Who Died Today 2021
Michael Tylo, best known for Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless, has died. He was 72. Tylo’s death was announced by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where He had been teaching at the institution since 2003, beginning as a visiting professor in…
Tim Donnelly, best known for playing fireman Chet Kelly on the 1970s T.V. series “Emergency!,” died suddenly on September 17, 2021, at age 77. The Los Angeles County Fire Museum first shared the news. Donnelly held his television ties to…
Al Harrington, the Samoan-American actor, died on Tuesday afternoon after suffering a stroke last week, his family confirmed to The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. “Al was truly a gift from God. A noble, compassionate, patient, and gentleman with a witty sense of humor and…
Ruth Olay, the statuesque jazz vocalist and recording artist who entertained Los Angeles nightclub audiences for nearly four decades, has died. She was 97 years old. On Friday, September 3, 2021, Olay died at her home in Desert Hot Springs,…
Ben Best, who co-created HBO’s “Eastbound & Down” with Danny McBride and played Clegg’s part on the comedy, died Sunday, September 12, 2012, at age 46. “It’s with heavy hearts we say goodbye to our good buddy Ben Best,” read…
Norm Macdonald, the Canadian-born comedian who became an influential cast member of Saturday Night Live after he joined in 1993, has died. He was 61. His brother Neil said Macdonald died Tuesday in Los Angeles from leukemia, which he was diagnosed with…
Actor Michael K. Williams died Monday, September 6. As the rogue robber of drug dealers Omar Little on “The Wire,” he created one of the most popular television characters in recent decades. Williams was found dead Monday afternoon in his…
PARIS (AP) — Jean-Paul Belmondo was the star of the iconic French New Wave film “Breathless.” His crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin went on to make him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men. Jean-Paul Belmondo died at…
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, born Sadaho Maeda in Fukuoka, Japan, on Jan. 22, 1939, died on Thursday of COVID complications at age 82. His agent and manager confirmed the passing to Variety, also telling Japan’s Oricon News that he passed in the hospital after…
