That Derek
unread,Apr 9, 2020, 11:59:47 AM4/9/20You do not have permission to delete messages in this group
Sign in to report message
Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message
to
JANUARY 2020:
01/01: NICK GORDON, 30 (drug overdose). boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown (daughter of singer Bobby Brown) legally found responsible for her 2015 drowning death
01/01: DON LARSEN, 90 (oesophageal cancer), 1950s/60s MLB pitcher best known for World Series perfect game for the NY Yankees (1956 Game 5 vs. Brooklyn Dodgers)
01/02: MARTY GREBB, 74 (suspected suicide following long-term cancer diagnosis and cryptic social media posting), keyboardist, 1960s pop group The Buckinghams (Kind Of A Drag; Susan; Don't You Care; Hey Baby, They're Playing Our Song; Mercy. Mercy. Mercy)
01/03: QASEM SOLEIMANI, 62 (US airstrike at Baghdad International Airport), Iranian military leader/killer/terrorist
01/05: SYLVIA JUKES MORRIS, 84 (cancer), British-born biographer (Clare Boothe Luce; Eleanor Roosevelt); widow of biographer Edmund Morris (Theodore Roosevelt; Ronald Reagan)
01/07: HARRY HAINS, 27 (mental illness/addiction-fueled suicide); Australian-born actor; son of American-born/Australian-based actress Jane Badler (V: The Series)
01/07: SILVIO HORTA, 45 (suicide/gunshot), Cuban-American TV screenwriter/show adaptor (US version, Ugly Betty)
01/07: NEIL PEART, 67 (brain cancer), drummer/lyricist, Canadian rock band Rush (Tom Sawyer; Limelight)
01/07: ELIZABETH WURTZEL, 52 (complications: metastasized breast cancer), 1990s rock music critic; depression/addiction-themed author/memoirist (Prozac Nation)
01/08: EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES, 87 (natural causes), actor/teen idol (77 Sunset Strip; Grease); novelty pop singer (Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb); inspiration for Justice League of America honorary member Lucas "Snapper" Carr
01/08: BUCK HENRY, 89 (heart attack), screenwriter (The Graduate; Catch-22; What's Up, Doc?; Heaven Can Wait; Grumpy Old Men); sitcom co-creator (Get Smart; Captain Nice; Quark); actor (That Was the Week That Was; Saturday Night Live; Taking Off; The Man Who Fell to Earth)
01/08: DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY (2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CMG CBE), 91 (heart attack), British businessman/politician; son of WWII military leader Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery
01/09: BOBBY COMSTOCK, 79 (cancer), 1950s/60s rock singer, Bobby Comstock and the Counts
01/09: LAN O'KUN, 87 (heart failure), TV writer (Insight; The Shari Lewis Show; Star Trek: The Next Generation; The Love Boat; Highway to Heaven; That Was the Week That Was; Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Littlest Angel); brother-in-law of both ventriloquist Shari Lewis and novelist Judith Krantz
01/09: IVAN PASSER, 86 (pulmonary complications), Czech-born film director (Silver Bears; Cutter's Way); 1960s Czech New Wave auteur
01/09: BILL RAY, 83 (atrial fibrillation), LIFE Magazine photographer (Marilyn Monroe/JFK birthday; Elvis Presley in Army)
01/10: JOEL CHASEMAN, 93 (complications: fall), media executive; general manager who oversaw NYC's WINS's (1010 AM) 1965 transition to an all-news format
01/11: STAN KIRSCH, 51 (suicide/hanging), actor (Highlander: The Series)
01/12: WILLIAM BOGERT, 83 (undisclosed), actor (Small Wonder; Chappelle's Show; War Games)
01/13: CAROL KRAMER SERLING, 81 (undisclosed), widow of/literary executrix for author/screenwriter/TV personality Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone)
01/14: STEVE MARTIN CARO (a.k.a., Steve Martin), 71 (heart failure), 1960s pop singer, The Left Banke (Walk Away Renée; Pretty Ballerina)
01/14: JAMES KEHOE, 85 (complications: stroke), tough guy film character actor (Serpico; The Sting; Car Wash; The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh; The Untouchables; Reds; Melvin and Howard)
01/15: ROCKY JOHNSON, 75 (heart attack), Canadian-born 1970s wrestler "Soul Man"; father of wrestler/actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
01/16: ALAN PATTILLO, 90 (complications: Parkinson's disease), 1960s UK animation director for Gerry Anderson Productions (Thunderbirds; Supercar; Fireball XL-5; Stingray)
01/16: CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN, 95 (undisclosed), French citizen ex-patriate British academic/editor (The Silmarillion); youngest son of/literary executor for British fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings); "cartographer," A Map of Middle-earth
01/17: DEREK FOWLDS, 82 (sepsis-derived heart failure), British TV actor (The Basil Brush Show; Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister; Heartbeat)
01/18: EGIL "BUD" KROGH JR, 80 (congestive heart failure), attorney; Watergate scandal figure; facilitator of President Nixon/Elvis Presley photo-op
01/18: Dr. JACK VAN IMPE, 88 (complications: triple bypass heart surgery), televangelist; Biblical "end times" eschatologist
01/18: ROBERT SAMPSON, 86 (undisclosed), TV actor (Bridget Loves Bernie, as Father Mike Fitzgerald; Star Trek: A Taste of Armageddon; The Twilight Zone: Little Girl Lost)
01/19: CHARLES "CHUCK" ALVERSON, 84 (undisclosed), US-born/Serbian-based British screenwriting collaborator with director Terry Gilliam (Jabberwocky!; Brazil); journalist/humour magazine editor (Harvey Kurtzman's Help!); detective novelist (Joe Goodey series)
01/19: BILL GREENWOOD, 77 (undisclosed), ABC News broadcast journalist
01/19; GENE LONDON, 88 (cerebral haemorrhage resulting from a fall), Philadelphia children's TV show/cartoon host (various show titles, WCAU-TV/10, 1959-77); NYC-based dress designer
01/19: ROBERT PARKER, 89 (natural causes), 1960s R&B singer/songwriter (Barefootin')
01/20: WOLFGANG FUCHS, 74 (cancer), translator/historian of American comics; author (Comics: Anatomy of a Mass Medium, 1971)
01/20: Rep. THOMAS RAILSBACK, 87 (undisclosed), US Congressman (R-IL/19th, including Moline, 1967-83) who backed 1974 Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon
01/22: SALVATORE "SONNY" GROSSO, 89 (lengthy illness), German-born NYPD detective/consultant, book/film The French Connection; crime-themed film actor (The Godfather, owner of firearm in gun-in-toilet scene; The Seven-Ups; Cruising); TV producer (Night Heat)
01/22: TERRY JONES, 77 (frontotemporal dementia), Welsh-born comedic actor/director/screenwriter/co-founder, British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus; medieval historian/TV documentarian; children's author
01/22: JOHN KARLEN, 86 (congestive heart failure; in hospice), TV actor (Cagney and Lacey, as Harvey Lacey; original Dark Shadows, as Willie Loomis)
01/23: STEPHEN JAMES JOYCE, 87 (undisclosed), Parisian-born Irish grandson of/last direct descendant of/literary executor for Irish author James Joyce
01/23: JIM LEHRER, 85 (peacefully, in his sleep), PBS broadcast journalist/news anchor (The PBS News Hour; The MacNeil-Lehrer Report); moderator of most presidential debates; novelist/memoirist
01/24: MARSHA KRAMER, 74 (undisclosed), TV actress (semi-regular, Modern Family)
01/24: MARGO LION. 76 (brain aneurysm), Broadway producer (Hairspray; Angels in America; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; The Crucible, revival; Jelly's Last jam)
01/24: WES WILSON, 82 (cancer), 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock concert poster artist (Fillmore Auditorium; Fillmore West; Avalon Ballroom)
01/26: GIANNA "GIGI" BRYANT, 13 (helicopter crash), daughter of NBA player Kobe Bryant
01/26: KOBE BRYANT, 41 (helicopter crash), superstar NBA player – one day after being surpassed by LeBron James for third highest all-time NBA scoring record
01/26; BOB SHANE, 85 (complications: pneumonia; in hospice), folk singer/guitarist/co-founder/last surviving original member, vocal group The Kingston Trio (Tom Dooley; MTA)
01/27: DICK BALDUZZI, 91 (undisclosed), actor (Kelly's Heroes; 1960s/70s episodic TV)
01/28: JACK BURNS, 86 (respiratory failure), comedy team member (opposite Avery Schreiber; George Carlin); TV comedy actor (The Andy Griffith Show; The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour); variety show producer/writer (The Muppet Show; Fridays); voice-over artist (as Vince, Crash Test Dummies PSA series; Wait Till Your Father Gets Home; Animaniacs)
01/28: MARJ DUSAY, 83 (natural causes), TV actress (Star Trek: Spock's Brain; The Facts of Life, as Monica Warner; Guiding Light; All My Children; Days of Our Lives)
01/28: HARRIET FRANK (JR.), 96 (undisclosed), screenwriter (with husband Irving Ravetch, The Long Hot Summer; The Sound and the Fury; Hud; The Reivers; Norma Rae; Murphy's Romance)
01/28: HARRY HARRISON, 89 (multiple health issues), long-time NYC morning Top 40/Oldies radio host The Morning Mayor (WMCA/570 AM; WABC/770 AM Musicradio; WCBS/101.1 FM)
01/28: BOB NAVE, 75 (undisclosed), keyboardist, 1960s pop group The Lemon Pipers (Green Tambourine); Cincinnati-based jazz radio air personality (WXVU/91.7 FM)
01/28: NICHOLAS PARSONS, 96 (brief illness), British radio/TV host; comedic actor (US sitcom The Ugliest Girl in Town)
01/28: DYANNE THORNE, 83 (pancreatic cancer), 1970s cult/exploitation film actress (Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS; Blood Sabbath; Star Trek: A Piece of the Action)
01/28: MONIQUE van VOOREN, 92 (cancer), Belgian-born actress (Tarzan and the She-Devil; Batman '66; Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein)
01/30; BIL CANFIELD, 99 (peacefully), editorial/sports cartoonist, The (Newark NJ) Star-Ledger
01/30: FOTIS DULOS, 52 (suicide/carbon monoxide asphyxiation), Connecticut housing contractor; suspect in high-profile NYC-area death/disappearance of wife Jennifer Dulos
01/30: JOYCE REVENSON JAFFEE, 88 (undisclosed), wife of MAD Magazine artist Al Jaffee (Fold-Ins; Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions)
01/30: FRED SILVERMAN, 82 (cancer), TV programming executive: CBS (1963-75), ABC (1975-78), NBC (1979-81); independent 1980s/90s TV producer; namesake of cartoon character of Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, a pet project)
01/31: ANNE COX CHAMBERS, 100 (natural causes), scioness, Cox Enterprises media conglomerate (including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution); daughter of Ohio Governor James M. Cox (1920 Democratic presidential candidate), ambassador to Belgium (1977-81)
01/31: MARY HIGGINS CLARK, 92 (natural causes), prolific best-selling suspense author
01/31: ALAN HARRIS, 81 (lung cancer), British actor, The Empire Strikes Back (as bounty hunter Bossk)
01/31: Dr. DONALD WEST, 95 (undisclosed), British criminologist/psychiatrist/author (1955 groundbreaking work "Homosexuality")
FEBRUARY 2020:
02/01: LILA GARRETT, 94 (lengthy illness), radical Los Angeles radio host (KPFK/Pacifica); screenwriter (The Barefoot Executive); sitcom writer (My Favorite Martian; Get Smart; The Addams Family; The Second Hudred Years; The Ugliest Girl in Town; Bewitched; All in the Family; Baby, I'm Back); mother-in-law of actor Eric Roberts
02/01: ANDY GILL, 64 (pneumonia), British guitarist, 1970s punk band Gang of Four (I Found That Essence Rare); album producer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
02/01: CHARLES WOOD, 87 (undisclosed), British dramatist/screenwriter (The Knack ... and How to Get it; Help!; How I Won the War; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Iris)
02/02: LOVELADY POWELL, 89 (undisclosed), NYC cabaret performer; actress (I Never Sang for My Father; The Happy Hooker; The Secret Storm)
02/03: GENE REYNOLDS, 96 (heart failure), 1930s child actor (Babes in Toyland; Our Gang; Boys Town; Edison, the Man); 1950s episodic TV actor (The Lone Ranger; Dragnet; I Love Lucy); 1960/70s TV director/producer/writer (My Three Sons; Hogan’s Heroes; Room 222; M*A*S*H; Roll Out!; Anna and the King; Lou Grant)
02/04: BILL BRITTEN, 92 (undisclosed), actor; 1950s/60s NYC children's TV show host (WABC/7's Time for Fun, as Johnny Jellybean; WPIX/11's Bozo, the Clown)
02/04: TERRY HANDS, 79 (brief illness), British theatrical producer/artistic director, Royal Shakespeare Company; producer, 1980s Broadway high-profile flop Carrie
02/04: BONNIE MACLEAN, 80 (in hospice), 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster artist; one-time wife of concert impresario Bill Graham
02/04: JANE MILMORE, 64 (pancreatic cancer), sitcom writer/producer (Newhart; Martin; Daddy Dearest; The Hughleys); farcical dramatist (with writing partner Billy Van Zandt, Love, Sex, and the IRS; Lie, Cheat and Genuflect; Drop Dead!)
02/04: DANIEL arap MOI, 95 (multiple organ failure), President of Kenya (1978–2002)
02/04: BUDDY CAGE, 73 (multiple myeloma), pedal steel guitarist, country rock group New Riders of the Purple Sage (1970s "classic" line-up)
02/05: KEVIN CONWAY, 77 (heart attack), actor (Broadway: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1970s revival; The Elephant Man; TV: The Outer Limits revival, as Control voice; film: Thirteen Days, as Gen. Curtis LeMay; Gettysburg)
02/05: KIRK DOUGLAS, 103 (natural causes), actor (original Broadway, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Lust for Life; Spartacus; Paths of Glory; Champion; Young Man with a Horn; Ace in the Hole; The Bad and the Beautiful; The Strange Love of Martha Ivers; Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea); father of actor/producer Michael Douglas
02/05: F.X. FEENEY, 66 (stroke), film critic (LA Weekly); historian/theoretician/author (Orson Welles, Roman Polanski); screenwriter (The Big Brass Ring, unfinished Orson Welles project)
02/06: LYNN EVANS (MAND), 95 (stroke), lead singer, 1950s vocal group The Chordettes (Mr. Sandman; Lollipop; Zorro; Eddie, My Love)
02/06: ROGER KAHN, 92 (declining health), sports journalist/author (The Boys of Summer)
02/07: ORSON BEAN, 91 (pedestrian victim/alleged jaywalker, double-auto traffic collision), actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis; The Lord of the Rings, animated, as Bilbo Baggins); perennial TV talk show/game show panelist/raconteur; husband of actress Alley Mills (The Wonder Years); one-time father-in-law of political commentator Andrew Breitbart
02/07: ANN E. TODD, 88 (dementia), 1940s juvenile actress (How Green Was My Valley; Kings Row; The Blue Bird; Destry Rides Again; All This and Heaven, Too; The Stu Erwin Show)
02/07: STEVE WEBER 76 (undisclosed), guitarist/singer, cult psychedelic folk group The Holy Modal Rounders (If You Want to Be a Bird, from Easy Rider soundtrack)
02/08: ROBERT CONRAD, 84 (heart failure), TV actor (Hawaiian Eye; The Wild Wild West; The D.A.; Baa Baa Black Sheep/Black Sheep Squadron; Centennial; A Man Called Sloane); 1970s TV commercial pitchman (Eveready Batteries)
02/08: VICTOR GORELICK, 78 (internal bleeding), long-time editor/executive, Archie Comics
02/08: RON McLARTY, 72 (complications: dementia), TV actor (Spenser: For Hire, as Sgt. Frank Belson; Law & Order franchises); audio-book narrator (Stephen King; Elmore Leonard)
02/09: PAULA KELLY, 76 (COPD), stage/screen actress/dancer (Sophisticated Ladies; Sweet Charity; Night Court, The Women of Brewster Place, Soylent Green)
02/11: Dr. JOSEPH SHABALALA, 78 (lengthy illness), Zulu-born founder/musical director/bass vocalist, South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo
02/12: FREDERICK KOCH, 86 (heart failure), oldest of four Koch Brothers, co-founders of Koch Industries; arts patron/collector; philanthropist/political contributor
02/13: WILLIAM “BUZZY” LINHART, 76 (declining health following 2018 heart attack), folksinger/songwriter (You Got to Have Friends/Bette Midler)
02/14: CLAYTON WILLIAMS, 88 (complications: pneumonia), oil industry executive; Republican candidate for 1990 Texas gubernatorial race (vs. Ann Richards)
02/15: CAROLINE FLACK, 40 (suicide/hanging, while awaiting trial for a domestic battery charge), British TV host (Love Island)
02/15: Dr. AMIE HARWICK, 38 (fall from a balcony caused by blunt force trauma/domestic violence), sex therapist; one-time fiancée of comedic performer/TV personality Drew Carey
02/15: A.E. (AARON EDWARD) HOTCHNER, 102 (undisclosed), author (film-adapted King of the Hill; The Man Who Lived at the Ritz); biographer (Ernest Hemingway; Doris Day; Paul Newman; Sophia Loren; Elaine Kaufman); TV screenwriter (Hemingway adaptations); entrepreneur/philanthropist (co-founder, Newman's Own, with actor Paul Newman)
02/15: DANIEL LEE MARTIN, 54 (suicide/gunshot, amid child sex abuse charges), 2000s country singer; hunting-themed TV host (Brotherhood Outdoors); accused child abuser
02/15: NIKITA PEARL WALIGWA,15 (brain cancer/tumor), Ugandan-born child actress (Disney’s Queen of Katwe)
02/16: OWEN BIEBER, 90 (age related ailments), labour union leader (1980s/90s president, United Auto Workers)
02/16: ZOE CALDWELL, 86 (complications: Parkinson’s disease), Australian-born Broadway actress (four-time Tony Award winner, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Master Class; Medea; Slapstick Tragedy)
02/16: PEARL CARR, 98 (undisclosed), British pop singer, 1950s duo Pearl Carr & Teddy Williams (Sing, Little Birdie, 1959 Eurovision entry)’
02/16: FRANCES CUKA, 83 (undisclosed), British actress (Albert Finney Scrooge, as Mrs. Cratchit)
02/16: KELLYE NAKAHARA (WALLETT), 72 (cancer), TV actress (M*A*S*H, as Nurse Kellye)
02/16: LARRY TESLER, 74 (declining health following bicycle accident), computer scientist credited with inventing “cut-and-paste” function
02/17: CHARLES PORTIS, 86 (complications: Alzheimer's disease/dementia), reclusive novelist (film-adapted True Grit)
02/18: JA’NET DuBOIS, 76 (natural causes), TV sitcom actress (Good Times, as Willona Woods); theme-song singer/co-writer (The Jeffersons’ Movin’ On Up)
02/18: MICHAEL HERTZ, 87 (natural causes), graphic designer, modern NYC subway map
02/19: ROBERT COBERT, 95 (pneumonia), TV composer (Way Out; Dark Shadows; The Night Stalker; Trilogy of Terror; The Winds of War/War and Remembrance; TV game show theme song writer: Password, To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right, $100,000 Pyramid)
02/19: BASHAR JACKSON, 20 (victim of gun violence/home invasion), rap performer Pop Smoke
02/19: JENS NYGAARD KNUDSEN, 78 (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Danish designer/creator, LEGO’s mini-figures
02/20 (100th birthday): ZOE GAIL, 100 (undisclosed), South African-born singer noted for flipping switch re-lighting West End/Piccadilly Circus following WWII-era blackout restrictions (1949); actress (critically savaged 1948 gangster film No Orchids for Miss Blandish)
02/20: SEYMOUR “SY” SPERLING, 78 (lengthy illness), founder/president/TV pitchman, Hair Club for Men
02/21: NICOLA “NICK” CUTI, 75 (cancer), comic book artist (Charlton: E-Man, Popeye; Warren: Creepy, Vampirella); Disney background artist
02/21; HISASHI KATSUTA, 92 (dementia), Japanese anime voice actor (Astro Boy, as Professor Ochanomizu; Kimba, the White Lion)
children’s show Supe’s On! With the Three Stooges; monster movie showcase Mad Theatre, 1969-89)
02/22: JOHNI CERNY 77 (coronary artery disease; congestive heart failure), genealogist; genealogy-themed TV personality (PBS’s Finding Your Roots)
02/22: “MAD” MIKE HUGHES, 64 (homemade rocket crash), daredevil/reality TV personality
02/22: B./BARBARA SMITH, 70 (early on-set Alzheimer’s disease), restaurateur; TV personality (B. Smith With Style); model (first African-American cover model, Mademoiselle magazine, 1976)
02/22: LINDA WOLFE, 87 (complications: bowel surgery), investigative journalist/author (Wasted: The Preppie Murder, 1989)
02/23: KATHERINE JOHNSON, 101 (natural causes), 1960s African-American female NASA mathematician depicted in 2016 film Hidden Figures
02/24: BOB ANDERMAN, 59 (rare form of cancer), St. Petersburg/Tampa area popular culture journalist/radio personality Mr. Media; author, Will Eisner: A Spiritual Life
02/24: RUSS COCHRAN, 82 (undisclosed), comic book historian/publisher (EC Comics Archives)
02/24: BEN COOPER, 86 (complications: dementia), actor (primarily westerms; Johnny Guitar; The Twilight Zone: Still Valley; The Fall Guy)
02/24: CLIVE CUSSLER, 88 (undisclosed), oceanographer; best-selling adventure-themed novelist (Raise the Titanic!; The Mediterranean Caper; Atlantis Found; Valhalla Rising; Pacific Vortex!; Sahara)
02/24: JOHN “SONNY” FRANZESE, 103 (natural causes), NYC Colombo crime family mobster; financier, film Deep Throat; oldest federal inmate (aged 100 on release in 2017)
02/24: “BABY” PEGGY MONTGOMERY (renamed DIANA SERRA CARY), 101 (declining health), silent film child actress
02/25: LEE PHILLIP BELL, 91 (Alzheimer's disease), TV serial producer/co-creator (The Young and the Restless; The Bold and the Beautiful); broadcast journalist (CBS News’ The Lee Phillip Show)
02/25: HOSNI MUBAREK, 91 (kidney failure), President of Egypt (1981-2011)
02/25: DAVID ROBACK, 61 (metastatic cancer), guitarist/singer/songwriter, 1990s alternative rock duo Mazzy Star (Fade into You)
02/26: NICK APOLLO FORTE, 91 (undisclosed), lounge singer/entertainer featured in 1984 Woody Allen film Broadway Danny Rose
02/26: MICHAEL MEDWIN, 96 (undisclosed), British actor (Albert Finney Scrooge, as Scrooge’s nephew)
02/28: JOE COULOMBE, 89 (lengthy illness), supermarket entrepreneur; founder of Trader Joe’S
02/29: LUIS ALFONSO MENDOZA, 55 (victim of gun violence/landlord-tenant dispute), Mexican voice dubbing actor for Latin American TV/cartoon/video-game market (Bugs Bunny; The Big Bang Theory)
MARCH 2020:
03/?? (exact date?): ELAINE HYMAN, 85 (undisclosed), old time radio actress (The Lone Ranger)
03/01: JACK WELCH, 84 (renal failure), high profile 1980s/90s CEO, General Electric
03/02: JAMES LIPTON, 93 (bladder cancer), old time radio actor (The Lone Ranger; Gasoline Alley); TV soap opera/TV special writer/producer (Guiding Light; Another World; Bob Hope specials); acting instructor (administrator, The Actors’ Studio); TV host (Inside the Actors’ Studio); one-time husband of actress Nina Foch
03/03: BOBBIE BATTISTA, 67 (cervical cancer), former CNN newscaster/anchorwoman (1981-2001)
03/03: ROSCOE BORN, 69 (bipolar-derived suicide), TV soap opera actor (Ryan’s Hope; All My Children; Days of Our Lives; The Young and the Restless; Santa Barbara; One Life to Live)
03/03: CC, 18 (kidney failure), female tabby cat; first cloned pet
03/03: WENDELL GOLER, 70 (kidney failure), senior White House Foreign Affairs correspondent, Fox News (1996-2014)
03/03: ROSALIND P. WALTER, 95 (undisclosed), philanthropist/PBS benefactor; WWII aircraft factory worker/claimant to be the namesake inspiration for the song Rosie, the Riveter
03/03: DAVID WISE, 65 (lung cancer), TV animation scriptwriter (Star Trek, animated; He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; Transformers; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Batman: The Animated Series)
03/04: Rep. AMORY "AMO" HOUGHTON JR, 93 (natural causes), scion, glass industry Houghton fsmily (Corning Inc.); US Congressman (R-NY/24th/31st/29th Districts, 1987-2005)
03/04: BARBARA MARTIN, 76 (undisclosed), early 1960s singer, pre-fame The Supremes
03/04: FRANCIS X. “FRANK” McLAUGHLIN, 84 (undisclosed), comic strip artist (Gil Thorp; The World’s Greatest Superheroes; assistant on Nancy, The Heart of Juliet Jones, Brenda Starr, Reporter;); comic book artist (Charlton: JudoMaster; Marvel: Captain Marvel, Captain America, The Defenders; DC: The Flash; Justice League of America; Batman; Black Lightning; Green Lantern)
03/04: JAVIER PÉREZ de CUÉLLAR, 100 (natural causes), Peruvian diplomat; United Nations Secretary General (1982-91)
03/06: McCOY TYNER, 81 (declining health), jazz pianist/virtuoso
03/07: ED INGLES, 87 (cancer), NYC radio sportscaster (WCBS/880 AM)
03/07: EARL POMERANTZ, 75 (aneurysm), Canadian-born TV sitcom writer (The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Bob Newhart Show; Taxi; Major Dad; Cheers; Newhart; The Cosby Show)
03/06: MART CROWLEY, 84 (complications: heart surgery), LGBT-themed dramatist/screenwriter (The Boys in the Band); TV producer (Hart to Hart)
03/07: JIM OWEN, 78 (undisclosed), country music singer /songwriter (for Mel Tillis; Porter Wagoner; Jerry Reed; duo Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man)
03/08: MAX VON SYDOW, 90 (undisclosed), Swedish-born film actor (The Seventh Seal; Wild Strawberries; The Greatest Story Ever Told; The Exorcist; Three Days of the Condor; Flash Gordon: Never Say Never Again; Dune; Hannah and Her Sisters; Pelle the Conqueror)
03/08: ALLEN BELLMAN, 96 (bleeding/brief illness), 1940s comic book artist for Timely/Marvel (Captain America; The Human Torch; The Sub-Mariner)
03/09: LORENZO BRINO, 21 (automobile collision), 1990s/2000s quadruplet child TV actor (7th Heaven)
03/09: KEITH OLSEN, 74 (cardiac arrest), music producer (Fleetwood Mac; Grateful Dead; Foreigner; Pat Benatar; Jethro Tull; Heart; Whitesnake; Santana, Rick Springfield; REO Speedwagon; Ozzy Osbourne; Bad Company; Joe Walsh; Scorpions)
03/08: JOHNNY YUNE, 83 (cerebral haemorrhage), South Korean-born comedic film actor (The Cannonball Run; They Call Me Bruce? series)
03/10: MAL SHARPE, 83 (complications: heart surgery), San Francisco-area radio/TV personality specializing in "man on the street" comedy
03/13: ARCH DEAL, 88 (choking on food; similar to daughter Karen Deal Balin's 2010 death), Tampa anchorman (WFLA/8; WTSP/10); 1970s lost parachute skydiving survivor; father-in-law of musician Marty Balin
03/14 (94th birthday), PHIL PHILLIPS (né Baptiste), 94 (undisclosed), 1950s pop singer/songwriter (Sea of Love)
03/15: SUZY DELAIR, 102 (undisclosed), French comedic film actress (leading lady, Atoll K/Utopia, Laurel and Hardy's final film); chanteuse (early version, C’est Si Bon, 1948)
03/15: Rep. RICHARD HANNA, 60 (cancer), US Congressman (R-NY/24th, 22nd Districts, 2011-2017); moderate Republican who refused to support President Trump’s 2016 presidential election
03/16: STUART WHITMAN, 92 (skin cancer), film/TV character actor (The Mark; The Longest Day; Night of the Lepus; TV's Cimarron Strip)
03/17: MAGGIE GRIFFIN, 99 (dementia), mother/TV co-star of comedienne Kathy Griffin (My Life on the D-List)
03/17: LYLE WAGGONER, 84 (cancer), TV actor (The Carol Burnett Show; Wonder Woman); first centerfold, Playgirl Magazine (1973)
03/17: ALFRED "AL" WORDEN, 84 (stroke), 1970s NASA astronaut (Apollo XV, non-moonwalker)
03/18: BORIS YARO, 81 (natural causes), photojournalist (L.A. Times, 1968 kitchen photo of busboy and mortally wounded RFK); inspiration/consultant for Lou Grant TV character Animal
04/29: ROMÁN ARÁMBULA, 83 (heart attack), Mexican-born comic strip artist (1970s/80s syndicated Mickey Mouse); storyboardist/animator (Disney; Hanna-Barbera)
03/19: SUSAN KESLER, 60 (ovarian peritoneal cancer), TV editor (The X-Files; Crossing Jordan); TV historian/author (TV show The Wild, Wild West); TV automobile collector (autos from Get Smart!, The Rockford Files)
circa 03/19: JERRY SLICK, 80 (undisclosed), drummer, 1960s band The Great Society; first husband of rock singer Grace Slick
03/20: KENNY ROGERS, 81 (natural causes; in hospice), singer/musician/songwriter (Just Dropped In; Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town; Reuben James; Lucille; Lady; Through the Years; She Believes in Me; You Decorated My Life; The Gambler; Coward of the County; Islands in the Stream); actor (The Gambler, TV movies series); fast food entrepreneur (Kenny Rogers' Roasters)
03/20: ORLANDO STATON, 61 (COVID-19), drummer, NJ cult rock band The Fabulous Flemtones
03/21: RICHARD S. KLINE, 79 (lengthy illness), 1970s TV producer/director (The Dick Cavett Show; The Joker's Wild; Break the Bank; Win, Lose or Draw)
03/22: ERIC WEISSBERG, 80 (complications; Alzheimer's disease), folk multi-instrumentalist (1950s folk music group The Tarriers; 1970s duo with Steve Marshall, Dueling Banjos)
03/23: LUCIA BOSÈ, 89 (pneumonia compounded by COVID-19), 1950s/60s Italian film actress (for auteurs Michelangelo Antonioni; Jean Cocteau; Federico Fellini); one-time wife of Spanish matador Luis Miguel Dominguín; Miss Italia 1947
03/23: DAVID COLLINGS, 79 (undisclosed), British screen/radio actor (Albert Finney Scrooge, as Bob Cratchit; Blake's 7, first episode; Lord of the Rings, radio version)
03/23?: VICTOR MILLROSE, 84/85 (undisclosed), 1960s songwriter (Last Chance to Turn Around/Gene Pitney; This Girl Is a Woman Now/Gary Puckett) – no official obituary has been issued as of 04/09/2020
03/24: Judge JOHN G. DAVIES, 90 (undisclosed), Australian-born US Federal jurist (Rodney king police civil rights trial); Olympic swimmer (Australian team, 1948, 1952)
03/24: WILLIAM DUFRIS, 62 (cancer), voice-over actor (US version, Bob the Builder, title role; anime; audio books)
03/24: STUART GORDON, 72 (multiple organ failure syndrome), horror film director (Re-Animator); screenwriter (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
03/24: LORING MANDEL, 91 (cancer), dramatist (Advise and Consent); screenwriter (Countdown; Little Drummer Girl; Promises in the Dark)
03/24: TERRENCE McNALLY, 81 (complications: COVID-19; chronic COPD), Broadway dramatist (The Ritz; Master Class; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Love! Valour! Compassion!); librettist (Kiss of the Spider Woman; Ragtime; The Full Monty)
03/24: GERARD SCHURMANN, 96 (undisclosed), Dutch/Javanese-born British film composer (Dr Syn, Alias the Scarecrow; The Bedford Incident)
03/24: ALBERT UDERZO, 92 (heart attack), Italo-French illustrator/co-creator/writer, French serial comic strip Asterix
03/25: MARK BLUM, 69 (COVID-19), film actor (pivotal roles. Crocodile Dundee, Desperately Seeking Susan)
03/25: RICHARD REEVES, 83 (cardiac arrest), political author/columnist/historian (Infamy, re; Pearl Harbor; presidential administrations: Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton)
03/26: BILL MARTIN, 81 (undisclosed), Scots-born British songwriter (Puppet on a String/Sandie Shaw; several Eurovision entries)
03/26: PETER MINER, 89 (undisclosed), 1930s Broadway juvenile actor (On Borrowed Time); director/producer (One Life to Live; Dark Shadows)
03/26: FRED “CURLY” NEAL, 77 (undisclosed), basketball player/entertainer (The Harlem Globetrotters)
03/27: BOB ANDY, 75 (brief illness), Jamaican-born British reggae singer (Bob and Marcia; The Paragons – original version, The Tide Is High)
03/27: HARRIET GLICKMAN, 93 (complications: myelodysplastic syndrome); schoolteacher who inspired first black character (Franklin Armstrong) in Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts
03/28: Sen. TOM COBURN, 72 (prostate cancer), obstetrician; US congressman (R-OK/2nd District, 1995-2001; US Senator (R-OK, 2005-15)
03/28: JAN HOWARD, 91 (pneumonia), country singer (Evil on Your Mind; Vietnam-themed My Son)
03/28: DAVID SCHRAMM, 73 (heart attack), 1990s TV sitcom actor (Wings)
03/28: WILLIAM WOLF, 94 (COVID-19), theatre/film critic/historian (Cue/New York Magazine; 1970s Marx Brothers biography); one-time Drama Desk president
03/29: JOE DIFFIE, 61 (COVID-19), 1990s country singer (Pickup Man; John Deere Green, Third Rock from the Sun)
03/29: MARIA MERCADER, 54 (COVID-19), CBS News broadcast journalist/producer (60 Minutes; CBS Sunday Morning)
03/29: ALAN MERRILL, 69 (COVID-19), singer/musician (1970s group Arrows); songwriter (I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll/Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)
03/30: TOMIE dePAOLA, 85 (complications: surgery following a fall), children’s author/illustrator (Strega Nona series)
03/30: BILL WITHERS, 81 (complications: heart disease), R&B singer (Lean On Me; Lovely Day; Ain’t No Sunshine; Just the Two of Us)
03/31: CRISTINA (Cristina Monet-Palaci), 61 (COVID-19), early 1980s New Wave singer
03/31: JULIE BENNETT, 88 (COVID-19), cartoon and toy voice actress (Hanna-Barbera; Warner Bros.; Jay Ward Productions; UPA; Mattel, as Barbie)
03/31: ANDREW JACK, 76 (COVID-19), British actor/dialect coach (Lord of the Rings trilogy; Star Wars sequel trilogy; Chaplin; Pierce Brosnan James Bond/007 series)
03/31: ANDREW MARZELLO, 69 (complications: dementia), actor (The Witches; Superman i/II); voice-over actor (US version, Bob the Builder, as Farmer Pickles)
APRIL 2020:
04/01: ZEV BUFFMAN, 81 (undisclosed), Broadway producer (Marat/Sade; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Blithe Spirit; Private Lives; The Little Foxes)
04/01: Judge KEVIN DUFFY, 87 (COVID-19), US District Judge (New York Southern District, 1993 WTC terrorist bombing)
04/01: ED FARMER, 70 (kidney disease), MLB relief pitcher/sportscaster (Chicago White Sox)
04/01: ELLIS MARSALIS JR., 85 (COVID-19), jazz pianist; father of musicians Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis
04/01: JOHN “BUCKY” PIZZARELLI, 94 (COVID-19), jazz/big band guitarist (Clyde McCoy; Russ Morgan; Raymond Scott; Vaughn Monroe; The Three Suns; The Tonight Show Band); father of singer/musician John Pizzarelli (Tthe Wonder of It All; I Like Jersey Best)
04/01: ADAM SCHLESINGER, 52 (COVID-19), singer/musician/co-founder, group Fountains of Wayne; songwriter (That Thing You Do)
04/02: PATRICIA BOSWORTH, 86 (COVID-19), actress/model turned journalist/celebrity biographer (Montgomery Clift; Diane Arbus; Marlon Brando; Jane Fonda)
04/02: JUAN GIMÉNEZ, 76 (COVID-19), Argentine comic book/fantasy artiist (Heavy Metal magazine and film)
04/02: EDDIE LARGE, 78 (heart failure; COVID-19), Scots-born British TV comedian (comedy team Little and Large)
04/02: GIDEON McKEAN, 8 (drowning; canoe accident – with mother), great-grandson of RFK
04/02: MAEVE KENNEDY TOWNSEND McKEAN, 40 (drowning; canoe accident with eight year-old son), public health official/attorney; granddaughter of RFK
04/02: LOGAN WILLIAMS, 16 (suddenly), Canadian-born TV actor (CW’s The Flash, as young Barry Allen)
04/03: IRA EINHORN, 79 (undisclosed; in custody), 1960s/50s countercultural figure/ecological activist; convicted murderer (The Unicorn Killer); fugitive from US (23 years)
04/03: JAMES KING, 49 (multiple health issues), reality TV subject (TLC’s My 600 Lb. Life)
04/03: ARLENE STRINGER-CUEVAS, 86 (COVID-19), 1970s NYC Councilwoman; mother of NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer
04/04: TIMOTHY BROWN, 82 (undisclosed), 1960s NFL player (Philadelphia Eagles); actor (Nashville; film M*A*S*H; TV series M*A*S*H, as Spearchucker Jones)
04/04: FORREST COMPTON, 94 (COVID-19), TV actor (Gomer Pyle – USMC, as Colonel Grey; The Edge of Night; The FBI)
04/04: ALEX HARVEY, 73 (undisclosed), songwriter (Delta Dawn/Tanya Tucker/Helen Reddy; Reuben James/Kenny Rogers and the First Edition); actor (Gettysburg)
04/05: HONOR BLACKMAN, 94 (natural causes), British actress (A Night to Remember; Jason and the Argonauts; The Avengers; Goldfinger; The Prisoner, voice-over)
04/05: SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, 86 (complications: pneumonia), Canadian-born film actress (Lolita; Dead Ringers); mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland; one-time wife of actor Donald Sutherland; daughter of Saskatchewan premier Tommy Douglas
04/05: LEE FIERRO, 91 (COVID-19), actress (Jaws/Jaws 2, as grieving mother Mrs. Kintner)
04/05: THOMAS L. MILLER, 79 (complications: heart disease), TV sitcom producer (Happy Days; Laverne & Shirley; Mork & Mindy; Perfect Strangers; Full House; The Hogan Family; Family Matters; Step by Step)
04/05: GEORGE OGILVIE, 89 (cardiac arrest), Australian film director (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome)
04/06: JAMES DRURY, 85 (natural causes), actor (The Virginian/The Men from Shiloh)
04/06: VIC HENLEY, 57 (pulmonary embolism), Southern-themed stand-up comedian
04/06: AL KALINE, 85 (undisclosed), MLB outfielder (Detroit Tigers, 1953-74)
04/07: ALLEN GARFIELD/ALLEN GOORWITZ, 80 (COVID-19), 1970s/80s film character actor (Woody Allen’s Bananas; The Conversation; Nashville; The Stunt Man; Beverly Cops II(
04/07: JOHN PRINE, 73 (COVID-19), country/folk singer/songwriter/musician
04/07: LEONARD “NIPPER” READ, 95 (COVID-19),, British Scotland Yard detective (Kray Brothers)
04/04: ELIOT TIEGEL, 84 (heart attack), music journalist/author; one-time managing editor, Billboard magazine
04/07: HAL WILLNER, 64 (COVID-19), music producer (Lou Reed; Laurie Anderson; Disney theme album Stay Awake; SNL musical comedy sketches)
04/07: GHYSLAIN TREMBLAY, 68 (undisclosed), Québécois French-Canadian TV actor
04/08: MORT DRUCKER, 81 (undisclosed), comics artist/caricaturist (MAD Magazine; The Adventures of Bob Hope; DC 1950s war comics; JFK Coloring Book; Reagan-era comic strip Benchley); movie poster artist (American Graffiti)
04/08: PAUL LAMBERT, 61 (suicide), British BBC TV political journalist
04/08: CHYNNA ROGERS, 25 (undisclosed), Philadelphia-based rap performer
04/08: LINDA TRIPP, 70 (pancreatic cancer), 1990s US Pentagon official; player/whistleblower, President Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal
2020 A-Z CROSS-REFERENCE:
CHARLES "CHUCK" ALVERSON, 84, US-born British screenwriting collaborator with Terry Gilliam, 01/19
BOB ANDERMAN, 59, popular culture journalist/radio personality Mr. Media, 02/24
BOB ANDY, 75, Jamaican-born British reggae singer, 03/27
ROMÁN ARÁMBULA, 83, Mexican-born comic strip artist, 03/19
DICK BALDUZZI, 91, episodic TV actor, 01/27
BOBBIE BATTISTA, 67, CNN newscaster, 03/03
ORSON BEAN, 91, comedic actor; TV talk show/game show panelist/raconteur – pedestrian victim, double-auto traffic collision, 02/07
LEE PHILLIP BELL,, 91, TV serial producer/co-creator; broadcast journalist, 02/25
ALLEN BELLMAN, 96, 1940s comic book artist, 03/08
JULIE BENNETT, 88, cartoon voice actress, 03/31;
OWEN BIEBER, 90, labour union leader, 02/16
HONOR BLACKMAN, 94, British actress, 04/04
MARK BLUM, 69, 1980s film actor, 03/25
WILLIAM BOGERT, 83, TV/film actor, 01/12
ROSCOE BORN, 69, TV soap opera actor – bipolar-derived suicide, 03/03
LUCIA BOSÈ, 89, 1950s/60s Italian film actress, 03/23
PATRICIA BOSWORTH, 86, celebrity biographer, 04/02
LORENZO BRINO, 21, 1990s/2000s child TV actor – automobile collision, 03/09
BILL BRITTEN, 92, 1950s/60s NYC children's show TV host/Bozo franchisee, 02/04
TIMOTHY BROWN, 82, NFL player; actor, 04/04
GIANNA "GIGI" BRYANT, 13, daughter of NBA player Kobe Bryant – private helicopter crash, 01/26
KOBE BRYANT, 41, superstar NBA player – private helicopter crash, 01/26
ZEV BUFFMAN, 81, Broadway producer, 04/01
JACK BURNS, 86, comedian/writer/sitcom actor/voice-over artist/TV producer/writer, 01/28
EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES, 87, 1950s/60s actor/teen idol/novelty pop singer, 01/08
BUDDY CAGE, 73, pedal steel guitarist, rock group New Riders of the Purple Sage, 02/05
ZOE CALDWELL, 86, Australian-born Broadway actress, 02/16
BIL CANFIELD, 99, NYC-area editorial/sports cartoonist, 01/30
STEVE MARTIN CARO/STEVE MARTIN, 71, 1960s pop singer, The Left Banke, 01/14
PEARL CARR, 98, 1950s British pop singer, 02/16
CC, 18, female tabby cat; first cloned pet, 03/03
JOHNI CERNY 77, genealogist/TV personality, 02/22
ANNE COX CHAMBERS, 100, media conglomerate scioness; daughter of James M. Cox (1920 Democratic presidential candidate), 01/31
JOEL CHASEMAN, 93, radio executive, NYC's first all-news radio format (1965), 01/10
MARY HIGGINS CLARK, 92, best-selling author, 01/31
ROBERT COBERT, 95, TV compose/game show theme song writer, 02/19
Sen. TOM COBURN, 72, US congressman (R-OK/2nd District, 1995-2001; US Senator (R-OK, 2005-15), 03/28
RUSS COCHRAN, 82, EC Comics historian/publisher, 02/23
DAVID COLLINGS, 79, British screen/radio actor, 03/23
FORREST COMPTON, 94, TV actor, 04/04
BOBBY COMSTOCK, 79, 1950s/60s rock singer, Bobby Comstock and the Counts, 01/09
ROBERT CONRAD, 84, TV actor, 02/08
KEVIN CONWAY, 77, actor, 02/05
BEN COOPER, 86, western TV/film actor, 02/24
CRISTINA (Cristina Monet-Palaci), 61, early 1980s New Wave singer, 03/31
JOE COULOMBE, 89, founder of Trader Joe’s supermarkets, 02/28
MART CROWLEY, 84, LGBT-themed dramatist/screenwriter, 03/08
FRANCES CUKA, 83, British actress, 02/16
CLIVE CUSSLER, 88, best-selling adventure-themed novelist, 02/24
NICOLA “NICK” CUTI, 75, comic book artist/animator, 02/21
Judge JOHN G. DAVIES, 90, Australian-born US Federal jurist; Australian team Olympic swimmer, 03/24
ARCH DEAL, 88, Tampa TV news anchorman – choking on food; similar to daughter Karen Deal (Mrs. Marty) Balin's 2010 death, 03/13
SUZY DELAIR, 102, French comedic film actress, 03/16
TOMIE dePAOLA, 85, children’s author/illustrator, 03/30
JOE DIFFIE, 61, 1990s country singer, 03/29
KIRK DOUGLAS, 103, actor; father of actor Michael Douglas, 02/05
SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, 86, Canadian-born film actress; mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland, 04/05
MORT DRUCKER, 81, MAD Magazine comics artist/caricaturist, 04/08
JAMES DRURY, 85, actor, 04/06
JA’NET DuBOIS, 74, 1970sTV sitcom actress; theme-song singer/co-writer, 02/18
Judge KEVIN DUFFY, 87, US District Judge (1993 WTC terrorist bombing), 04/01
WILLIAM DUFRIS, 62, voice-over actor, 03/24
FOTIS DULOS, 52, suspect in Connecticut death of wife Jennifer Dulos – suicide/carbon monoxide asphyxiation, 01/30
MARJ DUSAY, 83, prolific TV soap opera actress, 01/28
IRA EINHORN, 79; convicted murderer; fugitive from justice – in custody, 04/03
LYNN EVANS (MAND), 95, lead singer, 1950s vocal group The Chordettes, 02/06
ED FARMER, 70, MLB relief pitcher/sportscaster, 04/01
F.X. FEENEY, 66, film critic/historian/theoretician/author/screenwriter, 02/05
LEE FIERRO, 91, Jaws actress, 04/05
CAROLINE FLACK, 40, British TV host – suicide, 02/15
NICK APOLLO FORTE, 81, lounge singer/actor, 02/26
DEREK FOWLDS, 82, British TV actor, 01/17
HARRIET FRANK (JR), 96, screenwriter, 01/28
JOHN “SONNY” FRANZESE, 103, NYC mobster, 02/24
WOLFGANG FUCHS, 74, German translator/historian of American comics, 01/20
ZOE GAIL, 100, South African-born WWII-era singer, 02/20 (her 100th birthday)
ALLEN GARFIELD/ALLEN GOORWITZ, 80, film character actor, 04/07
LILA GARRETT, 94, radical Los Angeles radio pesonality; 1960s/70s sitcom writer, 02/01
ANDY GILL, 64, British punk guitarist, Gang of Four, 02/01
JUAN GIMÉNEZ, 76, Argentine comic book/fantasy artiist, 04/02
HARRIET GLICKMAN, 93; schoolteacher who inspired Peanuts’ character Franklin 03/27
WENDELL GOLER, 70, Fox News broadcast journalist, 03/03
NICK GORDON, 30. scandal-connected boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown – overdose, 01/01
STUART GORDON, 72, horror/fantasy film director/screenwriter, 03/24
VICTOR GORELICK, 78, editor/executive, Archie Comics, 02/08
MARTY GREBB, 74, keyboardist, The Buckinghams – suspected suicide, 01/02
BILL GREENWOOD, 77, ABC News broadcast journalist, 01/19
MAGGIE GRIFFIN, 99, mother/TV co-star of Kathy Griffin, 03/17
SALVATORE "SONNY" GROSSO, 89, NYPD detective; crime-themed film producer/actor, 01/22
HARRY HAINS, 27; Australian-born actor; son of actress Jane Badler – suicide, 01/07
TERRY HANDS, 79, British-born Broadway theatrical director/producer/artistic director, 02/04
Rep. RICHARD HANNA, 60, US Congressman (R-NY/24th, 22nd Districts, 2011-2017);, 03/15
ALAN HARRIS, 81, 1980s British Star Wars actor, 01/31
HARRY HARRISON, 89, long-time NYC morning Top 40/Oldies radio host, 01/28
ALEX HARVEY, 73, songwriter; actor, 04/04
Dr. AMIE HARWICK, 38, one-time fiancée of Drew Carey – fall from a balcony caused by blunt force trauma/domestic violence, 02/15
VIC HENLEY, 57, stand-up comedian, 04/06
BUCK HENRY, 89, comedic screenwriter/actor/sitcom creator, 01/08
MICHAEL HERTZ, 87, designer, NYC subway map, 02/18
SILVIO HORTA, 45, TV screenwriter/Ugly Betty show adapter – suicide/gunshot, 01/07
A.E. (AARON EDWARD) HOTCHNER, 102, novelist/memoirist/biographer/TV screenwriter/entrepreneur/philanthropist, 02/15
Rep. AMORY "AMO" HOUGHTON JR, 93, glass industry executive; US Congressman (R-NY/24 state, various districts, 1987-2005), 03/04
JAN HOWARD, 91, country singer, 03/28
“MAD” MIKE HUGHES, 64, daredevil/TV personality – homemade rocket crash, 02/22
ELAINE HYMAN, 85, old time radio actress, 03/??
ED INGLES, 87, NYC radio sportscaster, 03/07
ANDREW JACK, 76 (COVID-19), British film actor/dialect coach, 03/31
BASHAR JACKSON, 20, rap performer Pop Smoke – gun violence/home invasion, 02/19
JOYCE REVENSON JAFFEE, 88, wife of MAD Magazine artist Al Jaffee, 01/30
KATHERINE JOHNSON, 101, Hidden Figures African-American female NASA mathematician, 02/24
ROCKY JOHNSON, 75, Canadian-born wrestler; father of wrestler/actor Dwayne Johnson, 01/15
TERRY JONES, 77, Welsh-born comedic actor/director/screenwriter/co-founder, British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, 01/22
STEPHEN JAMES JOYCE, 87, Parisian-born Irish grandson of/literary executor for James Joyce, 01/23
ROGER KAHN, 92, baseball-themed sports journalist/author, 02/06
AL KALINE, 85 MLB outfielder, 04/06
JOHN KARLEN, 86, TV actor, 01/22
HISASHI KATSUTA, 92, Japanese anime voice actor, 02/21
JAMES KEHOE, 85, film character actor, 01/14
PAULA KELLY, 76, actress/dancer, 02/09
SUSAN KESLER, 60, TV editor; TV historian/autho/automobile collector, 03/19
JAMES KING, 49, reality TV subject, 04/03
STAN KIRSCH, 51, TV actor – suicide/hanging, 01/11
JENS NYGAARD KNUDSEN, 78, Danish designer/creator, LEGO’s mini-figures, 02/19
FREDERICK KOCH, 86, co-founder, Koch Industries; philanthropist/political contributor, 02/12
RICHARD S. KLINE, 79, TV game/talk show producer/director, 03/21
MARSHA KRAMER, 74, TV actress, 01/24
EGIL "BUD" KROGH JR, 80, Watergate scandal figure, 01/18
PAUL LAMBERT, 61, British TV political journalist – suicide, 04/08
EDDIE LARGE, 78, Scots-born British TV comedian, 04/02
DON LARSEN, 90, MLB pitcher best known for 1956 World Series perfect game, 01/01
JIM LEHRER, 85, PBS broadcast journalist/news anchor, 01/23
WILLIAM “BUZZY” LINHART, 76, folksinger/songwriter, 02/13
MARGO LION. 76, Broadway producer, 01/24
JAMES LIPTON, 93, old time radio actor; TV soap opera/TV special writer producer; acting instructor; TV host, 03/02
GENE LONDON, 88, Philadelphia children's TV show host-turned-dress designer, 01/19
BONNIE MACLEAN, 80, 1960s psychedlic rock concert poster artist, 02/04
LORING MANDEL, 91, dramatist; screenwriter, 03/24
ELLIS MARSALIS JR., 85, jazz pianist; father of Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis, 04/01
BARBARA MARTIN, 76, singer, pre-fame The Supremes, 03/04
BILL MARTIN, 81, Scots-born British songwriter, 03/26
DANIEL LEE MARTIN, 54, 2000s country singer; accused child abuser – suicide/gunshot, 02/15
ANDREW MARZELLO, 69, actor; voice-over actor, 03/31
GIDEON McKEAN, 8, great-grandson of RFK – accidental drowning with mother Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 04/02
MAEVE KENNEDY TOWNSEND McKEAN, 41, granddaughter of RFK – accidental drowning with 8 year-old son Gideon, 04/02
RON McLARTY, 72, TV actor/audio-book narrator, 02/08
FRANCIS X. “FRANK” McLAUGHLIN, 84 (undisclosed), comic strip/comic book artist, 03/04
TERRENCE McNALLY, 81, Broadway dramatist; librettist, 03/24
MICHAEL MEDWIN, 96, British actor, 02/26
LUIS ALFONSO MENDOZA, 55, Mexican voice dubbing actor for Latin American markets -– gun violence, 02/29
MARIA MERCADER, 54, CBS News broadcast journalist/producer, f03/29
03/29
ALAN MERRILL, 69, singer/musician/songwriter, 03/29
THOMAS L. MILLER, 79, TV sitcom producer, 04/05
VICTOR MILLROSE, 84/85, 1960s songwriter, circa 03/23 (no official obituary issued as of 04/09/2020)
JANE MILMORE, 64, 1990s sitcom writer/producer; stage farcicist, 02/04
PETER MINER, 89, 1930s Broadway juvenile actor; 1970s TV serial director/producer, 03/26
DANIEL arap MOI, 95, President of Kenya (1978–2002), 02/04
Viscount DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY, 91, son of British Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 01/08
“BABY” PEGGY MONTGOMERY/DIANA SERRA CARY, 101, silent film child actress, 02/24
SYLVIA JUKES MORRIS, 84, British-born biographer, 01/05
HOSNI MUBAREK, 91, President of Egypt (1981-2011), 02/25
KELLYE NAKAHARA (WALLETT), 72, 1970s/80s actress, 02/16
BOB NAVE, 75, keyboardist, 1960s pop group The Lemon Pipers, 01/28
FRED “CURLY” NEAL, 77, basketball player, 03/26
GEORGE OGILVIE, 89, Australian film director, 04/05
LAN O'KUN, 87, TV writer; collaborator/brother-in-law of ventriloquist Shari Lewis, 01/09
KEITH OLSEN, 74, 1970s/80s superstar music producer, 03/09
JIM OWEN, 78, country music singer /songwriter, 03/07
ROBERT PARKER, 89, 1960s singer/songwriter, 01/19
NICHOLAS PARSONS, 96, British radio/TV host/comedic actor, 01/28
IVAN PASSER, 86, Czech-born film director/auteur, 01/09
ALAN PATTILLO, 90, British TV animation director for Gerry Anderson, 01/16
NEIL PEART, 67, drummer, Canadian rock band Rush, 01/07
JAVIER PÉREZ de CUÉLLAR, 100, Peruvian-born 1980s United Nations Secretary General, 03/04
PHIL PHILLIPS (né Baptiste), 94, 1950s pop singer, 03/14 (94th birthday)
JOHN “BUCKY” PIZZARELLI, 94, jazz/big band guitarist, 04/01
EARL POMERANTZ, 75, Canadian-born TV sitcom writer, 03/17
CHARLES PORTIS, 86, reclusive novelist, 02/17
LOVELADY POWELL, 89, cabaret performer/actress, 02/02
JOHN PRINE, 73, country/folk singer/songwriter/musician, 04/07
Rep. THOMAS RAILSBACK, 87, US Congressman (R-IL/19th, 1967-83) who backed 1974 President Nixon impeachment, 01/20
BILL RAY, 83, 1960s LIFE Magazine photographer, 01/09
LEONARD “NIPPER” READ, 95, British Scotland Yard detective, 94/07
RICHARD REEVES, 83, political author/columnist/historian, 03/25
GENE REYNOLDS, 96, TV director/producer/writer, 02/03
DAVID ROBACK, 61, guitarist/singer/songwriter, Mazzy Star, 02/25
CHYNNA ROGERS, 25, rap performer, 04/08
KENNY ROGERS, 81, singer/musician/songwriter; actor; fast food entrepreneur, 03/20
ROBERT SAMPSON, 86, TV actor, 01/18
DAVID SCHRAMM, 73, TV sitcom actor, 03/28
GERARD SCHURMANN, 96, Dutch/Javanese-born British film composer, 03/24
CAROL KRAMER SERLING, 81, widow of author/screenwriter/TV personality Rod Serling, 01/13
Dr. JOSEPH SHABALALA, 78 (lengthy illness), Zulu-born founder, South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, 02/11
BOB SHANE, 85, folk singer/guitarist, The Kingston Trio, 01/26
MAL SHARPE, 83, San Francisco-area radio/TV personality, 03/10
ADAM SCHLESINGER, 52, singer/musician/co-founder, Fountains of Wayne, 04/01
FRED SILVERMAN, 82, TV programming executive for all three major 1970s TV networks, 01/30
JERRY SLICK, 80, drummer; first husband of rock singer Grace Slick, circa 03/19
B./BARBARA SMITH, 70, restaurateur/model/TV personality, 02/22
QASEM SOLEIMANI, 62. Iranian killer/terrorist – killed in US airstrike in Iraq, 01/03
SEYMOUR “SY” SPERLING, 78, founder/president/TV pitchman, Hair Club for Men, 02/20
ORLANDO STATON, 61, drummer, NJ cult rock band The Fabulous Flemtones, 03/20
ARLENE STRINGER-CUEVAS, 86, mother of NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, 04/03 -
MARTY SULLIVAN, 87, Cleveland TV personality Superhost. 02/21
LARRY TESLER, 74, computer scientist/inventor of “cut-and-paste” function, 02/16
DYANNE THORNE, 83, 1970s cult/exploitation film actress, 01/28
ELIOT TIEGEL, 84, music journalist/author, 04/07
ANN E. TODD, 88, 1940s juvenile actress, 02/07
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN, 95, British academic; son of author J.R.R. Tolkien, 01/16
GHYSLAIN TREMBLAY, 68, Québécois French-Canadian TV actor, 04/07
LINDA TRIPP, 70, player/whistleblower, President Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, 04/08
McCOY TYNER, 81, jazz pianist/virtuoso, 03/06
ALBERT UDERZO, 92, Italo-French co-creator, Asterix comic strip, 03/24
Dr. JACK VAN IMPE, 88, televangelist/eschatologist, 01/18
MONIQUE van VOOREN, 92, Belgian-born actress, 01/28
MAX VON SYDOW, 90, Swedish-born actor, 03/08
LYLE WAGGONER, 84, TV actor, 03/17
NIKITA PEARL WALIGWA, 15, Ugandan-born latter-day Disney movie child actress, 02/15
ROSALIND P. WALTER, 95, claimant to be the inspiration for the song Rosie, the Riveter, 03/04
ERIC WEISSBERG, 80, Dueling Banjos instrumentalist, 03/22
STEVE WEBER 76, musician/singer, The Holy Modal Rounders, 02/07
JACK WELCH, 84, 1980s/90s CEO, General Electric, 03/01
Dr. DONALD WEST, 95 British criminologist/psychiatrist/author, 01/31
STUART WHITMAN, 92, film character actor, 03/16
CLAYTON WILLIAMS, 88, Texas oil executive; 1990 Republican gubernatorial candidate, 02/14
LOGAN WILLIAMS, 16, Canadian-born TV actor, 04/02
HAL WILLNER, 64, music producer, 04/07
WES WILSON, 82, 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster artist, 01/24
DAVID WISE, 65, TV animation scriptwriter, 03/03
BILL WITHERS, 81, R&B singer, 03/30
WILLIAM WOLF, 94, theatre/film critic/one-time president, Drama Desk, 03/28
LINDA WOLFE, 87, investigative journalist/author, 02/22
CHARLES WOOD, 87, British Beatles-connected screenwriter, 02/01
ALFRED "AL" WORDEN, 84, Apollo XV astronaut, 03/17
ELIZABETH WURTZEL, 52, depression-themed memoirist, 01/07
BORIS YARO, 81, RFK photojournalist, 04/18
JOHNNY YUNE, 83, South Korean-born comedic actor, 03/08