Died 2016

The veteran soap opera actress appeared on “Days of Our Lives,” “All My Children,” and “Guiding Light.”

Blake Snyder, a St. Louis County police officer, was shot and killed Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was 33.

Raymond Haerry, 94, one of the last alive of those who were on the USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Tuesday, Sept. 27, in Rhode …

At least 280 people in the Caribbean and 15 in the United States have died in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.

Josh Samman, a mixed martial arts star on the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s reality TV series “The Ultimate Fighter,” died Oct. 5, 2016, in Hollywood, Florida, after being hospitalized late last …

Joan Marie Johnson Faust, one of the founding members of the New Orleans girl group the Dixie Cups, died Oct. 5, 2016, according to multiple news sources. She was 72. …

Acclaimed novelist penned “The Women of Brewster Place”…

Theater and film director founded L.A.’s flagship Mark Taper Forum.

Norma Bauerschmidt, a Michigan resident who chose to travel the United States instead of undergoing treatment for cancer, died Sept. 30, 2016, in her motor home on San Juan Island, …

Neville Marriner, a renowned conductor who founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, died Oct. 2, 2016, according to multiple news sources. He was 92. He died in his …