U = undisclosed/unknown/undvtermined/unforthcoming

NOVEMBER 2021 (not widely publicized until December 2021)
11/11: ELFRIDA von NARDOFF, 96 (complications, stroke), 1950s Quiz Show scandal contestant and high money winner (Twenty-One)
11/16: BRIAN CLARK, 89 (aortic aneurysm), British dramatist (Whose Life Is It Anyway?)
11/30: H. (HORACE) JACKSON BROWN JR., 81 (U), motivational, advice, and self-help author (Life’s Little Instruction Book)
11/30: MICHAEL GARGIULO, 95 (congestive heart failure), TV documentarian (1959 Nixon/Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate”); TV game show director (The Match Game; Pyramid; Password)

DECEMBER 2021
12/01: JACQUELINE AVANT, 81 (home invasion gun violence). philanthropist; wife of music producer Clarence “The Black Godfather” Avant
12/01: SUZETTE WINTER, 90 (aspiration pneumonia), British-born celebrity-themed TV documentarian (I Bergman; \J Crawford; C Grant; A Hepburn; B Lancaster; V Leigh; S MacLaine; S McQueen; M Monroe; G Peck; S Temple; B Stanwyck; many others)
12/02: RICHARD COLE, 75 (cancer), British tour manager for and biographer of rock group Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored)
12/02: Sir ANTHONY SHER, 72 (cancer), South African-born British stage and screen actor noted for Shakespearean roles (Shakespeare in Love)
12/03: DENIS O’BRIEN, 80 (intra-abdominal sepsis), attorney for, business manager of, and film producing collaborator with George Harrison (Monty Python’s Life of Brian; Time Bandits; Mona Lisa)
12/03: MELVIN PARKER, 77 (pneumonia), R&B drummer for James Brown [heard on: I Got You (I Feel Good); Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag]; brother of saxophonist Maceo Parker
12/03: CHARLOTTE MAILLIARD SHULTZ, 88 (complications, cancer), socialite; widow of former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz
12/04: MARTHA SCHUMACHER De LAURENTIIS, 67 (brain cancer), film producer collaborator with and widow of Dino De Laurentiis (Breakdown; Hannibal; Red Dragon)
12/04: STONEWALL JACKSON (actual birth name), 89 (vascular dementia), country and Grand Ole Opry vocalist (Waterloo; B.J., the D.J.)
12/05: ZEN SCOTT CANNON. five months (brain tumor). infant son of TV host Nick Cannon
12/05: US Senator ROBERT “BOB” DOLE, 98 (lung cancer), US Congressman (Republican-Kansas/1st District, 1961-1969); US Senator (Republican-Kansas, 1969-1996); 1976 Republican vice-presidential candidate; 1996 Republican presidential candidate; alternating US Senate Majority/Minority Leader (1985-1996); wounded WWII veteran
12/05: BUDDY MERRILL, 85 (U), steel guitarist and occasional vocalist (The Lawrence Welk Show)
12/05: JOHN MILES, 72 (brief illness), British solo pop vocalist, songwriter, and musician (song “Music,” 1976)
12/05: SCOTT PAGE- PAGTER, 52 (cancer), TV animation producer and voice actor (Power Rangers)
12/06: SKILYR HICKS, 23 (drug overdose), talent show vocalist and contestant (America’s Got Talent)
12/07: STEVE BRONSKI, 61 (smoke inhalation from a house fire), Scottish-born vocalist and keyboardist, 1980s British synth-pop group Bronski Beat (Smalltown Boy)
12/08: GIL BRIDGES, 80 (complications, COVID-19), saxophonist and last original member, 1960s rock group Rare Earth (Get Ready; I Just Want to Celebrate)
12/08: ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE, 68 (complications, kidney surgery), Jamaican electronic reggae bassist (Sly and Robbie, Black Uhuru)
12/08: RALPH TAVARES, 79 (lengthy illness), Cape Verdean-born vocalist, 1970s R&B group Tavares (It Only Takes a Minute; Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel; Whodunit; More Than a Woman)
12/09: DON ASMUSSEN, 59 (brain cancer), syndicated editorial cartoonist (San Francisco Chronicle; headline parody comic strip Bad Reporter)
12/09: GARTH DENNIS, 72 (COVID-19), Jamaican reggae musician (Black Uhuru)
12/09: DAVID LASLEY, 74 (severe illness), songwriter (Lead Me On/Maxine Nightingale; Jojo/Boz Scaggs)
12/09: LARRY SELLERS, 72 (complications, COVID-19), Native-American TV actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
12/09: AL UNSER SR., 82 (liver cancer), racing car driver (four-time winner, Indianapolis 500); brother of racing car driver Bobby Unser; father of racing car driver Al Unser Jr.
12/09: LINA WERTMŬLLER, 93 (peacefully), Italian screenwriter and director (Seven Beauties; The Seduction of Mimi); first woman to be Academy Award-nominated for Best Director (Swept Away, 1975)
12/09: CARA WILLIAMS, 96 (heart attack), 1950s/1960s actress (film: The Defiant Ones; TV sitcoms: Pete and Gladys, The Cara Williams Show)
12/10: LES EMMERSON, 77 (COVID-19); vocalis, guitarist, and songwriter, 1970s Canadian rock group Five Man Electrical Band (Signs)
12/10: THOMAS “MENSi” MENSFORTH, 65 (COVID-19), vocalist, 1970s British punk group Angelic Upstarts
12/10: MICHAEL NESMITH. 78 (heart failure), vocalist, songwriter, and musician (The Monkees); TV actor (The Monkees; Television Parts); film producer (Timerider; Repo Man; Burglar; Tapeheads; Square Dance); 1970s producer, early music videos (PopClips); son of inventor Bette Nesmith Graham (Liquid Paper correction fluid)
12/11: ANNE RICE, 80 (complications, stroke), gothic and erotic novelist (The Vampire Chronicles/Lestat series, including Interview with the Vampire)
circa 12/12: STEVE AMES. 62 (complications, undetected diabetes), Northern New Jersey public access TV host and entertainer (The Steve Ames Show)
12/13: KEVIN BILLINGTON, 87 (U), British film director (The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer)
12/13: JOE SIMON, 85 (U), 1960s/1970s solo R&B/soul vocalist [The Chokin’ Kind; Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor); Drowning in the Sea of Love; Power of Love]
12/14: PHIL CHEN, 75 (cancer; complications, seizure), Jamaican-born Sino-British bassist for Rod Stewart (heard on: Da Ya Think I’m Sexy; Young Turks)
12/14: KEN KRAGEN, 85 (natural causes), producer (TV: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; music: USA for Africa/We Are the World; events: Hands Across America); talent manager (Kenny Rogers; Harry Chapin; Lionel Richie; many others)
12/14: HENRY ORENSTEIN, 98 (COVID-19), Polish-born toy designer (Johnny Lightning; Transformers); professional poker player; Holocaust survivor
12/14: ANIBAL “TONY” PEREZ, 90 (COVID-19), Puerto Rican-born boxing referee (Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier II; Muhammad Ali/Chuck Wepner; 54-second bout, Gerry Cooney/Ken Norton)
12/15: BRIDGET HANLEY, 80 (complications, Alzheimer’s disease), TV actress (Here Come the Brides; Harper Valley PTA); widow of TV director/producer E. W, Swackhamer
12/15: WANDA YOUNG, 78 (complications, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), 1960s pop vocalist, The Marvelettes (Please, Mister Postman; Too Many Fish in the Sea; lead vocalist on: Don’t Mess with Bill, My Baby Must Be a Magician)
12/16: LEONARD “HUB” HUBBARD, 62 (multiple myeloma), hip-hop bassist, The Roots (house band. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)
12/17: EVE BABITZ, 78 (complications, Huntington’s disease), author and chronicler of 1960s Los Angeles counterculture; graphic designer (LP covers for Linda Ronstadt; The Byrds; Buffalo Springfield)
12/17: FRANK MULA, 71 (peacefully), TV screenwriter (The Simpsons; Cosby; Madame’s Place)
12/17: BURT PRELUTSKY, 81 (blood pressure issues), TV screenwriter (Dragnet; M*A*S*H; Diagnosis: Murder; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; TV movie Hobson’s Choice)
12/19: NICHOLAS GEORGIADE, 88 (U), actor (The Untouchables – last surviving major cast member; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – penultimate surviving speaking-part cast member)
12/19: SALLY ANN HOWES, 91 (natural causes), British-born actress (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang); one-time wife of Broadway composer Richard Adler (Damn Yankees; The Pajama Game)_
12/19: US Senator JOHN ISAKSON, 76 (complications, Parkinson’s disease), US Congressman (Republican-Georgia/6th District, 1999-2005); US Senator (Republican-Georgia, 2005-2019)
12/19: CARLOS MARIN, 53 (COVID-19), German-born Spanish vocalist, operatic group Il Divo
12/20: RYAN “BODE” BODENHEIM, 44 (peacefully). comic book artist (Marvel: Black Panther, Doctor Strange, The Eternals; Valiant: Bloodshot)
12/20: PAUL MITCHELL, 70s/query? (U), vocalist,1970s soul group The Floaters (Float On)
12/21: JAIME COMAS GIL, 85 (U), Spanish screenwriter (A Fistful of Dollars)
12/22: ROBIN Le MESURIER, 68 (cancer), British guitarist, (The Wombles, for Rod Stewart)
12/22: BEN McFALL, 73 (pulmonary fibrosis; complications, fall), bookseller and doyen of NYC's Strand Bookstore's Fiction Department (1978-2021)
12/23: JOAN DIDION, 87 (complications, Parkinson’s disease), journalist, author, and social critic (Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The Year of Magical Thinking)
12/23: KATHY MANNING, 59 (COVID-19), beauty pageant contestant (Miss Mississippi 1984; second runner-up to Miss America 1984, Vanessa Williams)
12/23: GRACE MIRABELLA, 91 (U), fashion magazine editor-in-chief (Vogue; Mirabella)
12/23: T. (TERRELL) MARK TAYLOR, 80 (congestive heart failure), toy designer (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
12/24: HARVEY EVANS, 80 (in a nursing home), actor, singer, and dancer (West Side Story; original Broadway; 1961 film, as Mouthpiece; 2021 remake, cameo)
12/25: HARRY COLUMBY, 92 (complications, fall), German-born film screenwriter and producer (Johnny Dangerously; Touch and Go); talent manager (Michael Keaton; John Byner; Thelonious Monk); brother of jazz/rock drummer Bobby Colomby (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
12/25: TIFFANI HALE, 46 (cardiac arrest), TV actress and vocalist (1990s The All New Mickey Mouse Club)
12/25: JEAN-MARC VALLÉE, 58 (heart attack), Québécois-born film director (Dallas Buyers Club)
12/26: Archbishop DESMOND TUTU, 90 (prostate cancer), Xhosan/South African Anglican prelate; Nobel Peace Laureate, anti-Apartheid political activist
12/26: SARAH WEDDINGTON, 76 (declining health), attorney for “Roe v.. Wade” litigant Norma “Jane Roe” McCorvey
12/27: ANDREW VACHSS. 79 (U), attorney-turned-crime fiction novelist (Cross series; Burke series; Batman: The Ultimate Evil)
12/28: JOHN BOWMAN, 64 (heart attack), TV comedy writer (Saturday Night Live; In Living Color; Murphy Brown; Martin)
12/28: TED GARDNER, 74 (U), Australian-born music manager (Jane’s Addiction; The Cramps); music festival impresario (Lollapalooza).
12/28: JOHN MADDEN, 85 (U), NFL coach (Oakland Raiders, 1969-1979 including 1977 Super Bowl XI championship); NFL sportscaster (ABC; CBS; Fox; HBO; NBC); football-themed video game personality
12/28: US Senator HARRY REID, 82 (pancreatic cancer), US Congressman (Democratic-Nevada/1st District, 1983-1987); US Senator (Democratic-Nevada, 1987-2017); alternating US Senate Majority/Minority Leader (2007-2017)
12/29: DIANA MAXWELL, LADY FARNHAM, 90 (age-related causes), British Lady-in-Waiting and Lady of the Bedchamber for Queen Elizabeth II
12/30: STEPHEN J. LAWRENCE, 82 (U), composer (TV: Sesame Street; Free to Be ... You and Me, including title song; film: Bang the Drum Slowly; Alice, Sweet Alice)
12/30: DENIS O’DELL, 98 (natural causes), British-born/Spain-based film producer (Heaven’s Gate; The Ritz; Robin and Marian; Beatles-related films: A Hard Day’s Night, Magical Mystery Tour, How I Won the War; The Magic Christian); Beatles song name referenced personality as “Denis O’Bell” [You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)]
12/31 (body found): ROBERT BRUCE, 62 (U; found dead in a storage facility), popular culture historian; reality TV personality and producer (Comic Book Men)
12/31: ALAN LARSON, 80s/query?, (U), father of and legacy keeper for Broadway librettist d composer Jonathan Larson (Rent; tick, tick ... BOOM!)
12/31: PENNY JACKSON RAGSDALE, 78 (cancer), wife of country, novelty, and political vocalist and songwriter Ray Stevens
12/31: JEANINE ANN ROOSE. 84 (abdominal infection). 1940s juvenil e actress (film: It’s a Wonderful Life, as young Violet Bick; radio: The Fitch Bandwagon/The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, as “Little” Alice Harris)
12/31: BILLY” TURNER, 81 (prostate cancer), thoroughbred horse racing trainer (Seattle Slew, 1977 Triple Crown winner)
12/31: BETTY WHITE, 99 (natural causes), TV sitcom actress (Life with Elizabeth; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Mama’s Family; The Golden Girls/The Golden Palace; Bob!; Hot in Cleveland); TV game show panelist (The Match Game; Password); widow of TV personality Allen Ludden; animal rights advocate