Died September 8

He appeared on the Food Network show “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”

Marca Bristo, advocate for the disabled, who championed the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, in Chicago, after a battle with cancer. She was 66.

He sold more than 100 million albums in a hitmaking career in the 1970s and ’80s.

Blake Heron, the actor best known for starring in 1997 film “Shiloh,” died Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, according to multiple news sources. He was 35.

Troy Gentry, half of award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry, died Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in a helicopter crash in Medford, New Jersey. He was 50.

Prince Buster, a legendary pioneer of ska music, has died at 78, according to multiple news sources. His son Kareem Ali has confirmed that Prince Buster died Sept. 8 in …

The Lady Chablis, a transgender entertainer known best for playing a drag queen comedian in the 1997 film “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” died Sept. 8, 2016, …

The billionaire rose from poverty by building a privately held restaurant chain.