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 […]

Jeannie Seely (1940 - 2025)

Jeannie Seely, a pioneering voice in Country Music, has passed away. She was 85. Seely broke barriers for women in Country Music with her bold style, emotional depth and trailblazing presence on the Grand Ole Opry. She became the first woman to regularly host segments of the Opry and won a GRAMMY Award in 1967. A champion […]

Joe Bonsall (1948 - 2024)

Joe was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and since childhood he has loved the Philadelphia Phillies. According to him, “I live and die with the Phillies, no matter where they are in the standings. They have been playing great of late and that makes me happy!” Now a Nashvillian for almost five decades, Joe […]

Whitney Houston (1963 - 2021)

Whitney Houston, singer and actress, sold close to 100 million albums worldwide during her lifetime.  Her recognitions include two Emmy Awards, five Grammy Awards, 19 American Music Awards, five People’s Choice Awards, five Soul Train Awards, and seven NAACP Image Awards. Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 9, 1963.  Her mother, Cissy […]

Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)

Entertainment Magnate, Motion Pictures Pioneer. Most remembered for creating ‘Mickey Mouse’, ‘Donald Duck’, and a host of other cartoon characters, he was awarded a total of 32 Oscars, more than any other person, for his achievements in films. Born Walter Elias Disney in Chicago, Illinois, his father’s ancestors had come to America from Kilkenny, Ireland, […]

DMX (1970 - 2021)

Rapper. He was best known for such hits as “X Gon’ Give It to Ya” and “Party Up (Up in Here).” He had a troubled childhood and got involved in drugs in his early teenage years. After serving a stint in prison, he started writing rap lyrics and working with such greats as Jay-Z and […]

Quincy Jones (1933 - 2024)

Composer, Arranger, Songwriter, Record, Movie and Television Producer. First gaining notoriety in the 1950s as a jazz arranger, his career covered eight decades. He was nominated for Grammy Awards over 80 times and won 28, including the Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Born to Quincy, Sr., a carpenter and semi-pro baseball player, and his wife, […]

Harry Reid (1939 - 2021)

Harry Reid Harry Reid, the scrappy former Democratic Senate leader who spearheaded epic legislative battles through three decades in Congress, has died at the age of 82, according to a statement from his wife, Landra Reid. “I am heartbroken to announce the passing of my husband, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He died peacefully […]

Betty White (1922 - 2021)

Betty White Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She is of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent. Although best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the classic sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) […]

Shannon Hoon (1967 - 2021)

Shannon Hoon born in Lafayette,Indiana September 26, 1967 was lead singer of the band Blind Melon they had the hit single “No Rain” in the early 1990s made famous with the dancing bee girl video….Hoon had sang locally in a cover band called Styff Kitten before leaving Lafayette for Los Angeles sometime in 1990 legend […]

Stonewall Jackson (1932 - 2021)

Stonewall Jackson The performer was best known for being a longtime member of the historic and long-running show, The Grand Ole Opry. According to People, executives from the Grand Ole Opry confirmed that the singer passed away on Saturday after a ‘long battle’ with vascular dementia. The singer was born November of 1932 in Tabor City, North […]

Honor Blackman (1925 - 2020)

Honor Blackman n a statement, her family said she died peacefully of natural causes at home in Lewes, East Sussex. Blackman was also known for playing Cathy Gale in the 1960s TV series The Avengers opposite Patrick Macnee. The pair had a novelty hit with 1964’s Kinky Boots, which reached the Top 10 in 1990. […]

Max von Sydow (1929 - 2020)

Max von Sydow Actor Max Von Sydow, who appeared in films and TV series including The Exorcist, Flash Gordon and Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 90. His family announced “with a broken heart and infinite sadness” that the Swedish-born actor died on Sunday. Von Sydow’s other film credits included Hannah and […]

Rocky Johnson (1944 - 2020)

Rocky Johnson While part of one of the most famous and influential families in sports-entertainment history, “Soul Man” Rocky Johnson is just as famous and influential on his own. Known to different generations of our fans for different reasons, Johnson is one of the greatest African-American pioneers inside the squared circle. A former boxer, Johnson […]

Jackie Stallone (1921 - 2020)

Jackie Stallone Born Jacqueline Labofish on November 29, 1921 in Washington D.C., she claimed to have started her entertainment career as an aerialist with the Flying Wallendas act in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Circus. Stallone was the first woman to have a daily TV show on exercise and weight lifting in Washington, […]