
BELLA EMBERG, 80, UK TV comedic actress, 01/12
BARBARA ESPY, 64, wife of TV producer Daniel Espy – automobile collision, 01/21
DANIEL ESPY, 61, TV producer; various positions, NBC-Universal TV – automobile collision, 01/21
TERRY EVANS, 80, blues/R&B/soul singer/musician/session man, 01/20:
DAVID FISHER, 88, UK TV writer, 01/10
NAOMI PARKER FRALEY, 96, WWII-era “Rosie the Riveter” claimant, 01/20:
JOE FRANK, 79, FR-born radio writer/host/humorist/monologist, 01/15
JOEL FREEMAN, 95, film producer; nephew of film producer Dore Schary, 01/21
ISABELLE "FRANCE" GALL, 70, 1960s FR pop singer, 01/07
OSCAR GAMBLE, 68, baseball player, 01/31
JANET CANTOR GARI, 90, youngest/last surviving daughter of entertainer Eddie Cantor, 01/28
ANN GILLIS, 90, actress, 01/31
JACINTE GISCARD d’ESTAING, 57, daughter of 1970s FR President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 01/16
PAUL GORESH, 58, amateur photographer of John Lennon with Lennon’s killer, 01/09DAN GURNEY, 86, race car driver/team owner, 01/14
ROE ERISTER “RICK” HALL, 85, record producer, 01/02
BILLY HANCOCK, 71, rockabilly singer/guitarist, 01/22
BILL HARRIS, 84, 1960s comic book writer/editor, 01/08
NEIL HARRIS, 63, UK punk musician, 01/28
CAROLE HART, 74, children’s TV writer/producer, 01/05
DOUG HARVEY, 87, MLB umpire, 01/13
EDWIN HAWKINS, 74, gospel music singer/choir director, 01/15
ELIZABETH HAWLEY, 94, mountaineering=oriented journalist, 01/26
Brig. Gen. ANNA MAE McCABE HAYS, 97, first female general in US armed forces, 01/07
TYLER HILINSKI, 21, college football player – SU/gunshot, 01/16
BRANDON HIXON, 36, Idaho legislator under sexual abuse investigation – SU/gunshot, 01/09
DAVE HOLLAND, 69, UK rock drummer, 01/16
Rep. MARJORIE HOLT, 97, US Congresswoman (R-MD, 1973-1987), 01/06
WILLIAM “BILL” HUGHES, 87, jazz/big band trombonist, 01/14
JEFF HUNTER, 91 talent agent/manager, 01/27
KEITH JACKSON, 89, sportscaster, 01/12
INGVAR KAMPRAD, 91, Swedish furniture entrepreneur; 01/28
KATHERINE KELLGREN, 48, audio-book narratrix, 01/10
JACK KETCHUM (pseudonym of DALLAS MAYR), 71, horror novelist/screenwriter, 01.24
C. S. KEYS, 54, San Diego radio/TV sportscaster/air personality, 01/13
EDGAR RAY KILLEN, 92, "Mississippi Burning" murderer, 01/11
Dr. MATHILDE KRIM, 91, Italian-born HIV/AIDS researcher/activist, 01/15
WILTON LANNING, 81, founding president, Doctor Pepper Museum, 01/10
DENISE LaSALLE, 79, blues/R&B singer, 01/09
LEAH LeBELLE, 31, Canadian-born R&B singer – high-speed single-car automobile collision, 01/31
URSULA KROEBER LeGUIN, 88, science fiction/fantasy author, 01/22
JULIUS LESTER, 78, academician; children’s non-fiction author, 01/18:
HOWARD LEW LEWIS, 76, UK comedic TV actor, 01/20
OLIVIA LUA (aka OLIVIA VOLTAIRE), 23, pornographic film actress, 01/18
UMBERTO LOMBARDI, 78, Neapolitan-born NJ TV personality “Umberto of Naples” – bus/pedestrian accident, 01/11
Rep. TOM LUKAN, 92, US Congressman (D-OH, 1974-1991), 01/10
DOROTHY MALONE, 92, film/TV actress, 01/19
TERENCE MARSH, 86, UK-born production designer/set decorator, 01/09
MAO KANKAN, 34, Chinese gaming industry entrepreneur – SU/gas asphyxiation, 01/25
HUGH MASEKELA, 78, South African chart-topping jazz trumpet virtuoso, 01/23
PETER MAYLE, 78, FR-based, UK expatriate memoirist, 01/18
RICK McKAY, 57, theatre historian/film documentarian, 01/29
EDWARD McLAUGHLIN, 91, radio exec/impresario, 01/18
FLOYD MILES, 74, R&B singer/musician, 01/25
JOSEPH WAYNE MILLER, 36, 1990s juvenile actor, 01/09
WARREN MILLER, 93, skiing/snow sports film documentarian, 01.24
JOSÉ MOLINA (QUIJADA), 80, Spanish-born flamenco dancer/choreographer, 01/05
THOMAS MONSON, 90, sitting president, Mormon church, 01/02
BERNARDINE MORRIS, 92, fashion journalist, 01/12
JOHN MORRIS, 91, film composer/songwriter, 01/25
YOSUKE NATSUKI, 91, Japanese film actor, 01/14
TOM NETHERTON, 70, “Lawrence Welk Show” baritone, 01/07
STEVE NISBETT, 69, Nevis-born UK reggae percussionist, 01/08
OLIVIA NOVA, 20, pornographic film actress, 01/07
WILLIAM “BILL” O’CONNOR, 47, fantasy artist, 01/31
DOLORES O’RIORDAN, 46, Irish singer/musician, 01/15
BERT PADELL, 84, showbiz talent manager/“accountant to the stars,” 01/21
ROBERT PARRY, 68, investigative print journalist, 01/27
DENNIS PERON, 71, LGBT and medical marijuana advocate/activist, 01/27
JEAN PORTER, 95, 1930s/1940s ingénue film actress, 01/13
DONNELLY RHODES, 80, Canadian-born TV actor, 01/08
NANCY RICHLER, 60, Canadian novelist related to author Mordecai Richler, 01/18
JAMES “JIMMY” ROBINSON, 67, 1970s rock music recording engineer, 01/06
JIM RODFORD, 76, UK musician, 01/20
MILTON ROSENBERG, 92, Chicago radio personality, 01/09
Gen. DORON RUBIN, 74, Israeli battalion commander, 1973 Yom Kippur War, 01/20
MARK SALLING, 35, TV actor convicted child pornography possession – SU/hanging, 01/30
CONNIE SAWYER, 105, actress, 01/22
HEINZ JAKOB "COCO" SCHUMANN, 93, German jazz guitarist, 01/28
HARRY SELBY, 92, South African-born big game hunter/safari agent, 01/18
ALLISON BRECKER SHEARMUR, 54, quadruplet-born studio exec/film producer, 01/19
SIMON SHELTON (aka SIMON BARNES), 52, UK children’s TV actor, 01/17
DAVID SHERWIN, 75, UK screenwriter, 01/08
WALTER SKOLD, 57, poetry/deceased poets enthusiast, 01/20:
BOB SMITH, 59, 1990s openly gay comedian/comic performer, 01/18
MARK E. SMITH, 60, UK singer/songwriter/musician, 01/24
Gov. JOHN SPELLMAN, 91, 1980s Governor. WA (R), 01/15
CHRISTA LEIGH STEELE-KNUDSLIEN, 42, transgendered activist – homicide, 01/05
JON PAUL STEUER, 33, 1990s child TV actor, 01/01
FRANKLIN STICKLE, 85, NYC radio personality/newsman, 01/27
DON SULLIVAN, 88, B-movie actor, 01/07
ANDRÉ SURMAIN, 97, FR-born NYC restaurateur, 01/31
EZRA SWERDLOW, 64, film producer/exec producer, 01/23
JOELTAYLOR, 38, storm-themed reality TV personality, 01/23
MARK TENSER, 87, film producer, 01/01
RAY THOMAS, 76, UK musician, 01/04
JOHN THOMPSON, 71, film producer/exec, 01/09
GRETA THYSSEN, 90, Danish-born B-movie actress, 01/06
DAVE TOSCHI, 86, “Zodiac Killer” investigative detective, 01/06
DOREEN TRACEY, 74, UK-born juvenile actress/“Mouseketeer,” 01/10
WOLFGANG TREU, 87, German cinematographer, 01/01
CHRIS TSANGARIDES, 61, UK rock music producer, 01/06
Sen. JOHN TUNNEY, 83, 1960s/1970s US Congressman/Senator (D-CA), 01/12
STANSFIELD TURNER, 94, US Navy admiral; 1970s Director, CIA, 01/18
JERRY VAN DYKE, 86, TV sitcom actor, 01/05
MICKI VARRO, 75, jazz vocalist; 1970s Miami TV meteorologis/actress, 01/16
MARLENE VerPLANCK, 84, jazz vocalist; jingle singer, 01/14
(ADDISON) MORTON WALKER, 94, syndicated cartoonist, 01/27
WYATT TEE WALKER, 88, civil rights activist/minister, 01/23
EUGEN WEIDMANN, 88, Swiss-born circus animal trainer, 01/26
CLIFF WHITE, 72, UK music journalist, 01/25
JOSEPH “JO JO” WHITE, 71, NBA player, 01/16
LARI WHITE, 52, country singer/songwriter; film actress, 01/22
BETTY WILLIS, 76, 1960s soul singer – homicide, 01/01
HUGH WILSON, 74, film/TV sitcom creator/writer/director, 01/14
PETER WYNGARDE, 90, FR-born UK actor, 01/15
CYRUS YAVNEH, 76, TV/film producer, 01/25
DOUG YOUNG, 98, cartoon voice-over artist, 01-07
JOHN W. YOUNG, 87, astronaut, 01/05
STACEY SMITH YOUNG, 52, UK model; wife of UK pop singer Paul Young, 01/26
BOBBY ZARIN, 71, textile business entrepreneur; husband of reality TV personality Jill Zarin, 01/13
LOUIS ZORICH, 93, TV character actor; NJ theatrical actor/impresario, 01/30
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