He was 85. A 15th-round draft pick from Grambling, Davis began his NFL career by playing both offense and defense for the Cleveland Browns in 1958 and ’59. Sign Up, it unlocks many cool features! Morgan was a two-time NL Most Valuable Player, a 10-time All-Star and won five Gold Gloves. He was 78. Nov 16th, 2018. Here she is with Sean Connery in 1964. Wendell Goler, a longtime White House correspondent for Fox News Channel who reported on government since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, died March 5 at age 70. December 29, 2020 5:45 pm. Cross was a veteran actor who broke through with the 1981 film “Chariots of Fire,” which won the Oscar for best picture. A data visualization exploring over a century of extinction, mapping the threats faced by every lost species since 1900. Eddie Benton-Banai, who helped found the American Indian Movement partly in response to alleged police brutality against Indigenous people, died Dec. 1. He was 81. She was 82. He was 86. Jazz guitarist John “Bucky” Pizzarelli, who was inducted to the New Jersey Hall of Fame, died April 1 at the age of 94 from the coronavirus. . For Those We’ve Lost. Emmy-winning character actor John Karlen, known for his roles on the television series “Dark Shadows” and “Cagney & Lacey,” died Wednesday, Jan. 22 of congestive heart failure at a hospice in Burbank, friend and family spokesman Jim Pierson said. They also wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris, the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland and a Roman wall in Italy. He was 30. Ferrell soldiered through more than a decade on “Two and a Half Men,” playing opposite Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer until Sheen was fired from the sitcom for erratic behavior that included publicly insulting producer Chuck Lorre. With the ever-looming threat of disaster and loss haunting Tony, and with the new Avengers Headquarters completed, maybe there was a chance for him to find a sliver of happiness in his lost family. Long before velocity was tracked with precision, he spawned legends that estimated he approached 110 mph or 115 mph -- some said even 125 mph. She was 86. COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 15,000 people in Illinois, including about 6,200 from the suburbs. He personified the so-called “cult of the CEO” during the late-1990s boom, when GE's soaring stock price made it the most valuable company in the world. A former head of aluminum giant Alcoa, O’Neill served as Treasury secretary from 2001 to late 2002. As an arrogantly clueless sports announcer on “Best In Show,” his character seemed to clearly know nothing about the dogs he’s supposed to talk about and asks his partner on-air: “How much do you think I can bench?” He also played the character of Frank Dunphy, the goofy father of Phil in the ABC series “Modern Family. On June 5, 1968, Johnson was working on Kennedy's presidential campaign when the Democratic candidate was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. In memoriam: Those we've lost in 2020 The Associated Press Dec 31, 2020 Dec 31, 2020 Updated Jan 5, 2021; 0; Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was 82. Jimmy Orr, a sure-handed wide receiver who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Colts after starring at the University of Georgia, died Oct. 27. Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy, who presided over her company with steady force and a passion for books during a time of frequent and traumatic change, died May 12 at age 71. He wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin in fabric with an aluminum sheen in 1995. Paul Hornung, the dazzling “Golden Boy” of the Green Bay Packers whose singular ability to generate points as a runner, receiver, quarterback and kicker helped turn the team into an NFL dynasty, died Nov. 13. Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged and unchained Hollywood’s contract system, died July 26 at her home in Paris. Lessons From Those We've Lost A Personal PROJECT. Chadwick Boseman. US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far the most ever counted. Fred Silverman, the only TV executive who steered programming for each of the Big Three broadcast networks and who brought “All in the Family,” “Roots,” “Hawaii Five-O” and other hit series and miniseries to television during his more than three-decade career, died Jan. 30. He was 87. German illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher of the duo " Siegfried & Roy" holds their trophies after receiving the World Entertainment Award at the World Award 2003 ceremony in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Oct.22, 2003. Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home Dec. 29 after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century and helped the Yankees become baseball’s perennial champions in the 1950s and ’60s, died Oct. 8. When Dye came to Auburn, he inherited a program that was deeply divided after only three winning seasons in the previous six years. She was 92. English director Michael Apted arrives for the 2019 British Academy Britannia (BAFTA) awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on October 25, 2019. That followed a standout playing career at Tennessee during which he finished second to Notre Dame’s Paul Hornung in the 1956 Heisman Trophy balloting. Annie Glenn was thrust into the spotlight in 1962, when her husband became the first American to orbit Earth. October 31, 2020 christincity 0 comments . A look back at celebrities, leaders and other notable people who died this year: Your Wednesday morning headlines: McConnell, Trump clash over election results; Trump sets sights on Hunter Biden; winter storm targets East Coast. Steve Dalkowski, a hard-throwing, wild left-hander whose minor league career inspired the creation of Nuke LaLoosh in the movie “Bull Durham," died April 26. Aimee Stephens, a Detroit-area woman who was fired by a funeral home after she no longer wanted to be recognized as a man, died May 12, before the U.S. Supreme Court could rule on whether federal civil rights law protects transgender people. He was 93. For Those We’ve Lost (Chapter 10) Summary : It’s been more than a decade since Tony Stark and his daughter have made eye contact, or any contact for that matter. He was 81. Kirk Douglas. Massachusetts marked a painful milestone this week when we reached 10,000 lives lost to the coronavirus. Hailey Herrera was a promising therapist with a God-given gift for helping others and giving good advice. The obituary was featured in Legacy on May 28, 2020. She was 92. He was 97. The number of hospitalizations. Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, the dominating St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won a record seven consecutive World Series starts and set a modern standard for excellence when he finished the 1968 season with a 1.12 ERA, died Oct. 2. Conchata Ferrell, who became known for her role as Berta the housekeeper on TV’s “Two and a Half Men” after a long career as a character actor on stage and in movies, including “Mystic Pizza” and ”Network," died Oct. 12. He was 88. 1. He was 43. DPstaff. In an influential career that spanned decades and continents, Allen started drumming in Nigeria's Lagos in the 1960s and formed a partnership with Fela Kuti, composer, singer, bandleader and saxophonist. Edd Byrnes, who played cool kid Kookie on the hit TV show “77 Sunset Strip,” scored a gold record with a song about his character’s hair-combing obsession and later appeared in the movie “Grease” as TV host Vince Fontaine, died Wednesday, Jan. 8. The man nicknamed the Running Redbird and the Base Burglar arrived in St. Louis in June 1964, swapped from the Cubs for pitcher Ernie Broglio in what became one of baseball’s most lopsided trades. The memories that last. Kramer, who wrote “The Normal Heart” and founded the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP, lost his lover to acquired immune deficiency syndrome in 1984 and was himself infected with the virus. A Briton who became a Hollywood heavyweight, Parker also directed “Fame,” “The Commitments and “Mississippi Burning.” Together his movies won 10 Academy Awards and 19 British Academy Film Awards. Wes Unseld, the workmanlike Hall of Fame center who led Washington to its only NBA championship and was chosen one of the 50 greatest players in league history, died June 2 after a series of health issues, most recently pneumonia. William H. Gates II, a lawyer and philanthropist best known as the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has died at 94. Stuart Whitman, a prolific lead and character actor who appeared in hundreds of film and television productions and received an Oscar nomination as a pedophile in the 1961 drama “The Mark,” died Monday, March 16. She was 100. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. FILE - Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda celebrates after the Dodgers beat the Montreal Expos for the … He shared the prize later that year with the Protestant leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, David Trimble, for their efforts to end the sectarian violence that plagued the region for three decades and left more than 3,500 people dead. Barbara “B.” Smith, one of the nation's top black models who went on to open restaurants, launch a successful home products line and write cookbooks, died Feb. 22 at her Long Island home at age 70 after battling early onset Alzheimer's disease. She was 78. Hailey Herrera was a promising therapist with a God-given gift for helping others and giving good advice. K.C. Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, died Aug. 28. One of the many things this pandemic has taken from us is the chance to comfort the grieving. She was 82. He was 98. He later said his aim was to educate, inspire and uplift his readers. John Prine, the ingenious singer-songwriter who explored the heartbreaks, indignities and absurdities of everyday life in “Angel from Montgomery,” “Sam Stone,” “Hello in There” and scores of other indelible tunes, died April 7 at the age of 73. He was 91. He was fearless, fiercely competitive and often reckless. He was 56. and "Master Class" and the musicals "Ragtime" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman," has died Tuesday, March 24 of complications from the coronavirus. Gil Schwartz, the longtime CBS communications executive who wrote humorous novels and columns under the pen name Stanley Bing, died May 2. Former Washington Redskins assistant coach Joe Bugel, regarded as one of the top offensive line coaches in NFL history, died June 28. Kobe Bryant. Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma family doctor who earned a reputation as a conservative political maverick as he railed against federal earmarks and subsidies for the rich, died March 28. Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, died July 13 at age 59. Grant Imahara, the longtime host of Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters,” died from a brain aneurysm July 13 at age 49. Bobbie Battista, who was among the original anchors for CNN Headline News and hosted CNN’s “TalkBack Live,” died March 3. Get caught up. He was 80. He was 78. 8 in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists. She was 86. ... Those we lost in the last year. In memoriam: Those we've lost in 2020 The Associated Press Dec 31, 2020 Dec 31, 2020 Updated Jan 8, 2021; Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Those We’ve Lost Only three weeks after COVID-19 cases were confirmed in New York City, the metropolis became the epicenter of the virus in the United States. She was 108. Those We’ve Lost in 2020: Part One. The Tulsa County Health Department noted that in November there were more than 10,000 confirmed positive cases among the county's residents, more than in any other month. She was 104. Joseph “Joe” Bennett was a popular resident at the New Hampshire Veterans Home, and the oldest. Winner of a lifetime achievement Grammy earlier this year, Prine was a virtuoso of the soul, if not the body. Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Dec. 2. Mari Winsor, a celebrity trainer for Hollywood’s elite who became known as a Pilates guru, died April 28. For now, all we can do is recall their lives through the eyes of those who’ve known them best: family, friends and colleagues. It’s hard in the chaos and Bedlam of the Trump era, the chaos of 2020, to take stock of the enormous losses we’ve had as a people. In this Sept. 13, 2016 file photo, U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson speaks during a news conference for the opening of Parisian Macao in Macau. Andre Harrell, the Uptown Records founder who shaped the sound of hip-hop and R&B in the late ’80s and ’90s with acts such as Mary J. Blige and Heavy D and also launched the career of mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, died May 7. Khan played the police inspector in “Slumdog Millionaire” and the park executive Masrani in “Jurassic World.” He also appeared in “The Amazing Spider-Man” and the adventure fantasy “Life of Pi.”. 5 : 02 am EST May 18 2020. Kaline was the youngest player to win the American League batting title in 1955 at age 20 with a .340 batting average. Visitors. He was 85. Ginsburg spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing and became something of a rock star to her admirers. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Willie Davis, a Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive lineman who helped the Green Bay Packers win each of the first two Super Bowls, died April 15. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Forbes estimated her net worth several years ago at nearly $17 billion. He had his greatest success after getting traded to the Packers. THANK YOU FOR VIEWING THE SITE. Charley Pride, the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi who became one of country music’s biggest stars and the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 72. Went by so very fast. There's so much more I'd share. The Rev. But to the hundreds of thousands of young Egyptians who rallied for 18 days of unprecedented street protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square and elsewhere in 2011, Mubarak was a latter-day pharaoh and a symbol of autocratic misrule. Evidence shows that suicide is not inevitable for anyone, and that lives can be saved with mental health support. Roberta Wright McCain, the mother of the late Sen. John McCain who used her feisty spirit to help woo voters during his 2008 presidential campaign, died Oct. 12. 197. Those We've Lost to Coronavirus 2020 passed away. On television, Somerville appeared in “The Big C,” “NYPD Blue” and was in films like “Arthur” and was among “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” cast members nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. Lila was sent to slumber with “Laila laila, […] John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 77. She was 74. Anne Cox Chambers, a newspaper heiress, diplomat and philanthropist who was one of the country's richest women, died Jan. 31 at the age of 100. John Thompson, the imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a “Hoya Paranoia” powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, has died. Autoplay Next Video. Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, died May 27 at age 84. 2020 saw a number of leading lights of the international socialist movement pass away. Known for bluntly speaking his mind, Coburn frequently criticized the growth of the federal deficit and what he said was excessive government spending endorsed by politicians from both political parties. He was 68. a guest . Remembering the men and women who are no longer with us . She was 58. Chadwick Boseman. The founder of the South African multi-Grammy-Award-winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died Tuesday, Feb. 11. Award-winning producer Silvio Horta, who was acclaimed for creating the hit series “Ugly Betty,” died Tuesday, Jan. 7. He was 78. He acted in more than 90 films. Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. Earl Graves Sr., who championed black businesses as the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on black entrepreneurs, died April 6. He was 83. John Lewis. In memoriam: Those we've lost in 2020 The Associated Press Dec 31, 2020 Dec 31, 2020 Updated 9 hrs ago; Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He was 54. Marvel boss Kevin Feige says the late Chadwick Boseman's "Black Panther" performance was too "iconic" to be recast for the upcoming sequel. Most of all, he completed Cincinnati’s two-time World Series championship team, driving a club featuring the likes of Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Tony Perez to back-to-back titles. Gale Sayers, the dazzling and elusive running back who entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame despite the briefest of careers and whose fame extended far beyond the field for decades thanks to a friendship with a dying Chicago Bears teammate, died Sept. 23. He was 68. You can also call 800-240-8100 to request a … Bonnie Pointer, who in 1969 convinced three of her church-singing siblings to form the Pointer Sisters, which would become one of the biggest acts of the next two decades, died June 8. He was 93. He was 87. He was 85. raw download clone embed print report. THOSE WE’VE LOST: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Towering Figure in Urdu Literature, Dies at 85. Westphal, the Hall of Fame basketball player has died. (AP Photo/Grimshaw, File). Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. If I could have but one more day. 27 likes. Irrfan Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India's best-known exports to Hollywood, died April 29. Celebrities routinely stopped by Philbin’s eponymous syndicated morning show, but its heart was in the first 15 minutes, when he and co-host Kathie Lee Gifford — on “Live! He was 74. Her successful home products line was the first from a black woman to be sold at a nationwide retailer when it debuted in 2001 at Bed Bath & Beyond. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI who earned renown in his own right as a director of an acclaimed German boys’ choir, died July 1. He was 88. Helen Viola Jackson, 101, was almost certainly the last remaining widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16 at a nursing home in Missouri. Pinterest. Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from movie stunt rider to an indelible character actor who brought gruff charm, and sometimes menace, to a range of films that included “Cocoon,” “The Natural” and “The Firm,” died Aug. 1. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%. THOSE WE’VE LOST: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Towering Figure in Urdu Literature, Dies at 85. DPstaff. She was 83. He was 88. He was 59. Kobe Bryant. While we battle to save Black Rhinos, Hawksbill Turtles and Mountain Gorillas, what can we learn from those that have already gone? Wright had her breakthrough with 1971's “Clean Up Woman,” which combined elements of funk, soul and R&B. From Belfast to Bolivia, Glasgow to Ghana, we remember a selection – and pay tribute to their lives in struggle. Alex Trebek. Buck Henry, “The Graduate” co-writer who as screenwriter, character actor, “Saturday Night Live” host and cherished talk-show and party guest became an all-around cultural superstar of the 1960s and 70s, died Wednesday, Jan. 8. The right fielder was a 15-time All-Star, won 10 Gold Gloves and was elected into the Hall of Fame in 1980 in his first year of eligibility. Smith was the eighth of nine children born to Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy, and she tragically outlived several of them by decades. Judy Woodruff takes an extended look back at just some of the more than 260,000 Americans lost so far to COVID-19. Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and the epic “Once Upon A Time In America,” died July 6. COVID-19 becomes Tulsa County's fourth-leading cause of death as public health officials urge safe holiday gatherings, Feds sue Walmart over role in opioid crisis, Trump signs relief deal after delay; Nashville bombing suspect's motive unknown; EU backs Brexit deal, French designer Pierre Cardin dies at 98; see photos of his pioneering career, Joe Clark, the principal who inspired the film 'Lean on Me,' has died, Alex Trebek's last new 'Jeopardy!' Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman who became the sparkplug of the Big Red Machine and the prototype for baseball’s artificial turf era, died Oct. 11. Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, who pitched well into his 40s with a knuckleball that baffled big league hitters for more than two decades, mostly with the Atlanta Braves, died Dec. 26. Take a look at his life in photos. He hit more than 30 homers twice with Houston, including a career-high 37 in 1967 at the pitcher-friendly Astrodome. Nick Cordero, a Tony Award-nominated actor who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as “Waitress,” “A Bronx Tale” and “Bullets Over Broadway,” died July 5 in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. His portrayal defined the suave secret agent for a generation of fans. Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died May 11 at 92. Scottish actor Sean Connery, considered by many to have been the best James Bond, has died. Hall of Famer Lou Brock, one of baseball’s signature leadoff hitters and base stealers who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win three pennants and two World Series in the 1960s, has died. Winston Groom, the writer whose novel “Forrest Gump” was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77. Bobby Mitchell, the speedy Hall of Famer who became the Washington Redskins' first black player, died April 5. In recent years, she had a recurring role as Phyllis Van de Kamp (the mother-in-law of Marcia Cross’ character) in the long-running ABC show “Desperate Housewives,” gaining one of her many Emmy nominations. No” in 1962. She was 76. She was 59. Shula surpassed George Halas’ league-record 324 victories in 1993. Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning "Queen of Suspense" whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular writers, died Friday, Jan. 31. Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian who enlivened the game show "To Tell the Truth" and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. He was 77. He was 59. Alex Trebek. More than 1,100 crew members died on the battleship. The beloved No. Read stories remembering the remarkable and joyful lives of some of those we have lost to COVID-19. Those We’ve Lost. Remembering those we’ve lost to COVID. Pride released dozens of albums and sold more than 25 million records during a career that began in the mid-1960s. Chadwick Boseman. He was 103. He was 91. Known for his broad frame, booming voice and ability to play good guys and bad guys with equal aplomb, Dennehy won two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, a Laurence Olivier Award and was nominated for six Emmys. Curtis Page. Jane Hull, Arizona's first woman elected governor and part of the “Fab Five” celebrated as the nation's first all-female elected state executive branch leadership group, died April 16. Remembering the men and women who are no longer with us . See the statistics so far. Clive Cussler, the million-selling adventure writer and real-life thrill-seeker who wove personal details and spectacular fantasies into his page-turning novels about underwater explorer Dirk Pitt, died Feb. 24.