Jo-Carroll Dennison, Absence America 1942
The oldest actual champ of the Miss America pageant, Jo-Carroll Dennison, has died at age 97.
Dennison, who captivated the appellation during Apple War II and bankrupt with assemblage by abnegation to abrasion a swimsuit onstage afterwards the pageant, died at her home in California aftermost month, according to her acquaintance Evan Mills.
Mills, who edited Dennison’s annual and abstruse of her afterlife anon from her family, said over email that the aloft Absence Texas could “serve as a archetypal for adolescent women — and men — in a apple area abounding are tempted to angle to amusing expectations rather than dupe and afterward their own moral compass.”
The Absence America Organization said it was “saddened to hear” of Dennison’s death, autograph on Instagram: “We acknowledge her for her year of annual and will absence her dearly.”
Jo-Carroll Dennison, far right, is credible advancing at the 1942 Absence America pageant.
Born in 1923 in Florence, Arizona, a adolescent Dennison abutting her parents’ traveling anesthetic show, area she sang, ball and performed on ambush horses. She went on to alternation as a secretary afore actuality scouted for the Absence Tyler celebration in Tyler, Texas, area she was belief at the time.
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In her adventures “Finding My Little Red Hat,” Dennison wrote that she had “sworn never to accomplish in accessible again” afterward her anesthetic appearance days. But she eventually agreed to advance in the Absence Tyler celebration on the affiance of a chargeless swimsuit from a high-end administration store.
After acceptable the pageant, she went on to affirmation the Absence East Texas and Absence Texas titles, afore advancing in — and acceptable — the Absence America claiming in 1942 at the age of 18.
Though she won the swimsuit category, Dennison afterwards banned to abrasion bathing apparel during her year-long administration as Absence America. Speaking at the contest’s 100th ceremony ablaze beforehand this year, she commended the Absence America Organization for auctioning the swimsuit allocation of antagonism in 2018 and absorption on the “totality of ceremony candidate.”
“Back in 1942, the celebration was declared to be about looks,” she told attendees in a pre-recorded message. “Yet, I never anticipation I had won (Miss America) because of the way I looked, but rather because of the way I acquainted about myself. With this in mind, I collapsed out banned to abrasion my bathing clothing onstage afterwards the pageant.”
Crowned Absence America anon afterwards USA’s access into Apple War II, Dennison would appointment aegis plants, hospitals and annual camps to admonition advance troop morale.
Dennison additionally active a arrangement with 20th Aeon Fox, starring in movies including “The Jolson Story” and the wartime ball “Winged Victory.” Her adjacency to Hollywood saw her cantankerous paths with abounding of the era’s celebrities, and she boarded on relationships with Charlie Chaplin’s son Sydney and amateur Phil Silvers, whom she affiliated in 1945 and afar bristles years later.
Jo-Carroll Dennison is credible in 1946 with her then-husband Phil Silvers.
Dennison went on to arise in the “Dick Tracy” alternation and afterwards formed abaft the scenes of television productions. She affiliated CBS abettor and administrator Russell Stoneham, with whom she had two children, admitting they afar in the 1970s and afterwards divorced.
In her autobiography, Dennison bidding her abutment for the #MeToo movement, absolute that she had been sexually assaulted at 12 years old. She wrote, “It is beauteous how ailing women accept been advised in the American culture. I am so appreciative of the ‘Me Too movement’ and the women who accept been adventurous abundant to appear advanced about the macho animal corruption they accept suffered, and beholden I accept lived connected abundant to see it.”
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Markie Post, who played the accessible apostle in the 1980s ball “Night Court” and was a approved attendance on television for four decades, died Aug. 7, 2021. She was 70. Column was a longtime television approved who appeared in shows from “Cheers” to “Scrubs.” But she was best accepted for her seven-season run on NBC’s “Night Court,” the Manhattan borough cloister ball that ran from 1984 to 1992 and starred Harry Anderson as Adjudicator Harry T. Stone.
Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose advertisement interviews with apple leaders, cine stars and accustomed Joes helped ascertain American chat for a half-century, died Jan. 23, 2021. He was 87. A longtime nationally amalgamated radio host, from 1985 through 2010 he was a nightly accoutrement on CNN, area he won abounding honors, including two Peabody awards. With his celebrity interviews, political debates and contemporary discussions, Baron wasn’t aloof an constant on-air personality. He additionally set himself afar with the concern he brought to every interview, whether analytic the advance victim accepted as the Axial Park jogger or billionaire baron Ross Perot, who in 1992 rocked the presidential claiming by announcement his antagonism on King’s show.
Olympia Dukakis, the adept date and awning amateur whose ability for affectionate roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher’s mother in the adventurous ball “Moonstruck,” died May 1, 2021. She was 89. Her Oscar accomplishment kept the affectionate blur roles coming. She was Kirstie Alley’s mom in “Look Who’s Talking” and its aftereffect “Look Who’s Talking Too,” the acrimonious added in “Steel Magnolias” and the ascendant wife of Jack Lemmon (and mother of Ted Danson) in “Dad.”
Christopher Plummer, the adventurous award-winning amateur who played Captain von Trapp in the blur “The Sound of Music” and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award acting champ in history, died Feb. 5, 2021. He was 91. Over added than 50 years in the industry, Plummer enjoyed assorted roles alignment from the blur “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” to the articulation of the villain in 2009′s “Up” and as a able apostle in Broadway’s “Inherit the Wind.” But it was adverse Julie Andrews as von Trapp that fabricated him a star.
Willard Scott, the admired weatherman who charmed admirers of NBC’s “Today” appearance with his self-deprecating amusement and airy personality, died Sept. 4, 2021. He was 87. Scott’s casting was giving on-air altogether greetings to admirers who angry 100 years old by putting their faces on Smucker’s clabber jars and carrying acclimate updates in camp costumes.
Willie Garson, who played Stanford Blatch, Carrie Bradshaw’s acquaintance on TV’s “Sex and the City” and its cine sequels, has died. He was 57. Garson portrayed Blatch, a aptitude abettor and the adherent and beautiful best macho acquaintance to Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie for six seasons. He reprised the role in the films “Sex and the City” and “Sex and the City 2,” and had been filming an accessible alternation awakening for HBO Max declared “And Aloof Like That.”
Prince Philip, the angry and tough-minded bedmate of Queen Elizabeth II who spent added than seven decades acknowledging his wife in a role that both authentic and attenuated his life, died April 9, 2021, at age 99. His activity spanned about a aeon of European history, starting with his bearing into the Greek aristocratic ancestors and catastrophe as Britain’s longest confined accompaniment during a agitated administration in which the thousand-year-old absolution was affected to reinvent itself for the 21st century.
DMX, the raspy-voiced hip-hop artisan who produced the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (Up in Here)” and who rapped with a casting commitment that was generally commutual with growls, barks and “What!” as an ad-lib, died April 9, 2021. He was 50. The rapper, whose absolute name is Earl Simmons, had struggled with biologic addiction aback his boyish years. DMX fabricated a burst in rap music in 1998 with his aboriginal flat album, “It’s Dark and Hell is Hot,” which debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. He appear seven albums, acceptable three Grammy nominations and was alleged admired rap/hip-hop artisan at the 2000 American Music Awards.
Charlie Watts, the atoning and unshakeable Rolling Stones bagman who helped ballast one of rock’s greatest emphasis sections and acclimated his “day job” to abutment his constant adulation of jazz, died Aug. 24, 2021. He was 80. The quiet, alluringly dressed Watts was generally ranked with Keith Moon, Ginger Baker and a scattering of others as a arch bedrock drummer, admired common for his muscular, accepted appearance as the Stones rose from their scruffy ancestry to all-embracing superstardom. He abutting the bandage aboriginal in 1963 and remained for about 60 years, ranked aloof abaft Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as the group’s longest abiding and best basic member.
Tommy Lasorda, the ablaze Hall of Acclamation administrator who guided the Los Angeles Dodgers to two Apple Alternation titles and afterwards became an abettor for the action he admired during his 71 years with the franchise, died Jan. 7, 2021. He was 93. Lasorda formed as a player, scout, administrator and advanced appointment controlling with the Dodgers dating to their roots in Brooklyn. He aggregate a 1,599-1,439 record, won Apple Alternation titles in 1981 and ’88, four Civic Alliance pennants and eight analysis titles while confined as Dodgers administrator from 1977-96. He was adopted to baseball’s Hall of Acclamation in 1997 as a manager. He guided the U.S. to a baseball gold badge at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Beverly Cleary, the acclaimed children’s columnist whose memories of her Oregon adolescence were aggregate with millions through the casting of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, died March 25, 2021. She was 104. Cleary appear her aboriginal book, “Henry Huggins,” in 1950, and added than 40 added books in years following, according to HarperCollins. Cleary’s books accept awash added than 85 amateur copies and were translated into 29 altered languages. Her protagonists were pests, goody-goodies, bullies and daydreamers, sometimes all at once. She mined memories of her adolescence and the struggles of kids she knew to abduction children’s angle of the developed world, area fathers sometimes absent their jobs and mothers sometimes parented alone. – CNN, AP
Ned Beatty, the Oscar-nominated appearance amateur who in bisected a aeon of American movies, including “Deliverance,” “Network” and “Superman,” was a booming, constant attendance in alike the aboriginal parts, died June 13, 2021. He was 83. Afterwards years in bounded theater, Beatty was casting in 1972’s “Deliverance” as Bobby Trippe, the blithe affiliate of a macho river-boating affair abashed by backcountry thugs in “Deliverance.” The arena in which Trippe is brutalized and affected to “squeal like a pig” became the best memorable in the cine and accustomed Beatty as an amateur whose name admirers may not accept accepted but whose face they consistently recognized.
Cicely Tyson, the exhausted Black amateur who acquired an Oscar choice for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and affected TV viewers’ hearts in “The Adventures of Absence Jane Pittman,” died Jan. 28, 2021, at 96. Besides her Oscar nomination, she won two Emmys for arena the 110-year-old aloft bondservant in the 1974 television ball “The Adventures of Absence Jane Pittman.” A new bearing of admirers saw her in the 2011 hit “The Help.”
Tanya Roberts, who captivated James Bond in “A View to a Kill” and appeared in the ball “That ’70s Show,” died Jan. 4, 2021. She was 65. Roberts played geologist Stacey Sutton adverse Roger Moore in 1985′s “A View to a Kill.” She additionally appeared in such fantasy chance films as “The Beastmaster” and “Hearts and Armour.” She replaced Shelley Hack in “Charlie’s Angels,” and additionally played assistant book charlatan Sheena — a changeable adaptation of the Tarzan adventure — in a 1984 film. A new bearing of admirers saw her on “That ’70s Show” from 1998 and 2004, arena Midge, mother to Laura Prepon’s appearance Donna.
Former Carnality Admiral Walter F. Mondale, a advanced amount who absent one of the best askew presidential elections afterwards bluntly cogent voters to apprehend a tax access if he won, died April 19, 2021. He was 93. Mondale followed the aisle blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, from Minnesota backroom to the U.S. Senate and the carnality presidency, confined beneath Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Mondale’s own try for the White House, in 1984, came at the acme of Ronald Reagan’s popularity. His alternative of Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his active acquaintance fabricated him the aboriginal major-party presidential appointee to put a woman on the ticket. On Election Day, he agitated alone his home accompaniment and the Commune of Columbia.
Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning aboriginal Supreme, died Feb. 8, 2021. She was 76. Wilson, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard fabricated up the aboriginal accustomed agreement of The Supremes. Ballard was replaced by Cindy Birdsong in 1967, and Wilson backward with the accumulation until it was clearly disbanded by Motown in 1977.
Jessica Walter, whose roles as a artful dame in TV’s “Arrested Development” and a stalker in “Play Misty for Me” were in bandage with a career that drew on her acid awning attendance added than her acceptable looks, died March 24, 2021. She was 80.
Rush Limbaugh, the bourgeois media amount who for decades acclimated his branch as the baron of talk-radio to appearance the backroom of both the Republican Affair and nation, died Feb. 17, 2021, afterwards a action with cancer. He was 70. A avant-garde of AM talk-radio, Limbaugh for 32 years hosted “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” a nationally amalgamated affairs with millions of loyal admirers that transfigured him into a accessory force and polarizing amount in American politics. In abounding ways, his radio appearance was like the big blast of the bourgeois media universe. “The Rush Limbaugh Show” helped popularize the political talk-radio architecture and conductor in a bearing of bourgeois infotainment. – CNN
Hal Holbrook, the award-winning appearance amateur who toured the apple for added than 50 years as Mark Twain in a one-man appearance and accurate the abiding admonition “Follow the money” in the archetypal political abstruseness “All the President’s Men,” died Jan. 23, 2021. He was 95.
Singer Sarah Birr (pictured at right), who co-founded the all-female accumulation Labelle — best accepted for the absonant 1974 hit “Lady Marmalade” — has died. She was 76. Birr originally started in the accumulation The Ordettes, afore it morphed into The Bluebells and afresh into Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. In the aboriginal 1970s, they beneath it to Labelle, afflicted their apparel and veered adjoin funk, with all three associates singing advance and background.
Bobby Bowden, the aloof Hall of Acclamation drillmaster who congenital Florida Accompaniment into an aberrant academy football dynasty, died Aug. 8, 2021. He was 91. With Southern agreeableness and wit, Bowden accumulated up 377 wins during his 40 years as a above academy coach, from tiny Samford — his alma mater, afresh accepted as Howard Academy — to West Virginia and assuredly at Florida State, area he went 315-98-4. The Seminoles were a force during his 34 seasons as coach, acceptable 12 Atlantic Coast Appointment championships and civic titles in 1993 and 1999.
Jane Withers, the aloft adolescent amateur who bedeviled Shirley Temple on the awning and went on to ablaze in a alternation of B movies that fabricated her a box-office champion, died Aug. 7, 2021. She was 95. Afterwards a alternation of accessory roles as a adolescent actress, Withers was casting by Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1934 “Bright Eyes,” as the nemesis of adorable Temple, afresh Hollywood’s best accepted star.
Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose arcane songs like “Love at the Bristles and Dime” acclaimed the South, died Aug. 13, 2021. She was 68. Griffith formed carefully with added folk singers, allowance the aboriginal careers of artists like Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris. She had a acute voice, and her singing was calmly bland with a twangy Texas emphasis as she sang about Dust Bowl farmers and abandoned Woolworth accepted stores.
Don Everly (pictured at right), one-half of the exhausted Everly Brothers whose adapted country bedrock hits impacted a bearing of bedrock ‘n’ cycle music, died Aug. 21, 2021. He was 84. In the backward 1950s and 1960s, the duo of Don and Phil drew aloft their rural roots with their strummed guitars and high, admiring harmonies, while their agitating songs. Their 19 top 40 hits included “Bye Bye Love,” “Let It Be Me,” “All I Accept to Do Is Dream” and “Wake Up Little Susie,” and performers from the Beatles to Simon & Garfunkel cited them as key influences.
Richard Trumka, the able admiral of the AFL-CIO who rose from the atramentous mines of Pennsylvania to administer over one of the bigger activity organizations in the world, died Aug. 5, 2021. He was 72. Trumka had been AFL-CIO admiral aback 2009, afterwards confined as the organization’s secretary-treasurer for 14 years. From his perch, he oversaw a alliance with added than 12.5 amateur associates and ushered in a added advancing appearance of leadership.
Dustin Diamond, who played the role of Screech on the accepted 1990s aeriform academy ball “Saved by the Bell,” died Feb. 1, 2021, afterwards a contempo blight diagnosis. He was 44.
Leon Spinks, who won Olympic gold and afresh abashed the battle apple by advance Muhammad Ali to win the ample appellation in alone his eighth pro fight, died Feb. 5, 2021. He was 67. A adorable ample with a bubbler problem, Spinks exhausted Ali by accommodation in a 15-round action in 1978 to win the title. He was unranked at the time, and best as an adversary because Ali was attractive for an accessible fight.
Biz Markie, a hip-hop basic accepted for his beatboxing prowess, turntable ability and the 1989 archetypal “Just a Friend,” died July 23, 2021. He was 57. Markie, who bearing name was Marcel Theo Hall, became accepted aural the rap casting branch as the self-proclaimed “Clown Prince of Hip-Hop” for his blithe lyrics and amusing nature. He fabricated music with the Beastie Boys, opened for Chris Rock’s ball bender and was a approved DJ for endless star-studded events.
ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, the long-bearded bassist for the million-selling Texas dejection bedrock leash accepted for such hits as “Legs” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” died July 27, 2021, at age 72.
Ron Popeil, the quintessential TV bell-ringer and artisan accepted to ancestors of admirers for hawking articles including the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone and the Showtime Rotisserie and BBQ, died July 28, 2021. He was 86. Popeil about invented the accepted angel of the American television pitchman, whose atypical articles credible arresting problems admirers didn’t apperceive they had.
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Robert Downey Sr., the able countercultural filmmaker, amateur and ancestor of superstar Robert Downey Jr., died July 6, 2021. He was 85. Downey was a Hollywood artisan who fabricated a name for himself with radical, anti-establishment films, like the low-budget Madison Avenue announcement industry banter “Putney Swope” and the Western Jesus apologue “Greaser’s Palace” starring Allan Arbus.
Elgin Baylor, the Lakers’ 11-time NBA All-Star who soared through the 1960s with a high-scoring appearance of basketball that became the archetypal for the avant-garde player, died March 22, 2021. He was 86. With a silky-smooth jumper and aqueous athleticism, Baylor played a above role in revolutionizing basketball from a ground-bound action into an aeriform show. He spent genitalia of 14 seasons with the Lakers in Minneapolis and Los Angeles during his Hall of Acclamation career, teaming with Jerry West throughout the ’60s in one of the best almighty tandems in basketball history.
Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose angry casting of standup ball led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast allocution shows and Broadway stages, died July 24, 2021. He was 93. The angry Mason was accepted for his aciculate wit and acute amusing commentary, generally about actuality Jewish, men and women and his own inadequacies. His archetypal appearance was amused outrage.
Donald Rumsfeld, the backstab aegis secretary and ancient presidential applicant whose acceptability as a able ambassador and abstracted of a avant-garde U.S. aggressive was decrepit by the connected and cher Iraq war, died June 29, 2021. He was 88. Regarded by aloft colleagues as appropriately acute and combative, affectionate and politically cunning, Rumsfeld had a acclaimed career beneath four presidents and about a division aeon in accumulated America.
Larry Flynt, who angry his abominable Hustler annual into an ascendancy while angry abundant Aboriginal Amendment cloister battles and flaying politicians with stunts such as a Donald Trump assassination Christmas card, died Feb. 10, 2021. He was 78. Flynt was advance in a 1978 assassination advance and larboard bedridden from the waist bottomward but banned to apathetic down, architecture a baroque acceptability forth with a affluence estimated at $100 million.
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F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity apostle who dedicated O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the declared Boston Strangler, but whose accustomed career apoplectic aback he was disbarred in two states, died June 3, 2021. He was 87. In a career that lasted added than four decades, Bailey was credible as arrogant, egoistic and audacious of authority. But he was additionally accustomed as bold, brilliant, accurate and active in the aegis of his clients.
Eric Carle, the admired children’s columnist and illustrator whose archetypal “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and added works gave millions of kids some of their ancient and best admired arcane memories, died May 23, 2021, at age 91. Through books like “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” “Do You Want to Be My Friend?” and “From Arch to Toe,” Carle alien accepted capacity in simple words and ablaze colors.
Actress Tawny Kitaen, who appeared in “Bachelor Party” and annoying 1980s bedrock videos, died May 7, 2021. She was 59. In 1984, she co-starred in an aboriginal Tom Hanks comedy, “Bachelor Party.” She afresh appeared in music videos for abundant metal bands Ratt and Whitesnake, including in “Back for More” and “Is This Love.” – CNN
Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an aboriginal bedrock ’n cycle ablaze and constant bohemian whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Absence Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” died May 3, 2021. He was 88. Price, inducted into the Bedrock and Cycle Hall of Acclamation in 1998, was amid the aftermost survivors of a post-World War II arena in New Orleans that advancing the accouterment in accepted music and ability arch to the acceleration of bedrock in the mid-1950s.
Charles Grodin, the droll, offbeat amateur and biographer who denticulate as a caddish newlywed in “The Heartbreak Kid” and afterwards had roles alignment from Robert De Niro’s analogue in the assistant abstruseness “Midnight Run” to the bedeviled ancestor in the “Beethoven” comedies, died May 18, 2021. He was 86. Accepted for his dead-pan appearance and accustomed looks, Grodin additionally appeared in “Dave,” “The Woman in Red,” “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Heaven Can Wait.” On Broadway, he starred with Ellen Burstyn in the long-running 1970s ball “Same Time, Next Year,” and he begin abounding added outlets for his talents.
Jack Ingram, a hard-hosed, aggressive racer who won bristles NASCAR championships and added than 300 races, died June 25, 2021. He was 84. Nicknamed the “Iron Man” for his adamant afterward on the chase track, Ingram bedeviled NASCAR Sportsman antagonism during the 1970s. He won three afterwards championships from 1972 to 1974 and connected to advance aback the alternation underwent a transformation and became what is now accepted as the Xfinity Series.
John Warner, a Republican U.S. abettor who led Virginia’s aldermanic appointment for 30 years and whose alliance to extra Elizabeth Taylor brought a birr of allure to Virginia politics, died May 25, 2021. He was 94. Warner served in the Senate from 1979 to 2009, including three stints as administrator of the Armed Services Committee, a key column for a accompaniment whose abridgement is heavily abased on federal spending.
“Marvelous” Marvin Hagler, the middleweight battle abundant whose appellation administration and career concluded with a split-decision blow to “Sugar” Ray Leonard in 1987, died March 13, 2021. He was 66. Hagler was 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts from 1973 to 1987. He was the acknowledged middleweight best from 1980 until his blow to Leonard at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 6, 1987. The angry left-hander had two of his bigger victories at Caesars Palace, absolutely outpointing Roberto Duran in 1983 and animadversion out Thomas Hearns in the third annular in 1985.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the address from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin larboard to accomplish their acclaimed aboriginal accomplish on the moon in 1969, died April 28, 2021, of cancer. He was 90. Collins was allotment of the three-man Apollo 11 aggregation that finer concluded the amplitude chase amid the United States and Russia and able Admiral John F. Kennedy’s claiming to ability the moon by the end of the 1960s.
Gavin MacLeod, the adept acknowledging amateur who able acclamation as acrimonious TV annual biographer Murray Slaughter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and distinction arena airy Capt. Stubing on “The Adulation Boat,” died May 29, 2021. He was 90.
British amateur Helen McCrory, who starred in the television appearance “Peaky Blinders” and the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. She was 52 and had been adversity from cancer. McCrory was one of Britain’s best admired actors, authoritative her mark by arena a assumption of appalling and sometimes alarming women. She played the dame of a abomination ancestors on ”Peaky Blinders” and the artful Voldemort accessory Narcissa Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies.
Samuel E. Wright, the amateur who accurate Sebastian the backtalk in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and sang the film’s Oscar-winning song “Under the Sea,” has died at age 74. Wright’s role as a Jamaican backtalk and adviser to Baron Triton in the much-loved 1989 Disney blur credible the aeriform point of his diffuse career in cinema, television and theater. – CNN
Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded accusable to orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme, died in a federal bastille April 14, 2021. He was 82. Madoff accepted backbiting bags of audience out of billions of dollars in investments over decades.
Shock G, who attenuated amusing answer with admiration for ’70s alarm as baton of the off-kilter Bay Area hip-hop accumulation Digital Underground, died April 22, 2021. He was 57. The accumulation begin acclamation with the Billboard Top 10 hit “Humpty Dance” in 1990, as Shock G, built-in Greg Jacobs, donned a Groucho Marx-style affected adenoids and glasses to become one of his abounding adapt egos, Humpty Hump.
Anne Douglas, the added of Kirk Douglas and stepmother of Michael Douglas, died April 29, 2021. She was 102. The Douglas Foundation, which Anne and her bedmate co-founded, has donated millions to a advanced ambit of institutions, from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
Vernon Jordan, who rose from apprehensive ancestry in the absolute South to become a best of civilian rights afore reinventing himself as a Washington cabal and accumulated influencer, died March 1, 2021. Afterwards stints as acreage secretary for the Georgia NAACP and controlling administrator of the United Negro Academy Fund, he became arch of the Civic Urban League, acceptable the face of Black America’s avant-garde attempt for jobs and amends for added than a decade. He was about dead by a racist’s ammo in 1980 afore transitioning to business and politics. His accord with Bill Clinton took them both to the White House.
G. Gordon Liddy, a administrator of the Watergate break-in and a radio allocution appearance host afterwards arising from prison, died March 30, 2021, at age 90. Liddy, a aloft FBI abettor and Army veteran, was bedevilled of conspiracy, break-in and actionable wiretapping for his role in the Watergate burglary, which led to the abandonment of Admiral Richard Nixon. He spent four years and four months in prison, including added than 100 canicule in aloof confinement.
Former Secretary of Accompaniment George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and address who spent best of the 1980s aggravating to advance Cold War relations with the Soviet Abutment and accomplishment a advance for accord in the Average East, died Feb. 6, 2021. He was 100. Shultz was activity secretary, treasury secretary and administrator of the Appointment of Management and Budget beneath Admiral Richard M. Nixon afore spending added than six years as Admiral Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state.
John Chaney, one of the nation’s arch Black coaches and a advantageous amount during a Hall of Acclamation basketball career at Temple, died Jan. 29, 2021. He was 89. Chaney led Temple to 17 NCAA Tournament appearances over 24 seasons, including bristles NCAA bounded finals. Chaney had 741 wins as a academy coach. He was alert alleged civic drillmaster of the year and his teams at Temple won six Atlantic 10 appointment titles.
Sheldon Adelson, who rose from a bashful alpha as the son of an immigrant auto disciplinarian to become a billionaire Republican powerbroker with a bank ascendancy and access on all-embracing politics, died Jan. 11, 2021. He was 87. In business, Adelson adapted a battleground Las Vegas bank that was already a alliance of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack into a aerial Italian-inspired complex. In politics, Adelson was a record-breaking advance donor who had the ear of calm and all-embracing leaders, including Admiral Donald Trump.
Bunny Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the aftermost actual founding affiliate of the allegorical accumulation The Wailers, died March 2, 2021, in his built-in Jamaica. He was 73. Wailer, a baritone accompanist whose bearing name is Neville Livingston, formed The Wailers in 1963 with backward superstars Bob Marley and Peter Tosh aback they lived in a hole in the basic of Kingston. They catapulted to all-embracing acclamation with the album, “Catch a Fire” and additionally helped popularize Rastafarian ability amid better-off Jamaicans starting in the 1970s.
Carla Wallenda, a affiliate of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act and the aftermost actual adolescent of the acclaimed troupe’s founder, died March 6, at the age of 85. She was the babe of Karl Wallenda, who had founded the affiliation in Germany afore affective to the United States in 1928 to abundant acclaim. She was the aunt of aerialist Nik Wallenda.
Roger Mudd, the longtime political contributor and ballast for NBC and CBS who already addled Sen. Edward Kennedy by artlessly allurement why he capital to be president, died March 9, 2021. He was 93. During added than 30 years on arrangement television, starting with CBS in 1961, Mudd covered Congress, elections and political conventions and was a common ballast and contributor to assorted specials.
Joanne Rogers, an an able concert pianist who acclaimed and adequate the bequest of her husband, the admired children’s TV host Mister Rogers, died Jan. 14, 2021. She was 92. Joanne and Fred Rogers were affiliated for added than 50 years, spanning the barrage and end of the low-key, low-tech “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” which presented Fred Rogers as one developed in a active apple who consistently had time to accept to children. His cull as America’s admired acquaintance never seemed to abate afore his afterlife in 2003.
Capt. Tom Moore, the Apple War II adept who absolved into the hearts of a nation in lockdown as he confused up and bottomward his garden to accession money for bloom affliction workers, died Feb. 2, 2021, afterwards testing absolute for COVID-19. He was 100.
Conductor James Levine, who disqualified over the Metropolitan Opera for added than four decades afore actuality eased abreast aback his bloom beneath and afresh was accursed for animal improprieties, died March 9, 2021. He was 77. Levine fabricated his Met admission in 1971 and became one of the signature artists in the company’s century-plus history, administering 2,552 performances and cardinal over its repertoire, orchestra and singers as music or aesthetic administrator from 1976 until affected out by accepted administrator Peter Gelb in 2016 due to Parkinson’s disease.
Phil Spector, the aberrant and apostle music abettor who adapted bedrock music with his “Wall of Sound” adjustment and who afterwards was bedevilled of murder, died Jan. 16, 2021. He was 81. Spector was bedevilled of murdering extra Lana Clarkson in 2003 at his castle-like abode on the bend of Los Angeles. Afterwards a balloon in 2009, he was bedevilled to 19 years to life. Decades before, Spector had been hailed as a abstracted for channeling Wagnerian appetite into the three-minute song, creating the “Wall of Sound” that alloyed active articulate harmonies with abundant agreeable arrange to aftermath such pop monuments as “Da Doo Ron Ron,” “Be My Baby” and “He’s a Rebel.”
Dianne Durham, the aboriginal Black woman to win a USA Gymnastics civic championship, died Feb. 4, 2021. She was 52. Durham was a avant-garde in American gymnastics. Her accomplishment in the all-around at the 1983 civic championships as a jailbait was the aboriginal by a Black woman in the organization’s history.
Chick Corea, a aerial applesauce pianist with a amazing 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the casting and formed alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, died Feb. 9, 2021. He was 79. A abounding artisan with dozens of albums, Corea in 1968 replaced Herbie Hancock in Miles Davis’ group, arena on the battleground albums “In a Silent Way” and “Bitches Brew.”
Marty Schottenheimer, who won 200 regular-season amateur with four NFL teams acknowledgment to his “Martyball” casting of smash-mouth football but consistently fell abbreviate in the playoffs, died Feb. 8, 2021. He was 77. Schottenheimer was the eighth-winningest drillmaster in NFL history. He went 200-126-1 in 21 seasons with Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington and San Diego.
Nancy Bush Ellis, a longtime Democrat who helped her Republican brother and nephew get adopted president, died Jan. 10, 2021, of complications of the coronavirus. She was 94. She accurate and campaigned not alone for her brother George H.W. Bush, and her nephew George W. Bush, but for added ancestors associates active for accessible office, including nephew Jeb Bush, aloft governor of Florida.
Paul Westphal, a Hall of Acclamation amateur who won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and afterwards accomplished in the alliance and in college, died Jan. 2, 2021. He was 70. A five-time All-Star guard, Westphal played in the NBA from 1972-84. Afterwards acceptable a championship with the Celtics, he fabricated the finals in 1976 with Phoenix, area he was a key allotment of one of the best arresting amateur in alliance history. Afterwards his arena career ended, Westphal confused into coaching. He led the Suns to the NBA Finals in 1993, and additionally was arch drillmaster of Seattle and Sacramento.
Don Sutton, a Hall of Acclamation bullpen who was a athletic of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ circling spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Jan. 19, 2021. He was 75. A four-time All-Star, Sutton had a career almanac of 324-256 and an ERA of 3.26 while casting for the Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, California Angels and the Dodgers afresh in 1988, his final season. The abiding Sutton never absent a about-face in the circling in 756 big alliance starts. Alone Cy Adolescent and Nolan Ryan fabricated added starts than Sutton, who never landed on the afflicted annual in his 23-year career.
Gerry Marsden, advance accompanist of the 1960s British accumulation Gerry and the Pacemakers that had such hits as “Ferry Cantankerous the Mersey” and the song that became the canticle of Liverpool Football Club, “You’ll Never Airing Alone,” died Jan. 3, 2021. He was 78.
Gregory Sierra, best accepted for his roles in “Sanford and Son” and “Barney Miller,” died on Jan. 4, 2021, from cancer. He was 83. Sierra’s best arresting roles were in sitcoms from the 1970s. In NBC’s “Sanford and Son,” he was a alternation approved as the Sanfords’ acquaintance Julio Fuentes. Later, he portrayed Miguel “Chano” Amanguale, a detective on ABC’s “Barney Miller.” Sierra additionally had acknowledging or bedfellow roles in “All in the Family,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Miami Vice,” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”
Hall of Acclamation songwriter Jim Weatherly, who wrote “Midnight Alternation to Georgia” and added hits for Gladys Knight, Glen Campbell and Ray Price, died Feb. 3, 2021. He was 77. Weatherly, who was additionally a ablaze quarterback for Ole Absence in the 1960s, wrote a cardinal of hits for Gladys Knight & The Pips, including “(You’re the) Best Thing That Anytime Happened To Me,” “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the Aboriginal to Say Goodbye)” and “Where Peaceful Waters Flow.”
Pedro Gomez (left in photo), a longtime baseball contributor for ESPN who covered added than 25 Apple Series, died Feb. 7, 2021. He was 58. Gomez abutting ESPN as a Phoenix-based anchorman in 2003 afterwards actuality a sports columnist and civic baseball biographer at The Arizona Republic aback 1997. He was best accepted at the arrangement for his advantage of Barry Bonds and his afterward of the home-run almanac during the steroid controversy.
Floyd Little, the able active aback who starred at Syracuse and for the Denver Broncos, died Jan. 1, 2021, afterwards a connected bender with cancer. He was 78. Little was a three-time All-American at Syracuse, area he wore No. 44 like Jim Brown and Ernie Davis afore him. From 1964-66, he ran for 2,704 yards and 46 touchdowns. Little was the sixth all-embracing aces in the 1967 AFL-NFL draft. He played nine seasons in Denver, area he acceptable the appellation “The Franchise” because his signing was accustomed with befitting the aggregation from relocating.
Dick Hoyt, who aggressive bags of runners, fathers and disabled athletes by blame his son, Rick, in a wheelchair in dozens of Boston Marathons and hundreds of added races, died March 17, 2021. He was 80.
Sarah Obama, the dame of aloft U.S. Admiral Barack Obama’s Kenyan ancestors has died. She was at atomic 99 years old. Mama Sarah, as the step-grandmother of the aloft U.S. admiral was affectionately called, answer apprenticeship for girls and orphans in her rural Kogelo village.
Salsa idol Johnny Pacheco, who was a co-founder of Fania Records, Eddie Palmieri’s bandmate and apostle of music stars such as Rubén Bladés, Willie Colón and Celia Cruz, died Feb. 15, 2021. He was 85.
Prince Markie Dee, a affiliate of the Fat Boys hip-hop leash who afterwards formed his own bandage and became a acclaimed radio host, died Feb. 18, 2021. He was 52. Built-in Mark Morales in Brooklyn, Prince Markie Dee was a abounding songwriter and founding affiliate of the Fat Boys, a accumulation accepted for beatboxing that appear several accepted albums in the 1980s such as the platinum almanac “Crushin’.”
Arturo Di Modica, the artisan who sculpted Charging Bull, the brownish brownish in New York which became an iconic attribute of Wall Street, died Feb. 19, 2021, in his hometown in Sicily at age 80. The sculptor lived in New York for added than 40 years in New York. He accustomed in 1973 and opened an art flat in the city’s SoHo neighborhood. With the admonition of a barter and crane, Di Modica installed the brownish balderdash carve in New York’s banking commune afterwards permission on the night of Dec. 16, 1989.
Neil Sheehan, a anchorman and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who bankrupt the adventure of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who actual the bamboozlement at the affection of the Vietnam War in his ballsy book about the conflict, died Jan. 7, 2021. He was 84. His annual of the Vietnam War, “A Ablaze Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam,” took him 15 years to write. The 1988 book won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.
Yaphet Kotto, the advantageous amateur who brought boxy allure and august gravitas to films including the James Bond cine “Live and Let Die” and “Alien,” died March 15, 2021. He was 81. Standing 6-foot-3-inches, Yaphet Frederick Kotto was a approved and acute attendance beyond films, television and Broadway alpha with the films “Nothing But a Man” (1964) and “The Thomas Crown Affair” (1968). He fabricated his date admission in a Boston assembly of “Othello.” In 1969, he replaced James Earl Jones in the Pulitzer-winning “The Abundant White Hope” on Broadway. His big-screen advance came as Lieutenant Pope in 1972’s “Across 110th Street.”
Bobby Brown, an infielder who played on bristles Apple Alternation champions with the New York Yankees and afterwards became a cardiologist and admiral of the American League, died March 25, 2021. He was 96. Brown played with the Yankees from 1947-54, with Yogi Berra his roommate. He spent eight seasons in the majors and played in a career-high 113 amateur in 1948, batting .300 with three home runs, 48 RBIs. Overall, he batted .279 with 22 home runs and 237 RBIs. He was admiral of the American Alliance from 1984-94. Commissioner Rob Manfred declared him a “proud Yankee” and “quiet star.”
Larry McMurtry, the abounding and accepted columnist who took readers aback to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and alternate them to modern-day landscapes in works such as his affecting account of a mother-daughter accord in “Terms of Endearment,” died March 25, 2021. He was 84.
Howard Schnellenberger, who active football at the University of Miami and Louisville and started the affairs at Florida Atlantic during a apprenticeship career that spanned a bisected century, died March 27, 2021. He was 87. Schnellenberger had a career almanac beneath .500, but aback it came to building, he was a winner. His bequest includes campus stadiums at Louisville and Florida Atlantic.
Anne Beatts, a groundbreaking ball biographer with a aftertaste for acidity and the cadaverous who was on the aboriginal agents of “Saturday Night Live” and afterwards created the band ball “Square Pegs,” died April 7, 2021. She was 74. Starting in 1975 and active for bristles seasons, Beatts was amid a aggregation of able writers that included Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel, Marilyn Suzanne Miller and such casting associates as Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase who helped accomplish “Saturday Night Live” a cultural phenomenon.
Rep. Alcee Hastings, the angrily advanced longtime Florida agent who was adamant throughout his administration by an allegation that concluded his fast-rising administrative career, died April 6, 2021. He was 84. Hastings was accepted as an apostle for minorities, a apostle of Israel and a articulation for gays, immigrants, women and the elderly. He captivated arch posts on the House Rules Committee and the Helsinki Commission, which works with added countries on a array of bunch issues.
Lee Hart, the wife of aloft U.S. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, died April 9, 2021. She was 85. Hart campaigned for her bedmate during his runs for the Senate and the White House.
Rapper Black Rob, accepted for his hit “Whoa!” and key contributions to Diddy’s ascendant Bad Boy Annal in the 1990s and aboriginal 2000s, died April 17, 2021. He was 52. His admission anthology “Life Story,” appear in 2000, ailing at No. 3 on the Billboard archive and went platinum, led by the communicable distinct “Whoa!”
Alma Wahlberg, the mother of entertainers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg and a approved on their absoluteness alternation “Wahlburgers,” has died. She was 78. The Boston-born mother of nine became a domiciliary name acknowledgment to her appearances on the A&E alternation “Wahlburgers,” about the family’s beginning burger chain.
Les McKeown, the aloft advance accompanist of the 1970s Scottish pop awareness Bay City Rollers, died April 20, 2021, at age 65. Formed at the end of the 1960s, the Bay City Rollers enjoyed huge success in Britain and abroad with their checkerboard apparel and pop tunes like “Bye Bye Baby,” “Shang-a-Lang” and “Give a Little Love.” They had a biased boyhood afterward and awash added than 100 amateur records. Some in the British media declared them the “biggest accumulation aback the Beatles”.
Tempest Storm, the allegorical caricatural ablaze who blazed a aisle for strip-tease artists for added than a half-century, died April 20, 2021. She was 93. Storm would become an internationally acclaimed figure, affairs out clubs beyond the country. She was featured in abounding affection films by antecedents Russ Meyer and Irving Klaw, including a co-starring role with Bettie Page in Klaw’s 1955 blur “Teaserama.”
President Idriss Deby Itno, who disqualified Chad for added than 30 years and became an important accessory to Western nations in the action adjoin Islamic abandonment in Africa, was dead April 19, 2021, while aggressive adjoin rebels in the north. He was 68.
Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning artisan who wrote Meat Loaf’s acknowledged “Bat Out Of Hell” admission anthology as able-bodied as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, died April 19, 2021. He was 73. Steinman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Acclamation in 2012 and won anthology of the year at the 1997 Grammy Awards for bearing songs on Celine Dion’s “Falling Into You,” which acclaimed its 25th ceremony aftermost ages and featured the Steinman-penned ability carol “It’s All Advancing Aback to Me Now.”
Twenty-time Grammy champ Al Schmitt, whose amazing career as a recording architect and abettor included albums by Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and abounding added of the top performers of the accomplished 60 years, died April 26, 2021, at age 91.
Jonathan Bush, the adolescent brother of the backward Admiral George H.W. Bush and uncle of aloft Admiral George W. Bush, died May 5, 2021. He was 89. Bush, who formed in finance, was the aftermost actual of the family’s bristles siblings.
Pervis Staples (pictured far left), whose tenor articulation complimented his father’s and sisters’ in the allegorical actuality accumulation The Basic Singers, died May 6, 2021. He was 85. Staples sang actuality songs with his father, the guitar-playing Roebuck “Pops” Staples, and sisters Mavis, Yvonne and Cleotha in Chicago churches afore accepting a civic afterward aback they began recording songs such as “So Soon,” “If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again,” “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” and “Uncloudy Day” for Vee Jay annal in the 1950s.
Norman Lloyd, whose role as attentive Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV’s “St. Elsewhere” was a distinct affiliate in a acclaimed date and awning career that put him in the aggregation of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin and added greats, died May 11, 2021. He was 106.
Colt Brennan, a ablaze quarterback at the University of Hawaii who accomplished third in the 2007 Heisman Trophy balloting, died May 11, 2021. He was 37. Brennan transferred to Hawaii afterwards stints at Colorado and Saddleback Academy in California. A assertive pro anticipation afterwards a record-breaking inferior season, he bypassed the NFL abstract in adjustment to ball his arch year for Hawaii drillmaster June Jones. Brennan led the Warriors to its finest division ever, activity 12-0 in the approved season.
Damon Weaver, the apprentice anchorman who acquired civic acclamation aback he interviewed Admiral Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 died May 1, 2021. He was 23. Weaver was 11 aback he interviewed Obama for 10 account in the Diplomatic Room on Aug. 13, 2009, allurement questions that focused primarily on education. He covered academy lunches, bullying, battle resolution and how to succeed.
Jim “Mudcat” Grant, the aboriginal Black 20-game champ in the American Alliance and a key allotment of Minnesota’s aboriginal Apple Alternation aggregation in 1965, died June 12, 2021. He was 85. Grant spent beneath than four abounding seasons of his 14-year above alliance career with the Twins, but they were by far his best.
Clarence Williams III, who played the air-conditioned clandestine cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture alternation “The Mod Squad” and Prince’s ancestor in “Purple Rain,” died June 4, 2021. He was 81. A built-in of New York, Williams career spanned over bristles decades in theater, television and film. He was built-in into a artistic ancestors in 1939 and aloft by his agreeable grandparents. He got his acting alpha on Broadway afterwards a assignment as a paratrooper and accustomed a Tony choice for his role in William Hanley’s “Slow Ball on the Killing Ground” in 1964. His blemish role would appear with “The Mod Squad,” which he led with Peggy Lipton and Michael Cole.
Jim Fassel, whose adventurous agreement of a playoff bid backward in the 2000 division acutely catapulted the New York Giants to a atom in the Super Bowl, has died. He was 71. Fassel, the 1997 NFL drillmaster of the year, guided the Giants from 1997 to 2003, announcement a 58-53-1 record. He was 2-3 in the postseason, including a 34-7 blow to the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl in February 2001.
Lisa Banes, who appeared in abundant television shows and movies, including “Gone Girl” in 2014 and “Cocktail” with Tom Cruise in 1988, died June 14, 2021, 10 canicule afterwards actuality afflicted by a arrest disciplinarian in New York City. She was 65. On television, Banes had roles on “Nashville,” “Madam Secretary,” “Masters of Sex” and “NCIS.”
Jack B. Weinstein, a aloft federal adjudicator who acceptable a acceptability as a active accustomed bohemian while administering a alternation of battleground class-action lawsuits and amazing mob cases in New York City like that of the “Mafia Cops,” has died. He was 99. Weinstein, a Apple War II adept appointed by Admiral Lyndon Johnson, had spent added than bristles decades on the bank in Brooklyn afore backward aftermost year.
Mike Gravel, a aloft U.S. abettor from Alaska who apprehend the Pentagon Papers into the Aldermanic Almanac and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a afterwards presidential run, died June 26, 2021. He was 91. Gravel represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981.
John Langley, who was the architect of the long-running TV alternation “Cops,” died June 26, 2021, of an credible affection advance during a alley chase in Mexico. He was 78. “Cops” was amid the aboriginal absoluteness alternation on the air aback it debuted in 1989, and it would become an academy through 32 seasons. Langley and assembly accomplice Malcolm Barbour had shopped the abstraction for years, and begin a home for it on the apprentice Fox network.
Filmmaker Richard Donner, who helped actualize the avant-garde superhero blockbuster with 1978’s “Superman” and baffled the associate ball with the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, died July 5, 2021. He was 91.
Bollywood amount Dilip Kumar, hailed as the “Tragedy King” and one of Hindi cinema’s greatest actors, died July 7, 2021. He was 98. The “Tragedy King” appellation came from Kumar’s abundant austere roles. In several, his appearance died as a balked lover and a drunkard. He additionally was accepted as Bollywood’s alone Adjustment amateur for his alive performances anecdotic a character’s emotions.
Haitian Admiral Jovenel Moïse, a aloft assistant abettor and political abecedarian who disqualified Haiti for added than four years as the country grew added ambiguous beneath his watch, was assassinated at his home July 7, 2021. He was 53.
Jehan Sadat, added of aloft Egyptian Admiral Anwar Sadat, the aboriginal Arab baton to accomplish accord with Israel, died in Egypt on July 9, 2021. She was 87.
Edwin Washington Edwards, the affluence four-term governor whose three-decade ascendancy of Louisiana backroom was all but overshadowed by aspersion and an eight-year federal bastille stretch, died July 12, 2021. He was 93.
Gloria Richardson, an affecting yet abundantly unsung civilian rights avant-garde whose assurance not to aback bottomward while agitation ancestral asperity was captured in a photograph as she pushed abroad the bayonet of a Civic Guardsman, died July 22, 2021. She was 99. Richardson was the aboriginal woman to advance a abiding grassroots civilian rights movement alfresco the Deep South. In 1962, she helped organized and led the Cambridge Movement on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with sit-ins to accommodate restaurants, bowling alleys and cine theaters in protests that credible an aboriginal allotment of the Black Ability movement.
Robert Parris Moses, a civilian rights activist who was advance at and endured beatings and bastille while arch Black aborigine allotment drives in the American South during the 1960s and afterwards helped advance boyhood apprenticeship in math, died July 25, 2021. He was 86. Moses, who was broadly referred to as Bob, formed to annihilate allegory as the Mississippi acreage administrator of the Apprentice Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civilian rights movement and was axial to the 1964 “Freedom Summer” in which hundreds of acceptance went to the South to annals voters.
Retired Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican accepted as a consensus-builder in an added polarized Washington, died July 26, 2021, afterwards he bankrupt his close in a bike accident. He was 77.
Bill Freehan, an 11-time All-Star catcher with the Detroit Tigers and key amateur on the 1968 Apple Alternation championship team, died Aug. 19, 2021, at age 79. He played his absolute career with the Tigers, from 1961 through 1976. Besides All-Star appearances, including all 15 innings in the 1967 game, Freehan was awarded bristles Gold Gloves.
Japanese amateur Sonny Chiba, who wowed the apple with his aggressive arts abilities in added than 100 films, including “Kill Bill,” died Aug. 19, 2021. He was 82. Chiba rose to distinction in Japan in the 1960s, assuming samurai, fighters and badge detectives, the afflicted alleged “anti-heroes” aggravating to survive in a agitated world. He did abounding of the accomplishment scenes himself. Quentin Tarantino casting Chiba in the role of Hattori Hanzo, a adept swordsmith in “Kill Bill.”
Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s able dejected collar bard, died Aug. 20, 2021. He was 85. Accepted as “The Storyteller” for his direct yet acute lyrics, Hall composed hundreds of songs. He helped conductor in a arcane era of country music in the aboriginal ’70s, with songs that were political, like “Watergate Blues” and “The Monkey That Became President,” acutely claimed like “The Year Clayton Delaney Died,” and abstract like “(Old Dogs, Accouchement and) Watermelon Wine.”
Rod Gilbert, the Hall of Acclamation appropriate addition who starred for the New York Rangers and helped Canada win the 1972 Summit Series, has died. He was 80. From Montreal, Gilbert spent his absolute 18-year NHL career with the Rangers. Gilbert recovered and concluded up with 406 goals and 615 assists in 1,065 regular-season amateur and 34 goals and 33 assists in 79 playoff games. He holds Rangers annal for goals and points.
George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who advance chapped video of four white badge admiral advance Black motorist Rodney Baron in 1991, died of complications of COVID-19 on Sept. 19, 2021. He was 61. Holliday’s out-of-focus footage — about 9 account account — was a key allotment of affirmation at the four officers’ bent balloon for advance and boundless use of force.
Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced ablaze of Hollywood’s aureate age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and danced with Fred Astaire in “Royal Wedding,” died Sept. 16, 2021. She was 92.
Jo Lasorda, the added of Los Angeles Dodgers administrator Tommy Lasorda, died Sept. 20, 2021. She was 91. The aloft Joan Miller met Tommy Lasorda at a accessory alliance baseball bold in her hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, area he was arena for the Spinners. They wed on April 14, 1950, a abutment that lasted 70 years until Tommy’s afterlife aftermost January at age 93.
Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking filmmaker, columnist and artist whose assignment ushered in the “blaxploitation” beachcomber of the 1970s and afflicted filmmakers connected after, died Sept. 21, 2021. He was 89. Sometimes declared the “godfather of avant-garde Black cinema,” the multitalented Van Peebles wrote abundant books and plays, and recorded several albums — arena assorted instruments and carrying rap-style lyrics. He afterwards became a accustomed options banker on the banal market.
Alan Kalter, the quirky, red-headed anchorperson for David Letterman for two decades who frequently appeared in the show’s ball bits, died Oct. 4, 2021. He was 78. Kalter was built-in in Brooklyn, New York, on March 21, 1943. Nicknamed “Big Red” for his hair, he provided the aperture introductions on the “Late Appearance with David Letterman” on CBS from September 1995 until Letterman’s aftermost adventure on May 20, 2015. As Letterman would airing and run assimilate the stage, Kalter would acquaint him with a acerb ability as “the baron of aloof media,” “nocturnal rainforest mammal” and added monikers.
Raymond T. Odierno, a retired Army accepted who allowable American and affiliation armament in Iraq at the acme of the war and capped a 39-year career by confined as the Army’s arch of staff, died Oct. 8, 2021. He was 67.
Gary Paulsen, the acclaimed and abounding children’s columnist who generally drew aloft his rural affinities and absolute adventures for tales that included “Hatchet,” “Brian’s Winter” and “Dogsong,” died Oct. 13, 2021, at age 82. Columnist of added than 100 books, with sales topping 35 million, Paulsen was a three-time finalist for the John Newbery Badge for the year’s best children’s book and almsman in 1997 of the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement.
Betty Lynn, the blur and television amateur who was best accepted for her role as Barney Fife’s sweetheart Thelma Lou on “The Andy Griffith Show,” died Oct. 16, 2021. She was 95. Lynn appeared as Thelma Lou on the appearance from 1961 until 1966. She reprised her role in the made-for-TV cine “Return to Mayberry,” in which Thelma Lou and Barney got married.
Colin Powell, who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and accord but whose admirable acceptability was decrepit aback he went afore the U.N. and fabricated adulterated claims to absolve the U.S. war in Iraq, has died of COVID-19 complications. He was 84. In 1989 Powell became the aboriginal Black administrator of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In that role he oversaw the U.S. aggression of Panama and afterwards the U.S. aggression of Kuwait to adios the Iraqi army in 1991. He served as secretary of accompaniment beneath Admiral George W. Bush.
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