Celebrity Obituary thread

[me just saying]

Beverly Cleary, Children’s Author of ‘Ramona’ Books and ‘The Mouse and the Motorcycle,’ Dies at 104. “Ramona” series of books was adapted for 2010 feature film “Ramona and Beezus”

https://www.thewrap.com/beverly-cleary-dead-dies-ramona-author-death/

 

[fatclue_98]

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...football-coach-howard-schnellenberger-dies-87

A legend has left us. The U Nation is in mourning as are all Dolphins fans.

 

[me just saying]

G. Gordon Liddy, convicted Watergate conspirator, dies at 90

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/g-gordon-liddy-dead/index.html

 

[me just saying]

Myra Frances who famously playing Lady Adrasta in Doctor Who. passed away in the early hours of Tuesday [30 March] morning at the age of 78.

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/tv/2616596/unforgotten-peter-egan-heart-broken-wife-myra-dies/

 

[me just saying]

Malcolm Cecil, Producer for Stevie Wonder and Co-Creator of Revolutionary TONTO Synth, Dead at 84

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/malcolm-cecil-producer-behind-grammy-162033882.html

 

[me just saying]

B.B. Dickerson, founding member, bassist and vocalist for the funk rock band War, passed away peacefully at the age of 71

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/new...founding-member-of-war-dies-at-71/ar-BB1fhyZF

 

[me just saying]

Versatile British actor Paul Ritter, whose roles ranged from a hapless suburban patriarch in sitcom “Friday Night Dinner” to a Soviet engineer who helps cause a nuclear disaster in “Chernobyl,” has died at 54

https://apnews.com/article/paul-ritter-dead-d39053468b9ed81392e75e2fff96aa2e

 

[me just saying]

James Hampton, a longtime Hollywood funnyman known for roles in comedies like F-Troop,The Longest Yard and Teen Wolf, has died at age 84.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/james-hampton-teen-wolf-f-172221560.html

 

[me just saying]

Walter Olkewicz, actor who starred in 'Twin Peaks,' 'Grace Under Fire,' 'Seinfeld,' dies at 72

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/w...ce-under-fire-seinfeld-dies-at-72/ar-BB1fptuL

 

[me just saying]

Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth died on Friday at Windsor Castle. He was 99.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/prince-philip-queen-elizabeth-husband-dead

 

[me just saying]

Anne Beatts, a groundbreaking comedy writer with a taste for sweetness and the macabre who was on the original staff of "Saturday Night Live" and later created the cult sitcom "Square Pegs," has died. She was 74.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture...-pioneer-original-snl-writer-dead-74-n1263583

 

[me just saying]

Legendary rapper DMX has died. He was 50. The "Party Up (Up in Here)’" hitmaker, whose real name was Earl Simmons, died one week after suffering a heart attack.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rapper-dmx-dead

 

[me just saying]

Sopranos” star Joseph Siravo, who played Tony Soprano’s father, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 66.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sopranos-star-joseph-siravo-dies-104200028.html

 

[Laura Knotek]

BBC News - Helen McCrory: Peaky Blinders actress dies aged 52, husband Damian Lewis says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56770593

 

[HelloNNNewman]

BBC News - Helen McCrory: Peaky Blinders actress dies aged 52, husband Damian Lewis says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56770593

Oh wow.. that's a crazy one. Great show - would never have guessed she was only 52.

 

[me just saying]

Felix Silla, the actor best known for playing Cousin Itt on "The Addams Family," has died at the age of 84.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/f...from-the-addams-family-dies-at-84/ar-BB1fJL9r

 

[me just saying]

Rusty Young, a founding member of the country-rock band Poco, died on Thursday at the age of 75.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertain...country-rock-band-poco-dies-at-75/ar-BB1fIUDE

 

[raycpl]

Paul Humphrey of Canadian band Blue Peter. I manage to see them twice during my college days in Ottawa. RIP 08/04/21
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/art...-peter-seem-too-cool-to-be-canadian/#comments

 

[raycpl]

Charles “Chuck” Geschke — the co-founder of Adobe Inc — died at age 81.

https://apnews.com/article/business-john-warnock-san-francisco-b77f216f52d736a6b5a383a429208f51

 

[me just saying]

Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf’s best-selling “Bat Out Of Hell” debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, has died, his brother said. He was 73. Steinman was responsible for Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which topped the Billboard charts in 1983 and earned Tyler a Grammy nomination. When Tyler’s song was No. 1, another Steinman production — Air Supply’s “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” — peaked at No. 2, giving Steinman the Top 2 spots on the chart.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york...jim-steinman-d8883fd53f04417143d59eddd06c5d07