Lloyd N. Morrisett Jr. (November 2, 1929 – January 22, 2023)
(AP) – Lloyd Morrisett, the co-creator of the beloved children’s
education TV series "Sesame Street," which uses empathy
and fuzzy monsters like Abby Cadabby, Elmo and Cookie
Monster to charm and teach generations around the world,
has died.
Morrisett’s death was announced Tuesday by Sesame Workshop,
the nonprofit he helped establish under the name the Children’s Television Workshop. No cause of death was given.
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John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)
Comedian, actor, and musician John Belushi was one
of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch
comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) that premiered
October 11, 1975.
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James Yoshio Yoda (March 31, 1934 – January 13, 2023)
Yoshio Yoda, who portrayed Fuji, the sweet-natured Japanese
prisoner of war befriended by the irreverent gang of American
sailors at the center of the 1962-66 ABC World War II-set sitcom
McHale’s Navy, died Jan. 13 in Fullerton, CA. He was 88.
Yoda, who also went be the name James Yoshio Yoda during
his post-acting career as an executive of Toyota Hawaii, was
born in Tokyo and studied law at Keio University in Japan
before deciding on an acting career. After moving to the United
States, Yoda enrolled at the University of Southern California’s
film school.
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William W. (Bill) Schonely (June 1, 1929 – January 21, 2023)
Bill Schonely was local sports broadcaster who was the play-
by-play announcer for the Portland Trail Blazers for almost
three decades, from the team’s launch in 1970 until 1998.
The Trail Blazers organization retired Schonely’s microphone
on November 3, 2003.
In 1999, Schonely was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of
Fame for Broadcasting.
In 2012, Schonely was awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award
from the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston)
4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993)
One of America’s most beloved actresses, Audrey Hepburn,
died in her sleep at home on January 20, 1993, in Lausanne,
Switzerland. The 63-year-old Hepburn had undergone surgery
for colon cancer the previous November.
Recognized as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked
by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female
screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was
inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
Hepburn’s grave in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.
