Celebrity Obituary thread

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Rhonda Stubbins White, a television actress who appeared in various titles from the 1990s until this year including Ruthless, Days of Our Lives, Their Eyes Were Watching God, has died. She was 60.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rhonda-stubbins-white-days-lives-011612628.html

 

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John Miles was a British rock music vocalist, guitarist, and keyboard player best known for his 1976 Top 3 UK hit single Music. He was 72

https://thecardinalfacts.com/john-miles/

 

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ADR director Scott Page-Pagter has passed away due to cancer. He was 52.

He was ADR director for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Power Rangers Zeo. He served as a producer for numerous Power Rangers series and Beetleborgs. Page-Pagter was the voice of Porto in Power Rangers Turbo as well as other characters in the Power Rangers series

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne...roducer-scott-page-pagter-passes-away/.180336

 

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Michael Nesmith, Singer, Songwriter and Guitarist of The Monkees, Dies at 78. After starring with his bandmates on TV for two seasons, he won a Grammy, produced films and was a music video pioneer.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/michael-nesmith-dead-monkees-1235060806/

 

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Legendary racer Al Unser Sr., a four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, died at his home in New Mexico on Thursday. He was 82.

https://news.yahoo.com/al-unser-sr-four-time-183106826.html

 

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Steve Bronski, a founding member of the influential British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, has died, a source close to the group has confirmed. The BBC reported his age as 61.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/09/steve-bronski-co-founder-of-bronski-beat-has-died

 

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'Days of Our Lives' star Rhonda Stubbins White dead at 60. She also appeared in "ER," "Touched by an Angel," "NYPD Blue," "Chicago Hope" and "Charmed." She also had a guest role on "Shameless" in 2019 and starred in Tyler Perry's "Ruthless."

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/rhonda-stubbins-white-dead-days-of-our-lives

 

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Keiko Nobumoto, the writer behind such anime as Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, Wolf's Rain, and Tokyo Godfathers, has passed away at the age of 57.

https://www.ign.com/articles/keiko-...e-writer-behind-cowboy-bebop-and-macross-dies

 

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Anne Rice, the famed New Orleans author whose sensational debut novel, Interview With the Vampire, sent her down a supernatural path writing about blood-suckers, witches and werewolves, died of complications from a stroke on Saturday. She was 80.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...author-interview-with-the-vampire-1235061422/

 

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Cara Williams, the perky redhead who received an Oscar nomination for her performance in The Defiant Ones before starring in a pair of CBS sitcoms in the 1960s, has died. She was 96

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cara-williams-dead-defiant-ones-1235061384/

 

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Larry Sellers, Actor on ‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,’ Dies at 72, The Emmy-nominated actor played Cloud Dancing for five years on the CBS Western.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t...uinn-medicine-woman-1235061393/?source=Snapzu

 

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Les Emmerson — the Canadian musician known best as the vocalist and guitarist of Ottawa's Five Man Electrical Band — has died. Emmerson passed away Friday (December 10) of complications from COVID-19, which he contracted in November. He was 77.

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/five_man_electrical_bands_les_emmerson_dies_at_77

 

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Wanda LaFaye Rogers, better known as Wanda Young, co-lead singer of the massive Motown group The Marvelettes, has died. She was 78.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wanda-young-iconic-motown-group-222410878.html

 

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Joe Simon, a Grammy-winning R&B singer whose hits included 1969’s “The Chokin’ Kind” and 1972’s “Power of Love” and was sampled in OutKast’s “So Fresh, So Clean” and other hip-hop classics, died Monday (Dec. 13) in his longtime hometown near Chicago. He was 85.

https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/joe-simon-dead-1235010357/

 

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Ken Kragen, a top entertainment producer, manager and philanthropist who turned to such clients as Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers in helping to organize the 1985 all-star charity single “We Are the World,” has died. He was 85.

https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Ken-Kragen-who-helped-organize-We-Are-the-16711055.php

 

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Bridget Hanley Dies: ‘Here Come The Brides’ Star, Prolific TV Actress Was 80. She played the role of Wanda Reilly Taylor opposite Barbara Eden on Harper Valley P.T.A. from 1981-1982.


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bridget-hanley-dies-come-brides-000812327.html

 

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Sally Ann Howes, best known for her role as Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" opposite **** Van Dyke, has died at the age of 91.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-star-sally-ann-howes-dead

 

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Jack Hedley, who featured in films including James Bond’s "For Your Eyes Only" and "Lawrence of Arabia," along with a string of UK TV hits, has died aged 92.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jack-hedley-dead-92

 

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Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/desmond-tutu-south-africa-equality-activist-dead-90-mandela

 

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Veteran session bassist Phil Chen, who played with Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck and the Doors’ Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, has died at the age of 75

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/phil-chen-bassist-dead/