Celebrity Deaths of 2023: Angus Cloud, Tony Bennett and More
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The entertainment world said goodbye to many figures from the worlds of music, movies and television in 2023. Scroll down to see all the celebrities we lost in 2023 so far, including Raquel Welch, Lisa Marie Presley, Cindy Williams, David Crosby, Jeff Beck, Sinead O’Connor, Pee-Wee Herman and more.
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“Euphoria” star Angus Cloud died July 31. He was 25.
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Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens, the actor best known for portraying the irrepressible, joyfully childlike Pee-wee Herman, died on July 30 after a private bout of cancer. He was 70.
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Sinéad O’Connor
Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” died on July 26. She was 56. Her cause of death has yet to be revealed.
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett, the master pop vocalist who had a professional career spanning eight decades with a No. 1 album at age 85, died on July 21 in New York City. He was 96.
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Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin, an Oscar-winning actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” with a body of work that spans seven decades of stage and screen acting, died June 29 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif. He was 89.
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Julian Sands
Julian Sands, the British actor who pivoted from the romantic lead in “A Room With a View” to playing sinister characters in films like “Warlock,” was confirmed dead on June 27 after being reported missing near Mt. Baldy in Southern California on Jan. 13. He was 65.
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Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson, who segued from a successful actress — Oscars for “Women in Love” and “A Touch of Class” and two Emmys for “Elizabeth R” — into a 23-year career as member of the U.K.’s House of Commons, died on June 15 in London. She was 87.
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Treat Williams
Treat Williams, a veteran screen actor who received acclaim for his lead performance in the musical “Hair” and starred in The WB series “Everwood,” died June 12 after being involved in a motorcycle accident near Dorset, Vt. He was 71.
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Tina Turner
Soulful diva Tina Turner, who had a lengthy run of ’60s and ’70s R&B hits and struck major pop stardom in the ’80s, died on May 24 in Switzerland. She was 83.
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Gordon Lightfoot
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk music laureate who crossed over to major pop fame in the U.S. during the ‘70s, died of natural causes on May 1 at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He was 84 years old.
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Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati news anchor and mayor who came to preside over the controversial and extremely profitable talk show bearing his name, died on April 27. He was 79.
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Harry Belafonte
Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African American performers, died April 25 of congestive heart failure at his Manhattan home. He was 96.
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Barry Humphries
Australian satirist Barry Humphries, known for his onstage and TV drag persona Edna Everage and for his character Sir Les Patterson, died on April 22. He was 89.
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Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick, who appeared in major TV series like “The Wire,” “Fringe” and “Bosch” and films like the “John Wick” franchise, died of natural causes on March 17. He was 60.
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Bobby Caldwell
Bobby Caldwell, the soulful singer-songwriter behind the 1978 hit “What You Won’t Do for Love,” died on March 14 after a long illness. He was 71.
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Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore died after being taken off life support, his manager Charles Lago confirmed. The 61-year-old actor suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18.
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Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer, who started his career as a stand-up comedian before becoming a household name for his role as Det. John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” died Feb. 19 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France. He was 78.
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Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens, who starred with Elvis Presley in “Girls! Girls! Girls!” and with Jerry Lewis in “The Nutty Professor” as well as in disaster film “The Poseidon Adventure,” died Feb. 17 in Los Angeles.
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Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch, the actor who became an icon and sex symbol thanks to films like “One Million Years B.C.” and “Three Musketeers,” died Feb. 15. She was 82.
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Burt Bacharach
Legendary pop composer Burt Bacharach, who wrote dozens of hit songs in the 1960s and ’70s, died Feb. 9.
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Barrett Strong
Barrett Strong, who sang Motown’s first hit with “Money (That’s What I Want” and co-wrote “I Heard it Through the Gravevine,” died Jan. 29.
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Annie Wersching
Annie Wersching, an actor best known for her roles in “24” and “Bosch” and for originating the role of Tess in the 2013 video game “The Last of Us,” died Jan. 29.
Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine, who redefined rock guitar in the punk era of the 1970s with his band Television, died Jan. 28.
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Lisa Loring
Lisa Loring, who played the pig-tailed young Wednesday in the original “Addams Family” series, died Jan. 28.
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Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams, star of “Laverne & Shirley,” died Jan. 25.
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Lance Kerwin
Lance Kerwin, who starred in TV series “James at 15” and as Mark Petrie, the teen who becomes a vampire hunter in Stephen King mini-series “Salem’s Lot,” died Jan. 24.
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David Crosby
David Crosby, of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, died Jan. 18.
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Gina Lollobrigida
Gina Lollobrigida, the 1950s Italian bombshell who starred in films including “Fanfan la Tulipe,” “Beat the Devil,” “Trapeze” and “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell,” died Jan. 16.
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Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley’s only child whose tumultuous life included a music career, died Jan. 12 at Los Angeles hospital. She was 54.
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Robbie Bachman
Robbie Bachman, who co-founded and played drums for the hard-riffing 1970s Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, died Jan. 12 at the age of 69.
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Carole Cook
Carole Cook, a veteran stage and screen actor who was a protégé of Lucille Ball, died Jan. 11 in Beverly Hills, Calif., of heart failure. She was 98.
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Ben Masters
Ben Masters, who played Julian Crane in the daytime drama “Passions,” died Jan. 11 of COVID-19 in Palm Springs, Calif., after battling dementia for several years. He was 75.
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Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck, among the most innovative and certainly the most unpredictable of ’60s guitar heroes, died Jan 10. He was 78.
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Melinda Dillon
Oscar and Tony-nominated actor Melinda Dillon, who played Mother Parker in “A Christmas Story,” and appeared in “Magnolia” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died Jan. 9. She was 83.
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Fred White
Fred White, one of the two drummers for soul group Earth Wind & Fire during the most successful decade in its history, 1974-84, died Jan. 9 at age 67.
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Adam Rich
Adam Rich, the former child actor best known for starring as the youngest child on the ABC dramedy “Eight Is Enough,” died Jan. 7. He was 54.
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Gangsta Boo
Gangsta Boo, a rapper and former member of hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, died Jan. 1, her representative confirmed to Variety. She was 43.
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