In 2023, a number of celebrities from the music, film, and television industries bid adieu. Here is the list of the Celebrity Deaths in 2023, a sad one. This list includes David Crosby, Jeff Beck, Sinead O’Connor, Pee-Wee Herman, Jimmy Buffett, Andre Braugher, Ryan O’Neal, Norman Lear, Matthew Perry, Raquel Welch, Lisa Marie Presley, Suzanne Somers, Cindy Williams, and more.
Celebrity Deaths in 2023
1. Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson, the two-time Oscar nominated British actor who appeared in films including “The Full Monty,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” died Dec. 30. He was 75.
2. Tom Smothers
Tom Smothers, one half of the Smothers Brothers musical comedy duo, died on Dec. 26 in Santa Rosa, Calif. He was 86. Thomas Bolyn Smothers III was an American comedian, actor, composer, and also a great musician. He is widely known as half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick. Smothers and John Lennon played acoustic guitar during the live recording of Lennon’s 1969 song “Give Peace a Chance”
3. Le Sun
Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor who starred in the 2020 Oscar best picture winner “Parasite,” died Dec. 27. He was 48. Lee Sun-kyun was a South Korean actor. Internationally, he was best known for his role in Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award–winning film Parasite, for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his castmates.
4. Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher, the two-time Emmy winning actor who starred in the hit television series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died Dec. 11 after a brief illness. He was 61. Andre Keith Braugher was an American actor known for his roles as Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Captain Raymond Holt in the Fox/NBC police comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
5. Ryan O’Neal
Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal, who came to prominence on TV’s “Peyton Place” and became a top star of the 1970s in films including “Love Story,” “What’s Up, Doc?,” “Paper Moon” and “Barry Lyndon,” died Dec. 8. Charles Patrick Ryan O’Neal was an American actor. Born in Los Angeles, he trained as an amateur boxer before beginning a career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place.
6. Norman Lear
Writer-producer-developer Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with such daring, immensely popular early-‘70s sitcoms as “All in the Family” and “Sanford and Son,” died Dec. 5. He was 101.Norman Milton Lear was an American screenwriter and producer who produced, wrote, created, or developed over 100 shows.
7. Robbie Robertson
Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, died Aug. 9. He was 80. Jaime Royal “Robbie” Robertson OC was a Canadian musician. He was lead guitarist for Bob Dylan in the mid-late 1960s and early-mid 1970s, guitarist and songwriter with the Band from their inception until 1978, and a solo artist.
8. Marty Krofft
Marty Krofft, colorful producer with his brother Sid of ‘H.R. Pufnstuf,’ ‘Land of the Lost,’ and more, died at 86. Marty Krofft, a TV producer known for imaginative children’s shows such as “H.R. Pufnstuf” and primetime hits including “Donny & Marie” in the 1970s, has died in Los Angeles, his publicist said.
9.Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry, the actor known for playing Chandler Bing on the hit NBC sitcom “Friends,” died Oct. 28. He was 54. Matthew Langford Perry was an American and Canadian actor. He gained fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends.
10. Jimmy Buffet
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, whose laid-back, good-humored, often tropically-themed brand of country-laced pop spawned a lucrative one-man business empire, died Sept 2. He was 76. James William Buffett was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He was known for his tropical rock sound and persona, which often portrayed a lifestyle described as “island escapism”
These demise were extremely sudden and unexpected but hoping the industry goes on their pathway and they are always in our heart.
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