Beth Howland, a character actress known best for playing the accident-prone waitress Vera Gorman on the TV sitcom “Alice”
Died December 2015
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Riley L. Martin, an author, radio host and a regular on “The Howard Stern Show” on Sirius XM subscription radio, has died, according to multiple news sources. He was 69.
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Jason Wingreen, who first provided the voice of “Star Wars” bounty hunter Boba Fett, in 1980’s “The Empire Strikes Back,” died on Dec. 25.
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Wayne Rogers, who starred as the beloved Trapper John McIntyre on TV’s “M*A*S*H,” died Dec. 31, 2015, of complications of pneumonia, The Associated Press and Entertainment Weekly report. He was 82.
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Doug Atkins, a defensive lineman who was elected to both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame, has died at 85.
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The Boston Red Sox’s all-time leader among third basemen with homers and RBIs has died at 85.
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John “Brad” Bradbury, the multi-instrumentalist drummer for the British ska revival group The Specials, has died. He was 62. The band members announced in a statement on their website, thespecials.com, …
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Ian Fraser Kilmister, the gravelly voiced heavy metal musician known best simply as Lemmy, who led the band Motorhead for more than 40 years, died Dec. 28, 2015, after a …
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Elaine Riley, an actress who appeared in dozens of 1940s and ’50s motion pictures, has died, according to multiple news sources. Riley, who died Dec. 7, was 98.