Good gods, is 2016 the year of Celebrity Death?

January:
- David Bowie, 69
- Alan Rickman, 69
- Dan Hagerty, 74 (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams)
- Henry Worsley, 55
- Black, 53 (Wonderful Life)
- Sir Terry Wogan, 77
* And all these people and animals.

February:
- Joe Alaskey, 63
- Maurice White, 74 (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- Eddy Wally, 83
- George Gaynes, 98
- Vanity, 57 (Vanity 6)
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 93
- Paul Gordon, 52 (B-52s)
- Dave Needle (inventor of the Amiga chip)
- Wesley A. Clark, 88 (developed the predecessor of the personal computer)
- Tony Burton, 78 (Rocky)
- George Kennedy, 91 (The Naked Gun)
* And all these people and animals.

March:
- Martha Wright, 92 (The sound of music)
- Tony Dyson, 68 (Designer and maker of R2-D2)
- Nancy Reagan, 94
- Michael White, 80
- Sir George Martin, 90 (producer of The Beatles)
- Sylvia Anderson, 88 (Thunderbirds)
- Frank Sinatra, Jr., 72
- Paul Daniels, 77 (British magician)
- Larry Drake, 66
- Rob Ford, 46
- Gary Shandling, 66
- Johan Cruijff, 68

You missed out Keith Emerson March 10th

Late of The Nice (Remember the version of "America")

And founder member of ELP (Emerson Lake and Palmer)

April
James Noble, 94
Patty Duke, 69
Ronnie Corbett, 85
Andy Newman, 73, of Thunderclap Newman

Merle Haggard 79

Rod Daniel, 73, American film director (Teen Wolf, K-9)
Victoria Wood, 62, British comedian

Doris Roberts, 90 American actress

Guy Hamilton, 93, Bond director (Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun)

Good God...
Prince or TAFKAP, 57, music artist.

Also,
Lonnie Mack, 74, American blues singer/gitarist

Billy Paul, 81, American R&B singer (Me and Mrs. Jones)
Papa Wemba, 66, Congolese singer

Bob Hoskins, 71, Actor

Keith Harris 67, Ventriloquist (Orville the duck)

Louis van Gasteren, 93, Dutch filmmaker
Alan Young, 96, English-born Canadian-American actor (Mister Ed, The Time Machine, DuckTales)
John Berry, 52, American musician (Beastie Boys)
Burt Kwouk, 85, British actor (The Pink Panther, Last of the Summer Wine, Goldfinger)


And of course, lots more semi-famous/-known people and animals.

R.I.P. to all good souls who died.

Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), 74

Dave Swarbrick, 75, musician. Folk-rock fiddler extraordinaire - Fairport Convention and others.

Anton Yelchin, (Pavel Chekov), dead at 27. :-(

Anton Yelchin.


TL

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Kimbo Slice, 42, Bahamian-born American mixed martial artist, boxer and actor
Margaret Vinci Heldt, 98, American hairstylist, creator of the beehive hairstyle
Janet Waldo, 96, American actress and voice artist (The Jetsons, The Flintstones, Wacky Races)
Lois Duncan, 82, American writer (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Hotel for Dogs, Who Killed My Daughter?)

Götz George, 77, German actor, (Tatort Kommissar Horst Schimanski)
Carlo Pedersoli, actor name: Bud Spencer, 86, '70s and '80s spaghetti westerns.

Scotty Moore 84 Guitarist

Holocaust Survivor, Nobel Prize Winner, and Activist - Elie Wiesel has passed away at 87.

R.I.P.

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