The LuLac Edition #4, 874, December 27th, 2022

 

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JANUARY

David Cunliffe, 86, British television director and producer (The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank.

Dan Reeves, 77, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and coach (Denver Broncos, Atlanta Falcons), Super Bowl champion (1972), complications from dementia.

Ralph Staub, 93, American football coach (Cincinnati Bearcats, Ohio State Buckeyes, Houston Oilers).

Larry Biittner, 75, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Washington Senators/Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos), cancer.[

Odell Barry, 80, American football player (Denver Broncos) and politician, mayor of Northglenn, Colorado (1980–1982), heart disease.

Jud Logan, 62, American four-time Olympic hammer thrower, complications from COVID-19.

Jay Wolpert, 79, American television producer (The Price Is Right) and screenwriter (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Count of Monte Cristo), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Jim Corsi, 60, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros), cancer.

Ralph Neely, 78, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), Super Bowl champion (1972, 1978)

Peter Bogdanovich, 82, American film director (The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Paper Moon), actor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.

Ray Boyle, 98, American actor (Zombies of the Stratosphere, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) and production designer (A Boy and His Dog).

R. Dean Taylor, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Indiana Wants Me", "There's a Ghost in My House") and producer ("Love Child").

Eddie Basinski, 99, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Portland Beavers).

Marilyn Bergman, 93, American Hall of Fame songwriter ("The Way We Were", "The Windmills of Your Mind", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"), Oscar winner (1969, 1974, 1984), respiratory failure.

Dwayne Hickman, 87, American actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Bob Cummings Show, Cat Ballou), complications from Parkinson's disease.

Bob Saget, 65, American comedian, television presenter (America's Funniest Home Videos) and actor (Full House, How I Met Your Mother), blunt head trauma.

James Mtume, 76, American musician (Mtume) and songwriter ("Juicy Fruit", "The Closer I Get to You").

Jim Drake, 77, American film and television director (Night Court, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol).

Don Maynard, 86, American Hall of Fame football player (New York Titans / Jets, New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals), Super Bowl champion (1969).

Meat Loaf, 74, American singer ("Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "I'd Do Anything for Love") and actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), complications from COVID-19.

Donald May, 92, American actor (Colt .45, The Edge of Night, Texas), laryngeal cancer. May was featured in several soap operas, including his role from 1967 to 1977 of crime busting lawyer, Adam Drake in The Edge of Night. In 1959–1960, May temporarily replaced Wayde Preston as the lead in four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Colt .45. May portrayed "Sam Colt, Jr.," cousin to Preston's character, Christopher Colt.

He subsequently appeared in several other ABC/WB series, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne (as a young man plotting revenge in the episode "The Long Rope"), 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Surfside 6,[citation needed] and The Roaring 20s, in which he was cast from 1960 to 1962 in forty-two episodes in the recurring role of fictitious newspaper reporter Pat Garrison.[5] One of his principal co-stars on The Roaring 20s was Dorothy Provine.

In 1962, May made a television pilot in which he played a physician, Paul Larson, in the episode "County General" that was screened as an episode of ABC's drama series, Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Maxwell. That same year, he was cast as Major Thompson in "Any Second Now" of the ABC war drama, Combat!. In 1964, he portrayed Thatcher in the three-part episode, "The Tenderfoot" of NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. He was cast in 1964 in two other films, as Captain Anderson in A Tiger Walks, and as Secret Service agent John O'Connor in Kisses for My President, with Polly Bergen as the first woman President of the United States, with Fred MacMurray as "First Husband." Two years later, May was cast as Edward White, Jr., with, again, Fred MacMurray in the lead, in the film about the Boy Scouts of America, Follow Me, Boys!. In 1965 May made another unsuccessful TV pilot Dream Wife as the husband of psychic Shirley Jones.

FEBRUARY

Jim Angle, was an American journalist and television reporter for Fox News and ABC News. He was part of Fox News' inaugural reporting lineup when the channel was established in 1996.

Jeremy Giambi, 47, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies), suicide by gunshot.

Vasiliy Bebko, 89, Ukrainian-born Russian diplomat.

Bob Beckel, 73, American political commentator (The Five, USA Today), campaign manager, and civil servant.

Abderrahim Berrada, 83–84, Moroccan lawyer and human rights activist.

Julio Cruz, 67, American baseball player (Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox).

Sally Kellerman, 84, American actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School, Brewster McCloud), heart failure.

Tova Borgnine, 80, Norwegian-born American cosmetics executive.

 

MARCH 

Conrad Janis, 94, American musician and actor (Mork & Mindy, Margie, That Hagen Girl), organ failure.

Warner Mack, 86, American country singer-songwriter ("Is It Wrong (For Loving You)", "The Bridge Washed Out").

 

Johnny Brown, 84, American actor (Good Times, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show) and singer

Kenneth Duberstein, 77, American lobbyist, White House chief of staff (1988–1989).

Alan Ladd Jr., 84, American film producer (Braveheart, Gone Baby Gone) and studio executive (20th Century Fox), Oscar winner (1996), kidney failure.

Tim Considine, 81, American actor (My Three Sons, The Mickey Mouse Club, Patton).

Walter Mears, 87, American journalist (Associated Press), Pulitzer Prize winner (1977), cancer.

Terry Cooney, 88, American baseball umpire (MLB).

Mitchell Ryan, 88, American actor (Dark Shadows, Dharma & Greg, Lethal Weapon), heart failure.

Grandpa Elliott, 77, American musician, complications from skin infection.

Yuriko Kikuchi 102, was known to audiences by her stage name Yuriko, was an American dancer and choreographer who was best known for her work with the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Timmy Thomas, 77, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Why Can't We Live Together") and musician.

Scott Hall, 63, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWF, WCW, TNA), complications from hip surgery. His stage name was Razor Ramon.

Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, Irish war photojournalist (Fox News), incoming fire during the battle of Kyiv.

Ralph Terry, 86, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, New York Mets). World Series champion (1961, 1962).

Pete Ward, 84, Canadian-born American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles).

Bobby Weinstein, 82, American songwriter ("Goin' Out of My Head", "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", "I'm on the Outside (Looking In)".

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Albright was the first woman to hold that post . 

 

APRIL

C. W. McCall, 93, American country singer ("Convoy", "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck", "Roses for Mama") and politician, mayor of Ouray, Colorado (1986–1992), lung cancer.

Estelle Harris, 93, American actress (Seinfeld, Toy Story, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody).

Tommy Davis, 83, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics) and coach, World Series champion (1963). In the 1963 World Series, the Dodgers swept the New York Yankees; batting cleanup, Davis hit .400 in the Series, tripling twice in Game 2 and driving in the only run of the 1–0 Game 3 victory, his first-inning single off Jim Bouton driving in Jim Gilliam. To date, Davis' back-to-back batting titles are the only two in the Dodgers' Los Angeles history. Only two right-handed hitters have won multiple National League batting titles since: Bill Madlock with four, and Roberto Clemente with four. Davis won the batting titles while playing his home games at Dodger Stadium—one of Major League Baseball's less hitter-friendly parks.

Gene Shue, 90, American basketball player (Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks) and coach (Baltimore/Washington Bullets), melanoma.

Bob Babich, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers).

Eric Boehlert, 57, American media critic and writer (Salon, Rolling Stone, Billboard), hit by train.

Kathy Lamkin, 74, American actress (No Country for Old Men, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Astronaut Farmer).

Joe Messina, 93, American Hall of Fame guitarist (The Funk Brothers).

John Cumberland, 74, American baseball player (New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).

John Ellis, 73, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers), cancer.

Lee Rose, 85, American basketball coach (Charlotte 49ers, Purdue Boilermakers, South Florida Bulls) and athletic administrator.

Bobby Rydell, 79, American singer ("Wild One", "Wildwood Days") and actor (Bye Bye Birdie), pneumonia.

Bill Sadler, 90, Canadian racecar and aircraft designer.

Rae Allen, 95, American actress (And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, A League of Their Own, The Sopranos), Tony winner (1971).

Mary Green, 78, British Olympic sprinter (1968).

Rayfield Wright, 76, American Hall of Fame football player (Dallas Cowboys), Super Bowl champion (VI, XII).

Carl Boles, 87, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).

Mimi Reinhardt, 107, Austrian secretary who worked for Oskar Schindler and typed his list of Jewish workers to recruit for his factory.

Dwayne Haskins, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins/Football Team, Pittsburgh Steelers), traffic collision.

Jack Higgins, 92, British author (The Eagle Has Landed, Thunder Point, Angel of Death).

Jeremy Young, 86–87, British actor (Doctor Who, Coronation Street, Crooks and Coronets).

Gary Brown, 52, American football player (Houston Oilers, New York Giants, San Diego Chargers) and coach, cancer.

Joe Horlen, 84, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics), World Series champion (1972)

Chic Henry, 75, Australian car show organizer (Summernats), cancer.

Ed Jasper, 49, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders).

Mike Bossy, 65, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (New York Islanders), four-time Stanley Cup champion, lung cancer.[330]

Bob Harrison, 80, American football player (Kent State) and coach (Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers)

Art Rupe, 104, American Hall of Fame music executive and record producer (Specialty Records).

Liz Sheridan, 93, American actress (Seinfeld, ALF, Play the Game).

Peter Swales, 73, Welsh historian of psychoanalysis.

Jim Hartz, 82, American journalist and television presenter (Today), COPD.

 

James Olson, 91, American actor (The Andromeda Strain, Commando, Rachel, Rachel).

Gilles Remiche, 43, Belgian film director and actor (The Benefit of the Doubt, Working Girls, Madly in Life), cancer.[

Barbara Hall, 99, British crossword compiler and advice columnist.

Sid Mark, 88, American radio presenter. ark was best known for hosting a weekly syndicated radio program featuring the music of singer Frank Sinatra, including commentary, interviews, trivia facts and other information to add color and context.

Freeman Williams, 65, American basketball player (San Diego Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Utah Jazz).

Guitar Shorty, 87, American blues guitarist.

Read Morgan, 91, American actor (The Deputy, Gunsmoke, Back to the Future).

Robert Morse, 90, American actor (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,  Mad Men), Tony winner (1962, 1990), heart failure.

Ralph DeLoach, 65, American football player (New York Jets).

John DiStaso, 68, American journalist (New Hampshire Union Leader, WMUR-TV).

Daryle Lamonica, 80, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Southern California Sun).

Ted Prappas, 66, American racing driver (CART), colon cancer.

Clayton Weishuhn, 62, American football player (New England Patriots, Green Bay Packers), traffic collision.

Justin Green, 76, American cartoonist (Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary).

Orrin Hatch, 88, American politician, senator (1977–2019) and president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate (2015–2019), complications from a stroke.

Johnnie Jones, 102, American soldier, civil rights lawyer and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1972–1976).

Richie Moran, 85, American Hall of Fame lacrosse player and coach (Cornell Big Red).

David Birney, 83, American actor (St. Elsewhere, Bridget Loves Bernie, Oh, God! Book II) and stage director, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Bob Elkins, 89, American actor (Coal Miner's Daughter, The Dream Catcher).

Jack Morris, 90, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings).

George Yanok, 83, American television writer and producer (Hee Haw, Welcome Back, Kotter, The Stockard Channing Show), Emmy winner (1974, 1976), lung cancer.

Naomi Judd, 76, American Hall of Fame country singer (The Judds) and songwriter ("Change of Heart", "Love Can Build a Bridge"), suicide by gunshot.

 

MAY

Jim Murphy, 74, American author (The Long Road to Gettysburg, Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America, The Call of the Wolves).

Ric Parnell, 70, English drummer (Atomic Rooster, Spinal Tap) and actor (This Is Spinal Tap).

Jerry verDorn, 72, American actor (One Life to Live, Guiding Light), cancer.

Kailia Posey, 16, American beauty pageant and reality show contestant (Toddlers & Tiaras), suicide.

Norman Mineta, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1995), secretary of commerce (2000–2001) and transportation (2001–2006), heart disease.

Jewell, 53, American R&B singer.

Bill Laskey, 79, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Colts, Denver Broncos).

Mike Adamson, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).

Mickey Gilley, 86, American country singer ("Room Full of Roses", "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time", "Stand by Me").

Jack Kehler, 75, American actor (The Big Lebowski, Men in Black II, Fever Pitch), complications from leukemia.

Fred Ward, 79, American actor (Escape from Alcatraz, The Right Stuff, Tremors).

Bob Lanier, 73, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks) and coach (Golden State Warriors).[

Norman Dolph, 83, American songwriter ("Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)") and record producer, cancer.

Randy Weaver, 74, American survivalist (Ruby Ridge).

Gino Cappelletti, 88, American football player (Boston Patriots) and analyst.

Robert McFarlane, 84, American Marine Corps officer and politician, national security advisor (1983–1985), complications from lung disease.

Julie Beckett, 72, American teacher and disability rights activist, heart attack.

Lil Keed, 24, American rapper ("Nameless"), liver and kidney failure.

Rosmarie Trapp, 93, Austrian-born American singer (Trapp Family.

Richard Wald, 92, American television executive (NBC News, ABC News) and journalist (New York Herald Tribune), complications from a stroke.

David West, 57, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets), brain cancer.

Maggie Peterson, 81, American actress (The Andy Griffith Show, The Bill Dana Show) and location manager (Casino).

Marnie Schulenburg, 37, American actress (As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Tainted Dreams), breast cancer.

Jim Kelly, 80, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles).

Don Collins, 69, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians).

Joe Pignatano, 92, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Kansas City Athletics) and coach (New York Mets), World Series champion (1959, 1969), complications from dementia.

Benedicta Ward, 89, British Anglican nun, theologian and historian.

Bob Miller, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets).

Ray Liotta, 67, American actor (Goodfellas, Something Wild, Field of Dreams), Emmy winner (2005).

Bo Hopkins, 84, American actor (The Wild Bunch, American Graffiti, Dynasty), complications from a heart attack.

Paul Vance, 92, American songwriter ("Catch a Falling Star", "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini", "Tracy") and record producer.

Wang Zherong, 86, Chinese tank designer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

 

JUNE

Ken Bode, 83, American journalist (Washington Week).

Trouble, 34, American rapper, shot.

Jim Seals, 79, American musician (Seals and Crofts, The Champs) and songwriter ("Summer Breeze").

Frank Cipriani, 81, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).

Trudy Haynes, 95, American journalist (WXYZ-TV, KYW-TV).

Dave Wickersham, 86, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates).

Mary Mara, 61, American actress (Nash Bridges, ER, A Civil Action), drowned.

Frank Williams, 90, English actor (The Army Game, Dad's Army, You Rang, M'Lord?).

Fred Hyatt, 75, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals, New Orleans Saints, Washington Redskins), complications from heart surgery.

Sonny Barger, 83, American biker, author and actor (Sons of Anarchy), co-founder of the Hells Angels, cancer.

Dmitry Stepushkin, 46, Russian Olympic bobsledder (2002, 2006, 2010).

Indulata Sukla, 78, Indian mathematician.

Technoblade, 23, American YouTuber, sarcoma.

Jean-Guy Gendron, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins), assisted suicide.

 

JULY

Raul Nicolau Gonçalves, 95, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop (1967–1978) and archbishop (1978–2003) of Goa and Daman, patriarch of the East Indies (1978–2003).

Laurent Noël, 102, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Quebec (1963–1975) and bishop of Trois-Rivières (1975–1996).

John Watson, 73, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints).

Spider Webb, 78, American tattoo artist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Susie Steiner, 51, British novelist and journalist (The Guardian), brain cancer.

Hank Goldberg, 82, American sports journalist (WQAM, ESPN), kidney disease.

Ed Bauta, 87, Cuban baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets).

James Caan, 82, American actor (The Godfather, Thief, Misery), heart attack.

Tony Sirico, 79, American actor (The Sopranos, Goodfellas, Wonder Wheel). He was best known for his role as Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri in The Sopranos. He also made numerous appearances in the films of Woody Allen.

Donnie "Beezer" Smith, 97, American child actor (Our Gang).

Larry Storch, 99, American actor (F Troop, Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, The Great Race). was best known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales and his live-action role of the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop which won a nomination for Emmy Award in 1967.

John Richard "Ducky" Schofield  was an American professional baseball infielder who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, and Milwaukee Brewers from 1953 to 1971. He was 87. 

 James Caan  came to prominence playing Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972) – a performance which earned him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised his role in The Godfather Part II (1974). He received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978.

Ivana Trump, 73, Czech-American businesswoman, author, and model, fall.

Dee Hock, 93, American businessman, founder of Visa Inc.

MickBrad White, 63, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings).[367]ey Rooney Jr., 77, American actor (Hot Rods to Hell, Honeysuckle Rose).

Angela Jacobs, 53, American journalist and anchor (WFTV), breast cancer.

Charles Johnson, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots).

Bill Burbach, 74, American baseball player (New York Yankees).

Jim Lynch, 76, American Hall of Fame football player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Kansas City Chiefs), Super Bowl champion (IV).

Dwight Smith, 58, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves), World Series champion (1995), heart and lung failure.

Paul Sorvino, 83, American actor (Goodfellas, The Rocketeer, Law & Order).

Tony Dow, 77, American actor (Leave It to Beaver, Never Too Young) and television director (Coach), complications from liver cancer.

Bill Russell, 88, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach (Boston Celtics, Seattle SuperSonics, Sacramento Kings), Olympic champion (1956).

AUGUST

 Trevor Baines, 82, British businessman and convicted fraudster. He who claimed to have amassed an estimated fortune of over £130 million, through banking, financial trading, and investment in the Miss World competition.

Jack Deloplaine, 68, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears

Vin Scully, 94, American Hall of Fame sportscaster (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers).

Sam Gooden, 87, American Hall of Fame soul singer (The Impressions).

Bert Fields, 93, American lawyer (Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Warren Beatty) and author, complications from COVID-19.

David McCullough, 89, American historian and author (Truman, John Adams), Pulitzer Prize winner (1993, 2002).

Robert Mikhail Moskal, 84, American Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, bishop of Saint Josaphat in Parma (1984–2009).

Lamont Dozier, 81, American Hall of Fame songwriter ("You Can't Hurry Love", "Reach Out I'll Be There"), record producer (Holland–Dozier–Holland) and singer.

Dame Olivia Newton-John, 73, British-Australian singer ("I Honestly Love You", "Physical") and actress (Grease), Grammy winner (1974, 1975, 1982), breast cancer.

Anne Heche, 53, American actress (Donnie Brasco, Psycho, Another World), Emmy winner (1991), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.

Tom Weiskopf, 79, American golfer (PGA Tour), pancreatic cancer.

Helen Grayco, 97, American singer (The Spike Jones Show) and actress (That Certain Age, A Night at the Opera), cancer.

Bill Haller, 87, American baseball umpire (Major League Baseball).

Jerry Allison, 82, American Hall of Fame drummer (The Crickets) and songwriter ("That'll Be the Day", "Peggy Sue").

Len Dawson, 87, American Hall of Fame football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs) and broadcaster (Inside the NFL).

William DeClercq Reynolds, 90  was best known for his role as Special Agent Tom Colby in the 1960s television series The F.B.I. and his film and television roles during the 1950s through the 1970s.

Inez Foxx, 84, American R&B singer ("Mockingbird").

Joe E. Tata, 85, American actor (Beverly Hills, 90210, Unholy Rollers, The Rockford Files), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Ken Frailing , 74, American baseball player, was a leftie for the Cubs and White Sox winning 116 games.

Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, Russian politician, final general secretary of the Communist Party (1985–1991) and president of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), Nobel Prize laureate (1990).

Don Leslie Lind, 90  was an American scientist, naval officer, aviator, and NASA astronaut. He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953. Following his military service obligation, he earned a PhD in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 19Lind was the Payload Commander on his only flight, STS-51-B, launched April 29, 1985. He designed an experiment to capture the Earth's aurora. The payload experiments consisted primarily of microgravity research and atmospheric measurement.64.  

 

SEPTEMBER

 John Gamble, 74, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime, and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her death. Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history.

Bo Harwood, 76, American sound engineer (Felicity, Six Feet Under, Pee-wee's Playhouse) and composer.

Moon Landrieu, 92, American politician, HUD secretary (1979–1981), mayor of New Orleans (1970–1978), and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1960–1966).

Mark Littell, 69, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals), complications from heart surgery.

Dale McRaven, 83, American television writer and producer (Perfect Strangers, Mork & Mindy, The Partridge Family), complications from lung cancer.

Guy Morriss, 71, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots) and coach (Kentucky), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Herman, 90, American Orthodox prelate, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (2002–2008).

Anne Garrels, 71, American journalist (NPR, ABC News, NBC News), lung cancer.

Marsha Hunt, 104, American actress (Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust, The Human Comedy).

Bernard Shaw, 82, American journalist (CNN), pneumonia. Shaw began his broadcasting career as an anchor and reporter for WNUS in Chicago in 1964. He then worked as a reporter for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in Chicago, moving later to Washington as the White House correspondent. He worked as a correspondent in the Washington Bureau of CBS News from 1971 to 1977. In 1977, he moved to ABC News as a Latin American correspondent and bureau chief before becoming the Capitol Hill Senior Correspondent.

Shaw left ABC in 1980 to move to CNN as co-anchor of its PrimeNews broadcast, anchoring from Washington, D.C.[4] Shaw's coverage of the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan (with Shaw joined by former CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr, one of the first on-air personalities hired by the fledgling cable channel) is credited as helping to establish CNN as a credible and reliable broadcast news source at an early point in the network's history. As the leading anchor of Cable News Network, Bernard Shaw covered a variety of events that shaped the political and societal reality of the 20th century. The student revolt in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the California earthquake of 1994, Princess Diana’s death in 1997, and the 2000 presidential race of the United States, were some of the news that he reported.

Theodore Henry Schreiber  was an American professional baseball player. He played part of one season (1963) in Major League Baseball — largely as a third baseman — with the New York Mets, batting .160 with no extra base hits in 50 at-bats, with two runs batted in. He was 84.

Bryan Clark, 93, American actor (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, St. Elsewhere, Murphy Brown).

Jack Ging, 90, American actor (The A-Team, The Eleventh Hour, High Plains Drifter).

Shelby Jordan, 70, American football player (New England Patriots, Los Angeles Raiders).

Mark Miller, 97, American actor (Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Guestward, Ho!, Savannah Smiles).

Ramsey Lewis, 87, American jazz pianist ("The 'In' Crowd"), composer and radio personality (WNUA), Grammy winner (1966, 1967, 1974).

 

 James B. Russell 76 was an American journalist, producer, and executive who created national programs for all three public radio networks: National Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media, as well as for PBS. Russell worked for more than thirty years in commercial radio, print, public radio, and television. Programs he helped create include Marketplace,Weekend America, and public TV's Newton's Apple, NightTimes, Electronicle and America After Vietnam. He also helped develop NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered,  and PRI's The World.

Ken Starr, 76, American lawyer (Whitewater controversy), judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1983–1989) and solicitor general (1989–1993), complications from surgery.

John Stearns, 71, American baseball player and coach (New York Mets), cancer.

John, 87, Canadian Orthodox prelate, metropolitan primate of the UOCC (2005–2010).

Maury Wills, 89, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates) and manager (Seattle Mariners), World Series champion (1959, 1963, 1965).

Kitten Natividad, 74, Mexican-American actress (Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Night Patrol, Takin' It All Off) and exotic dancer.

James Florio, 85, American politician, governor of New Jersey (1990–1994) and member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1975–1990).

Coolio, 59, American rapper ("Gangsta's Paradise", "Fantastic Voyage", "C U When U Get There") and actor, Grammy winner (1996), cardiac arrest.

Bill Plante, 84, American journalist (CBS News). He joined the network in 1964 and was noted for being the network's senior White House correspondent for over three decades.

Max Baer, 74, American jurist, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (since 2021).

Marv Staehle, 80, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos, Atlanta Braves).

Roger Welsch, 85, American television correspondent (CBS News Sunday Morning) and author.

Dan Wieden, 77, American advertising executive, co-founder of Wieden+Kennedy, coined the slogan Just Do It.

 

OCTOBER

Jim Sweeney, 60, American football player (New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks) and coach.

Tyrone Davis, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, New York Jets).

Bill Whitaker, 63, American football player (Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Cardinals).

Tommy Boggs, 66, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers) and coach Concordia University Texas, cancer.

Sara Lee, 30, American professional wrestler (WWE) and television personality (WWE Tough Enough).

Harry Lehman, 87, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1971–1980).

Lenny Lipton, 82, American poet and lyricist ("Puff, the Magic Dragon"), brain cancer.

Ivy Jo Hunter, 82, American songwriter ("Behind a Painted Smile", "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever", "Dancing in the Street").[

Judy Tenuta, 72, American comedian, actress (The Weird Al Show, Going Down in LA-LA Land, There's No Such Thing as Vampires), and musician, ovarian cancer.

Ann Flood, 89, American actress (The Edge of Night, From These Roots, Mystic Pizza).

Art Laboe, 97, American disc jockey (KXLA, KPOP), founder of Original Sound Records, pneumonia.

Eileen Ryan (née Annucci) was the wife of actor and director Leo Penn, she was the mother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn, and of singer Michael.

Anita Kerr, 94, The Anita Kerr Singers signed with RCA Victor in 1961. Their first album for the label was From Nashville...The Hit Sound. Subsequent RCA Victor LPs extended the quartet's repertoire as they explored the soul songs of Ray Charles and the compositions of Henry Mancini.  The group's 1965 album We Dig Mancini won a Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group. In addition to recording as themselves, the Singers continued to perform as backup singers in Nashville. Using Kerr's arrangements, they can be heard on songs by Hank Snow, Brenda Lee, Perry Como, Pat Boone, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Vinton, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Floyd Cramer, Al Hirt, Ann-Margret, and many other artists.

Dame Angela Lansbury, 96, British-American-Irish actress (The Manchurian Candidate, Sweeney Todd, Murder, She Wrote) and singer, five-time Tony winner.

Jim Bailey, 87, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).

James McDivitt, 93, American astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)

Moe Savransky, 93, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).

Bruce Sutter, 69, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves).

Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor (Harry Potter, Cracker, GoldenEye) and comedian, multiple organ failure.

Kay Parker, 78, British pornographic actress (Sex World, Dracula Sucks, Taboo), cancer.

John Jay Osborn Jr., 77, American author (The Paper Chase), squamous cell carcinoma.

Joanna Simon, 85, American opera singer, thyroid cancer.

Charley Trippi, 100, American Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Cardinals). Although primarily a running back, his versatility allowed him to fill a multitude of roles over his career, including quarterback, defensive back, punter, and return specialist. A "quintuple-threat", Trippi was adept at running, catching, passing, punting, and defense. Trippi attended the University of Georgia, where he played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs from 1942 to 1946, with an interlude in 1944 while serving in the military during World War II. As a sophomore, he guided Georgia to victory in the 1943 Rose Bowl and was named the game's most valuable player. As a senior in 1946, he won the Maxwell Award as the nation's most outstanding college football player, was named the Southeastern Conference's player of the year, and earned unanimous first-team All-America recognition. Drafted first overall by the Cardinals as a "future pick" in the 1945 NFL Draft, Trippi was also pursued by the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) as well as multiple professional baseball teams. He ultimately signed a record $100,000 contract with the Cardinals. As a rookie, Trippi led Chicago's "Million Dollar Backfield" to victory in the 1947 NFL Championship Game. By the time he retired he had compiled the most yards of total offense by a player in NFL history. Trippi was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1959 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.

Lucy Simon, 82, American composer (The Secret Garden) and folk singer (The Simon Sisters), Grammy winner (1981, 1983), breast cancer.

Ash Carter, 68, American politician, secretary of defense (2015–2017), heart attack.

 

NOVEMBER

George Booth, 96, American cartoonist (Leatherneck Magazine, The New Yorker).

Tsuneo Fukuhara, 89, Japanese composer and music producer.

Takeoff, 28, American rapper (Migos) and songwriter ("Versace", "MotorSport"), shot.

Ray Guy, 72, American Hall of Fame football player (Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders), Super Bowl champion (XI, XV, XVIII), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Aaron Carter, 34, American singer ("Crush on You", "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)", "Leave It Up to Me").

Tyrone Downie, 66, Jamaican keyboardist (Bob Marley and the Wailers)

Coy Gibbs, 49, American racing driver (NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Busch Series), football player (Stanford Cardinal), and coach.

Tame One, 52, American rapper (Artifacts, The Weathermen, Leak Bros).

Hurricane G, 52, American rapper (Hit Squad), lung cancer.

Betty Johnson, 93, American singer. In Chicago, Johnson worked with Eddy Arnold on his syndicated television series, Eddy Arnold Time, backed by a group who had worked with her family on the Grand Ole Opry, The Jordanaires. That group later became well known as a backing group for Elvis Presley. While in Chicago, she also did some work on Don McNeill's Breakfast Club beginning in 1955, which led to a contract with a small record company, Bally Records. After one not-so-notable recording for Bally, she clicked with her biggest hit, "I Dreamed", in 1956. She continued to appear on The Breakfast Club until 1957. She then was hired by Jack Paar for his television show, Tonight. This led to a record contract with Atlantic Records in 1957, for which she had her next big hit, "Little Blue Man", A novelty number which featured Fred Ebb as the voice of the "Little Blue Man", repeatingly saying: "I Rov You... to Bits". 'Johnson continued on Tonight until 1962 when Paar was replaced by Johnny Carson, while also making appearances on a number of other television shows.

Michael Butler, 95, American theater producer (Hair).

Jeff Cook, 73, American musician (Alabama), complications from Parkinson's disease.

Tang Youqi, 102, Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fred Hickman, 66, American broadcaster (CNN, ESPN, Black News Channel).

Jack Reed: 89 was an American professional baseball player, an outfielder over all or parts of three seasons (1961–1963) with the New York Yankees. Reed was a member of the 1961 and 1962 World Series champion Yankees, although he did not appear in the latter series. On June 24, 1962, Reed hit the only home run of his career in the top of the 22nd inning, as the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 9–7 in the longest game in Yankees' history. The blow came off Phil Regan at Tiger Stadium. Reed's 30 MLB hits also included two doubles and one triple.

John Aniston, 89, Greek-born American actor (Days of Our Lives, Love of Life, Search for Tomorrow).

Jim Bohannon, 78, American broadcaster (America in The Morning, Larry King Show, Face the Nation), esophageal cancer.

Budd Friedman, 90, American comedian and producer, founder of The Improv.

Chuck Carr, 55, American baseball player (Florida Marlins, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers).

Gene Perret, 85, American television producer and writer (The Carol Burnett Show, Welcome Back, Kotter, Three's Company), Emmy winner (1974, 1975, 1978), liver failure.

Robert Clary, 96, French-American actor (Hogan's Heroes, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful).

Carol Leigh, 71, American sex workers' rights activist, cancer.

Ken Mansfield 85 was an American record producer who was the manager of Apple Records in the United States. He was also a high-ranking executive for several record labels, as well as a songwriter, author of seven books and a Grammy and Dove Award-winning album producer. From the 1960s, Mansfield was associated with an array of notable performers including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings, James Taylor, Roy Orbison, Don Ho, the Imperials, Tompall Glaser, Harry Nilsson, Glen Campbell, Buck Owens, Lou Rawls, Andy Williams, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Eric Burdon, Badfinger, Jackie Lomax, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Dolly Parton, David Cassidy, Nick Gilder, Claudine Longet, and Jessi Colter. In the 1970s, he helped popularize the Outlaw movement in country music by producing Waylon Jennings' number one album, Are You Ready for the Country as well as the crossover number-one hit "I’m Not Lisa" by Jessi Colter.

Michael Armand Hammer, 67, American businessman (Occidental Petroleum), cancer.

Dave Hillman, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets). At the time of his death, he was the oldest surviving former Cincinnati  Reda player  and he was the oldest living member of the 1962 New York Mets.

Mickey Kuhn, 90, American actor (Gone with the Wind, Red River, Broken Arrow).

John Y. Brown Jr., 88, American businessman and politician, governor of Kentucky (1979–1983) and co-owner of KFC (1963–1971), complications from COVID-19. At one time he was married to sportscaster Phyllis George.

 

DECEMBER

Paul Silas, 79, American basketball player (St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics) and coach (Charlotte Hornets), cardiac arrest.

Grant Wahl, 49, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated) and author (The Beckham Experiment).

Carl Kleinschmitt, 85, American television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., 1st and Ten), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.

Helen Slayton-Hughes, 92, American actress (Parks and Recreation, Crazy on the Outside, Moxie.

Harry Yee, 104, American bartender, inventor of the Blue Hawaii.

Kirstie Alley, 71, American actress (Cheers, Veronica's Closet, Look Who's Talking), Emmy winner (1991, 1994), colon cancer.

Gaylord Perry, 84, American Hall of Fame baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres).

Mort Zarcoff, 95, American television producer and screenwriter (It Takes a Thief).

 Thom Bell, 79, Jamaican-born American songwriter ("The Rubberband Man", "La-La (Means I Love You)", "Mama Can't Buy You Love"), arranger and record producer.

 

 

Big Scarr, 22, American rapper.

Denny Doyle, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, California Angels). Doyle was MVP of the 1978 World Series.

Franco Harris, 72, American Hall of Fame football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks), four-time Super Bowl champion. Harris was famous for his Immaculate Reception catch against the Raiders.

Tom Browning, 62, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals), World Series champion 1990.

Stephen "tWitch" Boss, 40, American dancer, television personality (The Ellen DeGeneres Show, So You Think You Can Dance) and actor (Step Up), suicide by gunshot.

Grand Daddy I.U., 54, American rapper (Juice Crew).

Curt Simmons, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs), World Series champion (1964)

Stuart Margolin, 82, American actor (The Rockford Files, Death Wish, Bret Maverick), Emmy winner (1979, 1980), pancreatic cancer.

Grant Wahl, 49, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated) and author (The Beckham Experiment), aortic aneurysm.

 Rita Walter (née McLaughlin; was best known for her role as Carol Deming on the popular soap opera As the World Turns, which she played from May 1970 to December 1981.   Originally credited by her maiden name, Rita McLaughlin, she made her acting debut in the 1960s on The Patty Duke Show, in the uncredited role of Patty Duke's double.  

 

Fred Valentine, 87, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators)

Jo Mersa Marley, 31, Jamaica-born musician, grandson of Bob Marley. 

Barbara Walters, 93, television journalist (Today, 20/20) and talk show host (The View)

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday. He was 95.

Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced, in his typical, soft-spoken Latin, that he no longer had the strength to run the 1.2 billion-strong Catholic Church that he had steered for eight years through scandal and indifference.

His dramatic decision paved the way for the conclave that elected Pope Francis as his successor. The two popes then lived side-by-side in the Vatican gardens, an unprecedented arrangement that set the stage for future “popes emeritus” to do the same.

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The LuLac Edition #465, April 21rst, 2008