Looks like no other year that I saw (when I looked up) has had this many dead celebs. How many of them reacted to other celeb deaths then went on to die themselves...
Paul Harvey (radio broadcaster) - heard them all the time as a kid
Dom DeLuise (actor/cook) - Best known for his roles in Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and Cannonball Run.
Ron Silver -
Bea Arthur (actress) - Best known for the hit TV shows Maude and The Golden Girls.
Ricardo Montalban - Mr. Roarke in Fantasy Island and Khan Noonien Singh in the Star Trek TV series and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Pat Hingle - recurring role as Commissioner Gordon in several Batman movies in the 1990s. Hingle's last movie was Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Mary Travers - Paul and Mary who were perhaps best known for their hit Puff (The Magic Dragon).
Henry Gibson - Veteran comic best known for the 1960’s comedy show Laugh-In.
Patrick Swayze
Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein (music)
Edward "Ted" Kennedy (politics)
Nick Adenhart (pitcher) - 22 year old pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels.
Les Paul (musician)
James Whitmore (actor) - Leads in movies including The Asphalt Jungle, Oklahoma!, Planet of the Apes, Nuts, The Shawshank Redemption and The Majestic.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (activist) - Best known as the sister of President John F. Kennedy and mother of First Lady Maria Shriver.
John Hughes - wrote such '80s hit films as The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Walter Cronkite (newscaster) - I remember when that guy retired
Steve McNair (football)
Karl Malden (actor)
Harve Presnell (actor/singer) - Best known for the films The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Fargo.
Bob Bogle (musician) - the lead guitarist of the band The Ventures, who had hits with Walk, Don't Run and Hawaii Five-O. Bogle was 75 years old.
Millvina Dean (Titanic) - Best known as the last survivor of the Titanic
Lucy Gordon (actress) - who played a role in Spider-Man 3
Chuck Daly (basketball coach) - Head basketball coach best known for his consecutive NBA Championships in 1989 and 1990 with the Detroit Pistons.
Danny Gans (comic) - US comic and impressionist who was named Las Vegas entertainer of the year 11 times.
Natasha Richardson (actress) - Best known for The Handmaid's Tale. Daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and wife to Liam Neeson.
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I can't believe they didn't mention Billy Mays on the Emmy's. I know he's not normally considered a "TV actor" but he did at least have the TV show on Discovery.
