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Actor Sean Connery, best known for his role as James Bond, has died at the age of 90.

An award-winning screenwriter for the landmark TV projects “Brian’s Song” and “Roots” has died.

William Blinn, a screenwriter for the landmark TV projects “Brian’s Song” and “Roots” and the Prince film “Purple Rain,” has died. He was 83.

Jerry Jeff Walker, a Texas country singer and songwriter who wrote the pop song “Mr. Bojangles,” has died at age 78.

After losing Charlie to lymphoma earlier this month, Sallie Gregory Hammett cried for about four days straight. Then she decided to do something different with her grief: write his obituary.

Singer Helen Reddy, best known for her song “I Am Woman,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 78.

Country music star Mac Davis died on Tuesday at the age of 78 after undergoing heart surgery.

Jack Sherman, a guitarist who joined the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers for its debut album and first U.S. tour, has died at age 64, the band said.

Hollywood has lost one of its most enduring Golden Age icons. Olivia de Havilland died July 26 at age 104. Reps for the actress confirmed the sad news to multiple outlets, sharing that Olivia passed away from natural causes in Paris, where she lived for more than 60 years.

Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged and unchained Hollywood’s contract system, died Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104.

Lawyers representing the family of Peter Green, the dexterous blues guitarist who led the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in a career shortened by psychedelic drugs and mental illness, say he has died.

The country music star died Monday in a Tennessee hospital.

Veteran TV journalist and former TODAY anchor Hugh Downs died Wednesday at the age of 99 in his Scottsdale, Arizona, home, his great-niece has confirmed.

Charles Webb, a lifelong non-conformist whose debut novel “The Graduate” was a deadpan satire of his college education and wealthy background later adapted into the classic 1967 film of the same name, has died.

Joel Shumacher, who shepherded the so-called“Brat Pack” to the big screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and directed two 1990s-era “Batman” films, has died. A representative says the director died Monday at 80 after a year-long battle with cancer.

Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular “Forces’ Sweetheart” who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, smiling and crying with sentimental favorites such as “We’ll Meet Again,” and “The White Cliffs of Dover.” “The family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of…

Police and Indian media reports say popular Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has been found dead at his Mumbai residence.

Bollywood star Sushant Sing Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai home on Sunday, according to area police. Reports indicate the 34-year-old actor took his own life, although an investigation is ongoing.

William S. Sessions, a former federal judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan to head the FBI and fired years later by President Bill Clinton, died Friday at his San Antonio home. He was 90.

The death of veteran film, television and stage actor Geno Silva was announced by his family Sunday. Silva died peacefully at his Los Angeles home May 9 from complications of frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), a form of dementia. He was 72. Silva’s career spanned more than four decades and included more than 100 film, television and theatre credits, his family said….