Died 2016

Bobby Chacon, a former two-time world boxing champion, has died, according to multiple news sources. He was 64.

Best-selling children’s author was known for her “Llama Llama” stories…

Leslie Martinson, the prolific TV and film director who worked on “Batman: The Movie,” “PT 109,” and “The Brady Bunch.”

Phyllis Schlafly, a constitutional lawyer who successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution during the 1970s, died Sept. 5, 2016, according to multiple news …

Hugh O’Brian, the actor who was known best for playing the title role on the 1950s TV Western “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” died Sept. 5, 2016, at …

Dabney Montgomery, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen who marched for civil rights with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died Sept. 3, 2016, of natural causes, according to …

Managed gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A. and Eazy-E.

Fred Hellerman, a folk singer and the last surviving member of the Weavers, died Sept. 1, 2016, at his home in Connecticut, according to multiple news sources. He was 89. Hellerman …

Actor Jon Polito, known for playing Detective Steve Crosetti on TV’s “Homicide: Life on the Street” and for roles in films such as “Miller’s Crossing” and “The Big Lebowski,” has …

Roger Tsien, a Nobel Prize winner who helped develop a method to track cancer cells and follow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease, has died, according to The Associated Press. He …