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66 Remembering the Stars We Lost in 2018

From Penny Marshall to

Aretha Franklin:

Remembering the Stars

We've Lost in 2018

PENNY MARSHALL
Beloved sitcom and screen actress
Marshall, who gained fame in the late ’70s for
her sitcom Laverne & Shirley before
transitioning behind the camera to great
success, died on Dec. 17. She was 75.

ANCA POP
Canadian-Romanian singer Anca Pop
died in mid-December. Authorities. discovered
her body after divers found her car submerged
in the Danube River in south-western Romania,
police said, the Associated Press reports. She
was 34.
TONY JOE WHITE BURT REYNOLDS
NANCY WILSON Legendary Blues and Swamp Rock Reynolds, whose studliness, swagger
Wilson, the iconic jazz vocalist, self- singer Tony Joe White died at the age of 75 on and snappy patter have helped set TV and movie
described “song stylist” and three-time Grammy Oct. 24. fans’ pulses racing for nearly half a century,
winner died Dec. 13 at the age of 81. died on Sept. 6. He was 82.
CELESTE YARNALL
KEN BERRY Yarnall, a famed actress of the 1960s JOHN MCCAIN
Berry, known for his roles on television and ’70s best known for her memorable turn on Sen. John McCain, the former POW and
shows F Troop and Mayberry R.F.D., died on Star Trek, died in October. She was 74. outspoken Republican politician nicknamed
Dec. 1. He was 85. The Maverick for being unafraid to disagree
PEGGY MCCAY with fellow members of his party, died on Aug.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI Days of Our Lives star McCay, who 25 at the age of 81.
Italian film director Bertolucci, whose played Caroline Brady on the long-running
career defined scandal and evoked eroticism NBC soap opera, died in October at the age of NEIL SIMON
and sumptuous beauty, died of cancer in Rome 90. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
in November. The director of Last Tango in whose Broadway and screen hits earned him
Paris was 77 and had been confined to a MARTY BALIN more combined Tony and Oscar nominations
wheelchair for much of the last 10 years. The Grammy-nominated Jefferson than any other writer, died on Aug. 26 at a
Airplane co-founder died in Tampa, Florida, Manhattan hospital, The Washington Post
KIM PORTER while en route to a nearby hospital, spokesman reported. He was 91.
The former model and mother to four of Ryan Romensko said according to the
Diddy’s children died in November at age 47. Associated Press. He was 76. ROBIN LEACH
Robin Leach, the host of the hit ’80s
DEVIN LIMA CHARLES AZNAVOUR show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, died
Lima, a singer in LFO, died of cancer on Legendary French composer and actor on Aug. 23 after suffering a stroke, according to
Nov. 21, TMZ reported. He was 41. Aznavour died in late September at age 94. the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where Leach
worked as a celebrity columnist. His death
ROY CLARK FRANK PARKER comes less than a week before his 77th birthday.
One day after the CMA Awards, country Parker — best known for playing the
superstar Clark died at 85 years old. role of Grandpa Shawn Brady on Days of Our ED KING
Lives — died on Sept. 16 in Vacaville, Former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed
KATHERINE MACGREGOR California. The veteran actor passed away due King died at the age of 68 on Aug. 22 at his
At 93 years old, the actress who played to complications of Parkinson’s disease and home in Nashville.
Harriet Oleson on the long-running TV show dementia, according to his obituary in The
Little House on the Prairie, died on Nov. 13 at Reporter. He was 79. STEFÁN KARL STEFÁNSSON
her home. LazyTown actor Stefán Karl Stefánsson
PAUL JOHN VASQUEZ has passed away after a two-year battle with bile
STAN LEE Sons of Anarchy star Vasquez died on duct cancer, PEOPLE confirms. He was 43.
Lee, the father of Marvel Comics’ most Sept. 24 at age 48.
beloved superheroes, died at age 95 in early BARBARA HARRIS
November. BILL DAILY
Daily, the comic actor who found Harris, the actress who starred in the 1976 film
BEVERLY MCCLELLAN breakout success as Major Healey on the hit Freaky Friday, has died. She was 83. Harris died
McClellan, who competed in the first 1960s sitcom I Dream of Jeannie and also had on Aug. 21 from lung cancer in Scottsdale,
season of The Voice in 2011, died of cancer in notable roles on The Bob Newhart Show and Arizona, according to the Associated Press.
November at age 49. Alf, died in September at age 91.
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AMANDA BLANK MAC MILLER
Celebrity fitness trainer and bodybuilder Miller died on Sept. 7 of a suspected MERRY CHRISTMAS
Blank was found dead in her Los Angeles home drug overdose. He was 26.
in November. The trainer was 42. AND A VERY HAPPY
NEW YEAR 2019