Lynne Marta (1945–2024), actress in Footloose, Days of Our Lives

Lynne Marta was an actress known for her performances in such movies and TV shows as “Footloose,” “Days of Our Lives,” and “Love, American Style.” 

Ruth Ashton Taylor (1922–2024), groundbreaking broadcast reporter 

Ruth Ashton Taylor was a television journalist and newscaster who worked with Edward R. Murrow in New York City, then moved to Los Angeles, where she became the first female television newscaster on the West Coast.

Bud Harrelson (1944–2024), New York Mets Hall of Famer 

Bud Harrelson was a shortstop, coach and manager for the New York Mets who won two World Series with the team, one as a player and one as a coach.

Charles Kimbrough (1936–2023), Murphy Brown star

Charles Kimbrough was an actor best known for starring on “Murphy Brown.”

Charles White (1958–2023), 1979 Heisman Trophy winner

Charles White was a football player who won the 1979 Heisman Trophy while playing for the University of Southern California and went on to an NFL career.

Ben Masters (1947–2023), soap opera star on “Passions”

Ben Masters was an actor best known for playing Julian Crane on “Passions.”

Carole Cook (1924–2023), “Sixteen Candles” and Broadway star

Carole Cook was an actress known for roles in movies and TV shows including “Sixteen Candles,” “The Incredible Mr. Limpet,” and “The Lucy Show.”

Tatjana Patitz (1966–2023), one of the first supermodels

Tatjana Patitz was one of the original supermodels who rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Jana Bennett (1955–2022), trailblazing former BBC TV executive

Jana Bennett was the former director of BBC TV who oversaw the reboot of “Doctor Who” and the popular series “Sherlock.”  

Rosa Lee Hawkins (1944–2022), singer with the Dixie Cups

Rosa Lee Hawkins was a singer with the 1960s girl group the Dixie Cups, known for their hits “Chapel of Love” and “Iko Iko.”

Clyde Bellecourt (1936–2022), civil rights activist who co-founded AIM

Clyde Bellecourt was a Native American civil rights activist who co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM).

Sheldon Adelson (1933–2021), billionaire casino magnate and political donor

Sheldon Adelson was a billionaire who owned casinos in Las Vegas and Asia, who was a prominent donor to Republican causes.

George Brady (1928–2019), Holocaust survivor immortalized in “Hana’s Suitcase”

He was the only one of his family who lived—and he lived to the age of 90.

Tommy Allsup (1931–2017), guitarist for Buddy Holly

The guitarist avoided the Buddy Holly plane crash by losing a coin flip.

Steven McDonald (1957 - 2017), notable NYPD detective

Steven McDonald, the NYPD detective who forgave the teenager who paralyzed him, died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2017, according to multiple news sources. He was 59.

Remembering Sir Edmund Hillary

In 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to climb to the summit of Mt Everest.

Miep Gies, Hero of the Holocaust

For decades, schoolchildren the world over have learned about Anne Frank. The teenager who hid with her family from the Nazis, in an attempt to escape the concentration camps where she later died, has become a household name. From time to time, Frank's writing turned to the scant six visitors her family sometimes received in the annex. As we grow up, we learn less about them than we do about the Frank family, but they're as deserving of international fame as Frank was, because they were the brave friends who worked to keep the Franks hidden. Their names were Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Bep Voskuijl, Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, Jan Gies and Miep Gies.

Aaron Swartz's Work Lives On

Aaron Swartz fought for a free and fair Internet. The tech genius, who was 26 when he ended his own life Jan. 11, 2013, co-founded the activist group Demand Progress to fight Web censorship, and he co-authored the "Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto" to rally fellow hackers to "liberate" information kept from the public by private corporations and public institutions.