celebrity deaths

His cause of death is unknown, but his impression on his peers is clear.

An already-tragic aftermath of FOX’s Glee has taken another sad turn. Disgraced star Mark Salling has been found dead at the age of 35, as police appear to have ruled the actor’s death a suicide.

Dolores O’Riordan, who fronted the Irish alternative rock band the Cranberries, has died in a London hotel.

Jim Nabors — an actor best known as Gomer Pyle on the Andy Griffith Show — has died.

Playboy magazine founder and sexual revolution symbol Hugh Hefner has died. He was 91.

Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell has suffered what is being described as a "sudden and unexpected" death at the age of 52.

Don Rickles’ talents were seemingly limitless: An outrageous insult comic, a gifted dramatic actor, a welcome sight on stages and screens (big and small), and a constant presence whose career endured for decades, often surpassing his contemporaries. And now he’s gone on to join them, as the legendary Rickles passed away today, April 6, at the age of 90.

As a teenager in the ’90s, no actor better represented blockbuster movies than Bill Paxton. Although Paxton wasn’t typically a leading man in those movies  —  he would often play the brother, the second-in-command, or the comic relief  —  he served as a kind of talisman of quality. If you saw Paxton’s name in the opening credits of a movie, you knew that the film was going to be better for it.