2023 Deaths in the Entertainment World

Here is a list of actors, actresses, singers and other notables in the world of entertainment who left us in 2023.

January

7th – Adam Rich, 54, American actor
9th – Melinda Dillon, 83, American actress
18th – David Crosby, 81, American singer, songwriter
24th – Lance Kerwin, 62, American actor
25th – Cindy Williams, 75, American actress
28th – Lisa Loring, 64, American actress
28th – Barrett Strong, 81, American singer
31st – Charlie Thomas, 85, American singer

February

8th – Burt Bacharach, 94, American Hall of Fame composer
15th – Raquel Welch, 82, American actress
16th – Chuck Jackson, 85, American R&B singer
17th – Stella Stevens, 84, American actress
19th – Richard Belzer, 78, American actor

March

3rd – Sara Lane, 73, American actress
3rd – Tom Sizemore, 61, American actor
5th – Bob Goody, 71, British actor
8th – Chaim Topol, 87, Israeli actor
8th – Robert Blake, 89, American actor
10th – Napoleon XIV, 84, American singer
17th – Lance Reddick, 60, American actor

April

8th – Michael Lerner, 81, American actor
13th – Mary Quant, 93, British fashion designer
25th – Harry Belafonte, 96, American singer, actor
27th – Jerry Springer, 79, British-born American TV host, politician

May

1st – Gordon Lightfoot, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter
9th – Jacklyn Zeman, 70, American actress
11th – Barry Newman, 92, American actor
18th – Helmut Berger, 78, Austrian actor
18th – Jim Brown, 87, American football player, actor
21st – Ed Ames, 95, American singer, actor
24th – George Maharis, 94, American actor
24th – Tina Turner, 83, American singer, actress

June

1st – Michael Batayeh, 52, American actor
5th – Astrud Gilberto, 83, Brazilian samba, bossa nova singer
12th – Treat Williams, 71, American actor
16th – Glenda Jackson, 87, English actress
16th – Paxton Whitehead, 85, English actor
29th – Alan Arkin, 89, American actor

July

9th – Andrea Evans, 66, American actress
14th – Nick Benedict, 77, American actor
21st – Tony Bennett, 96, American singer
23rd – Pamela Blair, 73, American actress
23rd – Inga Swenson, 90, American actress
26th – Sinéad O’Connor, 56, Irish singer
30th – Paul Reubens, 70, American actor

August

1st – Beth Porter, 81, American-British actress
3rd – Mark Margolis, 83, American actor
7th – William Friedkin, 87, American film director
18th – Nancy Frangione, 70, American actress
18th – Ray Hildebrand, 82, American singer (Paul & Paula)
19th – Ron Cephas Jones, 66, American actor
26th – Bob Barker, 99, American game show host
31st – Timothy Nolen, 82, American actor

September

1st – Jimmy Buffett, 76, American singer-songwriter
2nd – Shannon Wilcox, 80, American actress
4th – Steve Harwell, 56, American singer (Smash Mouth)
4th – Gary Wright, 80, American singer-songwriter
5th – Larry Chance, 82, American doo-wop singer (The Earls)
23rd – Terry Kirkman, 83, American singer (The Association), songwriter
25th – David McCallum, 90, Scottish actor

October

8th – Burt Young, 83, American actor
11th – Phyllis Coates, 96, American actress
14th – Piper Laurie, 91, American actress
15th – Suzanne Somers, 76, American actress
24th – Richard Roundtree, 81, American actor
26th – Richard Moll, 80, American actor
28th – Matthew Perry, 54, American-Canadian actor

November

1st – Peter White, 86, American actor
6th – Janet Landgard, 75, American actress
15th – Sandy Farina, 68, American singer, actress
17th – Suzanne Shepherd, 89, American actress
19th – Peter Spellos, 69, American voice actor
22nd – Jean Knight, 80, American singer
27th – Frances Sternhagen, 93, American actress

December

5th – Norman Lear, age 101, American screenwriter, producer
8th – Ryan O’Neal, 82, American actor
11th – Andre Braugher, 61, American actor
17th – James McCaffrey, 65, American actor
23rd – Richard Romanus, 80, American actor
26th – Tom Smothers, 86, American comedian, musician
27th – Lee Sun-kyun, 48, South Korean actor
29th – Sandra Reaves-Phillips, 79, American actress, singer
30th – Maurice Hines, 80, American dancer, singer, actor
30th – Tom Wilkinson, 75, English actor
31st – Shecky Greene, 97, American comedian, actor