I know this post is coming almost 5 months after 2017 started and actually after the 45th President of the United States has been inaugurated, but I finally had some time to look over what had happened to us and geeks everywhere during the year of 2016.
Truthfully, what the hell happened last year?? Was everything just prearranged that most of the people I either listened to or watched while I was growing up were going to pass away during the same 12 month period? If you were living in a hole last year like a hermit, or if you just weren’t paying attention to the news at all, I just wanted to post a list of all of the wonderful people that we lost during 2016.
- Robert Stigwood – Australian band manager and film producer (Bee Gees, Cream, Grease, Saturday Night Fever)
- Nicholas Caldwell – American R&B singer (The Whispers)
- Pat Harrington Jr. – Voice, stage, and TV actor (One Day at a Time)
- Troy Shondell – singer for Liberty Records (known for “This Time”)
- Kitty Kallen – singer from the 1930s to the 1960s
- Angus Scrimm – actor and author (played the Tall Man in 1979 horror film “Phantasm”)
- David Bowie
- David Margulies – American actor
- Brian Bedford – Tony award nominated stage actor (Shakespearean work)
- Alan Rickman
- Rene Angelil – Music producer and married to Celine Dion
- Dan Haggerty – American actor (played Grizzly Adams)
- Noreen Corcoran – American actress, dancer, and singer (co-starred on “Bachelor Father”)
- Glen Frey – American singer and songwriter (founding member of “Eagles)
- Abe Vigoda – American character actor (Salvatore Tessil in “The Godfather” and Phil Fish in “Barney Miller”
- Paul Kantner – American guitarist, singer, and songwriter (co-found “Jefferson Airplane”)
- Mike Minor – American actor (Steve Elliott on “Petticoat Junction”)
- Bob Elliot – American actor and comedian (one-half of the comedy duo “Bob and Ray”)
- Maurice White – American singer, songwrite, musician (founder of “Earth, Wind & Fire)
- Joe Alaskey – American actor, voice artist, and impressionist (successor of Mel Blanc at Warner Bros. Animation)
- Joe Dowell – American pop singer
- Antonin Scalia – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
- George Gaynes – Singe, actor, comedian (Eric Lassard in “Police Academy” series)
- Vanity – Canadian singer, songwriter (real name Denise Matthews)(Lead singer of “Vanity 6”)
- Tom Mullica – American comedy magician
- Harper Lee – American novelist (“To Kill a Mockingbird”)
- Yolande Fox – Miss America 1951
- Sonny James – American country music singer
- Lennie Baker – American singer (saxophone player for “Danny and the Juniors”)
- Tony Burton – American actor, boxer, and football player (Tony “Duke” Evers in the Rocky franchise)
- George Kennedy – American actor (“Cool Hand Luke”)
- Gil Hill – Police Officer, Actor (Beverly Hills Cop)
- Joey Martin Feek – American country music singer
- Nancy Reagan – American actress and wife of Ronald Reagan
- Sir George Martin – English record producer (referred to as the “Fifth Beatle”)
- Robert Horton – American TV and stage actor
- Keith Emerson – English musician and composer (founding member of “Emerson, Lake & Palmer”)
- Frank Sinatra Jr.
- Larry Drake – American actor, voice actor, and comedian (Darkman series)
- Peter Brown – American actor (ABC’s Lawman)
- Rob Ford – 64th Mayor of Toronto
- Richard Bradford – American actor (“Man in a Suitcase”)
- Joe Garagiola – Baseball player (catcher/announcer)
- Ken Howard – American actor, President of SAG
- Earl Hamner Jr. – American TV writer/producer (“The Waltons”)
- Garry Shandling – American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer
- Mother Angelica – founder of EWTN
- Merle Haggard – American singer/songwriter (“The Strangers”
- Doris Roberts – American actress (“Everybody Loves Raymond”)
- Chyna – Professional wrestler
- Prince
- Lonnie Mack McIntosh – American rock, blues, and country singer/guitarist
- Madeleine Sherwood – Canadian actress
- William Schallert – American character actor
- Morley Safer – Canadian/American broadcast journalist for CBS News
- Alan Young – American actor (Wilbur on “Mister Ed”)
- Burt Kwouk – British actor (Cato in “Pink Panther”)
- Patty Duke – American actress (Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker”
- Muhammad Ali
- Gordie Howe
- Christina Grimmie – American singer/songwriter (“The Voice”
- Michu Meszaros – Hungarian actor (“ALF”)
- Ann Guilbert – American actress (“The Dick Van Dyke Show” “The Nanny”)
- Ronnie Claire Edwards – American actress (“The Waltons”)
- Ron Lester – American actor (“Varsity Blues”)
- Anton Yelchin – American actor (Pavel Chekov in “Star Trek” reboot)
- Mack Rice – “Mustang Sally”
- Buddy Ryan – Football coach
- Pat Summitt – Tennessee Lady Vols head coach
- Michael Cimino – Film director for “The Deer Hunter”
- Elie Wiesel – Romanian-born Jewish writer, Holocause survivor (“Night”)
- Noel Neill – American actress (Lois Lane in “Superman” (1948))
- Garry Marshall – American actor/director (Creator of “Happy Days”)
- Ricci Martin – American musician, son of Dean Martin
- John Saunders – Canadian/American sports journalist (ESPN)
- Alexis Arquette
- Michel Richard
- Kenny Baker
- Fyvush Finkel
- John McLaughlin
- James Woolley
- Jack Riley
- Steven Hill
- Jeanne Martin
- Marvin Kaplan
- Juan Gabriel
- Gene Wilder
- Jon Polito
- Hugh O’Brian
- James Stacy
- Charmian Carr
- Bill Nunn
- Jean Shepard
- Jose Fernandez
- Arnold Palmer
- Shimon Peres
- Thomas Ford
- Kevin Meaney
- Pete Burns
- Bobby Vee
- Tammy Grimes
- Kay Starr
- Janet Reno
- Leonard Cohen
- Robert Vaughn
- Leon Russell
- Gwen Ifill
- Holly Dunn
- Mose Allison
- Sharon Jones
- Florence Henderson
- Fidel Castro
- Ron Glass
- Fritz Weaver
- Van Williams
- Jim Delligatti
- Keo Woolford
- Grant Tinker
- Don Calfa
- Billy Chapin
- Rashaan Salaam
- Greg Lake
- Joseph Mascolo
- John Glenn
- Alan Thicke
- Bernard Fox – Welsh actor – “Bewitched”, “Hogan’s Heroes”, “Andy Griffith Show”
- Craig Sager
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Gordie Tapp – Canadian entertainer, known as a radio and TV presenter, comedian and a CBS broadcaster
- Michele Morgan – French film actress
- Rick Parfitt – English musician for band Status Quo
- Liz Smith – English character actress (Betty Gleadle, MBE)
- Richard Adams – English novelist
- George Michael
- Vera Rubin – American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates
- Alphonse Mouzon – American jazz fusion drummer and owner of Tenacious Records
- George S. Irving – American actor, known for character roles on Broadway
- Ricky Harris – American producer, actor and comedian
- Carrie Fisher
- Debbie Reynolds
- William Christopher – American actor (Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle and Father Mulcahy on “M*A*S*H”)
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