The Short List – Sept. ’21

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Each month, we list the unselected dead celebs we either didn’t have time to report on… or who were just too boring to malign. So in case you were wondering “whatever happened to,” this monthly post may give you some unexpected closure.

September 1, 2021
September 2, 2021
  • Keith McCants – Aged 53 years. NFL linebacker turned broadcaster.
  • Mikis Theodorakis – Aged 96 years. Acclaimed film music composer and commie douchebag.
  • David Patten – Aged 47 years. Patriots WR who caught Tom Brady’s first Super Bowl TD.
September 3, 2021
  • Yolanda López – Aged 78 years. American painter known for her Virgen de Guadalupe series.
September 4, 2021
  • Willard Scott – Aged 87 years. Today Show weatherman and creator of Ronald McDonald.
September 5, 2021
  • Sarah Harding – Aged 39 years. Soap actress and singer for Brit-pop group Girls Aloud.
  • Tony Selby – Aged 83 years. English actor from “EastEnders” and “Doctor “Who.”
September 6, 2021
  • Michael K. Williams – Aged 54 years. Black guy with the big scar on his face seen in “The Wire,” “Boardwalk Empire,” and “Alias.”
  • Jean-Pierre Adams – Aged 73 years. French soccer star who spent 39 years in a coma.
  • Adlai Stevenson III – Aged 90 years. US Senator from a famous family of politicians.
September 7, 2021
September 8, 2021
  • Neddy Smith – Aged 76 years. Australian organized criminal whose hijinks were fictionalized on page & screen.
  • Terry Brennan – Aged 93 years. Head coach for Notre Dame in the mid-50’s.
September 9, 2021
September 10, 2021
  • Jorge Sampaio – Aged 81 years. Former president of Portugal.
  • Michael Chapman – Aged 80 years. English singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso.
September 11, 2021
  • Mick Tingelhoff – Aged 81 years. NFL Hall of Fame career center for the Vikings.
September 12, 2021
  • Fran Bennett – Aged 84 years. TV & film black bit-part player.
September 13, 2021
  • Don Collier – Aged 92 years. TV Western & film actor who was pigeon-holed into becoming Hubba Bubba’s ad mascot “The Gum Fighter”.
September 14, 2021
  • Reuben Klamer – Aged 99 years. Inventor of Milton Bradley’s The Game of Life.
September 15, 2021
  • Joel Rapp – Aged 87 years. Film director & screenwriter for popular 60’s TV shows.
September 16, 2021
  • Jane Powell – Aged 92 years. Musical actress referred to as one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
September 17, 2021
  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika – Aged 84 years. President of Algeria for nearly 20 years.
  • Tim Donnelly – Aged 77 years. TV actor who played fireman Chet Kelly on the 70’s primetime series “Emergency!”
September 18, 2021
  • Roger Brown – Aged 84 years. 6X Pro Bowl defensive tackle known for his role in 1962’s “Thanksgiving Day Massacre.”
September 19, 2021
  • John Challis – Aged 79 years. English TV actor and author.
  • Jimmy Greaves – Aged 81 years. England’s fourth-highest international football goalscorer.
September 20, 2021
  • Sarah Dash – Aged 76 years. R&B singer who worked with Patti LaBelle and The Rolling Stones.
  • Sherwood Boehlert – Aged 84 years. US congressman from New York who chaired the science committee.
  • Billy Maxwell – Aged 92 years. College golf stud who turned pro in the 50’s.
September 21, 2021
  • Willie Garson – Aged 57 years. Film & TV actor known for playing Stanford Blatch on HBO’s “Sex and the City.”
  • Richard H. Kirk – Aged 65 years. English electronic musician from Cabaret Voltaire who also worked under dozens of pseudonyms.
  • Al Harrington – Aged 85 years. Samoan-American actor who had parts in both the original “Hawaii Five-O” and the 2010 reboot.
  • Peter Palmer – Aged 90 years. Actor who played Lil Abner on Broadway and on film.
September 22, 2021
  • Robert Fyfe – Aged 90 years. Scottish TV actor with a 25-year gig on a British sit-com you never heard of.
  • Abdelkader Bensalah – Aged 79 years. Another former President of Algeria.
  • Roger Michell – Aged 65 years. English filmmaker, director of “Notting Hill” and “Hyde Park on the Hudson.”
  • Bob Moore – Aged 88 years. “Nashville A-Team” session bassist who performed on over 17,000 recordings, including Elvis & Patsy Cline.
  • Jay Sandrich – Aged 89 years. Emmy-winning director of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” & “The Cosby Show.”
September 23, 2021
  • Sue Thompson – Aged 96 years. American pop and country music singer with hits in the 60’s.
September 24, 2021
  • Pee Wee Ellis – Aged 80 years. American composer & jazz sax player who worked with James Brown & Van Morrison.
September 25, 2021
  • Walter Scott Jr. – Aged 90 years. Billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
September 26, 2021
  • Alan Lancaster – Aged 72 years. Bassist/singer for British rock band Status Quo.
  • George Frayne – Aged 77 years. Singer/musician better known in the 60’s country scene as Commander Cody.
September 27, 2021
  • Andrea Martin – Aged 49 years. R&B hitmaker who wrote for the likes of Toni Braxton, En Vogue, and Jennifer Hudson.
  • Roger Hunt – Aged 83 years. One of the few remaining members of England’s legendary mid-60s World Cup team.
September 28, 2021
September 29, 2021
  • Michael Tylo – Aged 73 years. American actor who had roles in just about all the major soap operas.
September 30, 2021
  • John Rigas – Aged 96 years. Cable TV magnate, NHL team owner, and convicted fraudster.
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