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ABBREVIATION KEY (GENERAL):
AA = Academy Award(s); AA-N = Academy Award nominated; AA-W = Academy Award winning; aka = “also known as”; C&W = country and western; CT = Connecticut; D- = Democratic; exec = executive; GA = Georgia; Hon. = The Honorable; JFK = President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; LA = Los Angeles, California; LGBTQ = “lesbian, gay, bisexual transgendered, questioning”; LP = long-playing 33-1/3 record album; MLK = Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior; MMA = mixed martial arts; MS = Mississippi; NJ = New Jersey; NY = New York state; NYC = New York City; PA = Pennsylvania; Pulitzer = Pulitzer Prize; R&B = rhythm and blues; Rep. = Representative, US Congressman, US Congresswoman; Sen. = Senator; UK = United Kingdom, British, Great Britain; US = United States of America, American; WWF = World Wrestling Foundation
ABBREVIATIONS (MEDICAL):
BH = brain/cerebra; hemorrhage; brief = brief illness/short illness; C = cancer; CH = cerebral hemorrhage, CHF = congestive heart failure; c’s: = complications of; DB = diabetes; DH = declining health; DM = dementia; ER = during emergency room visit; gun = victim of gun violence; H = heart; HA = heart attack/cardiac arrest; HD = heart disease/heart ailments; HF = heart failure; HM = victim of homicide; hospice = in hospice; KD = kidney disease; KF = kidney failure/renal failure; lengthy = long illness/lengthy illness/extended illness; LK = leukemia; LY = lymphoma; MY = myeloma; NC = natural causes; OD = overdose (drug, unless otherwise noted); PD = Parkinson’s disease; PN = pneumonia; SK = stroke; sleep = in his/her sleep; SU = suicide; sudden = suddenly/sudden illness; UD = undisclosed
LATE DECEMBER 2018/NOT PUBLICIZED UNTIL 2019 (HIGHLIGHTS):
This list reflects personages who died in late 2018 and, therefore, not reflected in most 2018 year-end necrologies, and personages whose
11/08: C. Y. (CHIN YANG) LEE, 102 (KF), Chinese-born stage/film adapted novelist (Flower Drum Song)
11/17: MARY KAY STEARNS, 83 (UD), early TV sitcom actress (Mary Kay and Johnny, 1947)
12/19: NORMAN GIMBEL, 91 (UD), songwriter (Canadian Sunset; Killing Me Softly; The Girl from Ipanema; I Got a Name; Ready to Take the Chance Again; Ricochet Romance; TV themes for Wonder ; Happy Days; Laverne & Shirley; Angie)
12/23: ANNE MARGOT “HONEY” LANTREE, 75 (UD), UK drummer/vocalist, 1960s British Invasion group The Honeycombs (Have I the Right?))
12/26: FRANK ADONIS, 83 (KF), character actor (GoodFellas), son of mobster Joe Adonis
12/26: Sister WENDY BECKETT, 88 (UD), UK nun/TV personality (art appreciation documentaries)
12/26: HERBERT ELLIS, 97 (UD), actor (radio/TV Dragne; Stanley Kubrick film The Killing)
12/26: MARTIN SOBELL, 101 (UD), convicted Soviet spy connected to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
12/27: CHRIS BURROUS, 43 (suspected OD), broadcast news journalist/anchor (NYC’s WPIX/11; LA’s KTLA/5)
12/27: TOM WILLIAMS, 89 (UD), TV sitcom actor; voice-over artist; TV producer associated with Jack Webb (assistant producer, Dragnet 1967; show runner, Adam-12)
12/28: (RUBY) CHRISTINE McGUIRE, 92 (UD), 1950s pop singer, The McGuire Sisters (Something’s Gotta Give; Sincerely; Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight; Sugartime)
12/28: AMOS OZ (ne Klausner), 79 (C), Israeli author/journalist/academician; peace activist
12/28: RAY SAWYER, 81 (DH), eye-patched front man/sometimes lead singer, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (Cover of the Rolling Stone; Sylvia’s Mother; When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman)
12/29: BRIAN GARFIELD, 79 (PD), film-adapted novelist (Death Wish; Hopscotch)
12/29: CARLOS SANCHEZ, 83 (UD), Columbian TV actor (as 1970s coffee pitchman “Juan Valdez”)
12/31: DEAN FORD, 72 (UD), Scottish singer/front man/songwriter, 1960s pop group Marmalade (Reflections of My Life); LA-based limousine driver to the stars (Michael Jackson; Bob Dylan)
12/31: AL REINERT, 71 (C), NASA beat journalist; space-oriented screenwriter (“For All Mankind” documentary; Apollo 13)
JANUARY 2019:
01/01/19: ED BAER, 82 (c’s: PN), NYC radio personality (WMCA/570 AM; WHN/1050 AM; WYNY/ 97.1 FM; WHUD/100.7 FM; WCBS/101.1 FM; Sirius Satellite Radio)
01/01: ED CORNEY, 85 (c’s: brain aneurysm), bodybuilder (film Pumping Iron)
01/01: JOE STAPLETON, 55 (sudden), Boston radio traffic reporter (WBZ/1030 AM); actor (Mystic River; Spotlight; Manchester by the Sea)
01/01: PEGI YOUNG, 66 (C), educator; back-up singer for and former wife of Canadian singer Neil Young
01/01: PERRY DEAN YOUNG, 77 (C), Vietnam War correspondent; author (The David Kopay Story; Two of the Missing: God’s Bullies)
01/02: BOB EINSTEIN, 76 (LK), TV comedic actor/performer/writer (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour – “Officer Judy”; Super Dave Osborne – title role; Curb Your Enthusiasm – “Marty Funkhouser”); brother of comedian/director Albert Brooks; son of radio comedian Harry “Parkyakarkus” Einstein
01/02: DARYL “THE CAPTAIN” DRAGON, 76 (KF), songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, The Captain and Tennille (Love Will Keep Us Together; Do That to Me One More Time; Muskrat Love); 1970s session pianist, The Beach Boys; son of Big Band era bandleader Carmen Dragon
01/02: JULIA GRANT (nee George Roberts), 64 (brief), pioneering UK transgendered activist; subject of 1979 BBC-TV documentary A Change of Sex
01/02: BLAKE NORDSTROM, 58 (LY), co-president, retailer Nordstrom
01/02: GENE “MEAN GENE” OKERLUND, 76 (UD), professional wrestling announcer/commentator (WWF)
01/02: SYLVIA CHASE, 80 (brain C), TV news correspondent/investigative journalist (ABC: 20/20; World News Tonight; KRON/5, San Francisco)
01/03: JOHN FALSEY, 67 (c’s: fall/head injury), TV writer; series co-producer/co-creator (St. Elsewhere; Northern Exposure; I'll Fly Away)
01/03: HERB KELLEHER, 87 (UD), co-founder, Southwest Airlines
01/03: JAMES POND, 60 (UD), TV sitcom writer/producer (Newhart; Night Court; Hope & Gloria)
01/04: HAROLD BROWN, 91 (pancreatic C), US Secretary of Defense (1977-1981, Carter)
01/04: LOUISA MORITZ, 72 (HD), Cuban-born 1970s/1980s film/episodic TV actress; Bill Cosby historical rape accuser
01/05: ERIC HAYDOCK, 75 (UD), original bassist/co-founder, 1960s/1970s UK band The Hollies (Bus Stop; Carrie Anne; I Can't Let Go; Stop Stop Stop; On a Carousel)
01/06: CLYDIE KING, 75 (UD), female back-up singer (Ray Charles; The Rolling Stones; Bob Dylan; Arlo Guthrie; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Steely Dan; Joe Walsh; Phil Ochs; Carly Simon; Neil Diamond; Ringo Starr; Graham Nash; Linda Ronstadt; Barbra Streisand)
01/06: GREGORY RUDLOFF, 63 (SU), film sound mixer (Glory; The Matrix; Mad Max: Fury Road; The Princess Bride; Stand by Me; This Is Spinal Tap; several Clint Eastwood films)
01/06: W. (WILLIAM) MORGAN SHEPPARD, 86 (UD), UK-born prolific TV character actor (various Star Trek franchises; Max Headroom; Z Cars)
01/07: JO ANDRES, 65 (UD), independent film producer/director; wife of actor Steve Buscemi
01/07: JOHN SALTER JR. (aka JOHN HUNTER GRAY), 84 (UD), Civil Rights era college professor/activist (1963 photograph of Jackson MS Woolworth’s lunch counter protest)
01/07: ANDREW ZERMAN, 62 (UD), 1980s Broadway casting director (Les Misérables; Cats; The Phantom of the Opera)
01/08: JOHN BOHANNON, 81 (DH), NYC-area radio personality (WGBB/1250 AM, Freeport NY; “Jazz Café,” WRHU/88.7 FM, Hofstra University)
01/09: VERNA BLOOM, 80 (c’s: DM), film actress (Medium Cool; National Lampoon’s Animal House; After Hours; The Last Temptation of Christ)
01/09: LARRY CUNNINGHAM, 67 (lengthy), singer, 1970s soul group The Floaters (Float On)
01/09: Bishop JOSEPH HOWZE, 95 (UD), first modern-day African-American US Roman Catholic bishop (Diocese of Biloxi MS, 1977)
01/09: PAUL KOSLO, 74 (pancreatic C), German-born Canadian 1970s film character actor (The Omega Man)
01/09: JAKIW PALIJ, 95 (UD), Polish-born Queens NYC-residing Nazi war criminal/collaborator; 2018 US deportee to Germany
01/09: DON REYNOLDS, 81 (UD), 1940s Western film child actor (billed as “Little Brown Jug”; four “Red Ryder” films as “Little Beaver”)
01/09: LESTER WUNDERMAN, 98 (UD), advertising executive recognized as the “father of direct marketing”
01/10: STEFANOS MILTSAKAKIS, 59 (sleep), MMA fighter turned muscleman film actor (five Jean-Claude Van Damme films)
01/10: RON SMITH, 94 (UD), UK comics artist (Judge Dredd; The Beano/The Dandy comics weeklies)
01/11: SHIRLEY FOLEY BOONE, 84 (c’s: vasculitis), wife of singer Pat Boone; mother of singer Debby Boone; daughter of C&W singer Red Foley
01/12: BATTON LASH, 65 (brain C), comic book writer/artist (Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre; Archie Meets the Punisher)
01/12: SANGER "WHITEY" SHAFER, 84 (UD), C&W songwriter (All of My Ex’s Live in Texas)
01/13: BONNIE GUITAR (nee Buckingham), 95 (CHF), C&W singer/musician (1957 chart hit Dark Moon)
01/13: DAVID PRITCHARD, 73 (UD), UK TV producer (celebrity chef programs)
01/13: MEL STOTTLEMYER, 77 (multiple MY), 1960s/1970s pitcher, New York Yankees; pitching coach (New York Mets, Houston Astros, New York Yankees)
01/14: NEIL PADRON, 74 (bladder C), founder/owner, NYC/NJ/CT chain Petland Discounts
01/15: BILL ANAGNOS, 60, film stunt double (Saturday Night Fever; The Warriors; Can't Stop Music; The Sopranos)
01/15: BRADLEY BOLKE, 83 (DH), voice actor (Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales – “Chumley, the Walrus”; The New Casper Cartoon Show – “The Ghostly Trio”; The Year without a Santa Claus – “Jangle Bells”; Vaughn Meader’s “The First Family” LPs – Nikita Khrushchev); brother of comedian/voice actor Dayton Allen
01/15: CAROL CHANNING, 97 (NC), stage/film singer/actress (Broadway: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Hello, Dolly!; Lorelei; film: The First Traveling Saleslady; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Skidoo) – on 55th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “Hello, Dolly!”
01/15: LORNA DOOM (nee Teresa Ryan), 61 (breast C), bassist, 1970s LA punk band Germs
01/15: BRUCE TUFELD, 66 (liver C), Hollywood agent/manager; son of TV announcer/voice-over actor Dick Tufeld (Lost in Space robot)
01/17: WINDSOR DAVIES, 88 (UD), Welsh-born UK screen actor (I Ain’t Half Hot Mum; The Onedin Line; Carry On film series)
01/17: MARY OLIVER, 83 (LY), Pulitzer winning poet
01/17: REGGIE YOUNG, 82 (UD), session guitarist (Elvis Presley; Dusty Springfield; B.J. Thomas; The Box Tops; Waylon Jennings; Willie Nelson; Kenny Rogers; Neil Diamond; Hank Williams Jr.; Merle Haggard; Reba McIntire)
01/19: JOHN COUGHLIN, 33 (SU), professional figure skater – one day after interim suspension for unspecified charges from sport’s governing body US Figure Skating
01/19: NATHAN GLAZER, 95 (UD), neo-conservative sociologist/political scientist; author/academician
01/19: TED McKENNA, 68 (BH), Scottish drummer, 1970s UK glam rock group The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
01/19: TONY MENDEZ, 78 (PD), CIA operative/memoirist, Iranian Hostage Crisis/Canadian Embassy Rescue (portrayed by Ben Affleck in film “Argo”)
01/19: IGNACIO "NACHO" NAVA JR., 42 (PN), LA LGBTQ activist; nightlife impresario/personality
01/19: MURIEL PAVLOW, 97 (UD), UK stage/film actress (J. Arthur Rank contract player; “Doctor” series); oldest living/earliest debuting UK TV performer (Hansel and Gretel, 1937)
01/19: DAN STRIEPEKE, 88 (UD), film make-up artist (Spartacus; The Sound of Music; Planet of the Apes series; Grease; Patton; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Dragnet re-make; Forrest Gump; Saving Private Ryan; M*A*S*H; The Deer Hunter; My Favorite Year)
01/20: ANDY VAJNA, 74 (UD), Hungarian born film producer (Rambo: First Blood, Part II; Total Recall; Evita; Showgirls; Red Heat; Judge Dredd; Nixon)
01/21: MARCEL AZZOLA, 91 (UD), Italo-French accordionist for 1960s Belgian folk singer/songwriter Jacques Brel
01/21: RUSSELL BAKER, 93 (c’s: fall), Pulitzer winning columnist (The New York Times); humorist/memoirist (Growing Up); TV host (Masterpiece Theatre)
01/21: KAYE BALLARD, 93 (kidney C), Broadway/cabaret/TV singer/actress (The Mothers-in-Law; The Doris Day Show); first performer to record “Fly Me to the Moon” (aka “In Other Words”)
01/21: EDWIN BIRDSONG, 77 (UD), 1970s funk/jazz keyboardist
01/21: MAXINE BROWN (RUSSELL), 87 (c’s: HD/KD; hospice), last surviving member, 1950s/1960s C&W singing group The Browns (The Three Bells)
01/21: MERWIN GOLDSMITH, 81 (UD) character actor (Hercules in New York; Law & Order; The Hurricane, It Could Happen to You – as judges; documentary Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story, as “Mr. Monopoly”
01/21: Sen. HARRIS WOFFORD, 92 (c’s: fall), US Senator (D-PA, 1991-1995); 1960s civil rights advocate; JFK/MLK adviser/associate – on MLK holiday
01/22: KEVIN BARNETT, 32 (pancreatitis), comedian/comic actor; co-creator, Rel (current Fox-TV sitcom)
01/22: ANDREW McCULLOUGH, 94 (UD), TV director (1950s live TV; Omnibus; The Donna Reed Show; The Thin Man; Happy Days; Family Ties)
01/22; DEAN COPKOV, 52 (HM/gun), Canadian-born film stuntman (The Incredible Hulk remake; Pacific Rim: RoboCop remake); convicted drug smuggler – one day prior to Canadian drug smuggling sentencing
01/22: JAMES FRAWLEY, 82 (HA), TV/film director (The Monkees – 28 episodes; The Muppet Movie)
01/22: JO JO SMITH, 80 (c’s: SK), choreographer; dance consultant, film “Saturday Night Fever”; cousin of actress/dancer Debbie Allen
01/23: Rep. JACK BRINKLEY, 88 (ER), US Congressman/segregationist (D-GA/3rd District, 1967-1983)
01/23: JONAS MEKAS, 96 (UD), Lithuanian-born avant-garde director/documentarian
01/25: FATIMA ALI, 29 (bone C), Pakistani-born reality TV chef contestant/”fan favorite” (Top Chef)
01/25: ALAN CANTER, 82 (NC), LA restaurateur/impresario (Canter’s Delicatessen)
01/25: STEVEN BELL, 83 (UD), ABC News /journalist anchor (Good Morning, America, 1975-1986)
01/25: TERRY JENNINGS, 62 (UD), son of/biographer of/production manager for outlaw country singer/musician Waylon Jennings
01/25: DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV, 86 (UD), provocative Serbian expatriate director/screenwriter (WR: Mysteries of the Organism; Montenegro; The Coca-Cola Kid)
01/25: MESHULAM RIKLIS, 95 (UD), Turkish-born Israeli businessman/US movie producer who allegedly bought the “New Star of the Year” Golden Globe award for his then-wife Pia Zadora (Butterfly, 1981)
01/25: MATT ROSE, 53 (NC), film make-up artist (Aliens; Ed Wood; Hellboy; Planet of the Apes remake)
01/25: JACQUELINE STEINER, 94 (PN), folk music songwriter (Charlie/MTA –the Kingston Trio), 01/25
01/26: LAURANCE “LARRY” CONROY, 88/89 (c’s: PD/DM), commercial TV actor/acting coach; husband of actress/author Christina Britton Conroy; son-in-law of 1940s/1950s actress Barbara Britton
01/26: WILLIAM ESPER, 86 (c’s: Lewy body DM), acting teacher; protégé of acting teacher Stanford Meisner (Paul Sorvino; William Hurt; Sam Rockwell; Kim Basinger; Mary Steenburgen; John Malkovich; Jeff Goldblum; Aaron Eckhart, Christine Lahti; Larry David)
01/26: MICHEL LEGRAND, 86 (UD), French jazz pianist/conductor/composer for films (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Summer of ’42; Yentl; Atlantic City; Brian’s Song); AA-W songwriter (The Windmills of Your Mind)
01/26: KEN WELCH, 92 (UD), TV variety composer/songwriter (The Carol Burnett Show)
01/27: PETER GORDON, 74 (C), politically conscious UK documentarian
01/27: ERICA YOHN, 90 (sudden), stage/screen/voice-over actress (Broadway: Lenny; animation: An American Tail series)
01/28: MORGAN KAOLIAN, 90 (UD), pilot/aerial photo journalist/radio traffic reporter (WICC/600 AM, Bridgeport CT)
01/28: PAUL WHALEY, 72 (HF), drummer, 1960s psychedelic/hard rock band Blue Cheer (Summertime Blues remake), 01/28
01/29: FERNANDO GAITAN, 58 (HA), Columbian TV producer/writer/series creator (telenovela “Yo soy Betty, la fea,” basis for US’s “Ugly Betty”)
01/29: CATHERINE LOHAN, 68 (UD), 1980s pioneering female FDNY firefighter
01/29: Hon. CHARLES JOSEPH HYNES, 83 (DH/hospice), Brooklyn/Kings County NYC district attorney (1990-2013); special prosecutor (Howard Beach incident)
01/29: JAMES INGRAM, 66, (brain C), 1980s R&B singer (One Hundred Ways; Baby, Come to Me; Just Once; Somewhere Out There; Yah Mo B There; We Are the World); songwriter (Michael Jackson’s “PYT: Pretty Young Thing”)
01/29: MARGO RODRIGUEZ, 89 (PN), 1950s/60s Latin/mambo dancer, team "Augie and Margo"
01/30: Dr. STEWART ADAMS, 95 (UD), UK pharmaceutical chemist; co-developer/co-creator, painkiller Ibuprofen
01/30: BRIAN BUTTERICK, 62 (lung C), NYC drag performer/impresario/activist “Hattie Hathaway”
01/30: DICK MILLER, 90 (NC), prolific TV/film character actor (A Bucket of Blood; The Little Shop of Horrors; Rock ‘n’ Roll High School; Gremlins; The Howling)
01/31: CANDICE EARLEY (NOLAN), 68 (multiple system atrophy), actress (TV: All My Children; Broadway: Hair; Jesus Christ Superstar)
01/31: HAROLD BRADLEY, 93 (UD), “Nashville Sound” guitarist/bassist/session player (Coal Miner’s Daughter; Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy; Crazy; King of the Road; Make the World Go Away; Crying; Harper– plus Elvis Presley; Hank Williams; The Everly Brothers; Burl Ives; Anita Bryant; Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; The Byrds)
01/31: A. (ARTHUR) ERNEST FITZGERALD, 92 (UD), 1960s Pentagon official/cost over-run whistleblower fired by President Nixon
ALPHABETICAL CROSS-REFERENCE (JANUARY 2019, including late 2018):
Dr. STEWART ADAMS, 94, UK pharmaceutical chemist; co-developer, Ibuprofen, 01/30
FRANK ADONIS, 83, character actor, son of mobster Joe Adonis, 12/26/18
FATIMA ALI, 29, Pakistani-born reality TV chef contestant, 01/29
BILL ANAGNOS, 60, film stunt double, 01/15
JO ANDRES, 65, independent film producer/director; wife of actor Steve Buscemi
MARCEL AZZOLA, 91, Italo-French accordionist for Jacques Brel, 01/21
ED BAER, 82, longtime NYC radio personality, 01/01
RUSSELL BAKER, 93, Pulitzer winning columnist/memoirist, 01/21
KAYE BALLARD, 93, Broadway/cabaret/TV singer/actress, 01/21
KEVIN BARNETT, 32, comedian/comic actor; sitcom co-creator, 01/22
Sister WENDY BECKETT, 88, UK nun/TV art appreciation personality, 12/26/18
STEVEN BELL, 83, ABC News journalist/anchor, 01/25
EDWIN BIRDSONG, 77, funk/jazz keyboardist, 01/21
VERNA BLOOM, 80, 1970s/1980s film actress, 01/09
JOHN BOHANNON, 81, NYC-area radio personality, 01/08
BRADLEY BOLKE, cartoon voice-over artist, 01/15
SHIRLEY FOLEY BOONE, 84, wife of singer Pat Boone; daughter of C&W singer Red Foley; 01/11
HAROLD BRADLEY, 93, “Nashville Sound” guitarist/bassist/session player, 01/31
Rep. JACK BRINKLEY, 88, US Congressman (D-GA/3rd District, 1967-1983), 01/23
HAROLD BROWN, 91, US Secretary of Defense (1977-1981, Carter), 01/04
MAXINE BROWN (RUSSELL), 87, singer, C&W group The Browns, 01/21
CHRIS BURROUS, 43, LA broadcast news journalist/anchor, 12/27/18
BRIAN BUTTERICK, 62, NYC drag performer/impresario/activist “Hattie Hathaway,” 01/30
ALAN CANTER, 82 (NC), LA delicatessen restaurateur/impresario, 01/25
CAROL CHANNING, 97, iconic stage/film actress, 01/03
SYLVIA CHASE, 80 (brain C), ABC TV news correspondent/investigative journalist, 01/02
LAURANCE “LARRY” CONROY, 88/89, commercial TV actor/acting coach; son-in-law of Barbara Britton, 01/26
DEAN COPKOV, 52, Canadian-born film stuntman; convicted drug smuggler – gun violence, 01/22
ED CORNEY, 85, bodybuilder/film subject, 01/01
JOHN COUGHLIN, 33, figure skater – suicide, 01/19
LARRY CUNNINGHAM, 67, singer, The Floaters, 01/09
WINDSOR DAVIES, 88, Welsh-born UK screen actor, 01/17
LORNA DOOM (nee Teresa Ryan), 61, bassist, Germs, 01/15
DARYL DRAGON, 76 (KF), songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, The Captain and Tennille, 01/02
CANDICE EARLEY (NOLAN), 68, stage/TV soap opera actress, 01/31
BOB EINSTEIN, 76, TV comedic actor/performer/writer, 01/02
HERBERT ELLIS, 97, actor associated with “Dragnet,” 12/26/18
WILLIAM ESPER, 86, acting teacher, 01/26
JOHN FALSEY, 67, TV screenwriter; series co-producer/co-creator, 01/03
A. (ARTHUR) ERNEST FITZGERALD, 92, Pentagon official/cost over-run whistleblower, 01/31
DEAN FORD, 72, Scottish singer/songwriter, Marmalade, 12/31
JAMES FRAWLEY, 82, TV/film director associated with The Monkees – 28 episodes, 01/22
FERNANDO GAITAN, 58, Columbian telenovela producer/writer, 01/29
BRIAN GARFIELD, 79, “Death Wish” novelist, 12/29/18
NORMAN GIMBEL, 91, popular/TV theme song songwriter, 12/19/18
NATHAN GLAZER, 95, neo-conservative sociologist/political scientist; author/academician, 01/19
MERWIN GOLDSMITH, 81, stage/screen character actor specializing in portraying judges, 01/21
PETER GORDON, 74, UK documentarian, 01/27
JULIA GRANT (nee George Roberts), 64, UK transgendered activist; TV documentary subject, 01/02
BONNIE GUITAR (nee Buckingham), 95, C&W singer/musician, 01/13
ERIC HAYDOCK, 75, UK bassist/co-founder, The Hollies, 01/05
Bishop JOSEPH HOWZE, 95, first modern-day African-American US Roman Catholic bishop, 01/09
Hon. CHARLES JOSEPH HYNES, 83, high-profile Brooklyn prosecutor/district attorney, 01/29
JAMES INGRAM, 66, R&B singer/songwriter, 01/29
TERRY JENNINGS, 62, son/biographer of Waylon Jennings, 01/25
MORGAN KAOLIAN, 90, Connecticut pilot/aerial photojournalist/radio traffic reporter, 01/28
HERB KELLEHER, co-founder, Southwest Airlines, 01/03
CLYDIE KING, 75, female back-up pop singer, 01/06
PAUL KOSLO, 74, German-born Canadian film character actor, 01/09
ANNE “HONEY” LANTREE, 75, UK drummer/vocalist, The Honeycombs, 12/23/18
BATTON LASH, 65, comic book writer/artist, 01/12
C. Y. (CHIN YANG) LEE, 102, Chinese-born “Flower Drum Song” novelist (), 11/08/18 (not publicized until early February 2019)
MICHEL LEGRAND, 86, French jazz pianist/conductor/AA-W composer/songwriter for films, 01/26
CATHERINE LOHAN, 68, pioneering female FDNY firefighter, 01/29
DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV, 86, Serbian expatriate director/screenwriter, 01/25
ANDREW McCULLOUGH, 94, TV director (1950s live TV; sitcoms), 01/22
(RUBY) CHRISTINE McGUIRE, 92, 1950s pop singer, The McGuire Sisters, 12/28/18
TED McKENNA, 68, Scottish drummer, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 01/19
JONAS MEKAS, 96, Lithuanian-born avant-garde director/documentarian, 01/23
TONY MENDEZ, 78, CIA operative/”Argo” film subject, 01/19
DICK MILLER, 90, prolific TV/cult movie actor, 01/30
STEFANOS MILTSAKAKIS, 59, MMA fighter turned muscleman film actor, 01/10
LOUISA MORITZ, 72, Cuban-born film/TV actress; Bill Cosby historical rape accuser, 01/04
IGNACIO "NACHO" NAVA JR., 42, LA LGBTQ activist; nightlife impresario/personality, 01/19
BLAKE NORDSTROM, 58, co-president, retailer Nordstrom, 01/02
GENE “MEAN GENE” OKERLUND, 76, WWF announcer/commentator, 01/02
MARY OLIVER, 83, poet, 01/17
AMOS OZ, 79, Israeli author/journalist/academician; peace activist, 12/28/18
NEIL PADRON, 74, founder/owner, Petland Discounts, circa 01/15
JAKIW PALIJ, 95, Polish-born Nazi war criminal/collaborator, 01/09
MURIEL PAVLOW, 97, UK actress; oldest living/earliest debuting UK TV performer (1937), 01/19
JAMES POND, 60, TV sitcom writer/producer, 01/03
DAVID PRITCHARD, 73, UK cooking-themed TV producer, 01/13
AL REINERT, 71, space-oriented journalist/screenwriter, 12/31/18
DON REYNOLDS, 81, 1940s Western film child actor, 01/09
MESHULAM RIKLIS, 95, Turkish-born Israeli businessman/film producer; one-time husband of Pia Zadora, 01/25
MARGO RODRIGUEZ, 89, 1950s/60s Latin/mambo dancer, 01/29
MATT ROSE, 53, film makeup artist, 01/25
GREGORY RUDLOFF, 63, AA-W sound mixer – suicide, 01/06
JOHN SALTER JR. (aka JOHN HUNTER GRAY), 84, Civil Rights era college professor/activist, 01/07
CARLOS SANCHEZ, 83, Columbian TV coffee pitchman “Juan Valdez,” 12/29/18
RAY SAWYER, 81, front man/sometimes lead singer, “Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show,” 12/28/18
SANGER "WHITEY" SHAFER, 84, C&W songwriter, 01/12
W. (WILLIAM) MORGAN SHEPPARD, 86, UK-born TV character actor, 01/06
JO JO SMITH, 80, choreographer/film dance consultant, 01/22
RON SMITH, 94, UK “Judge Dredd” comics artist, 01/10
MARTIN SOBELL, 101, convicted Soviet spy connected to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 12/26/18
JOE STAPLETON, 55, Boston radio traffic reporter/actor, 01/02
MARY KAY STEARNS, 83, early TV sitcom actress, 11/17/18
JACQUELINE STEINER, 94, folk music songwriter, 01/25
MEL STOTTLEMYER, 77, NYC baseball pitcher; pitching coach, 01/13
DAN STRIEPEKE, 88, film make-up artist, 01/19
BRUCE TUFELD, 66, Hollywood talent agent, 01/15
ANDY VAJNA, 74, Hungarian born action film producer, 01/20
KEN WELCH, 92, TV variety composer/songwriter, 01/26
PAUL WHALEY, 72, drummer, Blue Cheer, 01/28
TOM WILLIAMS, 89, TV sitcom actor; TV producer associated with Jack Webb, 12/27/18
Sen. HARRIS WOFFORD, 92, US Senator (D-PA, 1991-1995); 1960s civil rights advocate, 01/21
LESTER WUNDERMAN, 98, ad exec recognized as the “father of direct marketing,” 01/09
ERICA YOHN, 90, stage/screen/voice-over actress, 01/27
PEGI YOUNG, 66, educator; back-up singer for and former wife of Neil Young, 01/01
PERRY DEAN YOUNG, 77, Vietnam War correspondent; author, 01/01
REGGIE YOUNG, 82, pop and country music session guitarist, 01/17
ANDREW ZERMAN, 62, Broadway mega-musical casting director, 01/07
TRENDS:
76-year old sons of 1940s radio personalities on January 2nd: Daryl “The Captain” Dragon (son of bandleader Carmen Dragon); Bob Einstein (son of comedian Harry Einstein) + Gene Okerlund, also 76
93-year old persons with names starting with “B” on January 21st: Russell Baker (journalist); Kaye Ballard (singer/actress)
Persons named “Brown”: Harold Brown (cabinet member); Maxine Brown (singer).
Persons named “Smith”: JoJo Smith (choreographer); Ron Smith (comic artist)
Persons named “Young”: Perry Deane Young (author); Pegi Young (former wife of Neil Young); Reggie Young (pop and country music session guitarist)
Persons named “Young” on January 1st: Perry Deane Young (author); Pegi Young (former wife of Neil Young)
ABC news correspondents: Sylvia Chase; Steven Bell
Judge Dredd: Ron Smith (comic artist); Andy Vajna (film adaptation producer)
Red Foley: Shirley Boone (daughter); Harold Bradley (session guitarist, “Chatanooga Shoe Shine Boy”)
Saturday Night Fever: Bill Anagnos (stunt double for John Travolta); JoJo Smith (dance consultant)