In Memoriam: People We Lost So Far In 2017

Sam Shepard

The celebrated playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, who earned a Pulitzer Prize for his play Buried Child and had roles in films such as Black Hawk Down and The Right Stuff, died on July 27th at the age of 73.

June Foray

American voice actress who was best known as the voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Lucifer from Disney’s Cinderella, Cindy Lou Who, Jokey Smurf, Granny from the Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Friz Freleng, Grammi Gummi from Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears series, and Magica De Spell, among many others. Foray died July 26, at the age of 99, less than two months before her 100th birthday.

Patti Deutsch

Patricia “Patti” Deutsch Ross was a voice actress and comedian. In the 1970s, she was a frequent panelist on Match Game and Tattletales. Deutsch died on July 26, from cancer. She was 73.

Leonard Landy

Leonard ‘Percy’ Landy was an Actor best known for his work as one of the Little Rascals on “Our Gang,”.  Landy died on July 26th. He was 84.

John Heard

The character actor, best known for playing Kevin McCallister’s dad in 1990’s Home Alone and for appearances on The Sopranos and numerous other television series, died July 21 at age 72.

Chester Bennington

Chester Bennington, the frontman of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, died in an apparent suicide. The musician was found in a private residence on the morning of July 20, what would have been the late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell’s 53rd birthday. The Linkin Park musician performed at the funeral for Cornell, who died by suicide in May. “You have inspired me in many ways you could never have known,” Bennington wrote in part in a moving tribute shared on Twitter after Cornell’s death. Bennington was 41 and left behind a wife and six children from two marriages.