Deaths for the week ending 31 October 2020:
Sunday, 25 October 2020
Diane di Prima, Beat poet, 86.
David Karnes, U.S. Senator (R-NE, 1987-89), of skin cancer, 71.
Johnny Leeze, actor (British), of coronavirus disease, 78.
Monday, 26 October 2020
David Braley, Canadian football executive, after a long illness, 79.
"Fast" Eddie Johnson, NBA basketball player (Atlanta Hawks) and child rapist, of an illness, 65.
Stan Kesler, country songwriter ("I Forgot to Remember to Forget"), of bone cancer, 92.
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Jimmy Orr, NFL football player (Baltimore Colts), 85.
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Cecilia Chiang, chef and restaurateur (Mandarin in San Francisco), 100.
Leanza Cornett, beauty queen (Miss America, 1993), of complications from a fall, 49. She was the ex-wife of TV host Mark Steines (not to be confused with political commentator Mark Steyn).
Billy Joe Shaver, country singer-songwriter ("Live Forever"), of a stroke, 81.
Tracy Smothers, pro wrestler, of lymphoma, 58.
Thursday, 29 October 2020
David Rodriguez, TV producer ("Animal Kingdom"), of complications from a stroke, 50.
Friday, 30 October 2020
Herb Adderly, NFL football player (Green Bay Packers), 81.
Saturday, 31 October 2020
Rance Allen, gospel singer (The Rance Allen Group), of complications from surgery, 71.
Nate Burrell, TV documentary subject ("60 Days In"), of suicide by gunshot, 33.
Sean Connery, actor (Goldfinger), of pneumonia and heart failure, 90.