Stars we've lost so far in 2019
It's not even halfway through the year, but the world has already said goodbye to some well known actors, athletes, musicians, and more. Here's a look back at stars who have passed away in 2019.
Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund
Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund, whose deadpan interviews of pro wrestling superstars like "Macho Man" Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan made him a ringside fixture in his own right, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. He was 76.Â
Bob Einstein
Bob Einstein, the veteran comedy writer and performer known for "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and his spoof daredevil character Super Dave Osborne, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, according to his brother, filmmaker Albert Brooks. Einstein was 76.
Daryl Dragon
Daryl Dragon, the cap-wearing "Captain" of Captain & Tennille who teamed with then-wife Toni Tennille on such easy listening hits as "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Muskrat Love," died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. He was 76.
Carol Channing
Carol Channing, the lanky, ebullient musical comedy star who delighted American audiences over almost 5,000 performances as the scheming Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" on Broadway and beyond, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. She was 97.
James Ingram
James Ingram, the Grammy-winning singer who launched multiple hits on the R&B and pop charts and earned two Oscar nominations for his songwriting, died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019, according to a close associate. He was 66.
Harold Bradley
Country Music Hall of Fame guitarist Harold Bradley, who played on hundreds of hit country records including "Crazy," "King of the Road" and "Crying" and helped create "The Nashville Sound" with his brother Owen, died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, at the age of 93.
Kristoff St. John
Kristoff St. John, who played the struggling alcoholic and ladies' man Neil Winters for 27 years on "Young and the Restless ," died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. He was 52.Â
Frank Robinson
Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, the first black manager in Major League Baseball and the only player to win the MVP award in both leagues, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. He was 83.
Albert Finney
Albert Finney, the charismatic Academy Award-nominated British actor who starred in films from "Tom Jones" to "Skyfall," died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. He was 82.
Bruno Ganz
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who played Adolf Hitler cooped up in his Berlin bunker in "Downfall" and an angel in Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire," died Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. He was 77.
Ganz, a prominent figure in the German-language theater world, shifted into movies in the 1970s, appearing in Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu" and Wenders' "The American Friend" among others. In one of his more recent appearances, he starred as Sigmund Freund in "The Tobacconist," released last year.
Karl Lagerfeld
 Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's iconic couturier whose designs had an unprecedented impact on the entire fashion industry, died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, in Paris, prompting an outpouring of love and admiration for the man in the trademark white ponytail, high starched collar and dark enigmatic glasses who dominated high fashion for the past 50 years. He was around 85 years old. His age was a point of mystery for decades, with reports he had two birth certificates, one dated 1933 and the other 1938.
Peter Tork
Peter Tork, who rose to teen-idol fame in 1966 playing the lovably clueless bass guitarist in the made-for-television rock band The Monkees, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. He was 77.
Clark Gable III
Clark James Gable III, host of the reality TV show "Cheaters" and grandson of late Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Texas. He was 30.
Lisa Sheridan
Actress Lisa Sheridan, best known for her roles on shows such as "Halt and Catch Fire," "CSI," and "Invasion," died Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, according to several online reports including People. She was 44.
Andre Previn
Andre Previn, the pianist, composer and conductor whose broad reach took in the worlds of Hollywood, jazz and classical music, always rejecting suggestions that his bop 'n' blues moonlighting lessened his stature, died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. He was 89.
Katherine Helmond
Actress Katherine Helmond, an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress who played two very different matriarchs on the ABC sitcoms "Who's the Boss?" and "Soap," died from complications from Alzheimer's disease Saturday Feb. 23, 2019, at her home in Los Angeles. She was 89.
Nathaniel Taylor
Nathaniel Taylor, the actor best known as Rollo Lawson, the street-smart best friend of the son on the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son," died Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a heart attack. He was 80.
Keith Flint
Keith Flint, the fiery frontman of British dance-electronic band The Prodigy, was found dead Monday. March 4, 2019, at his home near London, the band said. He was 49.
Prodigy co-founder Liam Howlett said in an Instagram post that Flint killed himself over the weekend.
Luke Perry
Luke Perry, who gained instant heartthrob status as wealthy rebel Dylan McKay on "Beverly Hills, 90210," died Monday, March 4, 2019, after suffering a massive stroke, his publicist said. He was 52.
Jan-Michael Vincent
Actor Jan-Michael Vincent, the "Airwolf" television star whose sleek good looks belied a troubled personal life, died of cardiac arrest Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. He was 73.
A death certificate shows that Vincent died of cardiac arrest on Feb. 10, 2019, in an Asheville, North Carolina, hospital. The certificate signed by a doctor says he died of natural causes and no autopsy was performed. It wasn't clear why it took several weeks for news of the death to surface before it was first reported Friday, March 8 by TMZ.
Dick Dale
Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, died Saturday, March 16, 2019. He was 81.
Andre Williams
R&B singer and songwriter Andre Williams died Sunday, March, 17, 2019, at age 82. Williams co-wrote "Shake A Tail Feather." He moved as a young man from Alabama to Detroit, where he signed with Fortune Records and, later, with Motown Records. His early hits also included "Bacon Fat" and "Jail Bait."
Nipsey Hussle
Rapper Nipsey Hussle was fatally shot Sunday, March 31, 2019, outside the clothing store he founded to help rebuild his troubled South Los Angeles neighborhood, police said, cutting short a career that earned him a Grammy nomination this year for his major-label debut. He was 33.
Georgia Engel
Georgia Engel, who played the charmingly innocent, small-voiced Georgette on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and amassed a string of other TV and stage credits, died Friday, April 12, 2019. She was 70.
The cause of death was unknown because she was a Christian Scientist and didn't see doctors, her friend and executor, John Quilty said Monday.
Bibi Andersson
Bibi Andersson, the Swedish actress who starred in classic films by compatriot Ingmar Bergman, including "The Seventh Seal" and "Persona," died Sunday, April 14, 2019. She was 83.
Ken Kercheval
Ken Kercheval, who played perennial punching bag Cliff Barnes to Larry Hagman's scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing on the hit TV series "Dallas," died Sunday, April 21, 2019. He was 83.
John Singleton
Filmmaker John Singleton, who debuted with the Oscar-nominated "Boyz N the Hood" and continued making movies that probed the lives of black communities in his native Los Angeles and beyond, died Monday, April 29, 2019. He was 51.
Singleton's family said Monday that he died after being taken off life support, about two weeks after the director suffered a major stroke.
Peter Mayhew
Peter Mayhew, the towering actor who donned a huge, furry costume to give life to the rugged-and-beloved character of Chewbacca in the original "Star Wars" trilogy and two other films, died Tuesday, April 30, 2019. He was 74.
Peggy Lipton
Peggy Lipton, a star of the groundbreaking late 1960s TV show "The Mod Squad" and the 1990s show "Twin Peaks," died of cancer Saturday. She was 72.
Lipton died surrounded by her family, her daughters, Rashida and Kidada Jones, said in a statement.
Doris Day
Doris Day, the honey-voiced singer and actress whose film dramas, musicals and innocent sex comedies made her a top star in the 1950s and '60s and among the most popular screen actresses in history, has died. She was 97.
Day is shown here with actor Steve Cochran and his pet dog named Tschaikowsky in Los Angeles, USA on May 2, 1950.
Jim Fowler
Jim Fowler, a naturalist who rose to fame on the long-running television program "Wild Kingdom" and who famously bantered with Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," died Wednesday, May 8, 2019. He was 89.
Tim Conway
Tim Conway, the impish second banana to Carol Burnett who won four Emmy Awards on her TV variety show, starred aboard "McHale's Navy" and later voiced the role of Barnacle Boy for "Spongebob Squarepants," died Tuesday, May 14, 2019. He was 85.
Conway died in a Los Angeles care facility after a long illness, according to Howard Bragman, who heads LaBrea Media. Conway's wife, Charlene Fusco, and a daughter, Jackie, were at his side.
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died Thursday, May 17, 2019. He was 102.
Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk, the versatile author of "The Caine Mutiny" and the World War II epics "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance," died Friday, May 17, 2019. He was 103.
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Well known personalities that have passed away from January to February of 2019
