Jessie Smith (November 28, 1941 – February 4, 2021) was an American R&B vocalist. She began her career singing with musician Benny Sharp, recording as Little Miss Jessie, and became best known as one of the original Ikettes in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. She later sang backing vocals...
Bernard Peter "Randy" Randolph (July 10, 1933 – January 4, 2021) was a United States Air Force General who served as commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC) from 1987 to 1990. Randolph was born in 1933, in New Orleans. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Xavier...
Kenneth Z. Altshuler (April 11, 1929 – January 6, 2021) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Kenneth Altshuler was born on April 11, 1929, in...
Burt Wilson (January 24, 1933 – January 6, 2021) was an American philosopher, writer, broadcaster, jazz musician, political activist, playwright, and former advertising executive. Wilson died from complications of COVID-19 on January 6, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.
Donald "Dee" Rowe (December 22, 1929 – January 10, 2021) was an American college basketball coach. He coached for the UConn Huskies men's team and was a university Athletics Ambassador, fundraising for college athletic programs. Rowe was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Worcester Academy in 1947. He married...
Harvey Phillip Spector (December 26, 1939 – January 16, 2021) was an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who is best known for his innovative recording practices and entrepreneurship in the 1960s, followed decades later by his two trials and conviction for murder in the 2000s. Spector developed the Wall...
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American television and radio host, whose awards included two Peabodys, an Emmy and ten Cable ACE Awards. Over his career, he hosted over 50,000 interviews. King was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area...
Irwin "Sonny" Fox (June 17, 1925 – January 24, 2021) was an American television host and broadcaster who was the host of the children's television program, Wonderama. Through his career he had hosted other children's educational and entertainment shows including Let's Take a Trip, Just for Fun and On Your...
Ronald David Johnson (March 23, 1956 – January 26, 2021) was an American baseball player, coach and minor league manager. From 2012 through 2018, he managed the Norfolk Tides of the International League, Triple-A farm system affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. His 2018 season with Norfolk was his 14th season...
Sandra "Sandie" Crisp (January 13, 1960 – January 27, 2021), better known by her stage name The Goddess Bunny, was an American entertainer, drag queen, actor, and model. Footage of Crisp tap dancing, originally recorded around 1987, was the subject of one of the first viral videos. She died of...
Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedienne whose career spanned more than seven decades. She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history....
Young Kwok "Corky" Lee (September 5, 1947 – January 27, 2021) was a Chinese American activist, community organizer, photographer, journalist. Lee was also the unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate. His work chronicled and explored the diversity and nuances of Asian American culture often ignored and overlooked by mainstream media and...
Jonathan Southworth Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor. The son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter, Ritter is known for playing Jack Tripper on the ABC sitcom Three's Company (1977–1984), for which he received...