Famous people who died today 
in 2020
(CNN)John Prine, the raspy-voiced singer-songwriter whose homespun, witty, and insightful country-folk tunes influenced legions of musicians in a career that spanned five decades, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He was 73. His publicist tells CNN, “Yes,…
Honor Blackman received her first acting work on stage in London’s West End as an understudy for “The Guinea Pig.” She continued with roles in “The Gleam” (1946) and “The Blind Goddess” (1947), before moving into film. In a statement,…
Actor Jay Benedict, who was best known for his roles in 1986’s “Aliens,” 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises” and the U.K. TV series “Emmerdale,” died at age 68. The cause of death, as reported, is due to the coronavirus pandemic.…
Mahmoud Jibril briefly served as the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council during the country’s civil uprising that ousted the then longtime Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Jibril was named prime minister of the National Transitional Council, Libya’s de facto government,…
Cristina Monet Zilkha, 61 — born Christina Monet-Palaci, and recorded under the mononym Cristina — died on Wednesday, April 1. News reports stated she died from complications stemming from the COVID-19 virus. She was 61. The new-wave pop singer Cristina…
Bill Withers (Bill William Withers Jr.) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985 with hit songs as “Lean On Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine.” Bill Withers, the acclaimed 1970s soul singer behind hits Ain’t No…
The Teenage actor Logan Williams of ‘The Flash’ and ‘When Calls the Heart,’ died at age 16, his mother told the Tri-City News. She said that Williams died suddenly on Thursday, 2nd April 2020. Williams appeared in eight episodes of…
As hot spots flared around the United States in places like New Orleans, Detroit, and Southern California, New York was the hardest hit of them all, with bodies loaded onto refrigerated morgue trucks by gurney and forklift outside overwhelmed hospitals.…
Coronavirus quarantine: No one knows when it will be safe for people to resume normal schedules, start traveling again and stop social distancing. While we all want to know what we’re facing and how to plan, the increasingly long projections…
CBS News is mourning Maria Mercader, a longtime journalist with the news outlet who died in a New York hospital at 54 after battling coronavirus. In a news release shared Sunday afternoon, CBS remembered Mercader as a “network veteran who covered breaking…
The Rev Joseph E Lowery, who has been called the dean of the civil rights movement, died Friday, March 27, 2020, the King Center said. Lowery, 98, was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the Rev. Martin…
None of the 247 Canadians on the Holland America cruise are among the four passengers who died onboard the Holland America Line cruise ship—currently sailing off the coast of Panama. Many other passengers on the boat have flu-like symptoms, and…
