Celebrity Deaths

Sonny Bono	Jack Lord	Lloyd Bridges	Frank Sinatra
Roy Rogers	Gene Autry

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)
Continue on to Celebrity Deaths – 1998

January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (born 1935)
January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor “Hawaii Five 0” (born 1920)

February 6 – Carl Wilson, American musician, “Beach Boys” (born 1946)
February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian, “Take my wife … please” (born 1906)
February 27 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (born 1943)

March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor “Sea Hunt” TV show (born 1913)
March 15 – Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, and author “Baby and Child Care” (born 1903)

April 1 – Gene Evans, Actor “The Steel Helmet” (1950) (born 1920)
April 6 – Tammy Wynette, American C&W singer, “Stand by Your Man” (born 1942)
April 21 – Peter Lind Hayes, American entertainer “The Peter Lind Hayes Show” (1950–51) (born 1915)

May 2 – Kevin Lloyd, British actor DC Alfred ‘Tosh’ Lines in Thames Television’s “The Bill” (born 1949)
May 7 – Eddie Rabbitt, Musician (born 1941)
May 14 – Frank Sinatra, Entertainer, affectionately called ‘Old Blue Eyes’ and ‘The Chairman of the Board’ (born 1915)
May 14 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Conservationist and writer (born 1890)
May 22 – John Derek, Actor and film director, “All the King’s Men” (born 1926)
May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-born artist, writer, actor, and comedian (born 1948)
May 29 – Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona (1953–65, 1969–87) (born 1909)

June 1 – Darwin Joston, actor “Assault on Precinct 13” (born 1937)

July 6 – Roy Rogers, Singer and western actor “Roy Rogers Show” TV show (born 1911)
July 21 – Alan Shepard, NASA Mercury Astronaut, first American into space (born 1923)
July 21 – Robert Young, Actor, “Father Knows Best” TV show (born 1907)
July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, Children’s television host “Howdy Doody” TV show (born 1917)

August 2 – Shari Lewis, Ventriloquist/comedian, puppet was “Lamb Chop” (born 1933)
August 16 – Phil Leeds, Actor (born 1916)”Rosemary’s Baby” (born 1916)
August 24 – E. G. Marshall, Actor, lawyer Lawrence Preston on “The Defenders” (born 1910)

September 5 – Leo Penn, Actor/director, father of Sean Penn (born 1921)
September 13 – George Wallace, Politician, Governor of Alabama 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987 (born 1919)
September 23 – Mary Frann, Actress, Bob Newhart’s wife, Joanna in “Newhart” (born 1943)

October 2 – Gene Autry, Actor/singer, “The Gene Autry Show” TV show (born 1907)
October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British actor, Cornelius and Caesar in Planet of the Apes (born 1928)
October 11 – Richard Denning, Actor “An Affair to Remember” (born 1914)
October 17 – Joan Hickson, British actress, “Miss Marple” (born 1906)

November 13 – Valerie Hobson, English actress, “Great Expectations” (born 1917)
November 17 – Esther Rolle, Actress, “Good Times” TV show (born 1920)
November 25 – Flip Wilson, Actor/comedian “The Flip Wilson” TV show (born 1933)

December 14 – Norman Fell, Actor, Mr Roper on “Threes Company” TV show (born 1924)
December 22 – Michelle Thomas, Actress, Justine Phillips on “The Cosby Show” TV show (born 1969)
December 26 – Hurd Hatfield, Actor, Dorian Gray in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (born 1917)

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