Thursday, December 24, 2020

THE BUTCHER'S BILL 2020

 A LISTING OF THOSE WE LOST IN 2020.



Christopher Beeny, actor (Upstairs, Downstairs, Last of the Summer Wine).

Tom Long, 51, actor (Two Hands, The Dish)

Elizabeth Wurtzel, author (Prozac Nation)

Neil Peart, drummer/songwriter  (Rush).

Buck Henry, 89, American screenwriter, 

Edd Byrnes, 87, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Grease) and recording artist ("Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)").

Ivan Passer, 86, Czech film director (Born to Win, Cutter's Way, Silver Bears) and screenwriter, pulmonary complications.

Neda Arnerić, 66, Serbian actress (Shaft in Africa, Venom, The End of the War).

Norma Michaels, 95, American actress (The King of Queens, Mind of Mencia, Easy A).[197]

Stan Kirsch, 51, American actor (Highlander: The Series), suicide by hanging.[194]

Tony Garnett, 83, British film producer (Kes, Earth Girls Are Easy)

William Bogert, 83, American actor (Small Wonder).[171]

Jack Kehoe, 85, American actor (Serpico, The Sting, The Untouchables), complications from a stroke.[142]

Christopher Tolkien, 95, British academic and editor.

Derek Fowlds, 82, British actor (Yes Minister, Heartbeat, East of Sudan)

Egil Krogh, 80, American lawyer, U.S. Under Secretary of Transportation (1973), heart failure.[67]

Joe Shishido, 86, Japanese actor (Youth of the Beast, Branded to Kill, A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness).

Gene London, 88, American children's television presenter (WCAU, WABD, NBC)




Terry Jones, 77, Welsh comic actor, screenwriter and film director (Monty Python).

John Karlen, 86, American actor (Daughters of Darkness, Dark Shadows, Cagney & Lacey), heart failure.[10]

Jim Lehrer, 85, American journalist (PBS NewsHour).

Kobe Bryant, 41, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), Olympic champion (2008, 2012), helicopter crash.

Barbara Remington, 90, American artist and illustrator.[



Bob Shane, 85, American singer and guitarist (The Kingston Trio), complications from pneumonia.

Jack Burns, 86, American comedian (The Andy Griffith Show) and actor (The Night They Raided Minsky's, The Partridge Family).



Nicholas Parsons, 96, British actor, radio and television presenter (Just a Minute, Sale of the Century), Rector of the University of St Andrews (1988–1991).

Harriet Frank Jr., 96, American screenwriter (Hud, Norma Rae, The Carey Treatment).[11]

Marj Dusay, 83, American actress (Guiding Light, The Facts of Life, MacArthur).

Fred Silverman, 82, American Hall of Fame television programmer (CBS, ABC, NBC) and producer, cancer.

Alan Harris, 81, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back).

Mary Higgins Clark, 92, American author (A Stranger Is Watching, A Cry in the Night, Remember Me).

Charles Wood, 87, British screenwriter (The Knack ...and How to Get It, Help!, Iris).

Gene Reynolds, 96, American actor (Gallant Sons) and television producer (M*A*S*H, Lou Grant), heart failure.

Nadia Lutfi, 83, Egyptian actress (The Night of Counting the Years, Saladin the Victorious).

Kirk Douglas, 103, American actor (Spartacus, Paths of Glory, Seven Days in May), Honorary Oscar winner (1996).

F. X. Feeney, 66, American screenwriter (Frankenstein Unbound, The Big Brass Ring), film director and film critic.

Raphaël Coleman, 25, British actor (Nanny McPhee, It's Alive, The Fourth Kind).

Orson Bean, 91, American actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Being John Malkovich) and game show panelist (To Tell the Truth), traffic collision.

Volker Spengler, 80, German actor (In a Year of 13 Moons, The Third Generation, The Marriage of Maria Braun).

Robert Conrad, 84, American actor (Hawaiian Eye, The Wild Wild West, Baa Baa Black Sheep), heart failure.

Ron McLarty, 72, American actor (Spenser: For Hire, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Champs) and author.[26]

Paula Kelly, 76, American actress (Night Court, Santa Barbara, Soylent Green) and dancer.

Patrick Jordan, 96, English actor (The Angry Hills, The Marked One, Star Wars)

Lynn Cohen, 86, American actress (Law & Order, Sex and the City, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire).

Caroline Flack, 40, English television and radio presenter (The X Factor, Love Island, I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp), suicide.

John Shrapnel, 77, English actor (Gladiator, Troy, 101 Dalmatians), cancer.

Kellye Nakahara, 72, American actress (M*A*S*H), cancer.

Charles Portis, 86, American author (True Grit, Norwood).

Flavio Bucci, 72, Italian actor (Suspiria, Property Is No Longer a Theft, Last Stop on the Night Train, Il divo), heart attack.

Sonja Ziemann, 94, German actress (The Black Forest Girl, The Heath Is Green, The Bridge at Remagen).

Zoe Caldwell, 86, Australian actress (Master Class, Lilo & Stitch, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), 4-time Tony winner, complications from Parkinson's disease.

Frances Cuka, 83, British actress (Scrooge, The Watcher in the Woods, Snow White: A Tale of Terror).

Ja'Net DuBois, 74, American actress (Good Times, The PJs) and singer (The Jeffersons theme).

José Mojica Marins, 83, Brazilian film director ("Coffin Joe", At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul), bronchopneumonia.

Boris Leskin, 97, Russian actor (Heavenly Swallows, Vampire's Kiss, Men in Black).

Nicola Cuti, 75, American comic book artist (E-Man), cancer

Diana Serra Cary, 101, American actress aka “Baby Peggy” (Little Red Riding Hood, The Darling of New York, Captain January).

Hosni Mubarak, 91, Egyptian military officer and politician, President (1981–2011), Prime Minister (1981–1982) and Vice-President (1975–1981).

Olof Thunberg, 94, Swedish actor (Winter Light , Bamse, Amorosa)

Clive Cussler, 88, American adventure novelist (Raise the Titanic!, Sahara) and underwater explorer, founder of the NUMA.[24]



Ben Cooper, 86, American actor (Johnny Guitar, Gunfight at Comanche Creek, Rebel in Town).[22]

David Roback, 61, American guitarist (Mazzy Star, Rain Parade, Opal) and songwriter.[16]

Michael Medwin, 96, English actor (Shoestring, Scrooge, The Army Game).

Joyce Gordon, 90, American actress (Police Academy, Billy Madison, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!).[34]

James Lipton, 93, American writer and television host (Inside the Actors Studio), bladder cancer.

Roscoe Born, 69, American actor (One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, The Young and the Restless), suicide.[45]

James Otis, 71, American actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Black Dahlia).

Frank McLaughlin, 84, American comics artist (Judomaster, Gil Thorp).

Frodo, cat

David Wise, 65, American television writer (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Transformers, Defenders of the Earth), lung cancer.

Rosalind P. Walter, 95, American riveter and philanthropist, namesake of Rosie the Riveter.[65]

McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist (Inception, The Real McCoy, Song for My Lady).



Max von Sydow, 90, Swedish-born French actor (The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist, Pelle the Conqueror).

Johnny Yune, 83, South Korean-American actor (They Call Me Bruce?, Nothing in Common, They Still Call Me Bruce) and comedian, cerebral hemorrhage.

Allen Bellman, 95, American comic book artist (Captain America).

Gary B. Kibbe, 79, American cinematographer (They Live, Escape from L.A., RoboCop 3).

Roy Hudd, 83, English actor (The Blood Beast Terror, Up the Chastity Belt, The Alf Garnett Saga) and comedian.

Suzy Delair, 102, French actress (Quai des Orfèvres, Atoll K, The Murderer Lives at Number 21).[25]

Stuart Whitman, 92, American actor (The Mark, The Comancheros, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines), skin cancer.[22]

Lyle Waggoner, 84, American actor (The Carol Burnett Show, Wonder Woman, Love Me Deadly).

Erwin Drèze, 59, Belgian comic book artist, brain tumor.

Nazzareno Zamperla, 82, Italian actor (Samson and the Slave Queen, A Pistol for Ringo, Three Tough Guys) and stuntman.[94]

Kenny Rogers, 81, American Hall of Fame singer ("The Gambler", "Just Dropped In", "Islands in the Stream"), songwriter and actor.[63]

Giovanni Romanini, 74, Italian comics artist and cartoonist (Satanik, Diabolik, Alan Ford), heart attack.[403]

Russ Cochran, publisher (E.C. reprints)

Lucia Bosè, 89, Italian actress (Testament of Orpeus, Fellini’s Satyricon, Something Creeping in the Dark), Miss Italia (1947), COVID-19.

Alfio Contini, 92, Italian cinematographer (Zabriskie Point, The Night Porter, Ripley's Game).

David Collings, 79, British actor (Scrooge, The Thirty Nine Steps, The Invisible Woman).

Terrence McNally, 81, American playwright (Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Love! Valour! Compassion!) and screenwriter, Tony winner (1993, 1995, 1996), COVID-19.

William Dufris, 62, American voice actor (Bob the Builder), cancer.

Stuart Gordon, 72, American film director (Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dagon).

Gerard Schurmann, 96, Dutch-British composer and conductor (The Bedford Incident, Attack on the Iron Coast, Claretta).[58]

Mark Blum, 69, American actor (Crocodile Dundee, Mozart in the Jungle, Desperately Seeking Susan), COVID-19.

Curly Neal, 77, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).

Hamish Wilson, 77, Scottish actor (Dr. Who - The Mind Robber) and radio producer (Radio Forth, Radio Clyde), COVID-19.

Delroy Washington, 67, British-Jamaican reggae singer.[53]

Bob Andy, 75, Jamaican reggae singer (The Paragons, Bob and Marcia), songwriter and actor (The Mighty Quinn).[34]

David Schramm, 73, American actor (Wings, Johnny Handsome, Kennedy).[30]

Tomie dePaola, 85, American writer, illustrator (Strega Nona, 26 Fairmount Avenue), and television personality (Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola), complications from surgery after a fall.[737]

Bill Withers, 81, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lovely Day"), heart disease.[765]

Matthew Faber, 47, American actor (Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Pallbearer, Natural Born Killers).[19]

Alan Merrill, 69, American musician (Arrows) and songwriter ("I Love Rock 'n' Roll"), COVID-19.

Joe Diffie, 61, American country singer-songwriter ("Home", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man"), COVID-19.

Vincent Marzello, 68, American actor (The Witches, Never Say Never Again, Bob the Builder).

Julie Bennett, 88, American actress (What's Up, Tiger Lily?, King Kong Escapes, Sole Survivor), COVID-19.[32]

Adam Schlesinger, 52, American musician (Fountains of Wayne, Ivy) and songwriter ("That Thing You Do"), Emmy winner (2012, 2013, 2019), COVID-19.[29]

Ellis Marsalis Jr., 85, American jazz pianist, COVID-19.[25]



Cristina, 61, American singer, COVID-19.[14]

Eddie Large, 78, Scottish comedian (Little and Large), COVID-19.

Juan Giménez, 76, Argentine comic book artist (Heavy Metal, Métal hurlant), COVID-19.[57]

Ron Graham, 93, English-Australian actor (Home and Away, Waterloo Station).[58]

Patricia Bosworth, 86, American actress (The Nun's Story) and author, COVID-19.[50]

Ira Einhorn, 79, American convicted murderer and fugitive.[32]

Carlo Leva, 90, Italian production designer and costume designer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Cat o' Nine Tails).[20]

Forrest Compton, 94, American actor (The Edge of Night, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The F.B.I.), COVID-19.[13]

Jay Benedict, 68, American actor (Foyle's War, Aliens, The Dark Knight Rises), COVID-19.[10]

Shirley Douglas, 86, Canadian actress (Wind at My Back, Lolita, Barney's Great Adventure) and civil rights activist, complications from pneumonia.[3]

Lee Fierro, 91, American actress (Jaws), COVID-19.

George Ogilvie, 89, Australian theatre and film director (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), cardiac arrest.[95]



Honor Blackman, 94, English actress (The Avengers, Goldfinger, Jason and the Argonauts).[19]

Margaret Burbidge, 100, British-born American astronomer, complications from a fall.[20]

James Drury, 85, American actor (The Virginian, Ten Who Dared, The Young Warriors).[5]

Jacques Le Brun, 88, French historian, COVID-19.

Hal Willner, 64, American music producer (Saturday Night Live, Stay Awake), COVID-19.[31]

Allen Garfield, 80, American actor (The Conversation, Nashville, Beverly Hills Cop II), COVID-19.[17]



John Prine, 73, American singer-songwriter ("Sam Stone", "Angel from Montgomery"), Grammy winner (1992, 2006), COVID-19.

Linda Tripp, 70, American civil servant and whistleblower (Clinton–Lewinsky scandal), pancreatic cancer.

Saul Turteltaub, 87, American television writer and producer (That Girl, Sanford and Son, What's Happening!!).[289]

Mort Drucker, 91, American caricaturist and comics artist (Mad).[11]

Malcolm Dixon, 66, English actor (Time Bandits, Return of the Jedi, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory).[53] (death announced on this date)

Diane Rodriguez, 68, American actress (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, La Bamba), cancer.[43]

Nobuhiko Obayashi, 82, Japanese film director (House, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo, Hanagatami), screenwriter and editor, lung cancer.[39]

Hilary Dwyer, 74, English actress (Witchfinder General, Cry of the Banshee, Wuthering Heights), COVID-19.[32] (death announced on this date)

Jymie Merritt, 93, American jazz bassist (The Jazz Messengers), liver cancer.[70]

Hélène Chatelain, 84, Belgian-born French actress (La Jetée), documentary film director and writer.[13]

Stirling Moss, 90, British Hall of Fame Formula One driver.[10]

Joel M. Reed, 86, American film director, producer and screenwriter (The G.I. Executioner, Blood Sucking Freaks, Night of the Zombies), COVID-19.[74]

Tim Brooke-Taylor, 79, English comedian (The Goodies) and panelist (I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue), COVID-19.[4]

Maurice Barrier [fr], 87, French actor and comedian (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Les Compères, Les Fugitifs), COVID-19.[14]

Danny Goldman, 80, American actor (The Smurfs, M*A*SH, Young Frankenstein), stroke.[22]

Keiji Fujiwara, 55, Japanese voice actor (Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Attack on Titan), cancer.[176]

Margot Hartman, 86, American actress (The Curse of the Living Corpse, Violent Midnight, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women).[49]

Ann Sullivan, 91, American animator (The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), COVID-19.[25]

Pip Baker, British screenwriter (Doctor Who), complications from a fall.

Gandalf, cat

Allen Daviau, 77, American cinematographer (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun).[34]

Bruce Myers, 77–78, British actor (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Let There Be Light), comedian, and director.[24]

Brian Dennehy, 81, American actor (First Blood, Tommy Boy, Death of a Salesman), Tony winner (1999, 2003), cardiac arrest.

Mario Donatone, 86, Italian actor (Phenomena, The Godfather Part III, John Wick: Chapter 2).[102]

Eddie Cooley, 87, American songwriter ("Fever") and singer ("Priscilla").[69]

Sean Arnold, 79, English actor (Grange Hill, Bergerac).[65]

Gene Deitch, 95, American-born Czech illustrator (Tom and Jerry, Popeye), animator (Munro, Tom Terrific, Nudnik) and comics artist.[46]

Joseph Adler, 79, American theatre and film director (Scream, Baby, Scream).[42]

Gene Shay, 85, American disc jockey, co-founder of Philadelphia Folk Festival, COVID-19.[38]

Sergio Fantoni, 89, Italian actor (Von Ryan's Express, Esther and the King, The Manageress).[29]

Philippe Nahon, 81, French actor (High Tension, I Stand Alone, Calvaire).[4]

Jack Wallace, 86, American actor (Death Wish, Eagleheart, Boogie Nights).[118]

Tom Lester, 81, American actor (Green Acres, Benji, Petticoat Junction), complications from Parkinson's disease.[5]

Shirley Knight, 83, American actress (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Sweet Bird of Youth, As Good as It Gets).[2]

Terence Frisby, 87, English playwright (There's a Girl in My Soup) and actor.[9]

Akira Kume, 96, Japanese actor (The Insect Woman, Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset, The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf), heart failure.[3]

Bruce Allpress, 89, New Zealand actor (Came a Hot Friday, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[42]

Peter H. Hunt, 81, American theatre, film and television director (1776, Give 'em Hell, Harry!), complications from Parkinson's disease.[52]

Jill Gascoine, 83, British actress (The Gentle Touch, C.A.T.S. Eyes, The Onedin Line).



Irrfan Khan, 53, Indian actor (Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi, The Lunchbox), Padma Shri recipient (2011), colon infection.[4]

Cis Corman, 93, American casting director (Raging Bull, The Deer Hunter, The Prince of Tides).[119]

Bobby Lewis, 95, American singer ("Tossin' and Turnin'").[102]

John Lafia, 63, American screenwriter (Child's Play), suicide.[78]

Sam Lloyd, 56, American actor (Scrubs, Galaxy Quest) and musician (The Blanks), complications from lung cancer.[57]

Tony Allen, 79, Nigerian drummer (Fela Kuti, The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Rocket Juice & the Moon), ruptured aneurysm.[46]

Dave Greenfield, 71, English keyboardist (The Stranglers), COVID-19.[12]

John Ericson, 93, German-born American actor (Honey West, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Bad Day at Black Rock), pneumonia.[11]

Don Shula, 90, American Hall of Fame football player (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts) and coach (Miami Dolphins).[6]



Millie Small, 73, Jamaican singer ("My Boy Lollipop"), stroke.[20]

Sweet Pea Atkinson, 74, American singer (Was (Not Was)), heart attack.[22]

Brian Howe, 66, English rock singer (Bad Company), heart attack.[15]

Mary Pratt, 101, American baseball player (Rockford Peaches, Kenosha Comets).[69]

Leslie Pope, 65, American set decorator (Seabiscuit, Django Unchained, Avengers: Endgame).[68]

Daniel Cauchy, 90, French film actor (Bob le flambeur, D'où viens-tu Johnny?, The Troops of St. Tropez) and producer.[34]

Roy Horn, 75, German-American magician (Siegfried & Roy), COVID-19.[24]

Richard Sala, 61, American cartoonist.[17] (death announced on this date)

Little Richard, 87, American Hall of Fame rock and roll singer ("Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally", "Lucille"), pianist and songwriter, bone cancer.[14]

Betty Wright, 66, American soul and R&B singer ("Clean Up Woman"), cancer.[7]

Jerry Stiller, 92, American actor (Seinfeld, The King of Queens) and comedian (Stiller and Meara).[6]

Arthur Dignam, 80, Australian actor (The Devil's Playground, Summer of Secrets, Strange Behavior).[62]

Mark Barkan, 85, American songwriter ("Pretty Flamingo", "The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)", "She's a Fool").[62]

Martin Pasko, 65, Canadian-born American comic book writer (Superman, E-Man) and screenwriter (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm).[39]

Moon Martin, 69, American singer-songwriter ("Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)", "X-Ray Vision").[112]

Astrid Kirchherr, 81, German photographer (The Beatles), cancer.[95]

David Nichols, 78, American production designer (Swamp Thing, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Groundhog Day) and visual consultant.[81]

Phyllis George, 70, American beauty queen (Miss America 1971) and sportscaster (The NFL Today), polycythemia vera.[49]

Guido Cerniglia, 81, Italian actor (The Scientific Cardplayer, Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno, Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno).[45]

Fred Willard, 86, American actor (Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) and comedian.[41]

Lynn Shelton, 54, American film and television director (Humpday, Your Sister's Sister, Fresh Off the Boat), blood disorder.[39]

Phil May, 75, English singer (The Pretty Things), complications following hip surgery.[35]

Pilar Pellicer, 82, Mexican actress (The Life of Agustín Lara, Day of the Evil Gun, La Choca), COVID-19.[16]

Monique Mercure, 89, Canadian actress (Naked Lunch, The Red Violin, Beyond Forty), cancer.[4]

Shad Gaspard, 39, American professional wrestler (WWE) and actor (Get Hard, From Dusk till Dawn: The Series), drowning.[121]

Ken Osmond, 76, American actor (Leave It to Beaver, The New Leave It to Beaver) and police officer (Los Angeles Police Department), complications from COPD.[106]

Ken Nightingall, 92, British film sound engineer (For Your Eyes Only, A View to a Kill, Octopussy), COVID-19.[88]

Hagen Mills, 29, American actor (Baskets), suicide by gunshot.[87]

Jimmy Cobb, 91, American jazz drummer (Miles Davis Quintet), lung cancer.[41]

Heather Chasen, 92, British actress (Cat Run, Les Misérables).[17]

Richard Herd, 87, American actor (Seinfeld, All the President's Men, Get Out), cancer.[3]

Anthony James, 77, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven), cancer.[27]

Irm Hermann, 77, German actress (Katzelmacher, The Merchant of Four Seasons, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant).[24]

Cindy Butler, 64, American model and actress (The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Grayeagle, Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues).[20]

Tony Scannell, 74, Irish actor (Flash Gordon, The Bill).[16] (death announced on this date)

Bumbler, nuclear puggle

Michael Angelis, 76, British actor (Boys from the Blackstuff, The Liver Birds, Thomas & Friends), heart attack.[7]

Dan van Husen, 75, German actor (Fellini Casanova, Salon Kitty, Nosferatu the Vampyre), COVID-19.[2] (death announced on this day)

Christo, 84, Bulgarian-born American artist (Running Fence).[9]

Joey Image, 63, American drummer (Misfits), liver cancer.[4]

Mary Pat Gleason, 70, American actress (Guiding Light, A Cinderella Story, Mom), Emmy winner (1986), cancer.[92]

Bruce Jay Friedman, 90, American author and screenwriter (Splash, Doctor Detroit, Stir Crazy).[60]

Bonnie Pointer, 69, American singer (The Pointer Sisters), cardiac arrest.[20]

Russ Cochran, publisher “E.C. Comics reprints”

Corey Fischer, 75, American actor (M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller), complications from a brain aneurysm.[99]

Paul Chapman, 66, Welsh rock guitarist (UFO, Lone Star).[30]

Sarunyoo Wongkrachang, 59, Thai actor (13 Beloved, Ong Bak 2) and film director (Kon Khon), liver cancer.[25]

Mel Winkler, 78, American actor (Devil in a Blue Dress, Doc Hollywood, Coach Carter).[7]

Dennis O'Neil, 81, American comic book writer (Batman, Iron Man) and editor (Marvel Comics).[47]

William S. Sessions, 90, American civil servant, Director of the FBI (1987–1993) and member and chief judge of the US District Court for Western Texas (1974–1987).[30]

Keith Tippett, 72, British jazz pianist and composer.[15]

Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, Indian actor (M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Chhichhore, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!), suicide by hanging.[12]

Dame Vera Lynn, 103, British singer ("We'll Meet Again", "The White Cliffs of Dover").[2]

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 55, Spanish novelist (The Prince of Mist, The Shadow of the Wind, The Prisoner of Heaven), colon cancer.[22]

Ian Holm, 88, English actor (Alien, Chariots of Fire, The Lord of the Rings), BAFTA winner (1982), complications from Parkinson's disease.[18]

Joel Schumacher, 80, American film director (The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Batman Forever), cancer.[55]

Steve Bing, 55, American entertainment executive (Shangri-La Entertainment), screenwriter and film producer (Kangaroo Jack, Rules Don't Apply), suicide by jumping.[43]

Joe Sinnott, 93, American Hall of Fame comic book artist (The Avengers, Thor, Fantastic Four).[8]

Stuart Cornfeld, 67, American film producer (Zoolander, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Tropic Thunder), cancer.[30]

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., 82, American terrorist and convicted murderer (16th Street Baptist Church bombing).[27]

Kelly Asbury, 60, American animator and film director (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2, Gnomeo & Juliet), abdominal cancer.[24]

Taryn Power, 66, American actress (The Count of Monte Cristo, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Eating), leukemia.[46]

Linda Cristal, 89, Argentine-American actress (The Perfect Furlough, The High Chaparral, Mr. Majestyk).[13]

Freddy Cole, 88, American jazz singer and pianist.[11]

Tom Finn, 71, American musician (The Left Banke) and DJ.[24]

Pete Carr, 70, American guitarist (LeBlanc and Carr, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section).[18]

Benny Mardones, 73, American singer ("Into the Night"), Parkinson's disease.[3]

Tippy, cat


Carl Reiner, 98, American actor, film director and writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Ocean's Eleven, The Jerk), Grammy winner (1999), nine-time Emmy winner.[17]

Johnny Mandel, 94, American composer ("Suicide Is Painless", "The Shadow of Your Smile", "Emily"), Grammy winner (1966).[12]

Dan Hicks, 68, American actor (Evil Dead II, Darkman, Intruder), cancer.[2]

Hugh Downs, 99, American broadcaster and television host (20/20, Today).[12]

Billy Tang, 69, Hong Kong film director (Dr. Lamb, Those Were the Days..., Dial D for Demons), nasopharyngeal carcinoma.[76]

Max Crook, 83, American keyboardist and songwriter ("Runaway").[59]

Kevin Rafferty, 73, American film director (The Atomic Cafe, Blood in the Face) and cinematographer (Roger & Me), cancer.

Earl Cameron, 102, Bermudian-born British actor (Doctor Who, Pool of London, The Interpreter).[26]

Mary Twala, 80, South African actress (Life, Above All, Beat the Drum, Sarafina!).[20]

Bettina Gilois, German-born American screenwriter (Bessie, Glory Road, McFarland, USA), cancer.[5]

Charlie Daniels, 83, American Hall of Fame country singer-songwriter and musician ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"), Grammy Award winner (1980), hemorrhagic stroke.[3]

Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian composer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Hateful Eight), orchestrator and conductor, Oscar winner (2016), complications from a fall.[7]

Jagdeep, 81, Indian actor (Sholay, Purana Mandir, Andaz Apna Apna) and comedian.[3]

Johnny Beattie, 93, Scottish actor (River City) and comedian (Scotch & Wry, Rab C. Nesbitt).[2]

Jean-François Garreaud, 74, French actor (Violette Nozière, A Simple Story, I as in Icarus).[45]

Judy Dyble, 71, British singer-songwriter (Fairport Convention), lung cancer.[3]

Kelly Preston, 57, American actress (Jerry Maguire, Twins, Sky High), breast cancer.[26]

Grant Imahara, 49, American electrical engineer (Star Wars, The Matrix) and television personality (MythBusters), brain aneurysm.[32]

Galyn Görg, 56, American actress (RoboCop 2, M.A.N.T.I.S, Point Break) and dancer.[4]

Maurice Roëves, 83, Scottish actor (Oh! What a Lovely War, Escape to Victory, The Last of the Mohicans).[8]

Phyllis Somerville, 76, American actress (The Double, The Big C, Little Children, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).[69]

Azuma Morisaki, 92, Japanese film director (Tora-san, His Tender Love, Time and Tide, Pecoross' Mother and Her Days), stroke.[59]

John Lewis, 80, American civil rights leader and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (since 1987), Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2011), pancreatic cancer.[39]

Haruma Miura, 30, Japanese actor (Spellbound, Crows Zero 2, Attack on Titan) and singer, suicide by hanging.[18]

Charles Bukeko, 58, Kenyan actor and comedian (The Captain of Nakara), COVID-19.[10]

Annie Ross, 89, British-American jazz singer (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross), songwriter ("Twisted"), and actress (Superman III, Short Cuts).[19]

Dobby Dobson, 78, Jamaican reggae singer and record producer, COVID-19.[11]

Regis Philbin, 88, American entertainer and television personality (The Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire), heart disease.[32]

John Saxon, 83, American actor (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Enter the Dragon, Joe Kidd), pneumonia.[14]

Peter Green, 73, English Hall of Fame blues rock singer-songwriter ("Black Magic Woman") and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green Splinter Group).[7]

Olivia de Havilland, 104, French-British-American actress (Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood, To Each His Own), Oscar winner (1947, 1950).[6]

Miss Mercy, 71, American groupie and singer (The GTOs).[62]

Sydney Lotterby, 93, British television producer (Last of the Summer Wine, Yes Minister, Open All Hours).[5] (death announced on this date)

Malik B., 47, American rapper (The Roots).[84]

Bill Mack, 88, American country music disc jockey (WBAP) and songwriter ("Blue", "Drinking Champagne"), Grammy winner (1997), COVID-19.[42]

Alan Parker, 76, English film director (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd – The Wall, Mississippi Burning), BAFTA winner (1977, 1979, 1992).[43]

Julio Diamante, 89, Spanish film director (The Art of Living, Sex o no sex) and screenwriter.[20]

Wilford Brimley, 85, American actor (The Natural, The Thing, Cocoon) and singer, kidney disease.[17]

Leslie Randall, 95, English actor (Billy Liar, Emmerdale, Goal!).[8] (death announced on this date)

Steve Holland, American guitarist (Molly Hatchet, Gator Country).[16]

Michael Peter Smith, 78, American songwriter ("The Dutchman"), colon cancer.[27]

Billy Goldenberg, 84, American composer (Kojak, Rhoda, Play It Again, Sam) and songwriter.[39]

Daisy Coleman, 23, American documentary subject (Audrie & Daisy) and sexual assault survivor, suicide.[9]

Pete Hamill, 85, American journalist (New York Post, New York Daily News), Grammy Award winner (1976), complications from a broken hip.[3]

Brent Carver, 68, Canadian actor (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Parade, The Event), Tony winner (1993).[92]

Jan Savage, 77, American guitarist (The Seeds).[82]

Brent Scowcroft, 95, American air force officer, National Security Adviser (1975–1977, 1989–1993).[54]

Wayne Fontana, 74, English singer ("The Game of Love"), cancer.[45]

Nikolai van der Heyde, 84, Dutch film director (To Grab the Ring, Love Comes Quietly, Help! The Doctor Is Drowning) and screenwriter.[63]

Kurt Luedtke, 80, American screenwriter (Out of Africa, Absence of Malice) and newspaper editor (Detroit Free Press), Oscar winner (1985).[16]

Silvana Bosi, 86, Italian actress (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Mortacci, Bread and Tulips).[12]

Trini Lopez, 83, American singer ("If I Had a Hammer", "Will Holt") and actor (The Dirty Dozen), COVID-19.[5]

Duane Tatro, 93, American composer (Dan August, The Manhunter, The Love Boat).[134]

Anna Maria Bottini, 104, Italian actress (The Leopard, The Law, Angels of Darkness).[121]

Tetsuya Watari, 78, Japanese actor (Tokyo Drifter, Outlaw: Gangster VIP, Katsu Kaishū), pneumonia.[115]

Pete Way, 69, English rock bass guitarist (UFO, Waysted, Fastway), injuries sustained in accident.[38]

Linda Manz, 58, American actress (Days of Heaven, Out of the Blue, Gummo), pneumonia and lung cancer.[30]

Julian Bream, 87, English classical guitarist and lutenist.[22]

Ben Cross, 72, English actor (Chariots of Fire, First Knight, Star Trek), cancer.[1]

Gary Cowling, 58, American actor (Law & Order, 30 Rock, The Accidental Husband).[31]

Benny Chan, 58, Hong Kong film director (What a Hero!, Gen-X Cops, New Police Story), nasopharyngeal carcinoma.[1]

Allan Rich, 94, American actor (Serpico, Quiz Show, Amistad), dementia.[59]

Lori Nelson, 87, American actress (Revenge of the Creature, How to Marry a Millionaire, I Died a Thousand Times).[14]

Joe Ruby, 87, American animator and television producer (Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, Thundarr the Barbarian), co-founder of Ruby-Spears.[71]

Sidney Noel Rideau, 90, American actor and host (Morgus the Magnificent).[51]

Manuel Valdés, 89, Mexican comedian and actor (A Thousand and One Nights, Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood, La leyenda de la Nahuala), cancer.[25]

Chadwick Boseman, 43, American actor (Black Panther, 42, Get on Up), colon cancer.[18]

Jacques Galipeau, 96, Canadian actor (The Pyx, Bingo, Black List).[15]

Norm Spencer, 62, Canadian voice actor (X-Men, Rescue Heroes, Silver Surfer).[23]

Ian Mitchell, 62, Scottish bassist (Bay City Rollers).[16]

Sue Nichols, 55, American animator and screenwriter (The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin), cancer.[75]

Jiří Menzel, 82, Czech director, actor and screenwriter (Closely Watched Trains, My Sweet Little Village, Larks on a String), Oscar winner (1967).[32]

Bruce Williamson, 49, American singer (The Temptations), COVID-19.[21]

Rodney Litchfield, 81, English actor (Early Doors, Coronation Street, Testimony).[67]

Bob Fujitani, 98, American comics artist (Flash Gordon), co-creator of Solar.[48]

Kevin Dobson, 77, American actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Midway), heart attack.[47]

David Clatworthy, 60, South African actor (The Making of the Mahatma, District 9, Mia et le lion blanc).[10]

Sir Ronald Harwood, 85, South African-born British screenwriter (The Pianist, The Dresser, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), Oscar winner (2003).[13]

Ronald Bell, 68, American saxophonist (Kool & the Gang) and songwriter ("Ladies' Night", "Celebration").[9]

Diana Rigg, 82, English actress (The Avengers, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Game of Thrones), Tony winner (1994), cancer.[8]

Barry Scott, 65, American actor (Ernest Goes to Jail, The Dead Center) and voice-over artist (Impact Wrestling).[47]

Toots Hibbert, 77, Jamaican singer (Toots and the Maytals) and songwriter ("54-46 That's My Number", "Pressure Drop"), COVID-19.[27]

Edna Wright, 76, American R&B singer (Honey Cone).[19]

Barbara Jefford, 90, British actress (Ulysses, Philomena, The Ninth Gate).[140]

Peter Starkie, 72, Australian rock guitarist (Skyhooks, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons), fall.[109]

Al Kasha, 83, American songwriter ("Operation Heartbreak", "The Morning After". "We May Never Love Like This Again"), Oscar winner (1973, 1975).[102]

Roy C, 81, American southern soul singer-songwriter ("Impeach the President").[57]

Enrique Irazoqui, 76, Spanish actor (The Gospel According to St. Matthew).[52]

Winston Groom, 77, American novelist (Forrest Gump, Gump and Co.).[50]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (since 1993), complications from pancreatic cancer.[19]

Yôsuke Saitô, 69, Japanese actor (Gunhed, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, Tokyo Slaves).[14]

Pamela Hutchinson, 61, American singer (The Emotions).[46]

Robert Graetz, 92, American clergyman and civil rights activist (Montgomery bus boycott).[18]

Ron Cobb, 83, American-Australian prop and set designer (Star Wars, Back to the Future, Conan the Barbarian), Lewy body dementia.[4]

Michael Lonsdale, 89, French actor (Moonraker, The Day of the Jackal, The Remains of the Day).[8]

Alan Tomkins, 81, British art director (The Empire Strikes Back, Saving Private Ryan, Batman Begins).[44]

Gerardo Vera, 73, Spanish costume designer (El Amor brujo), film director (La Celestina, Second Skin) and actor, COVID-19.[65]

Michael Chapman, 84, American cinematographer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Fugitive) and film director.[54]

Jackie Stallone, 98, American astrologer.[51]

Tommy DeVito, 92, American Hall of Fame musician and singer (The Four Seasons), COVID-19.[34]

Juliette Gréco, 93, French actress (The Sun Also Rises, Belphegor, or Phantom of the Louvre, The Night of the Generals) and singer.[3]

Gale Sayers, 77, American Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Bears) and administrator (Southern Illinois, Tennessee State), subject in Brian's Song, complications from dementia.[6]

Georgia Dobbins, 78, American singer (The Marvelettes) and songwriter ("Please Mr. Postman").[162]

W. S. Holland, 85, American drummer (The Tennessee Three).[56]

Jimmy Winston, 75, English musician (Small Faces) and actor (Doctor Who).[22]

Yūko Takeuchi, 40, Japanese actress (Ring, Miss Sherlock, FlashForward).[7]

Mark Stone, American bassist (Van Halen), cancer.[41]

Kevin Burns, 65, American film and television producer (Ancient Aliens, Lost in Space, Poseidon), cardiac arrest.[16]

Mac Davis, 78, American singer-songwriter ("Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me", "It's Hard to Be Humble") and actor (North Dallas Forty), complications from heart surgery.[11]

Helen Reddy, 78, Australian-American singer ("I Am Woman", "Delta Dawn", "Angie Baby") and actress (Pete's Dragon), Grammy winner (1973).[15]

Rocco Prestia, 69, American bassist (Tower of Power)

Frank Windsor, 92, English actor (Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, EastEnders, Doctor Who – Ghost Light, Doctor Who – The King’s Demons).

Murray Schisgal, 93, American playwright (Luv, Jimmy Shine) and screenwriter (Tootsie).

Karel Fiala, 95, Czech operatic tenor and actor (Dalibor, Lemonade Joe, Amadeus).

Thomas Jefferson Byrd, 70, American actor, homicide.

Armelia McQueen, 68, American actress (Adventures in Wonderland, Ain't Misbehavin', Ghost).

Edward S. Feldman, 91, American film producer (Witness, The Truman Show, The Golden Child).[55]

Clark Middleton, 63, American actor (Sin City, Snowpiercer, Twin Peaks), West Nile virus.[30]

Henryk Boukołowski [pl], 83, Polish actor (The Hourglass Sanatorium, Copernicus, The Gateway of Europe) and stage director.[19]

Eddie Van Halen, 65, Dutch-born American Hall of Fame musician (Van Halen) and songwriter ("Eruption", "Jump"), Grammy winner (1992), throat cancer.

Wladimir Yordanoff, 66, French actor (Vincent & Theo, Mark of an Angel, An Officer and a Spy).

Folker Bohnet [de], 83, German actor (The Bridge, Ludwig)

Johnny Nash, 80, American singer-songwriter ("I Can See Clearly Now", "Hold Me Tight", "Tears on My Pillow").

Ray Pennington, 86, American country singer-songwriter ("I'm a Ramblin' Man"), house fire.

Tommy Rall, 90, American actor (Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, World in My Corner) and dancer, heart failure.[77]

Nancy Lollar, 92, American actress (The Amityville Horror).[57]

Camillo Bazzoni, 85, Italian film director (Suicide Commandos, A Long Ride from Hell) and cinematographer.

William Bernstein, 87, American film executive, co-founder of Orion Pictures.[22]

Ronald Forfar, 81, English actor (Bread).

Whitey Ford, 91, American Hall of Fame baseball player (New York Yankees), Cy Young Award (1961), World Series champion (1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962), dementia.[49]

Bradley Mott, 64, American actor (The Accidental Tourist, Brother 2, Inside Llewyn Davis), pancreatic cancer.[27]

Hugo Arana, 77, Argentine actor (The Official Story, El Santo de la Espada, The Truce, Los exitosos Pells) and comedian, COVID-19.

Margaret Nolan, 76, English actress (Goldfinger, Carry On at Your Convenience, A Hard Day's Night), model, and artist.[118]

Tom Kennedy, 93, American game show host (Name That Tune, Password Plus).

Kent L. Wakeford, 92, American cinematographer (Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, China O'Brien).[67]

Conchata Ferrell, 77, American actress (Two and a Half Men, Edward Scissorhands, Network), complications from a cardiac arrest.

Marisa de Leza, 87, Spanish actress (I'm Not Mata Hari, Under the Sky of Spain, Allow Me, Daddy!).

Rhonda Fleming, 97, American actress (Spellbound, Serpent of the Nile, The Buster Keaton Story), aspiration pneumonia.

Dave Munden, 76, English drummer and singer (The Tremeloes), respiratory infection.

Bhanu Athaiya, 91, Indian costume designer (Gandhi, Lekin..., Lagaan), Oscar winner (1983), complications from brain cancer.

Joan Barnett, 74, American television producer (The Jayne Mansfield Story, The Parent Trap II, Long Gone).[48] (death announced on this date)

Gordon Haskell, 74, English singer-songwriter ("How Wonderful You Are") and musician (King Crimson, The Fleur de Lys), cancer.[32]

Johnny Bush, 85, American country singer-songwriter ("Whiskey River").[26]

Anthony Chisholm, 77, American actor (Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean, Oz).

Doreen Montalvo, 56, American actress (In the Heights, Mrs. Doubtfire, Elementary), complications from a stroke.

Wojciech Pszoniak, 78, Polish actor (The Devil, The Tin Drum, Austeria)

Gianni Dei, 79, Italian actor (Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te, The Killers Are Our Guests, Patrick Still Lives) and singer.

Spencer Davis, 81, Welsh musician (The Spencer Davis Group), pneumonia.

Tony Lewis, 62, English bassist, singer and songwriter (The Outfield).

Marge Champion, 101, American actress (Show Boat, Give a Girl a Break), choreographer and live action model (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), Emmy winner (1975).

Richard A. Lupoff, 85, American author (Space War Blues, Master of Adventure, Lovecraft's Book).[37]

William Blinn, 83, American television producer (Starsky & Hutch) and screenwriter (Brian's Song, Purple Rain), Emmy winner (1972, 1977).

Jerry Jeff Walker, 78, American singer-songwriter ("Mr. Bojangles"), throat cancer.

Arvinder Grewal, American production designer (Land of the Dead, Survival of the Dead, Resident Evil: Afterlife).

Johnny Leeze, 78, English actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine), COVID-19.

Billy Joe Shaver, 81, American country musician ("You Ask Me To"), stroke.

Stan Kesler, 92, American musician, songwriter ("I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone", "I Forgot to Remember to Forget") and producer, bone cancer.

Jacques Godin, 90, Canadian actor (O.K. ... Laliberté, The Pyx, Being at Home with Claude) and comedian, heart failure.

Bobby Ball, 76, English comedian (Cannon and Ball), actor (Mount Pleasant, Not Going Out), and television host, COVID-19.

Sean Connery, 90, Scottish actor (Dr. No, The Untouchables, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), Oscar winner (1988), dementia.

Ronnie Peel, British-Australian guitarist and singer (Thunderclap Newman, The La De Da's, John Paul Young).

Robert Fisk, 74, English writer and journalist.

Chang Yi, 68, Taiwanese film director (In Our Time, Jade Love, Kuei-Mei, a Woman), co-founder of Liuli Gongfang.

Rance Allen, 71, American gospel singer (The Rance Allen Group), complications from surgery.

Eddie Hassell, 30, American actor (The Kids Are All Right, Surface, Devious Maids), shot.

Charles Gordon, 73, American film producer (Field of Dreams, Die Hard, The Rocketeer), cancer.

Carol Arthur, 85, American actress (Blazing Saddles), Alzheimer's disease.

John Sessions, 67, British actor and comedian (Stella Street, Spitting Image, Whose Line Is It Anyway?), heart attack.

Elsa Raven, 91, American actress (Back to the Future, Amen, Titanic).

Claude Giraud, 84, French actor (Angélique, Marquise des Anges, Circle of Love, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob).

Johnny Kevorkian, 48, American film director (The Disappeared).

Geoffrey Palmer, 93, British actor (As Time Goes By, Butterflies, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin).

Len Barry, 78, American singer ("1-2-3", "Bristol Stomp").

Kenneth V. Jones, American actor (Kenny & Company, Phantasm).

Norm Crosby, 93, American comedian and actor (Eight Crazy Nights).

Alex Trebek, 80, Canadian-American game show host (Jeopardy!, High Rollers, Double Dare), 7-time Emmy winner, pancreatic cancer.

Bones Hillman, 62, New Zealand musician (Midnight Oil, The Swingers, Suburban Reptiles), cancer.[33]

John Fraser, 89, Scottish actor (The Good Companions, The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Repulsion).

Sven Wollter, 86, Swedish actor (The Sacrifice, The Man on the Roof, A Song for Martin), COVID-19.

Israel Horovitz, 81, American playwright and screenwriter (Author! Author!, Sunshine, James Dean).[132]

Lynn Kellogg, 77, American singer and actress (Hair, Charro!), COVID-19.[57]

Asif Basra, 53, Indian actor (Outsourced, One Night with the King, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai), suicide by hanging.[49]

Peter Sutcliffe, 74, English serial killer “The Yorkshire Ripper”, COVID-19.[43]

Halina Kwiatkowska [pl], 99, Polish actress (Ashes and Diamonds, The Doll, And Along Come Tourists).[34]

Paul Hornung, 84, American Hall of Fame football player (Green Bay Packers), Super Bowl champion (1966), Heisman Trophy winner (1956), complications from dementia.[29]

Des O'Connor, 88, English television presenter (The Des O'Connor Show, Des O'Connor Tonight), comedian and singer ("I Pretend"), complications from a fall.[17]

Soumitra Chatterjee, 85, Indian actor (The World of Apu, Abhijan, Rupkatha Noy), complications from COVID-19.

Michel Robin, actor   (Amelie)

Kirby Morrow, actor  (Bones, Dragon Ball Z)

Robert Garland, screenwriter  (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

Dena Dietrich, 91, American actress (Adam's Rib, Friends and Lovers, The Wild Party).[62]

Carlo Ausino [it], 82, Italian film director (Double Game, Tony: Another Double Game, Don't Look in the Attic) and cinematographer.[36]

Hal Ketchum, 67, American country singer-songwriter ("Small Town Saturday Night", "Past the Point of Rescue", "Hearts Are Gonna Roll"), complications from dementia.[24]

Montserrat Carulla, 90, Spanish actress (Companys, procés a Catalunya, El Cor de la Ciutat, The Orphanage).[3]

Daria Nicolodi, 70, Italian actress (Deep Red, Shock) and screenwriter (Suspiria).

Charles Bail, 85, American stuntman and film director (The Gumball Rally), COVID-19.[54] 

David Prowse, 85, English actor (Star Wars, A Clockwork Orange, Jabberwocky).[16]

Betty Bobbitt, 81, American-born Australian actress (Prisoner, Crocodile Dundee II, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles), stroke.[3]

Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, 98, Iranian actor (A Separation).[42]

Ben Bova, 88, American science fiction writer (Grand Tour), complications from COVID-19.[55]

Hugh Keays-Byrne, 73, English-Australian actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, Stone, Mad Max).[20]

Boris Plotnikov, 71, Russian actor (The Ascent, The Cold Summer of 1953, Heart of a Dog), COVID-19.[9]

Rafer Johnson, 86, American athlete and actor (The Sins of Rachel Cade, None but the Brave, Licence to Kill), Olympic champion (1960), complications from a stroke.[6]

Warren Berlinger, 83, American actor (The Joey Bishop Show, The Cannonball Run, The World According to Garp).[8]

Franco Giraldi, 89, Italian film director (Seven Guns for the MacGregors, Sugar Colt, Up the MacGregors!) and screenwriter, COVID-19.[13]

Pamela Tiffin, 78, American actress (One, Two, Three, Harper, Summer and Smoke) and model.[93]

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 94, French politician, President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra (1974–1981), Minister of the Economy and Finance (1962–1966, 1969–1974) and mayor of Chamalières (1967–1974), COVID-19.[79]

François Leterrier, 91, French film director (A King Without Distraction, Slices of Life) and actor (A Man Escaped).[38]

David L. Lander, 73, American actor (Laverne & Shirley, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down), complications from multiple sclerosis.[37]

Robert Castel [fr], 87, French actor (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Two Men in Town, Je suis timide mais je me soigne).[15]

Chuck Yeager, 97, American Hall of Fame pilot, first person to exceed the speed of sound.[33]

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Harold Budd, 84, American avant-garde composer and poet, complications from COVID-19.[91]

Dame Barbara Windsor, 83, English actress (EastEnders, Carry On, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[64]

Carol Sutton, 76, American actress (Steel Magnolias, The Pelican Brief, Monster's Ball), complications from COVID-19.[62]

Tommy Lister Jr., 62, American actor (Friday, The Fifth Element, No Holds Barred) and professional wrestler.[51]

Kim Ki-duk, 59, South Korean film director (The Isle, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, 3-Iron), complications from COVID-19.[34]

Kenneth Alwyn, 95, English conductor (BBC Radio 2, London Symphony Orchestra).[24]

Charley Pride, 86, American Hall of Fame singer ("Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'", "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone") and baseball player (Memphis Red Sox), complications from COVID-19.[21]

John le Carré, 89, British author (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Night Manager, The Little Drummer Girl), pneumonia.[39]

Jeremy Bulloch, 75, English actor (Star Wars, The Spy Who Loved Me, Mary, Queen of Scots).[51]

Peter Lamont, 91, British art director and production designer (Goldfinger, Aliens, Titanic), Oscar winner (1998).[33]

Jiří Hálek [cs], 90, Czech actor (The Drama Club, The Garden, The Cremator).[31]

Rosalind Knight, 87, British actress (Carry On, Tom Jones, Gimme Gimme Gimme).[17]

Chad Stuart, 79, English singer and musician (Chad & Jeremy).[9]
David Giler, 77, American screenwriter (The Parallax View, The Money Pit) and film producer (Alien), cancer.[31]
K. T. Oslin, 78, American country singer-songwriter ("80's Ladies", "Do Ya", "I'll Always Come Back"), Grammy winner (1988, 1989).[4]
Emil Cadkin, 100, American composer (The Big Fix, The Killer Shrews).[123]
Claude Brasseur, 84, French actor (Bande à part, Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, A Simple Story).[3]

Rebecca Luker, 59, American actress (Mary Poppins, Show Boat, Not Fade Away), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[4]

James E. Gunn, 97, American science fiction author (The Road to Science Fiction, Star Bridge, The Listeners).[14]

Kay Purcell, 57, English actress (Emmerdale, Tracy Beaker Returns, Waterloo Road), liver cancer.[19]

John Fletcher, 56, American rapper (Whodini).[75]

Lee Wallace, 90, American actor (Batman, Private Benjamin, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three).[152]

Ned Wynn, 79, American actor (The Bellboy, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo), complications from Parkinson's disease.[155]







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