The year 2016 will go down as annus horribilis for the vast array of celebrity deaths.
They started coming in January with the shocking loss of rock stars David Bowie and Glenn Frey and didn’t let up until the loss of the original famous-for-being-famous star Zsa Zsa Gabor and pop superstar George Michael on Christmas Day.
In the intervening months we lost more musicians including Prince and Leon Russell, actors Patty Duke and Alan Thicke, sports icons Muhammad Ali and Arnold Palmer and world figures Fidel Castro and Nancy Reagan.
December
7: Greg Lake, 69. Musician. Bassist with Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
8: John Glenn, 95. Astronaut. Senator. The first American to orbit the earth in 1962, and, in 1998 at 77, the oldest person in space.
13: Alan Thicke, 69. Actor, songwriter. “Growing Pains” and “Thicke of the Night” star.
18: Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99. Sometime actress (“The Story of Three Loves”), famous for being famous personality, socialite.
24: Richard Adams, 96. British author who wrote the popular 1972 novel about rabbits, “Watership Down.”
25: George Michael, 53. Pop star who had one of the biggest albums of the 1980s with “Faith” in 1987. As one-half of Wham!, Michael filmed part of the duo’s No. 1 1984 single, “Careless Whisper” in Coconut Grove at Grove Towers and also Watson Island in Miami. In 1985, at the height of Wham! mania, Michael and Andrew Ridgely sold 25,000 seats for a concert at the former Miami Baseball Stadium. The singer-songwriter’s manager told The Hollywood Reporter he died of heart failure.
27: Carrie Fisher, 60. Actress who entered pop culture lore for her role as Princess Leia in the classic “Star Wars” films died following a heart attack.
28: Debbie Reynolds, 84. Actress, Hollywood royalty and beloved star of “Singin’ in the Rain” dies of a stroke a day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher, 60, died of a heart attack.
THIS REPORT WAS SUPPLEMENTED WITH MATERIAL FROM THE WASHINGTON POST.
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