StarTiger -
Recent Deaths
Recent Deaths
-
2020-10-09Personal secretary to Lady Bird Johnson in 1963, Abell was at the Johnson Ranch preparing for the Kennedys' arrival when the assassination took place. Abell then served as the White House social secretary to Mrs. Johnson from 1963 to 1969from complications from Alzheimer's Disease
-
2020-10-09WWII: PTO. Assigned to the USS Lexington (CV-2) before Pearl Harbor, he served there until she was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942. Later at USS Suwannee (Operation Torch, North-Africa)
-
2020-10-09WWII: ETO/PTO. Transported troops to both Utah and Omaha beaches on D - Day on LST-501, later again in the Battle of Okinawa (April 1 ? June 22, 1945)aged 95
-
2020-10-09Actorcomplications of Parkinson's disease - aged 77
-
2020-10-08Authoraged 64
-
2020-10-08Jim Dwyer (2)
Reporter, Author - Two Seconds Under the World, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway.lung cancer - aged 63 -
2020-10-08MLB H.O.F. pitcher 1951-67 for Yankees. Cy Young 1961. 10x All - Star. W.S. MVP. ERA Title 2x (1956, 58). Led league in wins 3x. Best in 1961 going 25-4 with 3.21 ERA & 1963 with 24-11, save, 2.74 ERA. 11 W.S. (6x Champs) 10-8, 2.71 ERAdementia - aged 91
-
2020-10-08track athleteaged 91
-
2020-10-08Vocalistaged 44
-
2020-10-07Former Major League Infieldercomplications from kidney surgery - aged 52
-
2020-10-07Stuntman And Stormtrooper In Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
-
2020-10-07WWII: Marine Corps; Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa; hit by a mortar on the 41st day of the Balle of Okinawa, which he miracously survivedaged 95
-
2020-10-07Game Show Host: Name That Tune, You Don't Say!, Split Second, Password Plus, Body Language, Whew!, WordPlay, The Price is Right // Actor: Cannon, Hardcastle & McCormick, The Ghost & Mrs. Muiraged 93
-
2020-10-07nobel chem. laureate 1995heart attack - aged 77
-
2020-10-07WWII - 9th Army Air Corps, 434 Troop Carrier Group, 71st Troop Carrier Squadron; Radio operator on C-47 42-24022 'Butch' , 3 trips on D-Day incl. first dropping 101st Airborne Pathfinders. Operation Market, Bastogne, Operation Varsityaged 97
-
2020-10-07State Trooper with the Texas Highway Patrol , Max was stationed at Dallas Trade Mart for Pres. Luncheon . Later assigned guard duty for Gov. Connolly at Parklandaged 91
-
2020-10-06Director
-
2020-10-06New York State Senator (1977-2008); Lieutenant Governor of New York (2008)prostate cancer - aged 91
-
2020-10-06German Comedian - Was bin ich, Schmidteinanderaged 83
-
2020-10-06played 'Kevin' on All My Childrensuicide - aged 51
-
2020-10-06Professor of German literature, authoraged 88
-
2020-10-06singer songwriteraged 80
-
2020-10-06American actor,dancer and singer born in 1929.'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers','Pennies From Heaven','Kiss Me Kate','Invitation To The Dance','Merry Andrew','My Sister Eileen','Ziegfeld Follies'aged 90
-
2020-10-06Rock Guitarist/Songwriter - Van Halenaged 65, cancer
-
2020-10-06Former baseball player for Red Sox and Philliesaged 79
-
2020-10-06Actoraged 66
-
2020-10-05Actress-Moon and Midnightaged 89
-
2020-10-05WWII: 3rd Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th PIR, 82nd AB. Paratropper in Operation Market Garden; served in the 82nd until the end of the war; occupation duty in Berlin
-
2020-10-05Pin up modelaged 76, cancer
-
2020-10-05Actress/Model: Goldfinger, Playboy July 1983, Hard Days Night, The Great Saint Trinian's Train Robbery, Brideshead Revisited, Fox, 6 Carry On filmsaged 76
-
2020-10-05WWII - Fighter Ace born 12/31/1920, 6 victories. VF-16 (USS Lexington CV-16). Flew Hellcat and F4Wildcataged 99
-
2020-10-05Born on June 15, 1913 in Gagnef , is a Swedish writer , philosophy doctor , debater , writer and centenarianaged 107
-
2020-10-04Stuntman & Actor // Played 'The Miner' in 'My Bloody Valentine 3D' (2009)aged 57
-
2020-10-04Designer
-
2020-10-04Former Governor of Louisiana (1996-2004)aged 90
-
2020-10-04Played The Red Queen in 'Adventures in Wonderland',Ghost, That's So Raven,Sparkle, The Enchanted Tiki Room,Action Jackson,Ain't Misbehavin',Bulworth,The Hustle,All about the Andersons,Living Single,Martin,The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,L.A Law,JAG,Lifeaged 68
-
2020-10-04Actor. In various TV and films, most recently 'Taking Woodstock' & The BlacklistWest Nile virus - aged 63
-
2020-10-03Former U.S. Senator from North Dakota (1981-1987)aged 94
-
2020-10-03actor (boone, live shot, bulworth)Multiple gun shot wounds
-
2020-10-03Czech Actoraged 95
-
2020-10-03former Dodgers prospect, now in Boston organizationsuicide by gunshot - aged 37
-
2020-10-03WW2/From Bramble Edge in Dorset, Wren working in Newmanry Registration Room receiving German messages from intercept site at Knockholt, near Sevenoaks in Kent on punched paper teleprinter tapes, prepared for Colossus and logging the resultsaged 94
-
2020-10-02American Former Female Author And Winemaker - 'Cakebread Cellars' (1973-2020). Novel - 'The Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Cookbook : Celebrating Wine, Food, and Friends in the Napa Valley' (2011)aged 90, natural causes
-
2020-10-02Baseball Hall of FamerPancreatic cancer, aged 84
-
2020-10-02author of Summer of My German Soldier, Phillip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon. Maybe, The Drowning of Stephan Jones, etc.heart failure - aged 86
-
2020-10-02Hockey Player Boston Bruinsaged 64
-
2020-10-02MLB relief pitcher from 1961-73 for 5 teams. Best seasons: 1963 went 16-3 (best w-l % ) wirh 21 saves, 1.67 ERA; 1969 went 9-10, 31 saves, 2.11 ERA & 1971 had 7-8, 34 Saves, 2.43 ERA. Both 1969 & 70 led league in saves. In 3 World Series had one saveaged 84
-
2020-10-01Retired NHL player St Louis Blues and Washington Capitalsaged 70
-
2020-10-01WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, 24th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks. Later later fought in the jungles of New Guineaaged 98
-
2020-10-01writeraged 93
-
2020-10-01WWII - Member of the 101 airbourne div. company E 506 parachute regiment (Band of Brothers); was with the 'Easy' from D-Day to Eagle's Nest. It was him who cut the German flag off the wall of the German Army barracks at the Eagle's Nest, Berchtesgadenaged 98
-
2020-10Freddie Boswell in BBC comedy series 'Bread' (1986-91).aged 81
-
2020-10Production Designer
-
2020-10PhotographerLung Cancer, aged 74
-
2020-10Musician - Band The Tremeloes
-
2020-10British character actor:A Touch of Frost, Doctor Who, Juliet Bravo, Poirot, Our Friends in the North, Coronation Street, Chucklevision, Reilly: Ace of Spies, When the Boat Comes In
-
2020-09-30French comedianaged 84
-
2020-09-30Baseball played for the 1955 kansas city monarchsaged 86
-
2020-09-30Negro League baseball player. Debuted with the 1952 Philadelphia Stars
-
2020-09-30USA, equestrianism, olympic bronze 1952, born February 2, 1920aged 100
-
2020-09-30Verteran British actor famous for his role as Det. Chief Supt. Watt in the BBC series Softly Softlyaged 92
-
2020-09-29Stuntwomanaged 55
-
2020-09-29Author
-
2020-09-29footballaged 93
-
2020-09-29singer and actoraged 78
-
2020-09-29WWII veteran on the USS Missouri. Witness to the Japanese Surrender Ceremony onboard Sept 2, 1945aged 96
-
2020-09-29Brazil Soccer Worldcup 1966
-
2020-09-29WWII - D-Day. Survivor of USS Corry (DD-463, the destroyer that led the armada into D-Day), which was sunk on June 6 near Utah Beach by German gunsaged 100
-
2020-09-29Singer - I Am Woman, Delta Dawn; Actress - Pete's Dragon, Airport '75aged 78
-
2020-09-29navy admiralaged 90
-
2020-09-29USS Indianapolis survivoraged 96
-
2020-09-28Author-The Physics of Baseballaged 96
-
2020-09-28WWII: PTO. Navy corpsman. Battle of Peleliu, Battle of Okinawaaged 94
-
2020-09-28Songwriter/Composer of 1940 and 50's. Worked with Perry Como. Grammy Winner. Born: 07/16/1922
-
2020-09-28Composeraged 91
-
2020-09-28mouseketeer (micky mouse club/1950's)aged 79
-
2020-09-28WWII - Iwo Jima. Corporal in the Baker Co. 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of the 4th Marine Division, Also Roi-Namur, Saipan, and Tinianaged 95
-
2020-09-27American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter. The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995), The Girls Next Door, Star Wars: Empire of Dreams and Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
-
2020-09-27German Politician, Professional Speaker
-
2020-09-26Author - Theories of Everything and Impossibility.colon cancer - aged 67
-
2020-09-26Belgium Soccer Worldcup 1970
-
2020-09-26Greg Brown (9) Philadelphia Eagles DEaged 63
-
2020-09-26Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Dalton KCB was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and latterly became Secretary General of MENCAP and National Chairman of The Royal British Legion
-
2020-09-26WWII Navy WAVE worked in Navy intelligenceaged 101
-
2020-09-26former major league outfielder; played for Dodgers, Yankees, Athletics, Phillies, Angels, White Sox, Padres & Cubs; 2X World Series Champion (Dodgers 81, Yankees 78)COVID-19 - aged 74
-
2020-09-26Baseball player - played for the 1952 and 1957 Philadelphia A'saged 87
-
2020-09-26(born September 9, 1919) was the ninth head football coach for the Eureka College Red Devils located in Eureka, Illinois and he held that position for eleven seasons, from 1956 until 1966aged 101
-
2020-09-26Grandson of President John Tyleraged 95
-
2020-09-26Actor - appeared in Doctor Who
-
2020-09-25Author
-
2020-09-25Directoraged 75
-
2020-09-25French Actressaged 79
-
2020-09-24Artistaged 88
-
2020-09-24Former Australian Test CricketerCardiac Arrest, aged 59
-
2020-09-24Lead singer - Max Merritt and the MeteorsGoodpasture syndrome - aged 79
-
2020-09-24football playeraged 68
-
2020-09-24ReverendArchbishop; Author - Space Vultureaged 79
-
2020-09-24A star high school pitcher in Lomita, CA, he was the first $100,000 'bonus baby' in major league history. Only 19 years old in 1951, he only pitched for the Pirates in 1953, going 1-2aged 88
-
2020-09-24WWII: ETO. Veteran of the 5th Army, Company F, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry 'Texas' Division. He fought in Naples and the battle of Monte Casino, where he was taken a POW on February 14th, 1944aged 95
-
2020-09-23Centenarian, artist and muralist born in Auburn, New Yorkaged 103
-
2020-09-23French singer, sometimes actressaged 93
-
2020-09-23WWII: PTO. Guadalcanal, the Northern Solomon Islands and Luzon. 35th Infantry
-
2020-09-23Johnny Cash's drummeraged 85
-
2020-09-23Has worked on the Hubble telescopeaged 90
-
2020-09-23Canadian politician and former Senator. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and the first woman to become a cabinet minister in the provinceaged 91
-
2020-09-23HOF NFL player; movie was made about he & the late Brian Piccolo - 'Brian's Song'aged 77
-
2020-09-23Olympians polo vaultaged 68
-
2020-09-23French cook and writeraged 92
-
2020-09-22Former Grambling State and pro football defensive backaged 74
-
2020-09-22Actor: Remington Steele, General Hospital, Real Men, Quantum Leap, Hunter, Hardcastle & McCormick, Haunts, FM, Shrunken Heads
-
2020-09-22German actoraged 78, after a short illness
-
2020-09-22WWF wrestler Legion Of doom AWA Road warrioraged 60
-
2020-09-22Sweden Soccer Worldcup 1958
-
2020-09-21American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. He is the oldest Nobel Laureate in history. Ashkin has been considered by many as the father of the topical field of optical tweezers, for which he was awardedaged 98
-
2020-09-21Star Wars Episode IV:A New Hope(Conceptual Creature Designs), Production designer for Alien, Conan and many othersLew body dementia - aged 83
-
2020-09-21original member of 4 Seasons (Frankie Valli & Four Seasons), Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member, actor (aged 92, COVID-19
-
2020-09-21Blue-Eyed Soul/C&W/Rockabilly Singer (b: 1941) - Treat Her Right, Just A Little Bit, My Babe, Apple Of My Eye, Get Back, Harlem Shuffle, To Make A Big Man Cry, Come To Me, Tonight's The Night, The Most Wanted Woman In Town. Rockabilly Hall of Fameaged 79
-
2020-09-21Actor - Moonraker, Name of the Roseaged 89
-
2020-09-21Former NHL right winger. Played with the Toronto Maple Leafs (1957-58 to 1963-64), New York Rangers (1963-54 to 1970-71), Minnesota North Stars (1971-72 to 1972-73), Los Angeles Kings (1973-74 to 1975-76), Edmonton Oilers (1976-77)
-
2020-09-21Mountain climbercomplications from a stroke - aged 72
-
2020-09-21astrologer mother of sylvester also on GLOWaged 98
-
2020-09-21US jazz musicianmetastatic pancreatic cancer - aged 89
-
2020-09-20US WWII Army Nurse, born 1925. Served 1944-45 on Tinian in the South Pacificdied peacefully aged 97
-
2020-09-20Director: All the Right Moves, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Viking Sagas // Cinematographer: Taxi Driver, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Raging Bull, The Lost Boys, The Fugitive, Suspect Zeroaged 84
-
2020-09-20WWII - Air Force, Pacific Theater. Crew member of B-29 'Little Gem' who flew notably succesful missions on the Japanese mainland. Berlin Airlift after the waraged 97
-
2020-09-20Reverend to Rosa Park's Church; Secretary of the MIA aka Montgomery Improvement Association that helped support the boycott, appeared at meetings led by MLK
-
2020-09-20Navy Gunner, USS Nevada, Pearl Harbor Survivor!aged 99
-
2020-09-20Cameroon Soccer Worldcup 1982
-
2020-09-20'Space:1999','The House of Eliott'aged 78
-
2020-09-20Negro Leagueraged 87
-
2020-09-20Art director Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Backaged 81
-
2020-09-19Tuskegee Airmen, flew the b-25, b-29, b-52, b-24, b-50, b-17, b-47aged 95
-
2020-09-19British actor, worked as a Stormtrooper on 'Star Wars: A New Hope' and 'Return of the Jedi'
-
2020-09-19AuthorHeart attack, aged 56
-
2020-09-19Musician Band Uriah Heepprostate cancer - aged 73
-
2020-09-19Former NHL defenseman.Played for Montreal Canadiens(1957/58 - 1960-61) New York Rangers (1961/62 - 1963/64) Detroit Red Wings (1963/64 - 1964/65) and Boston Bruins (1965/66) Nicknamed Junior.Stanley Cups in 1959& 60. Last Bruin to wear #4 before Bobby Orraged 85
-
2020-09-19Poker Playercomplications from surgery - aged 56
-
2020-09-19basketball playercancer - aged 76
-
2020-09-18Original member of the Marvelettesaged 78
-
2020-09-18Assoc. Justice of Supreme Courtaged 87
-
2020-09-18WWII veteran, gunner on a B-29 crew. 33 bombing missions over Japan, shot down a Zero Japanese plane. Part of the fly-over of B-29s at the Japanese Surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bayaged 95
-
2020-09-18Author
-
2020-09-18Iban Scout from Johore in Malaya, who won the British George Cross for gallantryaged 91
-
2020-09-1870's football player, with the atlanta falcons, born 3-30-44aged 76
-
2020-09-1817th Prime Minister of Canada. Served from June 30th, 1984 to Sept. 17, 1984aged 91
-
2020-09-17author (faith of the fallen, the pillars of creation)aged 72
-
2020-09-17Inductee in National Inventors Hall of Fameaged 83
-
2020-09-17basketball playeraged 82
-
2020-09-17football hof def. backaged 82
-
2020-09-17WWII USS Hornet (CV-8) plankowner (original crewmember), participant in the Doolittle Raid, and a survivor of the sinking of the Hornet at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islandsaged 96
-
2020-09-16R & B singer (shotgun wedding)aged 81
-
2020-09-16Author
-
2020-09-16Author: Forrest Gump, Gump & Coaged 77
-
2020-09-16American soul singer, and songwriter, best known for his 1965 hit, "Shotgun Wedding". Tenor of the 1950s group "The Genies", who had a minor #71 Billboard hit in 1958, "Who's That Knockin'", now considered a DooWop classicaged 81
-
2020-09-16Stunts/Stunt Coordinator - Chuck (2 Emmys: 2008- 2009), Nash Bridges (122 eps.), The Shield (26 eps.), Vanishing Son 1-4, Pearl Harbor, Minority Report, The Wedding Planner, Spider-Man, Hulk, Fantastic Four. Actor - Days Of Our Lives (1984-1990)cancer - aged 62
-
2020-09-15Militaryleukemia - aged 82
-
2020-09-15Noted Civil War and World War II Historian. WWII Marine, 3rd Raider Battalion (Battle of Guadalcanal), Chief historian for the National Park Service 1981 - 1994aged 97
-
2020-09-15Conductoraged 94
-
2020-09-15WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. US Navy
-
2020-09-15President of Mali from 1968 to 1991aged 83
-
2020-09-15Co-Pilot on first 747 test flightaged 96
-
2020-09-14Japanese actress, TV-serie: Riaru kurozu. Movies: Kamu gaiden, Kazura, Kingu gemusuicide - aged 36
-
2020-09-14Songwriter (w/Joel Hirschhorn) - The Morning After (from The Poseidon Adventure, Oscar win), We May Never Love Like This Again (from The Towering Inferno, Oscar win), Pete's Dragon score & song, Candle On The Water (Oscar noms. for both)aged 83
-
2020-09-14An American former professional baseball catcher, manager and coach. Dennis Sommers spent the first 18 years of his baseball career as a player and manager in the San Francisco Giants' farm systemaged 81
-
2020-09-14Former Football Player. Played 1960-1961. Was a Defensive End and Kicker
-
2020-09-13Actress
-
2020-09-13swimmer
-
2020-09-13Minor league ball playeraged 46, COVID-19
-
2020-09-13WWII: B-29 tail gunner in the Pacific- and China-Burma-India-Theater. He was assigned to a B-29 crew stationed in Guam. His plane 'The Uninvited' was called 'the last plane to bomb Japan.'aged 95
-
2020-09-13WWII: CBI. 1 Bn (White Combat Team) of the Merrillâ-™s Marauders aka Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a US Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit. Purple Heart. Bronze Staraged 96
-
2020-09-13German Olympic Heavyweight Boxer
-
2020-09-12Retired football player played for the chicago bears debut 1953aged 87
-
2020-09-12English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
-
2020-09-12NSW Premier in Australian from 1992 to 1995 during which time he was a key player in helping to bring the 2000 Olympics to SydneyCancer
-
2020-09-12German Actressaged 83
-
2020-09-12Actress - From Russia With Love (dubbed the voice of Daniela Bianchi), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ulysses, House of Elliott, The Ninth Gate, Lust for a Vampire, Hitler: The Last Ten Days
-
2020-09-12Jewel Thief Minister
-
2020-09-12Actor & Stuntman; one of his most iconic scenes shows him crashing into a window in The Poseidon Adventure (1972)aged 80
-
2020-09-12Pornstaraged 24
-
2020-09-11French movie and voice actor. French voice of 'ASTERIX',''C3PO','FRED FEUERSTEIN','KERMIT' etcaged 93
-
2020-09-11ActressCovid-19
-
2020-09-11Jamaican Reggae Singer
-
2020-09-11Opera Singer - Mezzo-Sopranoaged 62
-
2020-09-11Reggie Johnson (2) Jazz musicianaged 79
-
2020-09-11impact scientistaged 73
-
2020-09-1193 Year old German Historianaged 96
-
2020-09-11Singer with The Monotones who did 'Who Wrote the Book of Love', born September 11 1938
-
2020-09-10Former U.S. Shadow Senator for Washington, DC (1991-2007)aged 94
-
2020-09-10Actress-The Avengers,A Midsummers Night Dream,On Her Majesty's Secret Service,Theatre of Blood,The Serpent Son,Evil Under The Sun,Bleak House,Mother Love,Good Man in Africa,Zoya,Parting Shots,Mrs.Bradley Mysteries,Mystery!, The Great Muppet Caperaged 82
-
2020-09-10Barry Scott (2) Actor: Ernest goes to Jail, Existoaged 65
-
2020-09-09Activist, Writer. Born 1918; Was the first lady of Costa Rica during President Jose Figueres Ferrer first term. After divorcing him she moved back to the United States. Is the subject of the documentary Married to the Revolution,aged 102
-
2020-09-09Sex Educator/Author-Playboy June 1977aged 77
-
2020-09-09Of the 3 stooges, curlys grandsonBone cancer
-
2020-09-09undisputed middleweight boxing champaged 69
-
2020-09-09German former footballer
-
2020-09-09navy admiralaged 87
-
2020-09-09WWII: Tuskegee Airmen. Crew chief for the 332nd Fighter Groupaged 97
-
2020-09-08baseball ex. educator
-
2020-09-08WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition 5 (UTD5). Bronze Staraged 96
-
2020-09-08Screenwriter - The Diving Bell & The Butterfly, The Pianist, Being Julia, The Dresser, Australiaaged 85
