The LuLac Edition #3679, December 27th, 2017

MOVING ON 2017

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Once more we feature some notable passings of 2017. This is a mix of political, sports and pop culture icons. (Source: wikipedia, LuLac archives).

JANUARY 

Bill Craig, 71, American swimmer, Olympic champion (1964), complications from pneumonia.
Stuart Hamilton, 87, Canadian pianist, vocal coach and broadcaster, prostate cancer
Bill Marshall, 77, Canadian film and theater producer, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, cardiac arrest.
Albert Brewer, 88, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971). Brewer took over when George Wallace’s wife Lurleen died of cancer in 1968. She ran because Wallace could not succeed himself. Wallace later won election in 1970.
Daryl Spencer, 88, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).
Rosemary Stevenson, 80, American baseball player (Grand Rapids Chicks.)
Bob Sadowski, 79, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox).
Francine York, 80, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Batman, The Family Man), cancer.

Bill Champion, 69, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies.)
Nat Hentoff, 91, American political philosopher, columnist and music critic (The Village Voice, Down Beat)
Eddie Kamae, 89, American ukuleleist (Sons of Hawaii).
Mildred Meacham, 92, American baseball player (AAGBPL).
Buddy Bregman, 86, American arranger, producer, and composer.
Jackie Brown, 73, American baseball player and coach (Texas Rangers).
Miriam Goldberg, 100, American newspaper publisher (Intermountain Jewish News)
Roy Innis, 82, American civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
Buddy Greco, 90, American singer, actor (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) and pianist.
Tony Rosato, 62, Italian-born Canadian actor (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Night Heat), heart attack.
Tony Booth, 83, British poster artist (The Beatles), cancer.

Dick Gautier, 85, American actor and singer (Get Smart, Transformers, When Things Were Rotten).

George Beall, 79, American attorney, prosecuted Spiro Agnew for corruption.
Eugene Cernan, 82, American astronaut (Apollo 10, Apollo 17), last person to walk on the Moon.
Dan O'Brien Sr., 87, American baseball executive (Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians).
Steve Wright, 66, American bass guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band), heart attack.
Brenda C. Barnes, 63, American businesswoman, CEO of PepsiCo (1996–1997) and Sara Lee (2005–2010), stroke.
Red Adams, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and coach (Los Angeles Dodgers). 

Roberta Peters, 86, American coloratura soprano, Parkinson's disease.

Miguel Ferrer, 61, American actor (RoboCop, Mulan, Twin Peaks), throat cancer
Ken Wright, 70, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals).
Bobby Freeman, 76, American singer and songwriter ("Do You Want to Dance"), heart attack.
Mary Tyler Moore, 80, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People), 7-time Emmy winner, cardiopulmonary arrest. 

Mike Connors, 91, American actor (Mannix, The Ten Commandments, Tightrope!), leukemia.
Hal Geer, 100, American producer and filmmaker (Looney Tunes).

Barbara Hale, 94, American actress (Perry Mason, Airport), complications from COPD
Stan Boreson, 91, American comedian and television host
Bob Bowman, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).

FEBRUARY 

Mark Brownson, 41, American baseball player (Colorado Rockies.
John Hilton, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions), fall.
Tim Piazza, 19, American student, injuries sustained in a hazing.
Sonny Geraci, 70, American singer (The Outsiders, Climax).

Alan Simpson, 87, British comedy scriptwriter (Hancock's Half Hour, Comedy Playhouse, Steptoe and Son), lung disease.
Packy, 54, American-born Asian elephant, euthanized. States. He was famous for having been the first elephant born in the Western Hemisphere in 44 years. At the time of his death, he was the oldest male Asian elephant in North America.
Mike Ilitch, 87, American businessman (Little Caesars, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers).
Al Jarreau, 76, American jazz and R&B singer ("Moonlighting", "Since I Fell for You", "We Are the World"), seven-time Grammy winner, respiratory failure.
Duke Washington, 83, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), pneumonia.
George Steele, 79, American professional wrestler (WWF) and actor (Ed Wood), renal failure.

Warren Frost, 91, American actor (Twin Peaks, Matlock, Seinfeld). In the Seinfeld TV series he played Henry Ross, father of Susan Ross, George Costanza's fiancée.

Robert H. Michel, 93, American politician, U.S Representative from Illinois's 18th district (1957–1995), pneumonia.

Harry William MacPherson) was a right-handed pitcher who appeared in one game for the Boston Braves in 1944. At the age of 18, he was the eighth-youngest player to appear in a National League game that season. He was born in North Andover, Massachusetts.
MacPherson is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during World War II. On August 14, 1944 he came in to pitch the bottom of the eighth inning of a road game that the Braves lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-0. Facing four batters, he allowed one walk and no runs in his one inning of work. His lifetime ERA stands at 0.00.

Bill Paxton, 61, American actor (Apollo 13, Titanic, Big Love), stroke as a complication from heart surgery.

Ned Garver, 91, American baseball pitcher (St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics). In 1951, Garver had a memorable season pitching for the St. Louis Browns. He compiled a 20-12 record which was noteworthy considering the Browns lost 102 games that year. Garver also posted a 3.73 ERA that season. Out of the Browns' 52 total wins, Garver accounted for nearly 40 percent of them. Garver also led the American League in complete games with 24 and, when he pitched, he often batted sixth in the order rather than the customary ninth, compiling a .305 batting average with one home run.
Joseph Wapner, 97, American judge (Los Angeles County Superior Court) and television personality (The People's Court, Judge Wapner's Animal Court), respiratory failure.
John Harlan, 91, American radio and television personality (Password, Name That Tune).

Marian Javits, 92, American arts patron. Wife of Senator Jacob Javitts.
Joseph A. Panuska, 89, American educator, President of the University of Scranton (1982–1998).
Ric Marlow, 91, American songwriter ("A Taste of Honey") and actor (Bonanza, Magnum, P.I., Hawaii Five-O.

MARCH 

Jerry Baker was an American author, entrepreneur, public speaker, and product spokesperson who wrote numerous books on gardening, home hints, and health topics. He was best known as America’s Master Gardener, and for creating his world-famous DIY tonics using common household products like beer, baby shampoo, castor oil, and mouthwash.
Jim Fuller, 69, American guitarist (The Surfaris).
Tommy Page, 46, American singer-songwriter ("I'll Be Your Everything") and music industry executive (Reprise Records, Billboard), suicide.
Joe Rogers, 97, American businessman, co-founder of Waffle House.
Valerie Carter, 64,  was an American singer-songwriter. Carter was perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded and performed with a number of artists including Linda Ronstadt, Don Henley, Christopher Cross, Little Feat, Jackson Browne, The Outlaws and, most notably, James Taylor.

Thomas Earl Starzl was an American physician, researcher, and expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as the 'father of modern transplantation.
Ritchie Adams, 78, American songwriter ("Tossin' and Turnin'", "The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)", "After the Lovin'") and singer.
Robert Osborne, 84, American film historian and television host (Turner Classic Movies).
Bill Hands, 76, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).

John Surtees, 83, British motorcycle racer, world champion (1956, 1958, 1959, 1960) and Formula One driver, world champion (1964), respiratory failure.
Robert James Waller, 77, American writer (The Bridges of Madison County),
Chuck Berry, 90, American Hall of Fame guitarist, singer and songwriter ("Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven"), heart attack.

Jimmy Breslin, 88, American journalist and author (New York Daily News, Newsday), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (1986), complications from pneumonia.

David Rockefeller, 101, American banker (Chase Manhattan), globalist (Trilateral Commission) and philanthropist (Rockefeller Brothers Fund), heart failure.
Chuck Barris, 87, American television producer, game show creator, host (The Gong Show, The Dating Game), and songwriter ("Palisades Park").


Jerry Krause, 77, American basketball executive (Chicago Bulls).

Dallas Green, 82, American baseball player, manager (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets) and executive (Chicago Cubs), kidney failure and pneumonia.
Clay Matthews Sr., 88, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).[
Mark Higgins, 53, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
Ralph Archbold, 75, American actor and impersonator (Benjamin Franklin), complications of heart failure
Sheila Bond, 90, American actress (Wish You Were Here, The Marrying Kind, Damn Yankees), Tony winner
John Edward Faszholz, nicknamed Preacher, was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in its 1953 season. He went to spring training with the Cardinals in 1953 and 1955, and pitched a total of 11⅔ innings at the National League level.
Dave Steele, 42, American racing driver (IndyCar, NASCAR, ARCA), USAC Silver Crown Champion (2004, 2005), race collision.
Rosie Hamlin, 71, American singer (Rosie and the Originals).

Roger Wilkins, 85, American civil rights activist and journalist (The Crisis), Assistant Attorney General (1966–1969), complications from dementia.

Rubén Amaro Sr., 81, Mexican baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees) and coach, World Series champion (1980).

APRIL 

Roy Sievers, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox. He won the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year and TSN Rookie of the Year awards in 1949, batting .306 with 16 home runs and 75 RBI. He struggled to .238 in 1950, and for the next three years he suffered shoulder and arm injuries that limited his playing time to 134 games. He was traded to the Washington Senators for Gil Coan before the 1954 season.

In Washington, Sievers collected 95 or more RBI and played at least 144 games during five consecutive years (1954–58) and made the AL All-Star team three times (1956–57, 1959). His most productive season came in 1957, when he led the league in home runs (42), RBI (114), extra base hits (70) and total bases (331), batting .301. He finished third in the MVP ballot with four first-place votes and 205 points –Mickey Mantle got six and 233, Ted Williams five and 209. 

On April 4, 1960, Sievers went to the Chicago White Sox in the same trade that sent Earl Battey and Don Mincher to Washington. In his first year with the Sox, he hit .295 with 28 home runs and 93 RBI, and had almost an identical season in 1961, hitting .295 with 27 home runs and 92 RBI, making his fourth All-Star appearance. 

From 1962 to 1964, Sievers remained productive with the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League. In the 1964 midseason, his contract was sold to the AL expansion Senators, playing his final game on May 9, 1965. 

Bob Cerv, 91, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics).
Don Rickles, 90, American comedian and actor (Toy Story, Casino, Kelly’s Heroes.
Dan Rooney, 84, American football executive and diplomat, Chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers (since 2003), Ambassador to Ireland (2009–2012), member of the Hall of Fame (2000).
Sylvia Moy, 78, American songwriter ("Uptight (Everything's Alright)", "I Was Made to Love Her", "My Cherie Amour") and record producer.

Clifton James, 96, American actor (Live and Let Die, Cool Hand Luke, Eight Men Out), complications from diabetes
Aaron Hernandez, 27, American football player (New England Patriots) and convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
Eddie Macon, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears, Oakland Raiders).
Cuba Gooding Sr., 72, American soul singer (The Main Ingredient).

Erin Moran, 56, American actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, Galaxy of Terror), tonsil cancer.
Kathleen Crowley, 87, American actress (Robert Montgomery Presents, Maverick, Downhill Racer). 

Kate O'Beirne, 67, American political columnist, editor (National Review), and commentator (Capital Gang), lung cancer.

Lorna Gray, 99, American actress (O, My Darling Clementine, Captain America, Oh! Susanna). As a Columbia contract player she appeared in the studio's shorts and serials, including Flying G-Men (starring Robert Paige), Pest from the West (starring Buster Keaton), and You Nazty Spy! (starring The Three Stooges).

Billy Scott,  San Bernardino, California was a former American race car driver. Scott competed in a number of disciplines, including open wheel car, stock car, and drag racing. In 1974-1976, he competed in four races in the USAC Championship Car series, including the 1976 Indianapolis 500 where he finished 23rd in a car owned by Warner W. Hodgdon and named the Spirit of Public Enterprise.

Luis Olmo was a major league baseball outfielder and right-handed batter. Olmo played in the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers (1943–45, 1949) and Boston Braves (1950–51). He was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. He began his professional career in 1938 with the Criollos de Caguas of the Puerto Rican Winter League. In 1939, Olmo signed with the Richmond Colts of the Piedmont League and was assigned to the Tarboro Goobers and later the Wilson Tobs of the Coastal Plain League. The Dodgers acquired Olmo from Richmond in 1942 and assigned him to the Montreal Royals after spring training.
David Mathieson Walker (Capt., USN, Ret.), veteran of four space shuttle missions including flights that rescued and deployed satellites, died April 23 following a sudden and brief illness. He was 56 years old.
Walker was selected by NASA in January 1978 and became an astronaut in August 1979. During his four missions he logged more than 700 hours in space.

MAY

Bruce Hampton, 70, American musician (Hampton Grease Band, Aquarium Rescue Unit) and actor (Sling Blade).

Sam Mele, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators) and manager (Minnesota Twins), natural causes.

T. Gary Rogers, 74, American entrepreneur (Dreyer's). Rogers purchased Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream with his business partner, Rick Cronk, in 1977. He was the CEO and he and Cronk were managers and principal shareholders of Dreyer's for almost 30 years, until the company was acquired by Nestlé in 2006.
Stanley Weston, 84, American licensing agent and inventor of the action figure, creator of G.I. Joe and ThunderCats, complications from surgery.
Clarence Williams, 70, American football player -Green Bay Packers.
Michael Parks, 77, American actor (Twin Peaks, From Dusk till Dawn, Kill Bill).
Michael Jackson, 48, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens) and politician, mayor of Tangipahoa, Louisiana (2009–2012), traffic collision.

Sally Jacobsen, 70, American journalist, first female international editor of the Associated Press, cancer
Steve Palermo, 67, American baseball umpire and supervisor, lung cancer.
Roger Ailes, 77, American television executive, Chairman and CEO of Fox News (1996–2016), subdural hematoma.
Chris Cornell, 52, American musician and songwriter (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog), suicide by hanging.
Frankie Paul, 51, Jamaican singer, kidney failure. Born blind, he has been dubbed by some 'The Jamaican Stevie Wonder'.

Steve Waterbury, 65, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
Roger Tassé, 85, Canadian civil servant, architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Dina Merrill, 93, American actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterflied 8, Desk Set), heiress and socialite, dementia.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, 89, Polish-born American diplomat and political scientist, National Security Advisor (1977–1981).

Jim Bunning, 85, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies) and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 4th congressional district (1987–1999) and U.S. Senator (1999–2011), complications from a stroke
Gregg Allman, 69, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("Whipping Post", "Midnight Rider") and musician (The Allman Brothers Band), liver cancer
Frank Deford, 78, American sportswriter (Sports Illustrated), novelist and radio broadcaster (Morning Edition
Ken Ackerman, 95, American radio announcer (KCBS). Alfred Hitchcock, who had a home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, said that he often listened to Ackerman's show late at night, cast Ackerman as the radio announcer in The Birds.

JUNE

Roberto De Vicenzo, 94, Argentine golfer, Open champion.

Herm Starrette, 80, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles). Starrette played his nine-year (1958–66) pitching career in the Baltimore Orioles organization, and spent parts of three seasons (1963–65) at the Major League level. Appearing in 27 MLB games. He would spend the next 28 years as a pitching coach, bullpen coach, minor league instructor, coordinator of instruction, and farm system director with the Braves, Orioles, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox. He was the pitching coach of the 1980 world champion Phillies.

Jimmy Piersall, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians) and broadcaster. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five teams, from 1950 through 1967. Piersall was best known for his well-publicized battle with bipolar disorder that became the subject of a book and a film, Fear Strikes Out. In a reserve role with the second-year team, Piersall played briefly under manager Casey Stengel. In the fifth inning of the June 23 game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Piersall hit the 100th home run of his career, off Phillies pitcher Dallas Green. He ran around the bases in the correct order but facing backwards as he made the circuit.
Anthony Perkins played him in a movie about his struggle with mental illness, "Fear Strikes Out". 
He played for the Scranton Minor League team, The Red Sox and was a journey man player who got into constant fights because of his bi polar disorder. He was also famous for running the bases backwards too toward the end of his career.
One month after reaching that milestone, Piersall was released by the Mets, but he found employment with the Los Angeles Angels on July 28. He would finish his playing career with them, playing nearly four more years before moving into a front office position on May 8, 1967. In a 17-season career, Piersall was a .272 hitter with 104 home runs and 591 RBIs in 1,734 games.

Roger Smith, 84, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Mister Roberts, Auntie Mame), complications from Parkinson's disease. He was the husband of Ann Margaret.  In the mid 60s, he quit acting and managed his wife's career for the remainder of his life. Smith lived with Myasthenia Gravis since being diagnosed in the 60s.

Victor Gold, 88, American journalist and White House press secretary. . He worked as deputy press secretary for Senator Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential election and press secretary for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew from 1970 to 1973. Gold left politics for a time to work as a writer and political commentator, returning in 1979 as a speechwriter to the presidential campaign of George H. W. Bush and was an advisor to Bush's 1988 and 1992 campaigns. Later in life, Gold split with the Republicans over issues including the 2003 invasion of Iraq and formally left the party in 2016.
Adam West, 88, American actor (Batman, Family Guy, Robinson Crusoe on Mars), leukemia.

Jerry Nelson, 73, American astronomer. He was known for his pioneering work designing segmented mirror telescopes, which led to him receiving the 2010 Kavli Prize for Astrophysics
Bill Dana, 92, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (The Bill Dana Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Nude Bomb)In 1961, Dana made the first of eight appearances on The Danny Thomas Show, playing Jimenez as a bumbling but endearing bellhop. The character was so well-received that it was spun off into his own NBC sitcom, The Bill Dana Show (1963–1965). Jiménez was still a bellhop, but now at a posh New York hotel. His snooty, irritable boss was played by Jonathan Harris. The cast also included Don Adams as a hopelessly inept house detective named Byron Glick; when the show was cancelled, Adams quickly used the Glick characterization as the basis for Maxwell Smart, and Get Smart premiered on NBC that fall. Dana wrote the script for possibly the best known episode of the hit situation comedy All in the Family, entitled "Sammy's Visit", which featured Sammy Davis Jr.
Howard Witt, 85, American actor (Death of a Salesman. He had appeared as a guest star in many television series including Kojak, The Bob Newhart Show, Rhoda, The Rockford Files, Eight Is Enough, WKRP in Cincinnati, Alice, Archie Bunker's Place, Hill Street Blues, Taxi, Remington Steele, Murder, She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Knots Landing, The Golden Girls, and Law & Order.
Dave Evans, 66, American bluegrass musician.

Geri Allen, 60, American jazz pianist, composer and educator, cancer. In 2006, Allen was commissioned to compose "For the Healing of the Nations", a Sacred Jazz Suite for Voices, written in tribute to the victims, survivors and their families of the September 11 attacks. The suite was performed by Howard University's Afro-Blue Jazz Choir, under the direction of Connaitre Miller.

Anthony Wayne Young, 51, He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Mets, Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros. He is best known for having lost 27 consecutive games in which he had a decision, setting an MLB record.
Darrall Imhoff, 78, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers, Portland Trail Blazers), Olympic gold medalist (1960), heart.
Mitchell Henry, 24, American football player (Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, Baltimore Ravens), leukemia.

Russ Adams was a tennis photographer. He covered the sport for 50 years and created associated tennis photography rules. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island in July 2007 along with players Pete Sampras, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, and Sven Davidson.
Adams spent the last 50 years of his life visually documenting the history of tennis at over 400 events. He is the face behind the camera and his work has illuminated the greatest moments and stories in the sport.

JULY 

Stevie Ryan, 33, American actress and comedian (Stevie TV), suicide by hanging.
Norman Dorsen, 86, American civil rights activist, president of the American Civil Liberties Union (1977–1991), complications from a stroke.

Spencer Johnson, 78, American author (Who Moved My Cheese?), complications from pancreatic cancer. Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on September 8, 1998, is a motivational business fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two "little people," during their hunt for cheese.

Gene Conley, 86, American baseball (Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies) and basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart failure.
Gertrude Louise Poe (September 21, 1915 – July 13, 2017) was an American journalist, lawyer, real estate agent, insurance agent, and radio broadcaster who served as the editor of Laurel Leader in Laurel, Maryland from 1939 to 1980. She was known as "Maryland's First Lady of Journalism."
Martin Landau, 89, American actor (Ed Wood, Mission: Impossible, Crimes and Misdemeanors), Oscar winner (1995), abdominal hemorrhage.

Babe Parilli, 87, American football player and coach (Boston Patriots, Denver Dynamite, New York Jets), multiple myeloma.
Bob Wolff, 96, American sportscaster (Washington Senators).

Harvey Atkin, 74, Canadian actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), cancer.
John Rheinecker, 38, American baseball player (Texas Rangers), suicide.
Robert Gene "Red" West (March 8, 1936 – July 18, 2017) was an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter.  He was known for being a close confidant and songwriter for rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. Upon his firing, West wrote the controversial Elvis: What Happened?, in which he exposed the singer's dangerous drug dependence in an attempt to save him.
West was probably best known to American film audiences for his role as Red in Road House, alongside Patrick Swayze
John Heard, 71, American actor (Home Alone, Big, Prison Break), cardiac arrest.
Geoff Mack, 94, Australian country singer-songwriter ("I've Been Everywhere").
Clarence Matthews, 111, American supercentenarian, oldest living man in the US. Matthews, of Indian Wells, California became the oldest known man in America following the death of Frank Levingston on 3 May 2016. He died on 22 July 2017 in Indian Wells, California, at the age of 111 years, 82 days. Following his death, Richard Overton became the oldest known man in America.

Jim Vance, 75, American news anchor (WRC-TV), cancer.

Michael Johnson, 72, American singer ("Bluer Than Blue", "Give Me Wings", "The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder"), songwriter and guitarist.

Patti Deutsch, 73, American comedian (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in), game show panelist (Match Game), and voice actress (The Emperor's New Groove), cancer.

June Foray, 99, American voice actress (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Looney Tunes, Cinderella).

Sam Shepard, 73, American playwright (Buried Child) and actor (The Right Stuff, Black Hawk Down), Pulitzer Prize winner (1979), complications from ALS.
Lee May, 74, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles), heart disease.

AUGUST

Goldy McJohn, 72, Canadian keyboardist (Steppenwolf), heart attack.
John Reaves, 67, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles).
Judith Jones, 93, American book editor (Alfred A. Knopf) and publishing proponent (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Mastering the Art of French Cooking).
Ara Parseghian, 94, American football player and coach (University of Notre Dame).
Mark White, 77, American politician, Governor of Texas (1983–1987), Attorney General of Texas (1979–1983), heart attack.
Chantek (December 17, 1977 – August 7, 2017),  born at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, was a male hybrid Sumatran/Bornean orangutan who mastered the use of a number of intellectual skills, including American Sign Language (ASL), taught by American anthropologists Lyn Miles and Ann Southcombe. In Malay and Indonesian, cantik (pronounced chanteek) means "lovely" or "beautiful".
Glen Campbell, 81, American singer ("Rhinestone Cowboy", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix") and actor (True Grit), Grammy winner (1967, 2015), Alzheimer's disease.

Barbara Cook, 89, American singer and actress (The Music Man, Sondheim on Sondheim, Candide), respiratory failure
Jerry Campbell, 73, American football player (Ottawa Rough Riders, Calgary Stampeders).
Danny Walton, 70, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins).

Paul Casanova, 75, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators, Atlanta Braves), cardiorespiratory complications.
Joseph Bologna, 82, American actor (Blame It on Rio, My Favorite Year, The Big Bus), pancreatic cancer.

Jerry Lewis, 91, American comedian (Martin and Lewis), actor (The Nutty Professor) and humanitarian (The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon), cardiomyopathy.

Joe Klein, 75, American baseball executive (Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers), complications from heart surgery.

Cecil Andrus, 85, American politician, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1977–1981), Governor of Idaho (1971–1977, 1987–1995), lung cancer.
Jay Thomas, 69, American actor (Cheers, Murphy Brown, Love & War) and radio talk show host, Emmy winner (1990, 1991), cancer.
Louise Hay, 90, American motivational author (You Can Heal Your Life).

Rollie Massimino, 82, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Villanova Wildcats, UNLV Runnin' Rebels, Cleveland State Vikings), national champion (1985).
Skip Prokop, 73, Canadian drummer (Lighthouse, The Paupers) and disc jockey (CFNY-FM).

Richard Anderson, 91, American actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Forbidden Planet).
Barry Liebmann, 63, American comedy writer (Mad), liver cancer.

SEPTEMBER 

Shelley Berman, 92, American comedian and actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Meet the Fockers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan), Alzheimer's disease.

Bud George, 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975–2013).

Elizabeth Kemp, 65, was an actress starting her career appearing in the television series Love of Life in 1973, after having studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. 

Gastone Moschin, 88, Italian actor (The Godfather Part II, Caliber 9, My Friends), cardiomyopathy. In Godfather II he played the role of Don Fanucci. 

Gene Michael, 79, American baseball player, manager and executive (New York Yankees), World Series winner (1978), heart attack.
Don Williams, 78, American Hall of Fame country music singer ("Tulsa Time", "I Believe in You", "You're My Best Friend") and songwriter, emphysema.
Don Ohlmeyer, 72, American entertainment executive (NBC, NBC Sports, ABC Sports), cancer.

Frank Vincent, 80, American actor (The Sopranos, Goodfellas, Raging Bull), complications during heart surgery.

Harry Dean Stanton  was an American actor, musician, and singer. In a career that spanned more than six decades, Stanton made notable appearances in the films Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Dillinger (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Alien (1979), Escape from New York (1981), Christine (1983), Repo Man (1984), Paris, Texas (1984), Pretty in Pink (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999), The Green Mile (1999), Alpha Dog (2006), Inland Empire (2006), and Lucky (2017), and had smaller roles in many others.

Jake LaMotta, 95, American Hall of Fame boxer and comedian, inspiration for Raging Bull, complications from pneumonia.

Charles Michael "Mickey" Harrington  was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player who played in 1963 with the Philadelphia Phillies. Although Harrington played in only one MLB game, being used as a pinch-runner, his professional career spanned 1957–66 in minor league action. On July 10, 1963, he was called upon to pinch run following Roy Sievers' single, advancing to second base one out later following Don Hoak's single. The inning ended as Clay Dalrymple grounded into a double play
Joseph M. McDade, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district (1963–1999).
Judy Parker Gaudio, (age 79). Gaudio, the writer of Billboard chart-topping songs and Broadway hits, passed away peacefully from respiratory complications on Thursday, her husband Bob Gaudio confirmed. Among her most well-known songs are "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" and "Who Loves You," which were recorded by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.
Judy Parker was introduced to Bob Gaudio, a founding member of The Four Seasons, in 1973 at the Motown Studios in Los Angeles, while Bob was recording a Marvin Gaye/Diana Ross duet. They dated for 8 years and were married on April 5, 1981. In their 45 years together, they co-wrote a number of top 5 songs for Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Some of those were prominently featured in the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning musical, JERSEY BOYS, which became the 12th longest-running musical in Broadway history.

Anne Jeffreys, 94, American actress (General Hospital, Topper, Dick Tracy). I Married an Angel (1942), starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. She was under contract to both RKO and Republic Studios during the 1940s, including several appearances as Tess Trueheart in the Dick Tracy series, and the 1944 Frank Sinatra musical Step Lively. She also appeared in the horror comedy Zombies on Broadway with Wally Brown and Alan Carney in 1945 and starred in Riffraff with Pat O'Brien two years later. Jeffreys also appeared in a number of western films and as bank robber John Dillinger's moll in 1945's Dillinger. After a semi-retirement in the 1960s, she appeared on television, appearing in episodes of such series as Love, American Style (with her husband), L.A. Law and Murder, She Wrote. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in The Delphi Bureau (1972). With long-term husband Robert Sterling, she appeared in the CBS sitcom Topper (1953–1955), in which she was billed in a voiceover as "the ghostess with the mostest".
On December 18, 1957, Jeffreys and her husband played a couple with an unusual courtship arrangement brought about by an attack of the fever in the episode "The Julie Gage Story", broadcast in the first season of NBC's Wagon Train
From 1984-85, she starred in the short-lived Aaron Spelling series Finder of Lost Loves. She also appeared in Baywatch as David Hasselhoff's mother, and also had a recurring role in the night-time soap Falcon Crest as Amanda Croft.
Red Miller, 89, American football coach (Denver Broncos), complications from a stroke.

Benjamin John Whitrow , 80 was an English actor. He was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his role as Mr Bennet in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.

Elizabeth Baur, 69, American actress (Ironside, Lancer, The Boston Strangler.
Monty Hall, 96, Canadian-American game show host (Let's Make a Deal), heart failure.[464]
Frank Hamblen, 70, American basketball coach (Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers), heart attack.
Hugh Marston Hefner was an American businessman, magazine publisher and playboy. He was the founder of Playboy and editor-in-chief of the magazine, which he founded in 1953. He was also the chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, which is the publishing group that operates the magazine.[3] An advocate of sexual liberation and freedom of expression, Hefner was a political activist and philanthropist in several other causes and public issues.

OCTOBER 

Solly Hemus, 94, American baseball player and manager (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).
Tom Petty, 66, American Hall of Fame musician (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys) and voice actor (King of the Hill), heart attack.
Robert Yates, 74, American racing team owner (Yates Racing), NASCAR Winston Cup champion (1999), liver cancer.

John Hernstein, 79, He played Major League Baseball from 1962 to 1966 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Atlanta Braves. Herrnstein spent the full 1964 season with the Phillies. He got off to a quick start, working his way into the starting lineup after an injury to outfielder Tony González. On April 19, 1964, he played his first game as a starter and hit a single and a home run. In his next game, he hit a two-run, game-winning double down the left field line off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher, Roy Face. He followed the next night with two doubles and a triple. By the end of April, he was batting over .400 with an on-base percentage over .500.
Herrnstein also began the 1964 season with a solid defensive showing. He initiated a triple play in May on a ground ball from Jerry Grote. Herrnstein fielded the ball, threw to shortstop Bobby Wine for the first out. Wine threw back to Herrnstein for the second out, and Herrnstein threw to catcher Gus Triandos who tagged Rusty Staub attempting to score from second base.
Herrnstein appeared in 125 games for the 1964 Phillies team, including 61 as the team's starting first baseman and 15 games as a starter in the outfield. He compiled a .234 batting average in 1964 with 12 doubles, four triples, six home runs, and 25 RBIs. His batting average in 21 at-bats as a pinch hitter was .333
Don Lock, 81, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies).

Y. A. Tittle, 90, American football player (Baltimore Colts, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants).

Chuck Weber, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles).
Paul J. Weitz, 85, American astronaut (Skylab 2, STS-6), myelodysplastic syndrome.
Fats Domino, 89, American Hall of Fame pianist and singer-songwriter ("Blueberry Hill", "Ain't That a Shame", "I'm Walkin'").

Jack Bannon, 77, American actor (Lou Grant, Petticoat Junction, Little Big Man.

Robert Guillaume was playing Nathan Detroit in the first all-black version of "Guys and Dolls," for which he earned a Tony nomination in 1977.
While playing in "Guys and Dolls," he was asked to test for the role of an acerbic butler in "Soap," a prime-time TV sitcom that satirized soap operas and then "Benson".
Ross Powell, 49, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates), carbon monoxide poisoning. Two decades after leaving baseball, Powell, 49, who had opened a lawn-care company, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his business's van in Lucas, Texas, a suburb of Dallas–Fort Worth. His 72-year-old father, Lyle, also perished in the October 25, 2017, incident.

NOVEMBER 

James Tayoun, 87, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1970).
Serhiy Serhiyovich Ryzhkov 59, was a Ukrainian constructor and ecologist, professor, Director of Scientific-Research Institute of Ecology and Energy-saving, Head of Ecology Department, Rector Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding.
Richard Martin "Rick" Hader 59, better known as Myron Noodleman, was an American clown who performed at Minor League Baseball games and other public events. Since 2004, he was billed as the fifth "Clown Prince of Baseball", following Arlie Latham, Al Schacht, Jackie Price, and Max Patkin. Rick Hader was the brother of screenwriter Matt Hader and the uncle of Bill Hader, a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan, and a high school math teacher and football coach at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma before he began his career as a clown.
Paddy Russell, 89, British television director (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Omega Factor).
Tokyo Joe, 75, Japanese-Canadian professional wrestler, trainer and booking agent (NJPW, IWE, Stampede Wrestling), colon cancer.
Robert Knight, 72, American R&B singer ("Everlasting Love", "Love on a Mountain Top").

Richard Francis Stelmaszek was an American Major League Baseball catcher, and bullpen coach for the Minnesota Twins.
Stelmaszek spent 32 consecutive seasons (1981–2012) on the Twins' coaching staff and was the longest-tenured coach in Minnesota history. Stelmaszek trails only Nick Altrock, who spent 42 consecutive years (1912–1953)[3] as a coach with the old Washington Senators (the predecessor to the Twins' franchise), and Manny Mota, who worked as a Los Angeles Dodgers coach for 34 straight years (1980–2013), as the longest-tenured coach in continuous service with one franchise in MLB history.

Richard F. Gordon Jr., 88, American astronaut (Gemini 11, Apollo 12). He was one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, as the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 12 mission. He also flew in space in 1966 as the Pilot of the Gemini 11 mission.
Karin Dor (born Kätherose Derr; 79,  was a German actress who became known in the late-1960s as a Bond girl. She starred in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice (1967) and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz (1969).
Roy Halladay, 40, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies), Cy Young Award winner (2003, 2010), plane crash.
Pentti Glan, 71, Finnish-Canadian drummer (Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Mandala), lung cancer.

 John Hillerman, 84, American actor (Magnum, P.I., Chinatown, Blazing Saddles), Emmy winner (1987.)
Liz Smith, 94, American gossip columnist (Newsday, New York Daily News).

Edith Mae Savage-Jennings, 92, was an American civil rights leader from New Jersey. She was known for her association with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
She was notable for being a guest to the White House under every president of the United States from Franklin D. Roosevelt through Barack Obama. 

Anne Eustis Pepper Stewart, 53,  known as Wendy Pepper, was a fashion designer who appeared on the first season of the reality television show Project Runway, which aired on Bravo, from December 2004 through February 2005. She was also a contestant on the second season of Project Runway All Stars. She was eliminated from the Project Runway All Stars competition in the second challenge.
Earle Hyman, 91, American actor (The Cosby Show, ThunderCats, The Lady from Dubuque).
Bobby Doerr, 99, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Boston Red Sox).

Ann Wedgeworth, 83, American actress (Three's Company, Evening Shade, Steel Magnolias), Tony winner (1978).
Nancy Zieman, 64, American writer and television host (Sewing with Nancy), cancer.

Janet Paula Lupo was an American model and the Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 1975.

Jim Rivera, 96, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics). In 1953, he led the American League in triples (16) and in 1955 in stolen bases with 25. He was a sparkplug for the 1950s Go-Go White Sox team which eventually won the American League pennant in 1959.

David Cassidy, 67, American pop singer ("Cherish", "How Can I Be Sure") and actor (The Partridge Family), liver failure.

Wayne Cochran, 78, American soul singer and songwriter ("Last Kiss").
Bobby Baker, 89, American political adviser to Lyndon Johnson.
Helen Borgers, 60, American jazz radio disc jockey, complications following surgery
Terry Glenn, 43, American football player (New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys), traffic collision.

Della Reese, 86, American actress (Touched by an Angel, Chico and the Man) and singer ("Don't You Know?").
Warren "Pete" Moore, 78, American Hall of Fame singer (The Miracles), songwriter ("The Tracks of My Tears", "Ain't That Peculiar", "Love Machine"), record producer, and arranger.
Mel Tillis, 85, American Hall of Fame country music singer-songwriter ("I Ain't Never", "Coca-Cola Cowboy") and actor (The Cannonball Run), respiratory failure due to diverticulitis.
Bill Roberson, 59, American actor (Forrest Gump, Patch Adams, The Patriot.
Jim Nabors, 87, American actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Andy Griffith Show, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, but he moved to southern California because of his asthma. He was discovered by Andy Griffith while working at a Santa Monica nightclub, and he later joined The Andy Griffith Show as Gomer Pyle. The character proved popular, and Nabors was given his own spin-off show Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C..
Nabors was known for his portrayal of Gomer Pyle, although he became a popular guest on variety shows which showcased his rich baritone voice in the 1960s and 1970s, including two specials of his own in 1969 and 1974. He subsequently recorded numerous albums and singles, most of them containing romantic ballads.
Nabors was also known for singing "Back Home Again in Indiana" prior to the start of the Indianapolis 500, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend. He sang the unofficial Indiana anthem almost every year from 1972 until his final time performing the song in 2014, except for occasional absences due to illness or scheduling conflicts.
He hosted a variety show, The Jim Nabors Hour (1969–1971), which featured his Gomer Pyle co-stars Ronnie Schell and Frank Sutton. Despite a poor critical reception, the show was popular[25][26] and earned an Emmy nomination. After the cancellation of The Jim Nabors Hour, Nabors eIn 1986, Nabors returned to television, reprising his role as Gomer Pyle in the television movie Return to Mayberry, in which the cast of The Andy Griffith Show reunited.
Nabors began vacationing in Hawaii in the 1960s, and in 1976, moved from Bel Air, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. For 25 years, he owned a macadamia plantation on Maui before selling it to the National Tropical Botanical Garden, a conservationist organization, though he still retained farming rights to the land and owned a second home on the property.
Nabors married his partner of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, at Seattle, Washington's Fairmont Olympic Hotel on January 15, 2013, a month after same-sex marriage became legal in Washington.

Rance Howard, 89, American actor (Apollo 13, Ed Wood, Frost/Nixon), heart failure.
C. “POS, Loser, Lunatic, Murderer” Manson. Dead. Finally.

DECEMBER

Bob Givens, 99, American animator (Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Garfield and Friends).

Frank Lary, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, New York Mets), pneumonia.
Bruce Gray, 81, Puerto Rican-born Canadian actor (Traders, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Crimson Peak), brain cancer.
Ken Bracey, 80, American baseball player, manager and scout.[
Pete Brown, 74, American football executive, co-founder of Cincinnati Bengals.
Manny Jiménez, 79, Dominican baseball player (Kansas City Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs).
Ed Lee, 65, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco (since 2011), heart attack.
Simeon Booker, 99, American journalist (The Washington Post, Jet, Ebony), complications from pneumonia.
Macon Brock, 75, American retail executive (Dollar Tree) and philanthropist, complications from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.[84]
Bruce Brown, 80, American documentarian (The Endless Summer).[
Tubby Raymond, 91, American football coach (Delaware Blue Hens), national champion (1979).

Johnny Hallyday, 74, French rock singer ("Requiem pour un fou", "Marie", "Tous ensemble") and actor, lung cancer.

Tracy Stallard, 80, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals).
Ron Meyer, 76, American football coach (New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts), aortic aneurysm.

John B. Anderson, 95, American lawyer (Anderson v. Celebrezze) and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois's 16th district (1961–1981). Anderson also ran for President as a Third Party candidate in 1980.
Hal Bedsole, 76, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).[
Pam the Funkstress, American hip hop DJ (The Coup, Prince), complications following organ transplant surgery.
Dick Enberg, 82, American sportscaster (NFL on NBC, Major League Baseball on NBC, San Diego Padres).
Combat Jack, 48, American music journalist (The Source, Complex), historian and podcaster, colon cancer.
Bernard Francis Law, 86, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Boston (1984–2002).
Clifford Irving, 87, American author and convicted fraud, subject of The Hoax, pancreatic cancer.
Pervis Atkins, 82, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders).
Jordan Feldstein, 40, American music manager (Maroon 5), heart attack.

Bruce McCandless II Capt, USN, Ret.), was an American naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
The flight deployed two communications satellites, and flight-tested rendezvous sensors and computer programs for the first time.
This mission marked the first checkout of the MMU and Manipulator Foot Restraint (MFR). McCandless made the first untethered free flight on each of the two MMUs carried on board, thereby becoming the first person to make an untethered spacewalk. He described the experience,
I was grossly over-trained. I was just anxious to get out there and fly. I felt very comfortable ... It got so cold my teeth were chattering and I was shivering, but that was a very minor thing. ... I’d been told of the quiet vacuum you experience in space, but with three radio links saying, ‘How’s your oxygen holding out?’, ‘Stay away from the engines!’ and ‘When’s my turn?’, it wasn’t that peaceful ... It was a wonderful feeling, a mix of personal elation and professional pride: it had taken many years to get to that point.
Actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film, "The Sound of Music," has died. She was 68. Her son, actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that his mother died late Sunday in Frankford, Ontario. She recently had been diagnosed with brain cancer.
Heather North, an actress best known for voicing Daphne Blake on the "Scooby-Doo" cartoon series, has died in California. She was 71.
Dick Orkin, 84, American voice actor and radio personality (Chickenman), stroke.. Chickenman was an American radio series created by Dick Orkin that spoofs comic book heroes, inspired by the mid-60s Batman TV series. The series was created in 1966 on Chicago radio station WCFL, and was then syndicated widely, notably on Armed Forces Radio during the Vietnam War.
In the series, Benton Harbor, a shoe salesman at a large downtown Midland City department store, spends his weekends striking terrific terror into the hearts of criminals everywhere as that fantastic fowl, Chickenman. Or, at least, that's what he tells everyone. In reality, he mostly hangs around the Police Commissioner's office and irritates the Commissioner's secretary, Miss Helfinger.
Each episode begins with an overly-dramatic theme, a four-note trumpet sound echoed with Benton Harbor's "Buck-buck-buck-buuuuuck" chicken call, which is followed by a rousing cry of "Chicken-mannnn!" and voices shouting, "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!" This tagline became a memorable catchphrase, especially because it's repeated again at the end of each episode, two and a half minutes later.
Midway through the series, in 1973, Orkin added special weekend episodes called Chickenman vs. the Earth Polluters. In 1976, a special LP was created by Orkin and Bert Berdis: Chickenman Returns, and an updated radio show in 1977, Chickenman Returns for the Last Time Again.
Lou Adler, 88, American radio journalist (WCBS), Alzheimer's disease

Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville and worked for nearly a century in theater, radio, TV and movies, died Thursday. She was 94.

Christine Keeler, a London showgirl whose simultaneous relationships with British war secretary John Profumo and a Soviet military attache produced the country’s most notorious political scandal of the 1960s, died at a hospital in Farnborough, England. She was 75.
Alvin David Luplow, Jr. was a former professional baseball player who played outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1961 to 1967 for the Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, and Pittsburgh Pirates. His name is pronounced "loop-low". Usually serving in a reserve role, Luplow was the regular right fielder for the 1964 Indians and the 1966 Mets. He is, however, remembered for making one of the most spectacular catches in the history of Fenway Park on June 27, 1963, off the bat of Red Sox hitter Dick Williams. With the tying runs on base, in the eighth inning, Luplow raced back to the right field bullpen wall, leapt, and made a backhanded catch as he flew over the fence and head-first into the bullpen.
Sue Grafton, 77, American author ("B" Is for Burglar, Keziah Dane, The Lolly-Madonna War), cancer.