WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS YEAR. And on top of everything else, here is a list of those we lost in 2023.
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Fred White, 67, American Hall of Fame drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire).
Kelly Monteith, 80, American comedian.
Frank Galati, 79, American theatre director (The Grapes of Wrath,
Ragtime) and screenwriter (The Accidental Tourist)
Sebastian Marino, 57, American guitarist (Overkill, Anvil).
James D. Brubaker, 85, American film producer (Rocky, The Right Stuff,
Gia, Chef)
Walter Cunningham, 90, American astronaut (Apollo 7)
Fay Weldon, 91, British author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil,
Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright.
Miiko Taka, 97, American actress (Sayonara, The Art of Love, Walk,
Don't Run).
Joseph Koo, 91, Hong Kong film composer (The Way of the Dragon, Fist
of Fury, A Terra-Cotta Warrior).
Suzy McKee Charnas, 83, American novelist (The Kingdom of Kevin
Malone, The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("Boobs").
Wyllie Longmore, 82, British actor (Coronation Street, Love Actually)
Michael Snow, 94, Canadian filmmaker (Wavelength, Back and Forth) and
artist
Earl Boen, 81, American actor (Terminator, The Dentist, Warcraft)
Owen Roizman, 86, American cinematographer (The Exorcist, Network, The
French Connection).
Adam Rich, 54, American actor (Eight Is Enough, Dungeons & Dragons,
The Devil and Max Devlin).
Jeff Blackburn, 77, American songwriter ("My My, Hey Hey (Out of
the Blue)") and guitarist (Blackburn & Snow, Moby Grape).
Annette McCarthy, 64, American actress (Twin Peaks, Creature,
Baywatch).
Ben Masters, 75, American actor (Passions, All That Jazz, HeartBeat)
J. Patrick McNamara, 80, American actor (The Fury, Phantasm II, The
First Power).
Gordy Harmon, 79, American soul singer (The Whispers).
Mike Hill, 73, American film editor (Apollo 13, Rush, Frost/Nixon)
Dorothy Tristan, 88, American actress (Klute, Scarecrow) and
screenwriter (Weeds).
Jeff Beck, 78, British Hall of Fame guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff
Beck Group)
Dennis Budimir, 84, American jazz and rock guitarist (The Wrecking
Crew).
Tatjana Patitz, 56, German model and actress (George Michael: Freedom, Rising Sun)
Carole Cook, 98, American actress (The Lucy Show, The Incredible Mr.
Limpet, Sixteen Candles)
Paul Johnson, 94, British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A
History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American
People, A History of Christianity).
Lisa Marie Presley, 54, American singer-songwriter ("Lights
Out", "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet")
Robbie Bachman, 69, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive).
Keith Beaton, 72, American singer (Blue Magic).
Inna Churikova, 79, Russian actress (Jack Frost, The Very Same Munchhausen,
Walking the Streets of Moscow).
Wally Campo, 99, American actor (Machine-Gun Kelly, The Little Shop of
Horrors, Master of the World, Tales of Terror).
Gina Lollobrigida, 95, Italian actress (Bread, Love and Dreams, The
Wayward Wife, Flesh and the Woman).
Brian Tufano, 83, English cinematographer (Trainspotting, A Life Less
Ordinary, Billy Elliot).
Yoshio Yoda, 88, Japanese-born American actor (McHale's Navy, The
Horizontal Lieutenant).
Piers Haggard, 83, British director (Blood on Satan’s Claw, Venom, The
Quatermass Conclusion)
Andrew Jones, 39, Welsh film director (The Amityville Asylum, Robert,
Werewolves of the Third Reich) and screenwriter.
Edward R. Pressman, 79, American film producer (Wall Street, Conan the
Barbarian, Badlands).
Bruce Gowers, 82, British television and music video director
("Bohemian Rhapsody", "Stayin' Alive", "1999")
David Sutherland, 89, Scottish illustrator and comics artist (The
Beano, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, The Bash Street Kids).
Donn Cambern, 93, American film editor (Easy Rider, Romancing the
Stone, Ghostbusters II).
David Crosby, 81, American Hall of Fame singer (The Byrds, Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young) and songwriter ("Guinnevere").
Jerry Blavat, 82, American DJ and radio presenter
Tim Barlow, 86, English actor (Doctor Who, Les Misérables, Hot Fuzz).
Agustí Villaronga, 69, Spanish film director (In a Glass Cage, Moon
Child, Black Bread), screenwriter and actor.
Sal Piro, American fan club president (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
and author (Creatures of the Night).
Eugenio Martín, 97, Spanish film director (Bad Man's River, The Ugly
Ones, Horror Express) and screenwriter.
Linda Kasabian, 73, American cult member (Manson Family).
Jiří Macháně, 82, Czech cinematographer (Beauty and the Beast, The Ninth
Heart, Černí baroni).
Lloyd Morrisett, 93, American psychologist and television producer
(Sesame Street).
Top Topham, 75, English guitarist (The Yardbirds).
Lance Kerwin, 62, American actor (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner,
Salem's Lot).
Everett Quinton, 71, American actor (Natural Born Killers, Pollock,
Bros)
Dean Daughtry, 76, American keyboard player (The Candymen, Classics IV,
Atlanta Rhythm Section).
Gianna Piaz, 99, Italian actress (Atom Age Vampire, Il seduttore, Solo
per te Lucia).
Floyd Sneed, 80, Canadian drummer (Three Dog Night).
Sylvia Syms, 89, English actress (Victim, The Queen, Ice Cold in
Alex).
Alfred Leslie, 95, American painter and film director (Pull My Daisy)
Gregory Allen Howard, 70, American screenwriter and film producer
(Remember the Titans, Ali, Harriet).
Tom Verlaine, 73, American musician (Television), songwriter
("Marquee Moon")
Cindy Williams, 75, American actress (Laverne & Shirley, American
Graffiti, The Conversation).
Annie Wersching, 45, American actress (24, The Last of Us, Star Trek:
Picard)
Lisa Loring, 64, American actress (The Addams Family, Blood Frenzy, As
the World Turns)
Barrett Strong, 81, American singer ("Money (That's What I
Want)") and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Papa
Was a Rollin' Stone")
Charlie Thomas, 85, American singer (The Drifters)
Donnie Marsico, 68, American singer (The Jaggerz).
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, 65, British comedian (Kit and The Widow) and screenwriter
(The Vicar of Dibley).
Adama Niane, 56, French actor (Baise-moi, Get In, Lupin).
George R. Robertson, 89, Canadian actor (Police Academy, E.N.G., JFK).
George P. Wilbur, 81, American actor (Halloween, Remote Control, The
Running Man) and stuntman.
Louis Velle, 96, French actor (Stopover in Orly, The Impossible Mr.
Pipelet, Kings for a Day).
Lillian Walker, 78, American singer (The Exciters)
Arnold Schulman, 97, American screenwriter (And the Band Played On, Love
with the Proper Stranger, Goodbye, Columbus).
Phil Spalding, 65, English bass player (Mick Jagger, Toyah Wilcox,
Mike Oldfield).
Charles Kimbrough, 86, American actor (Murphy Brown, Company).
Eugene Lee, 83, American set designer (Saturday Night Live, Candide,
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street).
Fernando Becerril, 78, Mexican actor (Ravenous, The Legend of Zorro,
Get the Gringo).
Dennis Lotis, 97, South African-born British singer and actor (It's a
Wonderful World, The City of the Dead, What Every Woman Wants).
Burt Bacharach, 94, American Hall of Fame composer ("Raindrops
Keep Fallin' on My Head", "Walk On By", "Arthur's Theme
(Best That You Can Do)")
Chris Browne, 70, American cartoonist (Hägar the Horrible).
Joseph Loeckx, 85, Belgian comic book artist (Clifton, Tintin, La
Ribambelle).
Cody Longo, 34, American actor (Hollywood Heights, Days of Our Lives,
Piranha 3D).
Hugh Hudson, 86, English film director (Chariots of Fire, Greystoke:
The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, My Life So Far).
Carlos Saura, 91, Spanish film director (Cría cuervos…, Mama Turns
100, Carmen, The Hunt)
James Flynn, 57, Irish film and television producer (Count of Monte
Cristo, Vikings, The Last Duel, The Banshees of Inisherin).
David Jude Jolicoeur, 54, American rapper (De La Soul) and songwriter
("Me Myself and I", "Feel Good Inc.")
Zia Mohyeddin, 91, British-Pakistani actor (Lawrence of Arabia,
Khartoum, Ashanti) and television broadcaster
Austin Majors, 27, American actor (NYPD Blue, Treasure Planet, The Ant
Bully).
Tom Luddy, 79, American film producer (Barfly, The Secret Garden,
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters)
Huey "Piano" Smith, 89, American R&B pianist and
songwriter ("Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu",
Don’t You Just Know It”).
Dario Penne, 84, Italian actor (E le stelle stanno a guardare) and voice
actor (Futurama, The Animals of Farthing Wood).
Raquel Welch, 82, American actress (One Million Years B.C., The Three
Musketeers, Fantastic Voyage).
Alain Goraguer, 91, French jazz pianist, arranger and film composer
(Fantastic Planet, Saint Laurent).
Oliver Wood, 80, British cinematographer (The Bourne Ultimatum,
Face/Off, The Other Guys, Morbius)
Stella Stevens, 84, American actress (Girls! Girls! Girls!, The Nutty
Professor, The Poseidon Adventure)
George T. Miller, 79, Scottish-born Australian film director (The Man
from Snowy River, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter, Zeus and Roxanne)
Gerald Fried, 95, American film and television composer (Paths of
Glory, The Killing, Star Trek)
Richard Belzer, 78, American actor (Homicide: Life on the Street, Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit, The Flash), & stand-up comedian
Lee Whitlock, 54, British actor (Shine on Harvey Moon, Cassandra's
Dream, Grange Hill).
Tom Whitlock, 68-69, American songwriter ("Danger Zone",
"Take My Breath Away", "Winner Takes It All")
Jansen Panettiere, 28, American actor (The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry,
The Perfect Game, Robots).
Barbara Bosson, 83, American actress (Hill Street Blues, The Last Starfighter,
Murder One).
Nadja Tiller, 93, Austrian actress (Rosemary, The Rough and the Smooth,
The Burning Court).
Walter Mirisch, 101, American film producer (In the Heat of the Night,
Midway, The Hawaiians)
Maurizio Costanzo, 84, Italian television host, journalist, and
screenwriter (The House with Laughing Windows, A Special Day, Zeder)
Gordon Pinsent, 92, Canadian actor (The Thomas Crown Affair, Blacula,
The Shipping News)
François Hadji-Lazaro, 66, French actor (Cemetery Man, The City of
Lost Children, Dante 01), musician and producer.
Burny Mattinson, 87, American animator (The Jungle Book, The Great Mouse
Detective, Robin Hood).
Ricou Browning, 93, American actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon,
Revenge of the Creature) and television director (Flipper).
Steve Mackey, 56, English bassist (Pulp) and record producer
Wayne Shorter, 89, American jazz saxophonist (Miles Davis Quintet,
Weather Report, The Jazz Messengers)
Ted Donaldson, 89, American actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,
Adventures of Rusty, Father Knows Best)
Jay Weston, 93, American film producer (Lady Sings the Blues, Buddy
Buddy).
Yvonne Constant, 92, French actress (Gigot, Monkeys, Go Home!, Their
Last Night)
María Onetto, 56, Argentine actress (Montecristo, The Headless Woman,
The Heavy Hand of the Law).
Tom Sizemore, 61, American actor (Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan,
Heat)
Robert Haimer, 69, American musician (Barnes & Barnes) and
songwriter ("Fish Heads").
Sara Lane, 73, American actress (I Saw What You Did, The Virginian)
Gary Rossington, 71, American Hall of Fame guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Rossington Collins Band).
Bert I. Gordon, 100, American film director and screenwriter (Village
of the Giants, Empire of the Ants, The Amazing Colossal Man).
Chaim Topol, 87, Israeli actor (Fiddler on the Roof, Flash Gordon, For
Your Eyes Only).
Pearry Reginald Teo, 44, Singaporean film director (The Gene
Generation, Witchville, The Curse of Sleeping Beauty)
Robert Blake, 89, American actor (Baretta, In Cold Blood, Lost
Highway)
Junior English, 71–72, Jamaican reggae singer.
Napoleon XIV, 84, American singer ("They're Coming to Take Me Away,
Ha-Haaa!").
Ignacio López Tarso, 98, Mexican actor (Macario, Rosa
Blanca, Esmeralda, Wild at Heart)
John Jakes, 90, American author (North and South, The Kent Family
Chronicles).
Rolly Crump, 93, American animator (Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping
Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians)
Pat Schroeder, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of
Representatives (1973–1997)
Grant Bridger, 75, New Zealand actor (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence,
We're Here to Help), singer and dancer.
Chen Kenichi, 67, Japanese chef (Iron Chef)
Luigi Piccatto, 68, Italian comic artist (Dylan Dog).
Bobby Caldwell, 71, American singer ("What You Won't Do for
Love") and songwriter ("The Next Time I Fall").
Isabel Colegate, 91, British author (The Shooting Party)
Claude Fournier, 91, Canadian film director (The Tin Flute, The Mills
of Power, Alien Thunder), screenwriter and cinematographer
Sharon Acker, 87, Canadian model and actress (Lucky Jim, Point Blank, Happy
Birthday to Me).
Peter Hardy, 66, Australian actor (Chopper, The Pursuit of Happiness,
McLeod's Daughters, Dangerous Remedy)
Hal Dresner, 85, American screenwriter (The Eiger Sanction, Zorro, The
Gay Blade, Sssssss)
Fuzzy Haskins, 81, American Hall of Fame singer
(Parliament-Funkadelic).
Lance Reddick, 60, American actor (The Wire, Fringe, John Wick)
Gloria Dea, 100, American actress (King of the Congo, Plan 9 from
Outer Space)
Paul Grant, 56, British actor (Return of the Jedi, Labyrinth, The
Dead) and stuntman
Terry Norris, 92, Australian actor (Homicide, Cop Shop) and politician,
Victorian MLA (1982–1992)
Peter Werner, 76, American film and television director (In the Region
of Ice, Moonlighting, Grimm)
Michael Reaves, 72, American screenwriter (Gargoyles, Batman: The
Animated Series, Spider-Man Unlimited)
Dafydd Hywel, 77, Welsh actor (Coming Up Roses, Off to Philadelphia in
the Morning, The Crown).
Joe Giella, 94, American comic book artist (Batman, Green Lantern,
Adam Strange).
Ivano Marescotti, 77, Italian actor (The Peaceful Air of the West,
Johnny Stecchino, Hannibal)
Nick Lloyd Webber, 43, English composer (Love, Lies and Records, Fat
Friends The Musical, The Last Bus) and record producer
Christopher Gunning, 78, English composer (La Vie en rose, Agatha Christie's
Poirot, Middlemarch).
Jacques Collard, 91, Belgian actor (The Ninth Gate, Have Mercy on Us
All, Daguerrotype)
Tom Leadon, 70, American musician (Mudcrutch).
Howie Kane, 81, American pop singer (Jay and the Americans).
Peggy Scott-Adams, 74, American blues and R&B singer.
Paul O'Grady, 67, English comedian, drag queen, and television
presenter (Blankety Blank, The Paul O'Grady Show, Paul O'Grady: For the Love of
Dogs).
Keith Reid, 76, English lyricist (Procol Harum) and songwriter
("A Whiter Shade of Pale", "You're the Voice").
Mark Russell, 90, American political satirist and comedian
Ryuichi Sakamoto, 71, Japanese musician (Yellow Magic Orchestra),
composer (The Last Emperor), and actor (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence)
Sweet Charles Sherrell, 80, American bassist (James Brown, The J.B.'s).
Brian Gillis, 47, American singer (LFO).
Johan Leysen, 73, Belgian actor (The Abyss, Brotherhood of the Wolf,
The American).
Elemér Ragályi, 83, Hungarian cinematographer (The Phantom of the
Opera, Mesmer, An American Rhapsody), film director and actor.
Steve Skeates, 80, American comic book writer (Aquaman, Hawk and Dove,
The Phantom Stranger).
Ray Shulman, 73, English musician (Gentle Giant) and record producer
(Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, Life's Too Good).
Christo Jivkov, 48, Bulgarian actor (The Passion of the Christ, The
Profession of Arms, Barbarossa)
Heklina, 55, American drag queen and actor.
Judy Farrell, 84, American actress (M*A*S*H) and screenwriter (Port
Charles)
Masanori Hata, 87, Japanese zoologist, essayist and film director (The
Adventures of Milo and Otis).
Norman Reynolds, 89, British production designer (Star Wars, Raiders
of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun)
Andrew Laing, British drummer (Cockney Rejects).
Nico Cirasola, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor
(Focaccia Blues, The Wholly Family).
David Finfer, 80, American film editor (The Fugitive, Bill & Ted's
Bogus Journey, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause)
Bill Butler, 101, American cinematographer (Jaws, One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, Grease).
Nora Forster, 80, German music promoter (The Slits, Sex Pistols, The
Clash)
Ingvar Hirdwall, 88, Swedish actor (Beck, The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo, Children's Island).
Rachel Pollack, 77, American science fiction writer (Unquenchable
Fire, Doom Patrol)
Gareth Richards, 41, British comedian and radio host
Ian Bairnson, 69, Scottish musician (The Alan Parsons Project, Pilot,
Kate Bush).
Michael Lerner, 81, American actor (Barton Fink, Elf, Eight Men Out,
X-Men: Days of Future Past).
Elizabeth Hubbard, 89, American actress (The Doctors, As the World
Turns, Ordinary People)
Richard Ng, 83, Hong Kong actor (Magnificent Warriors, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, Beyond the Sunset)
Al Jaffee, 102, American cartoonist (Mad, Trump, Humbug)
Anne Perry, 84, British writer and convicted murderer.
Dame Mary Quant, 93, British fashion designer.
Garn Stephens, 87, American actress (Phyllis, Halloween III: Season of
the Witch, The Sunshine Boys).
Murray Melvin, 90, English actor (Alfie, Lisztomania, Barry Lyndon).
Cliff Fish, 73, British bass guitarist (Paper Lace)
Ahmad Jamal, 92, American jazz pianist
Otis Redding III, 59, American singer (The Reddings).
April Stevens, 93, American singer ("Deep Purple",
"Whispering").
Barry Humphries, 89, Australian comedian (Dame Edna Everage) and actor
(Bedazzled, Finding Nemo)
Dale Meeks, 48, English actor (Emmerdale, Byker Grove, Downtime).
Harry Belafonte, 96, American Hall of Fame musician ("The Banana
Boat Song", "Jump in the Line"), actor (Odds Against Tomorrow)
Isaac Wiley Jr., 69, American drummer (Dazz Band).
John Wright, 79, American film editor (The Hunt for Red October,
Speed, X-Men)
Maria Charles, 93, English actress (Agony, Hot Fuzz, Never the Twain).
Len Goodman, 78, English ballroom dancer, television presenter, and
coach (Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing with the Stars)
Ralph Humphrey, 79, American rock drummer (The Mothers of Invention).
Frank Agrama, 93, American film director (Queen Kong, Dawn of the
Mummy)
Billy "The Kid" Emerson, 97, American singer-songwriter
("Red Hot", "When It Rains, It Really Pours").
Barbara Young, 92, English actress (Coronation Street, I, Claudius,
Last of the Summer Wine).
Jerry Springer, 79, British-born American television host (The Jerry
Springer Show, America's Got Talent) and politician
Ramiro Oliveros, 82, Spanish actor (Cannibal Apocalypse, Naked Therapy,
Death's Newlyweds).
Giovanni Lombardo Radice, 68, Italian actor (The House on the Edge of
the Park, Cannibal Apocalypse, City of the Living Dead).
Tim Bachman, 71, Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Brave
Belt).
Sergei Kolesnikov, 68, Russian actor (Man with an Accordion, Daddy,
Cold Souls)
Eileen Saki, 79, American actress (M*A*S*H)
Gordon Lightfoot, 84, Canadian Hall of Fame singer-songwriter
("Sundown", "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "If
You Could Read My Mind").
Barbara Bryne, 94, British-American actress (The Bostonians, Amadeus,
Two Evil Eyes).
Linda Lewis, 72, English singer-songwriter
("Rock-a-Doodle-Doo")
Newton N. Minow, 97, American attorney, chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission (1961–1963)
Larry Mahan, 79, American Hall of Fame rodeo cowboy, subject of The
Great American Cowboy.
Filippo Ottoni, 84, Italian film director, screenwriter (Detective
School Dropouts, A Bay of Blood, Jonah Who Lived in the Whale)
Seán Keane, 76, Irish fiddler (The Chieftains).
Sergey Dreyden, 81, Russian actor (About Love, Window to Paris,
Russian Ark).
Terrence Hardiman, 86, English actor (Gandhi, Sahara, Mask of Murder).
Rita Lee, 75, Brazilian singer (Os Mutantes)
Jon Povey, 80, British musician (Pretty Things, Bern Elliott and the
Fenmen).
Jacklyn Zeman, 70, American actress (General Hospital, One Life to
Live, The Bay)
Rolf Harris, 93, Australian entertainer (Rolf's Cartoon Club, Animal
Hospital), singer ("Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"), and convicted sex
offender
Kenneth Anger, 96, American filmmaker (Fireworks, Lucifer Rising) and
writer (Hollywood Babylon).
Barry Newman, 92, American actor (Vanishing Point, The Salzburg
Connection, Petrocelli).
Stu James, 77, British singer (The Mojos).
Lester Sterling, 87, Jamaican saxophonist (The Skatalites, Byron Lee
and the Dragonaires).
John Refoua, 58, American film editor (Avatar, Olympus Has Fallen, The
Magnificent Seven).
Samantha Weinstein, 28, Canadian actress (Carrie, D.N. Ace, The
Rocker)
Helmut Berger, 78, Austrian actor (Ludwig, The Damned, The Godfather
Part III)
Andy Rourke, 59, English bassist (The Smiths)
Jim Brown, 87, American Hall of Fame football player (Cleveland
Browns), actor (The Dirty Dozen, Mars Attacks!)
Ray Austin, 90, British stuntman (The Avengers) and director (Zorro,
Magnum, P.I.).
Martin Amis, 73, British novelist (London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow)
Pete Brown, 82, English poet, lyricist ("I Feel Free",
"Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room") and singer
Algy Ward, 63, English heavy metal bassist (Tank, The Damned, The Saints).
Ray Austin, 90, British stuntman (The Avengers) and director (Zorro, Magnum,
P.I.).
Jim Brown, 87, American Hall of Fame football player (Cleveland
Browns), actor (The Dirty Dozen, Mars Attacks!)
Marlene Clark, 73, American actress (Sanford and Son, Slaughter, The
Beast Must Die)
Leon Ichaso, 74, Cuban-American film director (El
Super, Sugar Hill, El Cantante)
Ray Stevenson, 58, Northern Irish actor (Rome, Thor, Punisher: War Zone).
Ed Ames, 95, American singer ("My Cup Runneth Over",
"Time, Time") and actor (Daniel Boone).
Chas Newby, 81, British bassist (The Beatles).
James Lewis, 63, American singer (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
Floyd Newman, 91, American saxophonist (The Mar-Keys, The Memphis
Horns).
Nitesh Pandey, 50, Indian actor (Om Shanti Om).
Sheldon Reynolds, 63, American guitarist (Sun, Commodores, Earth, Wind
& Fire).
Domenico Minutoli, 76, Italian actor (Johnny Stecchino, S.P.Q.R.:
2,000 and a Half Years Ago, Fantozzi 2000 – La clonazione).
Tina Turner, 83, American-born Swiss Hall of Fame singer ("River
Deep – Mountain High", "What's Love Got to Do with It") and
actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)
Bill Lee, 94, American jazz musician and film composer (She's Gotta
Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing).
Gary Kent, 89, American actor and stuntman (The Savage Seven, Psych-Out,
Bubba Ho-Tep).
Leo Plank, 57, German stuntman (Captain America: Civil War,
Spider-Man: Homecoming), cam car driver and camera operator (John Wick: Chapter
4).
Wahid Satay, 93, Singaporean actor (Pontianak, Puteri Gunong Ledang,
Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam)
Redd Holt, 91, American jazz drummer (The Ramsey Lewis Trio,
Young-Holt Unlimited).
John Dunning, 81, American author. (“Tune In Yesterday”, “On the Air:
The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio”)
George Maharis, 94, American actor (The Satan Bug, Route 66, Exodus)
and singer ("Teach Me Tonight").
Glenn Farr, 77, American film editor (The Right Stuff, Commando, The
Serpent and the Rainbow)
Milt Larsen, 92, American actor and magician, creator of The Magic
Castle.
Isa Barzizza, 93, Italian actress (The Two Orphans, Bluebeard's Six Wives,
It's Never Too Late).
Peter Simonischek, 76, Austrian actor (Love and Fear, Toni Erdmann,
Kursk).
Robin Wagner, 89, American set designer (The Producers, Jesus Christ
Superstar, City of Angels)
John Beasley, 79, American actor (Rudy, The Gift, The General's
Daughter).
Jessie Maple, 76, American cinematographer and film director (Will,
Twice as Nice).
Dickie Harrell, 82, American Hall of Fame drummer (Gene Vincent and
the Blue Caps).
Patricia Dainton, 93, British actress (Dancing with Crime, The
Passionate Stranger, The House in Marsh Road)
Sergio Calderón, 77, Mexican-born American actor (Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World's End, Men in Black, The Ruins).
Margit Carstensen, 83, German actress (The Bitter Tears of Petra von
Kant, Martha, Possession).
Yukiko Takayama, 83, Japanese screenwriter (Terror of Mechagodzilla,
Genji Monogatari: Sennen no Nazo).
Marcus Plantin, 77, British television producer and director (The Two
Ronnies, The Two of Us).
Cynthia Weil, 82, American Hall of Fame songwriter ("You've Lost
That Lovin' Feelin'", "Here You Come Again", "Somewhere Out
There").
Tony McPhee, 79, English guitarist (The Groundhogs)
George Winston, 73, American pianist (December, Summer, Forest)
Astrud Gilberto, 83, Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer ("The
Girl from Ipanema")
Pat Cooper, 93, American actor (Fighting Back, Analyze This, Analyze
That) and comedian.
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri aka The Iron Sheik, 81, Iranian-born
American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (AWA, WWF).
Robert Hanssen, 79, American FBI agent and convicted spy.
Noreen Nash, 99, American actress (The Big Fix, Phantom from Space,
Giant).
Lia Mortensen, 57, American actress (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
John Romita Sr., 93, American comic book artist (The Amazing
Spider-Man, Captain America), co-creator of Wolverine.
Treat Williams, 71, American actor (Hair, Prince of the City, Everwood)
Christy Dignam, 63, Irish singer (Aslan)
Cormac McCarthy, 89, American novelist (Blood Meridian, All the Pretty
Horses, The Road)
Blackie Onassis, 57, American rock drummer (Urge Overkill).
Glenda Jackson, 87, English actress (Women in Love, Sunday Bloody
Sunday, A Touch of Class) and politician, MP (1992–2015)
Daniel Ellsberg, 92, American whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)
Paxton Whitehead, 85, English actor (Camelot, Back to School, Kate
& Leopold).
Angela Thorne, 84, British actress (Lady Oscar, ffolkes, To the Manor
Born, Silent Hours).
Sheldon Harnick, 99, American lyricist (Fiorello!, Fiddler on the
Roof) and songwriter.
Frederic Forrest, 86, American actor (The Rose, The Conversation,
Apocalypse Now).
Malcolm Mowbray, 74, British film director and screenwriter (A Private
Function, Don't Tell Her It's Me, Sweet Revenge).
Julian Sands, 65, British actor (A Room with a View, The Killing
Fields, 24). (body discovered on this date)
Dean Smith, 91, American track and field athlete, Olympic champion
(1952), stuntman, and actor (Rhinestone, Creepshow 2).
Nicolas Coster, 89, British-American actor (Santa Barbara, Another
World, All the President's Men).
Bobby Osborne, 91, American bluegrass musician (Osborne Brothers).
Carmen Sevilla, 92, Spanish actress (Vengeance, Don Juan, King of
Kings)
Judi Farr, 84, Australian actress (My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?,
Kingswood Country, Please Like Me).
Alan Arkin, 89, American actor (Catch-22, Wait Until Dark, Little Miss
Sunshine)
Lord Creator, 87, Trinidadian-born Jamaican singer-songwriter
("Kingston Town").
Don Kennedy, 93, American radio broadcaster (WPIC, NBC Radio),
television personality, and voice actor (Space Ghost Coast to Coast)
Meg Johnson, 86, English actress (Coronation Street, Brookside,
Emmerdale).
Lawrence Turman, 96, American film producer (The Graduate, The Thing,
The River Wild).
Martin Stevens, 69, Canadian pop singer ("Love Is In the
Air").
George Tickner, 76, American rock guitarist (Journey, Frumious
Bandersnatch).
Coco Lee, 48, Hong Kong-American singer-songwriter (“A Love Before
Time”)
Jimmy Weldon, 99, American voice actor (The Yogi Bear Show, Challenge
of the Superfriends, Shirt Tales), ventriloquist and television host.
Peter Nero, 89, American pianist and conductor (Philly Pops)
Jeffrey Carlson, 48, American actor (All My Children, The Goat, or Who
Is Sylvia?, Hitch).
Srđan Koljević, 56, Serbian screenwriter and film director (The Red
Colored Grey Truck, The Woman with a Broken Nose, The Man Who Defended Gavrilo
Princip).
Andrea Evans, 66, American actress (Passions, The Bold and the
Beautiful, One Life to Live)
Manny Coto, 62, American television writer and producer (Star Trek: Enterprise,
24, Dr. Giggles)
Randy Fullmer, 73, American animator (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty
and the Beast) and film producer (The Emperor's New Groove).
George Armstrong, 60, British actor (Grange Hill, Tucker's Luck)
Daniel Goldberg, 74, Canadian film producer (The Hangover, Stripes, Space
Jam) and screenwriter.
John Nettleton, 94, English actor (Yes Minister, Doctor Who: Ghost
Light, Oliver Twist).
Nick Benedict, 77, American actor (All My Children, The Young and the
Restless, Days of Our Lives, Slaughter’s Big Rip Off)
Edward Hume, 87, American film and television writer (The Day After,
The Terry Fox Story, Two-Minute Warning).
Carlin Glynn, 83, American actress (The Best Little Whorehouse in
Texas, Sixteen Candles, The Trip to Bountiful)
Josephine Chaplin, 74, American actress (The Canterbury Tales, Escape
to the Sun, Nuits Rouges)
Jane Birkin, 76, English-French singer ("Je t'aime... moi non
plus") and actress (La Piscine, Death On the Nile).
Linda Haynes, 75, American actress (Coffy, Rolling Thunder, Brubaker).
Sue Marx, 92, American documentary film director and producer (Young
at Heart)
Stu Silver, 76, American screenwriter (Throw Momma from the Train) and
television writer (Soap, Webster)
Mark Thomas, 67, British film composer (Twin Town, The Final Curtain,
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London)
Anita Carey, 75, English actress (Coronation Street, Doctors)
Romain Winding, 71, French cinematographer (La Discrète, The Counterfeiters,
Farewell, My Queen).
Jerome Coopersmith, 97, American television writer (Hawaii Five-O,
'Twas the Night Before Christmas, An American Christmas Carol)
Tony Bennett, 96, American singer ("I Left My Heart in San
Francisco", "Rags to Riches", "Because of You")
Juliette Mayniel, 87, French actress (Les Cousins, The Bloodstained
Shadow, Eyes Without a Face).
Lelia Goldoni, 86, American actress (Shadows, Hysteria, Alice Doesn't Live
Here Anymore).
Vince Hill, 89, English singer ("Edelweiss", "Take Me
to Your Heart Again").
Pamela Blair, 73, American actress (A Chorus Line, Annie, Beavis and
Butt-Head Do America).
Inga Swenson, 90, American actress (Benson, Soap, Advise &
Consent, The Miracle Worker).
Sinéad O'Connor, 56, Irish singer ("Nothing Compares 2 U")
and songwriter
Julian Barry, 92, American screenwriter (Lenny, The River,
Rhinoceros).
Bo Goldman, 90, American screenwriter (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest, Melvin and Howard, Scent of a Woman)
Randy Meisner, 77, American Hall of Fame musician (Eagles, Poco) and
songwriter ("Take It to the Limit")
Jim Parker, 88, British television composer (Midsomer Murders, House
of Cards, Foyle's War).
Marc Gilpin, 56, American actor (Jaws 2, The Legend of the Lone
Ranger, Earthbound)
Paul Reubens, 70, American actor (Pee-wee's Playhouse, The Nightmare
Before Christmas, Blow)
Betty Ann Bruno, 91, American journalist (KTVU) and actress (The Wizard
of Oz)
Inga Landgré, 95, Swedish actress (The Seventh Seal, The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo, Crisis).
Sheila Oliver, 71, American politician, lieutenant governor of New
Jersey (since 2018), member (2004–2018)
Tom Kempinski, 85, English playwright and actor (The Damned, Moon Zero
Two, The McKenzie Break).
Mark Margolis, 83, American actor (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul,
Pi).
Carl Davis, 86, American-British composer (The French Lieutenant's
Woman, Pride and Prejudice, Liverpool Oratorio) and conductor
John Gosling, 75, English keyboardist (The Kinks).
Walter Charles, 78, American actor (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
Fleet Street, Fletch Lives, Prancer).
Giuseppe Montanari, 86, Italian comic artist (Dylan Dog).
Arthur Schmidt, 86, American film editor (Back to the Future, Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump)
Margit Saad, 94, German actress (Three Birch Trees on the Heath, The
Criminal, The Magnificent Two)
William Friedkin, 87, American film director (The French Connection,
The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A.)
Johnny Hardwick, 64, American voice actor and television writer (King
of the Hill)
Jamie Reid, 76, British visual artist (Sex Pistols)
Sixto Rodriguez, 81, American singer-songwriter ("Sugar
Man"), subject of Searching for Sugar Man.
Doreen Mantle, 97, South African-born British actress (One Foot in the
Grave, Jam & Jerusalem, Yentl).
Robbie Robertson, 80, Canadian Hall of Fame musician (The Band),
songwriter ("The Weight") and film composer (The Color of Money)
Robert Swan, 78, American actor (Hoosiers, Natural Born Killers,
Backdraft)
Simon Carlyle, 47, British screenwriter (Two Doors Down, Boy Meets Girl,
Happy Hollidays).
Aleksandr Viktorenko, 76, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-3, Soyuz TM-8,
Soyuz TM-14).
Patricia Bredin, 88, English actress (Left Right and Centre, The
Treasure of Monte Cristo) and singer
Stan Waterman, 100, American cinematographer (The Deep) and film
producer (Blue Water, White Death).
Darren Kent, 36, English actor (Mirrors, Asylum Blackout, Jeepers
Creepers: Reborn), film and television director and producer.
Léa Garcia, 90, Brazilian actress (Black Orpheus, Os Bandeirantes, The
Greatest Love of All)
Peter Vaughan-Clarke, 66, British actor (The Tomorrow People).
Patricia Bredin, 88, English actress (Left Right and Centre, The
Treasure of Monte Cristo).
Matyelok Gibbs, 91, British actress (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
– Part 1, Babel)
Jerry Moss, 88, American Hall of Fame recording executive, co-founder
of A&M Records.
Sir Michael Parkinson, 88, English journalist and broadcaster
(Parkinson).
Bobby Eli, 77, American guitarist (MFSB), songwriter ("Love Won't
Let Me Wait"), and record producer.
David Ostrosky, 66, Mexican actor (Teresa, Marisol, Like Water for
Chocolate)
Gary Young, 70, American drummer (Pavement).
Ray Hildebrand, 82, American musician (Paul & Paula).
Sarah Lawson, 95, British actress (The Devil Rides Out, The Browning
Version, Night of the Big Heat).
Casper Roos, 98, American actor (Deadtime Stories).
Ron Cephas Jones, 66, American actor (This Is Us, Luke Cage, Mr. Robot)
Nizo Yamamoto, 70, Japanese art director (Castle in the Sky, Princess
Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies)
David Jacobs, 84, American television writer (Dallas, Knots Landing,
Paradise)
James Burke, 97, American space engineer.
Dan Green, 70, American comic book artist (Spider-Man, Wolverine,
Doctor Strange).
Bob Feldman, 83, American songwriter ("My Boyfriend's Back",
"I Want Candy") and record producer ("Hang on Sloopy").
Hersha Parady, 78, American actress (Little House on the Prairie,
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, CBS Afternoon Playhouse)
Bob Barker, 99, American game show host (The Price Is Right, Truth or
Consequences)
Arleen Sorkin, 67, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Batman: The
Animated Series, Duet)
Nancy Buirski, 78, American film director (A Crime on the Bayou,
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy) and producer
(Loving)
Jamie Christopher, 52, British assistant director (Harry Potter,
Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
Jimmy Buffett, 76, American singer-songwriter
("Margaritaville", "Cheeseburger in Paradise")
Franne Lee, 81, American costume designer (Candide, Sweeney Todd: The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Saturday Night Live).
Gábor Medvigy, 66, Hungarian cinematographer (Damnation, Werckmeister
Harmonies)
Robert Klane, 81, American screenwriter (Where's Poppa?, National
Lampoon's European Vacation, Weekend at Bernie's)
Nancy Buirski, 78, American film director (A Crime on the Bayou,
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy) and producer
(Loving).
Gayle Hunnicutt, 80, American actress (Dallas, Marlowe, Fragment of
Fear).
Bill Malley, 88, American production designer (The Exorcist, The Fury,
The Ninth Configuration).
Gary Wright, 80, American singer-songwriter ("Dream Weaver",
"Love Is Alive") and musician (Spooky Tooth)
Joe Fagin, 83, British singer ("Breakin' Away / That's Livin'
Alright").
Marcia de Rousse, 70, American actress (True Blood, St. Elsewhere,
Schooled).
Giuliano Montaldo, 93, Italian film director (Machine Gun McCain,
Sacco & Vanzetti, Giordano Bruno), screenwriter and actor.
John Cairney, 93, Scottish actor (A Night to Remember, Cleopatra,
Jason and the Argonauts)
John Stevenson, 86, British screenwriter (Brass, Coronation Street).
Larry Chance, 82, American doo-wop singer (The Earls).
Mike Yarwood, 82, English comedian, impressionist and actor (Three of
a Kind).
Teng Ru-jun, 76, Chinese actor (Red Sorghum, Postmen in the
Mountains).
Franco Migliacci, 92, Italian lyricist ("Nel
blu, dipinto di blu") and actor (Ladro lui, ladra lei, Django).
Michael McGrath, 65, American actor (Nice Work If You Can Get It, Spamalot,
The Secret of Kells)
Jean Boht, 91, English actress (Bread, Funny Man, Distant Voices,
Still Lives)
Steve Harwell, 56, American singer (Smash Mouth)
Roger Whittaker, 87, British singer-songwriter ("Durham Town (The
Leavin')", "I Don't Believe in If Anymore", "The Last
Farewell").
Dick Curtis, 95, American actor (The Day It Came to Earth, Motel Hell,
What Waits Below).
Byun Hee-bong, 81, South Korean actor (Memories of Murder, The Host,
Okja)
Lou Deprijck, 77, Belgian singer-songwriter ("Ça plane pour
moi"), musician (Two Man Sound) and record producer.
Katherine Anderson, 79, American singer (The Marvelettes).
Terry Kirkman, 83, American musician (The Association) and songwriter
("Cherish", "Everything That Touches You").
David McCallum, 90, Scottish actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS, The
Great Escape)
Sandra Dorsey, 83, American actress (Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage
Wasteland, Gordy, Dumb and Dumber To)
Sir Michael Gambon, 82, Irish-English actor (Harry Potter, Gosford
Park, The Singing Detective)
Dianne Feinstein, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate
(since 1992)
Jake Abraham, 56, British actor (Blonde Fist, Lock, Stock and Two
Smoking Barrels, The 51st State)
Keith Jefferson, 53, American actor (Django Unchained, The Hateful
Eight, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)
Dick Butkus, 80, American Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Bears)
and actor (Hang Time, Johnny Dangerously).
Francisco Vidal, 82, Spanish actor (El Crack, The Enchanted Forest,
Pan's Labyrinth)
Terence Davies, 77, British screenwriter and film director (Distant
Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth)
Shawna Trpcic, 56, American costume designer (Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers, Angel, Ahsoka).
Vincent Patrick, 88, American author and screenwriter (The Pope of
Greenwich Village, Family Business, The Devil's Own)
Patricia Cray, 82, American actress (Wonder Boys).
Burt Young, 83, American actor (Rocky, Chinatown, Back to School).
Henri Serre, 92, French actor (Jules and Jim, Fantômas contre Scotland
Yard, Mister Frost).
Buck Trent, 85, American country musician and television personality
(Hee Haw).
Mang Hoi, 65, Hong Kong actor (The Human Goddess, Bruce Lee, D-Day at
Macao, Warriors Two)
Anthony Hickox, 64, English film director and screenwriter (Waxwork,
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, Prince Valiant).
Keith Giffen, 70, American comic book artist and writer (Legion of
Super-Heroes, Blue Beetle, Justice League)
Shirley Jo Finney, 74, American actress (Nashville Girl, Echo Park,
Moving)
Mark Goddard, 87, American actor (Lost in Space, The Detectives, Blue
Sunshine)
Jeff Burr, 60, American film director (Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre III, Stepfather II, Puppet Master 4)
Rudolph Isley, 84, American Hall of Fame singer (The Isley Brothers)
and songwriter ("It's Your Thing", "That Lady")
Phyllis Coates, 96, American actress (Adventures of Superman, Superman
and the Mole Men, Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn)
Lara Parker, 84, American actress (Dark Shadows, Save the Tiger, Hi,
Mom!).
Jean-Roger Milo, 66, French actor (The Woman Cop, A Sunday in the
Country, Germinal).
Michael Cooper, 71, Jamaican musician (Inner Circle, Third World)
Piper Laurie, 91, American actress (Carrie, The Hustler, Children of a
Lesser God)
Suzanne Somers, 76, American actress (Three's Company, Step by Step,
She's the Sheriff)
Joanna Merlin, 92, American actress (Fiddler on the Roof, Mystic
Pizza, Prince of Darkness, City of Angels).
Steven Weisberg, 68, American film editor (Great Expectations, Men in
Black II, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Jesús Guzmán, 97, Spanish actor (Implacable Three, The Locket, The
Good, the Bad & the Ugly, For A Few Dollars More).
Dwight Twilley, 72, American singer-songwriter ("I'm on
Fire").
Osvaldo Desideri, 84, Italian art director (The Last Emperor, Once
Upon a Time in America, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom)
Richard Roundtree, 81, American actor (Shaft, Se7en, Speed Racer)
Mervin Shiner, 102, American country singer ("Why Don't You Haul
Off and Love Me"), songwriter and guitarist
Angelo Bruschini, 62, English guitarist (The Blue Aeroplanes, Massive
Attack)
Steve Erwin, 63, American comics artist (Checkmate, Gunfire).
Monique Créteur, 92, French actress (Une chambre en ville), playwright
and puppeteer
Richard Moll, 80, American actor (Night Court, House, Batman: The
Animated Series).
Judy Nugent, 83, American actress (The Ruggles, Magnificent Obsession,
There's Always Tomorrow)
Brandon Smith, 71, American actor (Jeepers Creepers, Bernie, From Dusk
till Dawn: The Series).
Matthew Perry, 54, American-Canadian actor (Friends, The Whole Nine
Yards, Fools Rush In).
Trevor Hill, 98, British producer (Children's Hour, Round Britain
Quiz, Sooty), director and writer.
Peter S. Fischer, 88, American television writer (Murder, She Wrote,
Columbo, Ellery Queen).
Carlo Ambrosini, 69, Italian cartoonist (Ken Parker, Dylan Dog).
Wei Wei, 101, Chinese actress (Night Inn, Spring in a Small Town, The
Truth About Jane and Sam).
Peter White, 86, American actor (The Boys in the Band, Diary of a
Hitman, Mr. Wrong).
Pete Garner, 61, British bassist (The Stone Roses)
Marina Cicogna, 89, Italian film producer (Belle de Jour,
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)
Pat E. Johnson, 84, American martial artist, stuntman, and actor
(Enter the Dragon, The Karate Kid, Mortal Kombat).
Frank Borman, 95, American astronaut (Apollo 8)
Jørgen Reenberg, 96, Danish actor (Europa, The Wolf at the Door, I Am
Dina).
Spiros Focás, 86, Greek actor (Rocco and His Brothers, The Jewel of the
Nile, A Man for Burning)
Janet Landgard, 75, American actress (The Swimmer, The Donna Reed
Show)
Conny Van Dyke, 78, American singer and actress (Hell's Angels '69,
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Framed)
George "Funky" Brown, 74, American Hall of Fame drummer
(Kool & the Gang) and songwriter ("Ladies' Night", "Celebration")
Charlie Dominici, 72, American singer (Dream Theater, Dominici).
Suzanne Shepherd, 89, American actress (The Sopranos, Goodfellas,
Requiem for a Dream).
Fredrik Ohlsson, 92, Swedish actor (Pippi Longstocking, The Girl with
the Dragon Tattoo).
Peter Spellos, 69, American voice actor (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Transformers:
Robots in Disguise, Men in Black II)
Rosalynn Carter, 96, American mental health activist, first lady of
the United States (1977–1981), and of Georgia (1971–1975)
Joss Ackland, 95, British actor (Shadowlands, Lethal Weapon 2, The
Mighty Ducks).
Mars Williams, 68, American saxophonist (The Waitresses, The
Psychedelic Furs, Liquid Soul)
Anna Kanakis, 61, Italian actress (2019, After the Fall of New York,
The New Barbarians)
Rona Hartner, 50, Romanian actress (Chicken with Plums, The Crazy
Stranger, Time of the Wolf, Le Divorce)
Jean Knight, 80, American singer ("Mr. Big Stuff").
Luca Sabatelli, 87, Italian costume designer (The Cat o' Nine Tails,
The Humanoid, Grand Hotel Excelsior).
Elliot Silverstein, 96, American film and television director (Cat
Ballou, A Man Called Horse, The Car).
Marc Thorpe, 77, American visual effects artist (Star Wars, Raiders of
the Lost Ark, Howard the Duck)
Marty Krofft, 86, Canadian puppeteer (H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost,
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters)
Aldo Lado, 88, Italian film director (Short Night of Glass Dolls, Who
Saw Her Die?, The Humanoid), screenwriter and author.
Les Maguire, 81, English musician (Gerry and the Pacemakers).
Geordie Walker, 64, English guitarist (Killing Joke) and songwriter ("Love
Like Blood", "Eighties")
John Nichols, 83, American novelist (The Sterile Cuckoo, The Wizard of
Loneliness, The Milagro Beanfield War).
Victor J. Kemper, 96, American cinematographer (Dog Day Afternoon,
National Lampoon's Vacation, The Last Tycoon).
Frances Sternhagen, 93, American actress (Equus, ER, Misery)
Mizuho Suzuki, 96, Japanese actor (The Sands of Kurobe, Battles
Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode, Godzilla 1985).
Thomas Augsberger, 60, German-born American film producer (Tucker
& Dale vs. Evil, Waiting..., Mr. Brooks).
Henry Kissinger, 100, German-born American diplomat and politician,
national security advisor (1969–1975) and secretary of state (1973–1977)
Ma Jingwu, 85, Chinese actor (Raise the Red Lantern, Seven Swords, The
Banquet).
Shane MacGowan, 65, English-born Irish singer (The Pogues, Shane
MacGowan and the Popes) and songwriter ("Fairytale of New York")
Marcello Marziali, 84, Italian actor (Under the Tuscan Sun, Pinocchio).
Brigit Forsyth, 83, Scottish actress (Whatever Happened to the Likely
Lads?, Boon, Still Open All Hours).
Sandra Day O'Connor, 93, American jurist, associate justice of the
Supreme Court (1981–2006)
Kim Soo-yong, 94, South Korean film director (The Sea Village, Mist,
The Land).
Myles Goodwyn, 75, Canadian musician (April Wine) and songwriter
("Just Between You and Me").
Denny Laine, 79, English Hall of Fame musician (Wings, The Moody
Blues) and songwriter ("Mull of Kintyre")
Ellen Holly, 92, American actress (One Life to Live, School Daze, Cops
and Robbers).
Natalya Bogomolova, 83, Russian animator (Winnie-the-Pooh, The Blue
Bird, Alice's Birthday).
Peter R. Adam, 66, German film editor (An American Werewolf in Paris, Anonymous,
Comedian Harmonists)
Norman Lear, 101, American Hall of Fame screenwriter and producer (All
in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons).
Marisa Pavan, 91, Italian actress (The Rose Tattoo, I Chose Love, Drum
Beat).
Benjamin Zephaniah, 65, British poet, writer (Face, Refugee Boy) and
actor (Peaky Blinders)
Ryan O'Neal, 82, American actor (Love Story, Barry Lyndon, Paper
Moon).
Jack Hogan, 94, American actor (Combat!, The Bonnie Parker Story, Jake
and the Fatman).
Shirley Anne Field, 87, English actress (The Entertainer, The Damned,
Alfie, Beat Girl).
Kathy Chow, 57, Hong Kong actress (Time Before Time, E.U., The Breaking
Point) and singer
Ian Gibson, 77, British comic book artist (2000 AD, Robo-Hunter, The
Ballad of Halo Jones)
Richard Kerr, 78, English singer, songwriter ("Mandy",
"I'll Never Love This Way Again", "Looks Like We Made It")
and composer.
Mario Valdemarin, 96, Italian actor (Hercules and the Conquest of
Atlantis, Sandokan the Great, The End of the Night)
Yılmaz Atadeniz, 91, Turkish film director (Killing in Istanbul, The
Deathless Devil), producer (A Season in Hakkari) and screenwriter
Andre Braugher, 61, American actor (Homicide: Life on the Street,
Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Glory)
Essra Mohawk, 75, American songwriter ("Primordial Lovers",
"Change of Heart") and singer (“Schoolhouse Rock – Interjections”).
Steve Halliwell, 77, English actor (Emmerdale, Coronation Street) and
singer (The Woolpackers).
Guy Marchand, 86, French actor (Coup de Torchon, Family Business, My
New Partner II), musician and singer.
Ken Kelsch, 76, American cinematographer (Bad Lieutenant, The Driller
Killer, Big Night)
Selma Archerd, 98, American actress (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Lethal
Weapon 3).
Bob Johnson, 79, British guitarist, singer and songwriter (Steeleye
Span).
Manny Martínez, 69, American drummer (The Misfits).
James McCaffrey, 65, American actor (American Splendor, Max Payne,
Rescue Me, Viper)
Ronaldo Valdez, 76, Filipino actor (The Mad Doctor of Blood Island,
Karma, Cedie).
Kenpachiro Satsuma, 76, Japanese actor (Godzilla vs. Hedorah, The
Return of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Destoroyah) and stuntman.
Mike Maxfield, 79, English songwriter and guitarist (The Dakotas).
Jim Ladd, 75, American disc jockey (KMET, KLOS, Sirius XM), radio
producer and writer
Amp Fiddler, 65, American musician (Enchantment, Parliament,
Funkadelic), composer, and record producer.
Norma Barzman, 103, American screenwriter (Finishing School, The Locket,
Never Say Goodbye).
Dan Greenburg, 87, American writer (How to Be a Jewish Mother, The Guardian)
Ian Pepperell, 53, British actor (The Archers, EastEnders).
Laura Lynch, 65, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
Sajid Khan, 71, Indian actor and singer (Mother India)
Frank Cassenti, 78, French stage and film director and screenwriter
(The Song of Roland).
Mike Nussbaum, 99, American actor (Fatal Attraction, Field of Dreams,
Men in Black).
David Leland, 82, British film director (Wish You Were Here, Virgin
Territory) and screenwriter (Mona Lisa)
Casey Kramer, 67, American actress (The Runner Stumbles, Watercolors).
Kamar de los Reyes, 56, Puerto Rican actor (One Life to Live, Sleepy
Hollow, Nixon)
Richard Franklin, 87, English actor (Doctor Who, Crossroads, Emmerdale),
writer and director.
Tom Smothers, 86, American comedian, musician (Smothers Brothers) and
actor (Get to Know Your Rabbit, Serial)
Richard Romanus, 80, American actor (Mean Streets, The Sopranos, Heavy
Metal, Wizards).
David Kernan, 85, British actor (Mix Me a Person, Zulu, Carry On
Abroad).
Mbongeni Ngema, 68, South African playwright (Sarafina!, Woza Albert!)
Lee Sun-kyun, 48, South Korean actor (My Mister, Parasite, Paju)
Yuri Arabov, 69, Russian screenwriter (The Lonely Voice of Man, Days
of Eclipse, Moloch), writer and poet.
Tommy Talton, 74, American guitarist (We the People, Cowboy).
Per Myrberg, 90, Swedish actor (A Handful of Love, The Simple-Minded
Murderer, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
John M. Burns, 84–85, English comics artist (The Seekers, Modesty
Blaise, Judge Dredd).
Maurice Hines, 80, American dancer, singer and actor (The Cotton
Club).
Sandra Reaves-Phillips, 79, American actress (Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom, Round Midnight, Lean on Me)
John Pilger, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker (Year Zero: The
Silent Death of Cambodia, Death of a Nation, The Secret Country: The First
Australians Fight Back) and journalist.
Tom Wilkinson, 75, British actor (The Full Monty, In the Bedroom,
Michael Clayton)
Shecky Greene, 97, American comedian and actor (History of the World, Part
I, Splash, Tony Rome).
Ana Ofelia Murguía, 90, Mexican actress (The Queen of the Night,
Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead, Coco).
