Derrick Gaffney (1955–2025), New York Jets wide receiver

Derrick Gaffney was a wide receiver for the New York Jets in the 1970s and ‘80s.

Lynda Gravátt (1947–2024), Broadway star who appeared in Law & Order

Lynda Gravátt was an actress known for her Broadway career as well as for roles in such TV shows as “Law & Order” and “The Hoop Life.” 

Vivian Trimble (1963–2023), keyboardist for Luscious Jackson

Vivian Trimble was the keyboardist and a pivotal member of the alternative group Luscious Jackson, best known for their song, “Naked Eye.”

Andrés García (1941–2023), Mexican actor and telenovela star 

Andrés García was a Mexican actor who became a Latin American icon in the 1960s and ‘70s, with roles in over 50 films and many popular telenovelas.

Sue Thomas (1950–2022), pioneering FBI lip-reader

Sue Thomas was the first deaf person to work with the FBI as a lip-reader and inspired the TV show “Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye.”

Fred Franzia (1943–2022), “Two Buck Chuck” winemaker

Fred Franzia was the co-founder of Bronco Wine Company, best known for their affordable “Two Buck Chuck” Charles Shaw brand.

Cynthia Albritton (1947–2022), artist known as Cynthia Plaster Caster

Cynthia Albritton was a pop artist known as Cynthia Plaster Caster for her casts of rock stars’ penises.

Diana Maxwell, Lady Farnham (1931–2021), lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth

Diana Maxwell, Lady Farnham , was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for 34 years.

Michael Lonsdale (1931–2020), played Bond villain Hugo Drax in “Moonraker”

Michael Lonsdale was a French actor whose notable roles included Hugo Drax, the villain in the 1979 James Bond film “Moonraker.”

Timmy Brown (1937–2020), legendary Philadelphia Eagles running back

Timmy Brown was a star running backand kickreturnerfor the Philadelphia Eagles.He led the NFL in all-purpose yardsin 1962 and 1963.

Ken Flach (1963 – 2018), won 6 Grand Slam doubles titles

Flach and Robert Seguso won 28 men’s doubles titles…

Tommy Page (1970 - 2017), I'll Be Your Everything singer

Tommy Page, who sang the No. 1 hit “I’ll Be Your Everything” and later became a music executive, died Friday, March 3, 2017, in New York City, according to multiple news sources. He was 46. Billboard.com reported that Page died of an apparent suicide. He had previously been the publisher of Billboard magazine. “We are all mourning the loss of our friend and colleague Tommy Page,” Billboard Entertainment Group President John Amato said in a statement. “He was a magnetic soul and a true entertainer. Our thoughts are with his family.” Page had a No. 1 hit with the song “I’ll Be Your Everything” in 1990. The song was co-written with Jordan Knight and Danny Wood of the group New Kids on the Block. Fellow New Kid Donnie Wahlberg and Knight also helped produce the track.

William Trevor (1928 - 2016), award-winning Irish writer

William Trevor, the award-winning Irish novelist, playwright, and author of short stories, died Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in England, according to multiple news sources. He was 88. Trevor was a three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize (now known as the Costa Book Awards). He also was a five-time nominee for the Booker Prize, most recently for his 2009 novel “Love and Summer.” Writers paid tribute to their colleague. John Banville, the author of “Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir” praised Trevor in The Irish Times as “one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov and Babel. But we should also celebrate his novels, in particular ’Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel,’ an inexplicably neglected twentieth-century masterpiece. … His death is a heavy loss to Irish letters and to world literature.”

Prince Buster (1938 - 2016), ska music pioneer

Prince Buster, a legendary pioneer of ska music, has died at 78, according to multiple news sources.