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Mar 18, 2025
Lenny Schultz (1933–2025), stand-up comedian
Lenny Schultz was a stand-up comedian whose frenetic physical comedy influenced later comedians like , , and Carrot Top.
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Feb 13, 2025
Tommy Hunt (1933–2025), Hall of Fame soul singer
Tommy Hunt was a soul singer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with The Flamingos, whose hits include “I Only Have Eyes for You.”
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Dec 11, 2024
Rocky Colavito (1933–2024), Cleveland’s great MLB slugger
Rocky Colavito was a popular Major League Baseball player with the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers in the 1950s and ‘60s, a six-time all-star who was one of the great sluggers of his era.
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Nov 25, 2024
Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933–2024), A Woman of Substance author
Barbara Taylor Bradford was a British-American author whose 35 best-selling novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.
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Nov 4, 2024
Quincy Jones (1933–2024), legendary music producer
Quincy Jones was a noted jazz musician, film composer, and one of the greatest music producers of the 20th century, working with Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), Dinah Washington (1924–1963), Michael Jackson (1958–2009), and other top musicians.
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Oct 30, 2024
Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal (1933–2024), famed Cuban trumpeter
Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal was a famed trumpeter best known for his work with Buena Vista Social Club, who sparked a renewed interest in Cuban music in the 1990s.
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Oct 23, 2024
Mimi Hines (1933–2024), Funny Girl star
Mimi Hines was an actress, singer, and comedian who stepped in to replace Barbra Streisand in the lead role of “Funny Girl” on Broadway.
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Oct 21, 2024
Philip G. Zimbardo (1933–2024), Stanford Prison Experiment researcher
Philip G. Zimbardo was a psychologist, professor and author best known as the researcher who created and administered the Stanford Prison Experiment.
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Oct 7, 2024
Cissy Houston (1933–2024), gospel singer and Whitney Houston’s mother
Cissy Houston was a legendary gospel and soul singer, as well as the mother of and the aunt of Dionne and .
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Sep 30, 2024
Bill Lucy (1933–2024), 1960s labor leader, civil rights activist
Bill Lucy was a labor leader and civil rights activist best known for his work during and after the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike.
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Sep 24, 2024
Al McCoy (1933–2024), longtime Phoenix Suns broadcaster
Al McCoy was a sports broadcaster best known for his 51 years as the play-by-play announcer for the Phoenix Suns, the longest tenure in NBA history.
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Sep 23, 2024
Kathryn Crosby (1933–2024), actress and Bing Crosby’s widow
Kathryn Crosby was the wife of actor and crooner for the last 20 years of his life, and she starred in such movies as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
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Jul 31, 2024
Bobby Banas (1933–2024), actor and dancer in West Side Story
Bobby Banas was a dancer, actor, and choreographer known for his work in “West Side Story,” “Mary Poppins,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” and other classic movie musicals.
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Jul 24, 2024
John Mayall (1933–2024), godfather of British blues
John Mayall was a British blues guitarist and bandleader who helped launch the careers of legends like Eric Clapton, , and Mick Taylor.
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Jun 12, 2024
Akira Endo (1933–2024), biochemist who found way to fight cholesterol
Akira Endo was a biochemist whose research led to the creation of cholesterol-fighting statin drugs, now some of the most widely prescribed pharmaceuticals in the world.
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Jun 10, 2024
William Anders (1933–2024), astronaut who took Earthrise photo
William Anders was an astronaut who orbited the moon on Apollo 8 and took the iconic “Earthrise” photograph from space.
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Jun 5, 2024
Parnelli Jones (1933–2024), 1963 Indy 500 winner
Parnelli Jones was a racing driver who won the 1963 Indianapolis 500 and was a two-time champion at the Baja 1000 desert race.
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May 14, 2024
Mark Damon (1933–2024), House of Usher star
Mark Damon was an actor and producer who starred in “House of Usher” and went on to a groundbreaking career in independent film distribution.
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Apr 29, 2024
Bob Cole (1933–2024), Hall of Fame hockey broadcaster
Bob Cole was a Hall of Fame hockey commentator who was a mainstay on Canadian NHL broadcasts for 50 years.
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Mar 26, 2024
Lisa Lane (1933–2024), news-making chess champion
Lisa Lane was the U.S. Women’s Chess Champion in the 1950s and ‘60s and the first chess player featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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Mar 26, 2024
Ron Harper (1933–2024), Planet of the Apes TV show star
Ron Harper was an actor who starred in such TV shows as “Land of the Lost,” “Planet of the Apes,” and “Garrison’s Gorillas.”
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Feb 20, 2024
Randy Sparks (1933–2024), founder of the New Christy Minstrels
Randy Sparks was a singer-songwriter who founded the New Christy Minstrels, a group that was part of the 1960s folk revival, and whose Grammy Award-winning debut was on the charts for two years.
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Feb 6, 2024
José Delbo (1933–2024), Wonder Woman, Transformers artist
José Delbo was a comic book artist for seven decades, arguably best known for his work on “Wonder Woman,” “The Transformers,” and “Billy the Kid.”
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Jan 31, 2024
Jean Carnahan (1933–2024), Missouri’s first female U.S. senator
Jean Carnahan represented Missouri in the U.S. Senate and was the former first lady of Missouri.
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Jan 30, 2024
Chita Rivera (1933–2024), Broadway star of West Side Story
Chita Rivera was a Broadway star who won two Tony Awards and originated such roles as Anita in “West Side Story” and Velma Kelly in “Chicago.”
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Jan 29, 2024
Sandra Milo (1933–2024), star of Fellini’s 8½
Sandra Milo was an Italian actress best known for her roles in “8½” and “Juliet of the Spirits,” both of which won Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress awards.
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Jan 24, 2024
Charles Osgood (1933–2024), longtime CBS News Sunday Morning host
Charles Osgood was the host of “CBS News Sunday Morning” from 1994 to 2016 and the host of radio’s “The Osgood File” for close to 50 years.
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Jan 23, 2024
Arno A. Penzias (1933–2024), Nobel winner for Big Bang theory
Arno A. Penzias was a scientist who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that helped prove the Big Bang theory.
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Jan 9, 2024
Phill Niblock (1933–2024), experimental composer and filmmaker
Phill Niblock was an experimental composer and filmmaker known for creating a vast catalog of challenging music and films featuring minimalist drones and tonal experiments.
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Jan 2, 2024
Ana Ofelia Murguía (1933–2023), Disney’s voice of Mamá Coco
Ana Ofelia Murguía was a Mexican actress who provided the voice of Mamá Coco in the 2017 Disney-Pixar feature “Coco.”
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Dec 8, 2023
Juanita Castro (1933–2023), anti-communist sister of Fidel Castro
Juanita Castro was an anti-communist activist and author who opposed her brothers, Cuban leaders Fidel Castro and Raíºl Castro, and Cuban Revolution leader Ramón Castro.
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Nov 17, 2023
Johnny Green (1933–2023), four-time NBA all-star
Johnny Green was a four-time NBA All-Star who was a star player with the New York Knicks from 1959 to 1965, and who made the All-Star team his final time at the age of 37.
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Oct 17, 2023
Florine Mark (1933–2023), former Weight Watchers president and CEO
Florine Mark was a businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a former president and CEO of Weight Watchers.
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Sep 29, 2023
Dianne Feinstein (1933–2023), U.S. senator from California
Dianne Feinstein was a Democratic U.S. senator from California, who served six terms in Congress from 1992 to her death.
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Sep 26, 2023
David McCallum (1933–2023), star of NCIS, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
David McCallum was a Scottish actor who played secret agent Ilya Kuryakin in the 1960s spy series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and later starred as medical examiner Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on “NCIS.”
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Aug 23, 2023
Tom Courtney (1933–2023), Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter
Tom Courtney was an Olympic sprinter known for a last-second victory in the 800-meter race at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
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Aug 16, 2023
Léa Garcia (1933–2023), Brazilian actress in Black Orpheus
Léa Garcia was a Brazilian actress best known for the Academy Award-winning 1959 film “Black Orpheus.”
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Jun 27, 2023
Nicolas Coster (1933–2023), Santa Barbara star
Nicolas Coster was an actor best known for his role as Lionel Lockridge in the soap opera “Santa Barbara.”
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Jun 16, 2023
Donald Triplett (1933–2023), first person diagnosed with autism
Donald Triplett was the first person ever diagnosed with autism.
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Jun 13, 2023
Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road
Cormac McCarthy was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for novels including “The Road,” “Blood Meridian,” and “All the Pretty Horses.”
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May 30, 2023
Gary Kent (1933–2023), stuntman inspired Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Gary Kent, the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” was an actor and stuntman in grindhouse and independent films.
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May 15, 2023
Doyle Brunson (1933–2023), Hall of Fame poker player
Doyle Brunson was a Hall of Fame poker player who was the first to win $1 million and was widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the game.
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May 12, 2023
Lisa Montell (1933–2023), actress in TV westerns
Lisa Montell was an actress known for roles in early TV westerns and in such movies as “World Without End.”
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Apr 10, 2023
Elizabeth Hubbard (1933–2023), longtime As the World Turns star
Elizabeth Hubbard was an actress who starred in the soap operas “The Doctors” and “As the World Turns.”
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Mar 10, 2023
Robert Blake (1933–2023), star of In Cold Blood, Baretta
Robert Blake was an actor who starred in movies and TV shows including “In Cold Blood” and “Baretta” before being acquitted of killing his wife in 2001.
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Mar 6, 2023
Ted Donaldson (1933–2023), child star in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ted Donaldson was a child star of the 1940s known for movies including “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” and the Rusty series.
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Mar 2, 2023
Wayne Shorter (1933–2023), jazz saxophonist who co-founded Weather Report
Wayne Shorter was an iconic jazz saxophonist with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the Miles Davis Quintet, and Weather Report.
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Mar 2, 2023
Irma Serrano (1933–2023), Mexico’s La Tigresa singer and actress
Irma Serrano was a Mexican singer, actress, and politician known as La Tigresa.
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Feb 6, 2023
George R. Robertson (1933–2023), Police Academy’s Chief Hurst
George R. Robertson was an actor best known for playing Chief/Commissioner Henry Hurst in the first six “Police Academy” movies.
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Dec 30, 2022
Ian Tyson (1933–2022), “Four Strong Winds” singer and songwriter
Ian Tyson was a Canadian singer and songwriter with the duo Ian & Sylvia who wrote the folk standard “Four Strong Winds.”
