Celebrity Deaths in 2020

JANUARY

David Stern – sports executive, commissioner of the NBA 1984–2014.

Don Larsen – baseball player.

Buck Henry – actor, screenwriter and director.

Edd Byrnes - actor, singer. Famous for playing Kookie on TV series “77 Sunset Strip”.

Jack Van Impe – televangelist.

Empire Maker – racehorse. Winner 0f the 2003 Belmont.

Terry Jones – Welsh comic actor, director, screenwriter and historian. Famous for roles in Monty Python.

Jim Lehrer – TV news journalist (PBS News Hour).

Kobe Bryant – legendary basketball player.

Jack Burns – stand up comic (Burns & Schrieber) and actor.

Mary Higgins Clark – author.


FEBRUARY

Gene Reynolds – TV producer (“Lou Grant”, “M*A*S*H”).

Kirk Douglas – actor.

Orson Bean - actor, game show panelist.

Robert Conrad - actor.

Paula Kelly – actress and dancer.

Kellye Nakahara – actress. Portrayed Nurse Kellye in the TV series “M*A*S*H”.

Clive Cussler – adventurer and novelist.

Hosni Mubarak – Egyptian politician, President of Egypt 1981–2011.


MARCH


James Lipton – TV host, actor and writer.

Max von Sydow – actor.

War Emblem – race horse. Winner of the 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

Stuart Whitman – actor.

Lyle Waggoner – actor.

Kenny Rogers – singer, songwriter and actor.

Curly Neal – basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters

Bill Withers- singer and songwriter.

Julie Bennett – actress.


APRIL


Honor Blackman – English actress.

Al Kaline – Hal of Fame baseball player and broadcaster.

James Drury – actor known mainly for his role on the TV western “The Virginian”.

Linda Tripp – government employee best know for exposing the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.

Mort Drucker – cartoonist for “Mad” magazine.

Brian Dennehy – actor.

Willie Davis – football player.

Tom Lester – actor. Played Eb Dawson on TV series “Green Acres”.

Shirley Knight – actress.

India Adams – actress and singer.

Peter H. Hunt – movie, theater and Broadway director.


MAY


Don Shula – football player (Colts, Browns) and coach (Dolphins)

Little Richard – Hall of Fame singer, composer and musician.

Jerry Stiller – comedian and actor.

Phyllis George – 1971 Miss American and pioneer woman sportscaster.

Fred Willard – actor and comedian.

Ken Osmond – police officer and actor, best remembered for playing Eddie Haskell on “Leave it to Beaver”.


JUNE


Charles Webb – novelist; “The Graduate”.

Vera Lynn – British vocalist popular in the 1940s; “White Cliffs of Dover” and “Till We Meet Again” were big hits for her.

Carl Reiner – actor, writer, director and producer. Father of actor and director Rob Reiner.

Johnny Mandel – Grammy winning composer. “Suicide is Painless”, “The Shadow of Your Smile”.


JULY

Hugh Downs – TV personality, game show host.

Charlie Daniels – Grammy Award winning country music singer, songwriter and musician.

Kelly Preston – actress.

Grant Imahara – engineer and TV personality (“MythBusters”).

John Robert Lewis – politician and civil right leader.

Charles Evers – civil right activist, DJ and politician.

Regis Philbin – TV personality, game and talk show host.

Olivia de Havilland – Academy Award winning actress.

Bent Fabric – songwriter, perhaps most famous for “Alley Cat”.


AUGUST


Wilford Brimley – actor.

Robert Trump – business executive. Younger brother of Donald Trump.


SEPTEMBER

Diana Rigg – Award-winning British actress.

Al Kasha – Oscar-winning composer “The Morning After, “We May Never Love Like This Again”.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg – jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jay Johnstone – baseball player and sports commentator.

Helen Reddy – Grammy Award-winning singer, actress.

Mac Davis – singer, songwriter, actor.


OCTOBER

Bob Gibson – Hall of Fame baseball player.

Eddie Van Halen – Hall of Fame and Grammy winning musician and songwriter.

Tommy Rall – actor and dancer. Appeared in the musical movies “Kiss Me Kate” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” among others.

Johnny Nash – singer and songwriter - “Tears on My Pillow”, “I Can See Clearly Now”.

Sentaor Joe Bruno - member (1977–2008) and majority leader (1994–2008) of the New York State Senate.

Tom Kennedy – game show host (“Name at Tune”, “Password Plus”, “You Don't Say”)

Whitey Ford – Hall of Fame baseball player, Cy Young winner (1961) and World Series champion.

Rhonda Fleming – actress.

Marge Champion – actress, dancer.

Sir Sean Connery – Academy Award-winning actor.


NOVEMBER

Norm Crosby – comedian and actor.

Alex Trebek – Emmy-winning TV personality. Game show host: “High Rollers”, “Concentration”, “Jeopardy!”.

Des O'Connor - English comedian, singer an TV host.

David Dinkins – politician. Mayor of NYC (1990-93), member of NYS Assembly (1966).

Abby Dalton – actress.

David Prowse – English actor. Was the man behind the Darth Vader mask in “Star Wars”.


DECEMBER


Pamela Tiffin – actress and model.

Warren Berlinger – actor.

David Lander – actor. Played Squiggy on TV show “Laverne and Shirley”.

Chuck Yeager – test pilot. First person to break the sound barrier.

Charlie Pride – Hall of Fame singer, guitarist, baseball player.

Phyllis McGuire – singer. One of the McGuire Sisters group popular in the 1950s.

Pierre Cardin – fashion designer.

Dawn Wells – actress. Best know for playing Mary Ann Summers on “Gilligan's Island”.
 


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