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Motion picture agent vet Spencer Baumgarten died peacefully at his home Monday evening, Deadline has learned. He was 62. Baumgarten’s cause of death, we hear, was due to complications from leukemia (AML). Related Story Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries…

UPDATED throughout: This is news that has come as a shock to many. Begho Ukueberuwa, an executive and former agent, died May 7. He was just 27. Ukueberuwa died of complications from heat stroke while running a half-marathon in Providence, RI, according to his family. Related Story Hollywo…

Terence Hardiman, who terrified a generation of children with his performance in CBBC’s The Demon Headmaster, died Monday in . He was 86. Hardiman’s agent Scott Marshall Partners confirmed his death “with great sadness,” calling him a beloved client and much-loved stage and screen…

Bill Saluga, whose trademark lines that began with “You can call me Ray” cracked up a generation of comedy fans, has died, according to his friend, Eric Brenner. He was 85. Related Story Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries Saluga’s March 28 death in…

Vida Blue, a dominating left-hander who helped the Oakland Athletics win three straight World Series championships from 1972-74, died on Saturday. He was 73. “There are few players with a more decorated career than Vida Blue,” the A’s said in a statement. “He was a three-time champion, an MVP, a…

Newton N. Minow, who shocked the nation in 1961 by calling American television "a vast wasteland," died on Saturday at his home in Chicago . He was 97 and died from a heart attack, according to his daughter. Minow made his memorable remarks at a luncheon in Washington before broadcast executives…

UPDATE: Texas medical examiners said Friday that 30-year-old Sara Lee’s death was a suicide. The 30-year-old ingested a fatal combination of alcohol and drugs. Lee died last October in her San Antonio, Texas home. The medical examiners said she had a mixture of amphetamines, doxylamine and alcohol…

Veteran reporter Tony Valdez, who covered Los Angeles for more than 30 years for the Fox 11 television station, has died at 78. His son confirmed the death and said his father had been battling end-stage kidney failure before dying at home on Friday morning. Related Story Hollywood & Medi…

Linda Lewis, the British singer who scored a string UK solo hits in the 1970s but is most widely known as one of the era’s most in-demand backup singers who recorded with Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, David Bowie, T. Rex and Rod Stewart, died May 3 at her home. She was 72. Her death was announced by her…

Barbara Bryne, a British actress who worked in stage, television, and film during a decades-long career, died Tuesday at age 94. Her death was confirmed by the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, but no cause was given. Bryne’s best-known stage roles were in the original Broadway productions of Stephen…

Eileen Saki, who played bar owner Rosie on M*A*S*H, died Monday, her husband Bob Borgen confirmed. She was 79. Saki, whose real name was Minako Borgen, gave life to Rosie in the Korean War dramedy series. Rosie was the owner and proprietor of Rosie’s Bar, the local off-base watering hole for GIs…

UPDATED with Canada Prime Minister statement: Gordon Lightfoot, the honey-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who had giant U.S. hits with “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died today at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was 84. His longtime…