Suzanne Marie Somers (October 16, 1946 – October 15, 2023)

Just a day before her 77th birthday, Suzanne Somers passed
away Sunday morning following a 50-year battle with cancer. 

Somers‘ family had plans to celebrate her 77th birthday
Monday, Instead, they will celebrate her life.

Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter and Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Somers in "American Graffiti" (1973).

Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs)
(January 22, 1932 – October 14, 2023)

(AP) – Piper Laurie, the strong-willed, Oscar-nominated
actor who performed in acclaimed roles despite at one
point abandoning acting altogether in search of a "more
meaningful" life, died early Saturday at her home in Los
Angeles

Laurie died of old age, her manager, Marion Rosenberg,
told The Associated Press via email, adding that she
was "a superb talent and a wonderful human being."

Piper Laurie in ‘Carrie’ (1976)

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Mark Goddard, best known for playing Major Don West on CBS’
Television series Lost in Space, died Tuesday in Hingham, Mass.,
several days after celebrating his 87th birthday.        

He had been hospitalized with pneumonia,” and was transferred
to a rehabilitation center where doctors discovered he was in the
final stages of pulmonary fibrosis for which there is no cure.

(AP) – Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers
who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as
“Shout" and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady”
and “It’s Your Thing,” has died at age 84.

There are no words to express my feelings and the love I have
for my brother. Our family will miss him. But I know he’s in a
better place," Ronald Isley said in a statement released
Thursday by an Isley Brothers publicist. Further details
were not immediately available.

A Cincinnati native, Rudolph Isley began singing in church with
brothers Ronald and O’Kelly (another sibling, Vernon, died at
age 13) and was still in his teens when they broke through in
the late 1950s with “Shout,” a secularized gospel rave that was
later immortalized during the toga party scene in “Animal House.”

John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.)
(December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997)

To those who bought records like “Rocky Mountain High”
and “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by the millions in
the 1970s, John Denver was much more than just a great
songwriter and performer.

There never was and there probably never will be a star
quite like John Denver, who died on October 12, 1997
when his experimental amateur aircraft (below) crashed
into Monterey Bay on the California coast.

Quote from the NTSB Report: "The National Transportation Safety
Board determined the probable cause of the accident was the
pilot’s diversion of attention from the operation of the airplane
and his inadvertent application of right rudder that resulted in
the loss of airplane control while attempting to manipulate the
fuel selector handle.