Famous People Who Died in 2023

• Arkin, Alan

  The foul-mouthed grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine

• Bacharach, Burt

  The pianist who co-wrote "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" and "Walk On By"

• Banks, Russell

  Author of The Sweet Hereafter

• Barker, Bob

  The host of TV's The Price Is Right, 1972-2007

• Belafonte, Harry

  The calypso crooner who sang "The Banana Boat Song"

• Bennett, Tony

  The crooner who sang "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"

• Berlusconi, Silvio

   Italian prime minister between 1994 and 2011

• Blake, Robert

  The Baretta star who was accused of killing his wife

• Buffett, Jimmy

  Singer of the pop hit "Margaritaville"

• Carter, Rosalynn

  First Lady of the United States, 1977-81

• Crosby, David

  Singer/guitarist for Crosby, Stills & Nash

• Ellsberg, Daniel

  The whistleblower who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971

• Fosbury, Dick

  The high jumper who came up with the Fosbury Flop

• Friedkin, William

  The director of The French Connection and The Exorcist

• Gambon, Michael

  Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films

• Glück, Louise

  The Nobel Prize winning poet who wrote “Mock Orange”

• Jaffee, Al

  The cartoonist who does MAD magazine fold-ins

• Kaczynski, Ted

  The so-called Unabomber

• Kissinger, Henry

  U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford

• Lear, Norman

  The TV producer behind 'All in the Family' and 'Sanford and Son'

• Lollobrigida, Gina

  The sexy Italian star of The World's Most Beautiful Woman

• McCallum, David

  Dr. 'Ducky' Mallard on the TV show NCIS

• McCarthy, Cormac

  Author of All the Pretty Horses

• O'Connor, Sandra Day

  The first woman on the U.S Supreme Court

• O'Connor, Sinead

  The bald-headed Irish singer of "Nothing Compares 2U"

• Patitz, Tatjana

  Sleek German Calvin Klein model of the 1990s

• Perry, Matthew

  Chandler Bing on the TV series Friends

• Reubens, Paul

  The comedian who created the alter ego Pee-wee Herman

• Robertson, Pat

  Host of the Christian TV program The 700 Club

• Roundtree, Richard

  The star of the 1971 movie Shaft

• Somers, Suzanne

  Chrissy on TV's Three's Company

• Springer, Jerry

  Host of The Jerry Springer Show

• Turner, Tina

  The singer of "What's Love Got to Do With It?"

• Welch, Raquel

  The sex symbol in the 1966 caveman film One Million Years B.C.

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