Notable Deaths 2023

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Ricou Browning, actor of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, 93:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235337925/

Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson's follower who helped send him to prison, 73:
https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... rison-dies

Terry Holland, legendary college basketball coach, 80:
https://apnews.com/article/indiana-pace ... f5617f1832

Irving Wardle, British theatre critic and author, died over a week ago at age 93.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/ ... e-obituary

John Olver, longtime Massachusetts governor, also died over a week ago at age 86.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/john-olver ... n/43073350

Ryuho Okawa, founder of the Happy Science cult, 66:
https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/happy-sci ... kawa-dies/

James Abourzek, first Arab-American Senator, died last week on his 92nd birthday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/obit ... -dead.html

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Steve Mackey, Pulp bassist, died suddenly at age 56. R.I.P.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234689575/

Wayne Shorter, jazz innovator, 89:
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/remember ... al-tracks/

Julian af Grann, Finnish film director, died about two months ago at age 78 [link is in Finnish, though].
https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009429398.html

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Tom Sizemore, actor of Saving Private Ryan and Heat, died of a brain aneurysm at age 61. R.I.P.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tom ... 02840.html

David Lindley, soft rock multi-instrumentalist, 78:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 234690754/

Wally Fawkes, British-Canadian jazz musician and artist, 98:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/ ... mic-strip/

Mary Bauermeister, German artist, 88:
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/m ... 234659395/

Judith Heumann, disability rights activist, 75:
https://apnews.com/article/judy-heumann ... 2da929af77

Jatonne Sterling, Clark Atlanta University baseball player, was shot dead over a week ago at age 20. R.I.P.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/other ... ested.html

Barbara Everitt Bryant, first woman to head the U.S. census, 96:
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/03/10720573 ... ara-bryant

Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, 71:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/entertai ... index.html

Pedro Rodrigues Filho, Brazil's serial killer, was shot dead at 68.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/ ... -shot-dead

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Jerry Richardson, founder of the Carolina Panthers, died over a week ago at age 86.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/spor ... -dead.html

Camille Souter, Irish artist and sculptor, 93:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/ ... s-aged-93/

Jay Weston, producer of Lady Sings the Blues, died over a week ago at age 93.
https://variety.com/2023/film/obituarie ... 235542470/

Phil Batt, Idaho governor, 96:
https://apnews.com/article/idaho-govern ... 82e790a708

Georgina Beyer, New Zealand's transgender Labour Party politician, 65:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 023-03-06/

Chaim Topol, actor of Fiddler on the Roof, 87:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/entertai ... index.html

Margaret "Mystic Meg" Lake, British TV and newspaper astrologer, 80:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... garet-lake

Robert Blake, actor of In Cold Blood and Lost Highway, 89:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/entertai ... index.html

Ian Falconer, Olivia creator and stage designer, 63:
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/11618034 ... ies-olivia

Earvin Johnson, Magic Johnson's father, 88:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/100 ... ou-forever

John Nagenda, Ugandan writer, politician, and cricketer, 84:
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/n ... 84-4145978

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Traute Lafrenz, German resistance fighter and chemist, died a week-and-a-half ago at age 103.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... s-aged-103

Jerry "Napoleon XIV" Samuels, songwriter known for the hit single "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!", 84:
https://bestclassicbands.com/jerry-samu ... v-3-10-23/

Bud Grant, Hall of Fame football coach, 95:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/358 ... areer-dies

Costa Titch (Constantinos Tsobanoglou), South African rapper, died suddenly at age 28. R.I.P.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/africa/c ... index.html

Jesús Alou, Dominican Major League outfielder, 80:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/358 ... ou-dies-80

Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina, died over a week ago on the day before her 84th birthday. R.I.P.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/a ... thday.html

Dick Fosbury, the "Fosbury Flop" high-jumper, 76:
https://apnews.com/article/fosbury-flop ... 5545466d86

Felton Spencer, former NBA first-round draft pick, died suddenly at age 55.
https://www.si.com/nba/2023/03/13/forme ... er-dies-55

Patricia Schroeder, former U.S. Representative, 82:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics ... index.html

Jeff Thomas, a model with a big social media following, took his own life at age 35. R.I.P.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/15/model-je ... s-suicide/

Bobby Caldwell, R&B singer, 71:
https://pitchfork.com/news/r-and-b-sing ... ies-at-71/

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Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel laureate and critic of post-war Japan, died two weeks ago at age 88.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/book ... -dead.html

Vera Selby, British snooker pioneer, 93:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/snooker/64962256

Phillida Barlow, British visual artist and sculptor, died five days ago at age 78.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/arts ... -dead.html

Joe Pepitone, Yankees' All-Star "favorite of generations", 82:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jo ... -rcna74815

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Lance Reddick, star of The Wire and John Wick, 60:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/entertai ... index.html

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Jiang Yanyong, Chinese SARS whistleblower, died almost a week ago at age 91.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/11638265 ... k-dies-at-

John Jakes, best-selling author of historical novels, died almost a week ago at age 90.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... ies-at-90/

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Jacqueline Gold, British executive chair of Gold Group International, Ann Summers, and Knickerbox, 62:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64986528

Peter Hardy, Australian actor of McLeod's Daughters, was drowned at a Western Australia beach at age 66. R.I.P.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... lian-beach

Paul Grant, character actor of the Star Wars and Harry Potter series, 56:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pau ... 04859.html

Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, 96:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/earl-crawford ... 47573.html

Gloria Dea, actress and Las Vegas Strip magician, died almost a week ago at age 100.
https://apnews.com/article/obituary-glo ... 33a2cade0f

Iuri Lapicus, MMA fighter, was killed in a motorcycle crash at age 27. R.I.P.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/20/mma-figh ... ash-italy/

Bryn Hargreaves, former rugby league player, was found dead at age 37, over a year after he had gone missing. R.I.P.
https://sports.yahoo.com/body-missing-f ... 44796.html

Francesco Maselli, influential Italian auteur, 92:
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/francesc ... 07190.html

Willis Reed, New York Knicks legend, 80:
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/359 ... ed-dies-80

Norman Steinberg, co-writer of Blazing Saddles, died over a week ago at age 83.
https://people.com/movies/norman-steinberg-dead-at-83/

Wayne Swinny, guitarist of Saliva, died of a brain hemorrhage at age 59.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/22/saliva-g ... dead-dies/

Ron Joseph, AFL legend, succumbed to cancer at age 77.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/ ... 2e076478ff

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Jeffrey Vandergrift, San Francisco DJ, was found dead at age 55 a month after he went missing. R.I.P.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sa ... -rcna76407

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Leroy Raffel, Arby's co-founder, 96:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/leroy-raff ... r-dead-96/

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Virginia Zeani, Romanian-born opera singer, 97:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/arts ... -dead.html

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and chip industry legend, died last week at age 94.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1671252 ... at-94.html

Xavier López "Chabelo" Rodríguez, Mexican-American actor, 88:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55734398

Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Andrew Lloyd Webber's son, succumbed to gastric cancer almost a week ago at age 43.
https://apnews.com/article/andrew-lloyd ... 40e8edfc6a

Michael Reaves, TV, prose, and comics writer, died a week-and-a-half at age 72.
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/ ... eves-obit/

Darcelle XV, world's oldest drag queen, 92:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/26/entertai ... index.html

Lucy Salani, Italian transgender Holocaust survivor, died over a week ago at age 98.
https://www.unionesarda.it/en/italy/luc ... d-ixucrbwe

Frank LeMaster, Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl linebacker, died over a week ago at age 71.
https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/ ... as-died-71

Paul O'Grady, beloved British TV host and comedian, 67:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/entertai ... index.html

Yang Bing-yi, founder of Din Tai Fung, one of the world's biggest dumpling empires, 96:
https://news.yahoo.com/yang-bing-yi-fou ... 40203.html

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William Wulf, computer pioneer who opened a way for the Internet, died three weeks ago (March 10) at age 83.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/tech ... -dead.html

Keith Reid, Procol Haurm's lyricist, 76:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/ ... es-aged-76

Nick Galifianakis, former congressman and Senate candidate, 94:
https://apnews.com/article/north-caroli ... 90902cab2c

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Mike Berlyn, game developer for Infocom and Accolade, 73:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/o ... -at-age-73

Brian Gillis, LFO singer, died suddenly at age 47. R.I.P.
https://pitchfork.com/news/lfo-singer-b ... ies-at-47/

Bernadette Hunt, Gladiators star known as "Falcon", 59:
https://news.sky.com/story/gladiators-s ... r-12846364

Peter Usborne, Private Eye co-founder and publisher, 85:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... dies-at-85

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Mark Russell, piano-playing political satirist, 90:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/arts ... at-90.html

Emil Bocek, last Czech RAF pilot during WWII, died almost two weeks ago at age 100.
https://apnews.com/article/czech-pilot- ... b0bf3e8f0a

Mary-Brian Clarke, the late model Jeremy Ruehlemann's girlfriend, died suddenly at age 24. R.I.P.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mod ... 00972.html

George Nagobads, 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team physician, 101:
https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2023/03/ ... le-on-ice/

Howell Wayans, Marlon Wayans' father, 86:
https://www.etonline.com/howell-wayans- ... ute-202017

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-winning Japanese composer, 71:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ryuic ... index.html

Virginia Norwood, pioneer in satellite land imaging, died almost two weeks ago at age 96.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/11673757 ... -nasa-died

Seymour Stein, Sire Records co-founder who signed Madonna and The Ramones, 80:
https://pitchfork.com/news/seymour-stei ... ies-at-80/

Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Indigenous Australian activist, 74:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-giant ... 5cuyc.html

James Bowman, British countertenor, died over a week ago at age 81.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/ ... n-obituary