Celebrity Deaths in 2021

NOTED DEATHS 2021

JANUARY

Tanya Roberts – actress.

Tommy Lasorda – baseball player and manager.

Gregory Sierra – actor. “Sanford and Son”, “Barney Miller”.

Peter Mark Richman – actor.

Siegfried Fischbacher - famous partner of Roy Horn who performed magic acts in Las Vegas using many wild animals.

Phil Spector – musician and Hall of Fame record producer.

Don Sutton – Hall of Fame baseball player, sports broadcaster.

Jimmie Rodgers – pop singer. (“Kisses Sweeter than Wine”. “Honeycomb”).

Mark Wilson – magician and author.

Hank Aaron – Hall of Fame baseball player.

Hal Holbrook – actor.

Larry King – award-winning radio and TV host.

Cloris Leachman – award-winning actress.

Cicely Tyson – award-wining actress.


FEBRUARY

Dustin Diamond – actor. Played “Screech” Powers on the TV series “Saved by the Bell”.

Haya Harareet - actress. Appeared in “Ben-Hur” and “The Interns”.

Leon Spinks – boxer. WBA and WBC heavyweight champ in 1978.

Christopher Plummer – actor. “The Sound of Music”, “All the Money in the World”, The Thorn Birds.”

George Schultz – politician. Secretary of Labor (1969–70), Secretary of the Treasury (1972-74), Secretary of State (1982-89).

Larry Flynt – publisher. “Hustler” magazine.

Rush Limbaugh – radio host and political commentator.

Peter Gotti – member of the Gambino crime family.


MARCH

Walter Gretzky – ice hockey coach and father of hockey player Wayne Gretzky.

“Marvelous” Marvin Hagler – Hall of Fame boxer, middleweight champion (1980 – 87)

Elgin Baylor – Hall of Fame basketball player and coach.

George Segal – actor.

Jessica Walter – actress.

Larry McMurty – novelist and Academy Award winning screenwriter.

Beverly Cleary – Newberry Award winning children's author.

Bobby Brown – baseball player and executive. President of the American League (1984-94).

Bill Brock – politician. House of Representatives (1963 – 71), Senator (1971 – 77), Secretary of Labor (1985 – 87).

G. Gordon Liddy – FBI agent, convicted felon in the Watergate scandal and talk show host.


APRIL

Biff McGuire – actor. “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “Serpico”, “The Thomas Crown Affair”.

Gloria Henry – actress. Best known for playing the mother on the 1950's TV sit-com “Dennis the Menace”.

James Hampton – actor. Played Private Dobbs, the bugler, on TV sit-com “F-Troop” and the nuclear plant manager in the movie “The China Syndrome”, among other productions.

Prince Philip – Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

Ramsey Clark – attorney, activist and government official. U.S. Attorney General (1966 – 69).

Bernie Madoff - investment advisor, financier and convicted fraudster.

Hester Ford – oldest living American at 115 years old.

Walter Mondale – politician. U.S. senator (1964 – 76), Vice President (1977 – 81) ambassador and Presidential candidate.

Michael Collins – astronaut (Apollo 11), stayed in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon.

Johnny Crawford – actor and singer. Most famous for playing Mark McCain on TV series “The Rifleman”.

MAY

Olympia Dukakis – actress. Sister of politician Mile Dukakis.

Bobby Unser – Hall of Fame race car driver, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner.

Julie E. "Tawny" Kitaen - actress and model.

Bo – the Obama family pet dog.

Norman Lloyd - actor, producer and director

Paul Mooney – actor, comedian and writer.

Paul Soles – Canadian voice actor. Provided the voice of Hermey the Elf in the 1964 animated “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.

B. J. Thomas – Grammy Award winning singer.

Gavin McLeod – actor. Best known for playing Murray Slaughter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and Captain Stubing on “The Love Boat”.

Arlene Golonka – actress. Had roles in “The Andy Griffith Show”, “Mayberry R.F.D.” and “Hang 'Em High”.

JUNE

F. Lee Bailey – attorney, best know for his high-profile cases.

Clarence Williams III – actor.

John Gabriel – actor.

Bobby Unser, Jr. race car driver and horse breeder.

Ned Beatty – actor.

Billy Fuccillo – car dealer and entrepreneur.

Champ – President Biden's pet dog.

Jack Ingram – Hall of Fame NASCAR race car driver.

John Erman – Emmy-winning TV director.

Donald Rumsfeld – politician. Secretary of Defense (1975–1977, 2001–2006). House of Representatives (1963–1969).


JULY

Elliot Lawrence – jazz pianist and 9 time Emmy-winner.

Richard Donner – movie director and producer.

Robert Downey, Sr. - movie actor and director.

Jeff LaBarr – rock guitarist.

Charlie Robinson - actor.

Alfie Scopp – actor and voice-over artist. “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.

Jackie Mason – actor and comedian.

Dusty Hill – Hall of Fame musician and songwriter. Member of ZZ Top.

Ron Popeil – business man and entrepreneur. Hawked Ronco products on TV ads.

AUGUST

Jane Withers – actress.

Alex Cord – actor.

Tony Esposito – Hall of Fame hockey player. Stanley Cup champion of 1969.

Carolyn Shoemaker – astronomer. Co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet.

Tom T. Hall – singer and songwriter. Most famous for “Harper Valley P.T.A.”

Don Everly – singer and songwriter. With brother, Phil, made the singing duo The Everly Brothers.

Charlie Watts – drummer for the Rolling Stones.

Ed Asner – Emmy-winning actor.


SEPTEMBER

Willard Scott – TV personality, meteorologist on “Today”, original Ronald McDonald.

Art Metrano – actor and comedian.

Don Collier – actor.

Norm Macdonald – comedian, actor, screenwriter.

Jane Powell – actress.

Tim Donnelly – actor.

Melvin Van Peebles – movie director and playwright.

Peter Palmer – actor. Perhaps best remembered to portraying L'il Abner on the stage and the movie.

Willie Garson – actor.

Jay Sandrich – Emmy winning TV director.

Tommy Kirk – actor. Best known for playing “clean teen” characters in many Disney movies.

OCTOBER

Tony DeMarco – hall of fame boxer and 1955 welterweight champion.

Betty Lynn – actress. Best known for playing Thelma Lou, Barney Fife's girlfriend, on “The Andy Griffith Show”.

Colin Powell – American general and politician. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989 – 93), Secretary of State (2001-05).

Leslie Bricusse – Academy Award winning composer.

Peter Scolari – Emmy winning actor.

Sonny Osborne – bluegrass musician (Osborne Brothers).


NOVEMBER

Dean Stockwell – actor.

F. W. de Klerk – Nobel Prize-winning South African politician. President of South Africa 1989-94.

Peter Buck – co-founder of Subway restaurants.

Stephen Sondheim – Tony Award winning composer and lyricist.

Arlene Dahl – actress.


DECEMBER

Stonewall Jackson – country singer.

Bob Dole – politician. In the House of Representatives (1961-69) and Senate (1969-96)

Cara Williams – actress.

Al Unser – Hall of Fame race car driver. Won the Indy 500 four times.

Michael Nesmith – Grammy-winning musician and songwriter. Member of The Monkees.

Ann Rice – novelist. Wrote “The Vampire Chronicles”.

Sally Ann Howes – actress and singer.

Desmond Tutu – South African prelate, activist and Nobel Prize winner.

John Madden – Hall of Fame football coach and sportscaster.

Betty White – Multiple entertainment award-winning actress, activist.
 

The singer, William Dale Fries Jr, better known by his stage name C. W. McCall, passed away on April 1, 2022, aged 93.
According to reports, McCall died at his home after a long battle with cancer. Farewell Rubber Duck!
 

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