R.I.P. Celebrities(Non Wrestlers or Sports related) 2023

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Ed Koren, New Yorker cartoonist and beloved Vermonter, dies at 87

Edward Koren, who spent more than six decades delighting readers of the New Yorker with his unmistakably shaggy and joyous cartoons, died Friday at his home in Brookfield. He was 87 years old.

Koren’s wife, Curtis, confirmed his death to the New York Times.

Born in New York City in 1935, Koren attended Columbia University and earned an M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute. He taught at Brown University and sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker in 1962. The magazine would go on to publish some 1,100 of his pieces, according to the Times, featuring a universe of humans and animals sharing similarly immense noses and wild hair.

He published many collections over the years — including his latest, “In the Wild,” in 2018 — and contributed to children’s books, a poetry collection and even a cookbook.

Though Koren’s remarkable tenure at the New Yorker made him known throughout the world, he was, perhaps, most beloved at home in Vermont, where he bought a house in 1978 and moved full-time in 1982.

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The Script Guitarist Mark Sheehan Dead at 46 Following 'Brief Illness'

Sheehan founded the band with Danny O'Donoghue and Glen Power in 2001

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Lesley Swick Van Ness, a former news anchor in Illinois, has died. She was 42.

She died on Monday following a sudden illness while on vacation with her family, according to NBC affiliate WGEM-TV, the station where she worked for over a decade.

Van Ness began her career with WGEM-TV as an intern, getting hired by the Quincy station after graduating from Illinois State University, according to her LinkedIn page.

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Ahmad Jamal, jazz great and Pittsburgh native passes away at 92

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Murray Melvin, ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ ‘Barry Lyndon’ actor, dead at 90

Melvin rose to prominence as Geoffrey, the gay art student, in “A Taste of Honey,” and later became a key member of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop company, The Guardian reported. He won best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in “A Taste of Honey,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Melvin debuted in 1957 at the Theatre Royal in Stratford in “Macbeth,” according to Deadline. He later appeared in films such as “Alfie” (1966), “Barry Lyndon” (1975) and “The Phantom of the Opera” (2004).

On television, Melvin appeared on the television sci-fi drama “Torchwood,” a spin-off of the “Doctor Who” series, the website reported.

Melvin authored a pair of books, according to The Guardian: “The Art of Theatre Workshop” (2006) and “The Theatre Royal, A History of the Building” (2009).

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Bridal pioneer Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter dies at 99; Holocaust survivor's NYC store transformed wedding dress industry

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Mario Fratti, Italian Playwright Whose Work Led to Nine, Dies at 95

Fratti wrote more than 100 plays, performed in more than two-dozen countries.

Prolific Italian playwright and educator Mario Fratti, whose work helped lead to the creation of the Broadway musical Nine, has died at the age of 95.

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Edward H. Meyer, an empire-building CEO who, using an iron-willed management style and a laser focus on even the smallest details, transformed a midsize New York advertising agency into the global power known as Grey Group, died Tuesday at his apartment in Manhattan. He was 96.

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Australian actress Maxine Klibingaitis dies 'suddenly and unexpectedly' aged 58: 'Much-loved' star was known for roles in Prisoner and Neighbours

Klibingaitis played teenage punk Bobbie Mitchell on Prisoner from 1983 to 1985, and also starred as apprentice plumber Terry Inglis on Neighbours for six months in 1985