Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970 - 2025)

A year after his death, Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s widow, Dr. Tenisha Delilah Warner, is taking legal action against his mother, Pamela Warner. In a lawsuit filed on July 20 in DeKalb County Superior Court in Georgia, Tenisha Delilah Warner claims that she is owed more than $1.2 million under a premarital agreement, including a $1 million life insurance policy […]

James Drury (1934 - 2020)

JAMES CHILD DRURY was born April 18, 1934 in New York City, where his father was a Professor of Marketing at New York University. When James was six weeks old, his mother, a native of Oregon, and the family went to the home ranch. There were many trips back and forth from their home in New […]

Clive Davis (1932 - 2026)

Record Executive, Producer and A&R Executive. He served as President of Columbia Records and founded Arista Records where he signed and collaborated with many artists such as Tony Orlando, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Bruce Springsteen, Earth, Wind & Fire, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Patti Smith, Kenny G, Alicia Keys, Melissa […]

Bonnie Tyler (1951 - 2026)

Welsh Singer and Songwriter. She was a Welsh singer and songwriter whose powerful, husky voice made her one of the most recognizable vocalists in popular music. Raised in a working-class family, she was one of six children and developed a passion for music at an early age. After winning a local talent competition in the […]

Robert Duvall (1931 - 2026)

Actor. He grew up in a military family and developed an early interest in acting, later studying drama in New York City where he trained with other aspiring performers who would become major figures in American film and theater. He served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1954 as a Private First Class. His early acting career […]

Chuck Norris (1940 - 2026)

American actor Chuck Norris was known for action films such as The Way of the Dragon (1972) with Bruce Lee and later the popular TV series Walker, Texas Ranger. Norris started studying martial arts in Korea in the 1950s. He was serving in the U.S. Air Force at the time. When he returned home, Norris soon opened his karate studio. […]

Ted Turner (1938 - 2026)

Ted Turner was a media mogul and television pioneer best known for founding CNN. He began working for his father’s company, Turner Advertising and became president and CEO in 1963. He later renamed the company the Turner Broadcasting Company and founded the first 24-hour cable news network, CNN, which debuted in 1980. He also founded […]

Michael Wright (1956 - 2026)

Michael Wright, known for the film “The Five Heartbeats” and the TV series “V,” has died at 70, his wife announced. “It is with profound sadness and an unimaginable heaviness in my heart that I share the passing of my beloved husband, Michael Wright,” his wife, Susan Wright, said in a statement Friday. He died […]

Lindsey Graham (1955 - 2026)

Lindsey Graham is a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from South Carolina, first elected in 2002 to succeed long-serving Senator Strom Thurmond. Born on July 9, 1955, Graham grew up in Central, South Carolina, and pursued higher education at the University of South Carolina, earning degrees in psychology and law. He initially served in the U.S. […]

Peter O’Toole (1970 - 2013)

O’Toole was born in 1932. Some sources give his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland while others cite Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. O’Toole himself was not certain of his birthplace or date, noting in his autobiography that, while he accepted 2 August as his birthdate, he had a birth certificate from […]

Sam Neill (1947 - 2026)

The actor was born Nigel John Dermot Neill in 1947 in Northern Ireland before moving to New Zealand as a child. In the time-honoured tradition of Australia claiming New Zealand talent as our own, it was when he made the move across the pond that he first found fame and the launching pad for his […]

Dolly Parton (1946 - 2026)

Country music icon and actor Dolly Parton initially found success with country star Porter Wagoner in the 1960s before embarking on a solo career marked by hit songs like “Joshua,” “Jolene,” “The Bargain Store,” “I Will Always Love You,” “Here You Come Again,” “9 to 5,” and “Islands in the Stream.” A highly skilled singer-songwriter […]

Peggy Webber (1925 - 2026)

Peggy Webber, the prolific radio actress who portrayed the mother of Jack Webb’s Joe Friday on the original version of Dragnet before appearing for Orson Welles in Macbeth and Alfred Hitchcock in The Wrong Man, has died. She was 100. Webber died Saturday of natural causes at an independent living facility in Napa, California, her son, Rob Sinskey, told The Hollywood Reporter. She […]

Hayden Panettiere (1989 - 2026)

Hayden Lesley Panettiere was born on August 21, 1989 in Palisades, New York, to actress Lesley Vogel and fire department captain Skip Panettiere. Her younger brother was actor Jansen Panettiere (1994-2023). Her parents are both of half Italian descent, along with German and English. Her mother got her started in the business by doing commercials when she was just 11 […]

Joe Don Baker (1936 - 2025)

Baker, Joe Don (1936–2025).Joe Don Baker, actor, was born in Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas, on February 12, 1936, to Doyle Charles Baker, manager of a service station, and Edna (McDonald) Baker. His mother died in 1946, when he was ten years old, and his paternal aunt, Anna Thompson, took him in and raised him. At Groesbeck […]

Sly Stone (1943 - 2025)

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old. “After a prolonged battle with COPD and other underlying health issues, Sly passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, his closest friend, and his extended family,” […]

Jimmy Swaggart (1935 - 2025)

Jimmy Swaggart (born March 15, 1935, Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S.—died July 1, 2025) was an American televangelist and gospel music performer. He was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a sex scandal involving prostitutes. Swaggart’s father was a sharecropper before becoming a Pentecostal preacher in the Assemblies of God denomination in the 1950s, and Swaggart was immersed in the church’s culture from his youth. His cousins Jerry Lee […]

Frank Caprio (1936 - 2025)

Retired Providence Municipal Court Chief Judge Frank Caprio, who gained a national and international following through social media, died Wednesday. He was 88. The beloved judge, affectionately known as “The Nicest Judge in the World,” died at 2:15 p.m. He had been battling cancer. Caprio on Tuesday posted a video on social media of himself […]

Ozzy Osbourne (1948 - 1970)

British Musician. Raised in a working-class family, Osbourne faced a challenging childhood, struggling with dyslexia and various run-ins with the law. But his life would soon take a legendary turn when music became both his salvation and his legacy. In 1968, Ozzy co-founded the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, alongside Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, […]

Sally Kirland (1941 - 2025)

Sally Kirkland, Best Actress Oscar Nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit Award winner, LA Film Critics Circle Award winner, and veteran of over 200 movies. Feisty, hard-working, famously liberal, with the trademark blonde hair, actress Sally Kirkland has certainly made an indelible mark on Hollywood history. Born in New York City, her mother was the […]

Dick Cheney (1941 - 2025)

46th United States Vice President, Presidential Cabinet Secretary, United States Congressman, White House Chief of Staff. A member of the Republican Party, he was notable for his leadership roles in the executive and legislative branches of the government, most notably as the 46th Vice President of the United States under President George W. Bush (2001 […]

Loni Anderson (1945 - 2025)

Two days before her 80th birthday, Anderson died the afternoon of Aug. 3 at a Beverly Hills, California, hospital. Her cause of death was metastatic uterine leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer that forms in the muscles of the uterus, according to a death certificate obtained by USA TODAY. Her husband, Bob Flick, was listed as the […]

Richard Chamberlain (1934 - 2025)

His dashing good looks won him legions of female fans, and guaranteed him work in a plethora of rather forgettable television movies. But, in middle age, his career spiked again. Chamberlain became king of the 1980’s TV mini-series: playing a western prisoner in Shogun and a catholic priest tempted by love in The Thorn Birds. […]

Lisa Marie Presley (1968 - 2023)

Singer Lisa Marie Presley was the only daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. Her life was marked by tragedy from an early age. Just 9 years old when her father died, Lisa Marie dropped out of high school and began abusing illegal drugs. Later, Presley turned to music for solace and released three albums, starting with To Whom […]

Robert Redford (1936 - 2025)

died September 16, 2025, Sundance, Utah county, Utah) was an American motion-picture actor and director known for his boyish good looks and diversity of screen characterizations. He gained wide fame with his performance opposite Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and thereafter became a highly sought-after leading man, starring in such notable hits as The Way We Were (1973), The Sting (1973), All the President’s […]

Charlie Kirk (1993 - 2025)

I was sitting in Plaster Auditorium at the faculty roundtable lecture for a CCA on international relations when I had just learned the news that Charlie Kirk had been shot. Every student in the auditorium was glued to their phone, incessantly refreshing social media with bated breath, scouring the internet for an update on Kirk. […]

June Lockhart (1925 - 2025)

Actress. Born in Manhattan, New York, she was the daughter of actor Gene Lockhart and actress Kathleen Lockhart (née Arthur). She attended the Westlake School for Girls in Beverly Hills, California, after her family relocated to that region. She made her stage debut at age eight, playing a part in the Metropolitan Opera production of “Peter Ibbetson.” […]

Diane Keaton (1946 - 2025)

Diane Keaton was born Diane Hall in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Deanne (Keaton), an amateur photographer, and John Newton Hall, a civil engineer and real estate broker. She studied Drama at Santa Ana College, before dropping out in favor of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. After appearing in summer stock for several months, […]

David Soul (1943 - 2024)

Trying to explain the appeal of Starsky and Hutch to the younger generations, one often falls back on: well, we only had three channels then. With the death of David Soul, aged 80, it’s tempting to repurpose that to explain his popularity, which at times was so intense as to cause a Beatlemania-style moral panic, the New York […]

Joe Ely (1947 - 2025)

Joe Ely, a singer and songwriter from the vast flatness of West Texas whose mastery of the South’s varied musical traditions and paeans to the open road earned him the nickname Lord of the Highway and made him a leading artist in the development of the modern Americana sound, died on Monday at his home […]