Celebrity deaths in 2023

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Celebrity deaths in 2023

A look at the notable celebrities and newsmakers who died in 2023.

Jerry Springer

Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional guests willing to bare all — sometimes literally — as they brawled and hurled obscenities before a raucous audience, died April 27, 2023, at 79. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

Harry Belafonte

(110316 - Boston, MA) Harry Belafonte speaks about Justice and Equality: Inspiring Activism, at Faneuil Hall on Thursday, November 3, 2016. It was the K. George and Carolann S. Najarian Lecture on Human Rights, an endowed public program of the Armenian Heritage Foundation. Staff photo by Arthur Pollock
Award-winning actor, singer and activist Harry Belafonte, a persistent and outspoken voice for justice and racial equality in the United States and around the world, died April 25, 2023, at age 96, his representative confirmed. (Arthur Pollock/Boston Herald)

Len Goodman

Len Goodman - Book Signing
Len Goodman, a long-serving judge on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Strictly Come Dancing” who helped revive interest in ballroom dancing on both sides of the Atlantic, died on April 22, 2023, his agent said. He was 78. (Photo by Simon Burchell/Getty Images)

Barry Humphries, Dame Edna

High Tea With Dame Edna Everage
Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, died April 22, 2023 at the age of 89. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Otis Redding III

Otis Redding 75th Birthday Celebration
Guitarist and singer Otis Redding III, the son and namesake of the legendary soul singer Otis Redding, has died from cancer at age 59. His family announced the news April 19, 2023. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Otis Redding 75th Birthday Celebration)

Mary Quant

Mary Quant Wallpaper
Mary Quant, the British designer whose fashions epitomized the Swinging 60s, died April 13, 2023 at the age of 93. Quant’s family said she died “peacefully at home” in Surrey, southern England. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Al Jaffee

Mad Magazine Celebrates 65-Year Legacy With Legendary Creative Team Reunion At New York Comic Con
Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee (right), Mad magazine’s award-winning cartoonist and wise guy who delighted millions of kids with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and…

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