There were, of course, millions more, and at least thousands who may seem famous to someone who’s not me. These are the ones whose names and accomplishments were familiar to me, for good or ill.
- Tanya Roberts
- John Richardson
- Antonio Sabato
- Ashli Babbitt
- Michael Apted
- Julie Strain
- Siegfried Fischbacher
- Peter Mark Richman
- Phil Spector
- Jimmie Rodgers
- Mira Furlan
- Hank Aaron
- Hal Holbrook
- Larry King
- Walter Bernstein
- Cloris Leachman
- Dustin Diamond
- Christopher Plummer
- George Schultz
- Mary Wilson
- Chick Corea
- Larry Flint
- Rush Limbaugh
- Frank Lupo
- Jerold Ottley
- Peter S. Davis
- Yaphet Kotto
- George Segal
- Beverly Cleary
- Larry McMurtry
- G. Gordon Liddy
- James Hampton
- Margaret Wander Bonanno
- Prince Philip
- Bernie Madoff
- Walter Mondale
- Tempest Storm
- Olympia Dukakis
- Tawny Kitaen
- Neil Connery
- Norman Lloyd
- Rene Cardona III
- Charles Grodin
- Joe Lara
- Gavin MacLeod
- B.J. Thomas
- F. Lee Bailey
- Ned Beatty
- John McAfee
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Richard Donner
- Robert Downey Sr.
- William F. Nolan
- Benny Goodman
- Jacky Mason
- Saginaw Grant
- Dusty Hill
- Johnny Ventura
- Glen Ford
- Richard Trumka
- Alex Cord
- Patricia Hitchcock
- Neal Conan
- Eddie Paskey
- Sonny Chiba
- Marilyn Eastman
- Charlie Watts
- Ed Asner
- Michael Constantine
- Mikis Theodorakis
- Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Norm MacDonald
- Gavan O’Herlihy
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Tommy Kirk
- Will Bagley
- Koichi Sugiyama
- Alan Kalter
- Jan Shutan
- Eleonore von Trapp Campbell
- Colin Powell
- Peter Scolari
- Dean Stockwell
- Art LaFleur
- Jason Shumate
- Stephen Sondheim
- Bob Dole
- Anne Rice
- Richard Marcinko
- Desmond Tutu
- Andrew Vachss
- John Madden
- Harry Reid
- Betty White
On the martial arts movie front, we also lost Roy Horan (Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow; Tower of Death; Snuff Bottle Connection) and Dean Shek (comic relief in most kung fu comedies made in the late 70s and early 80s; later had a major role in A Better Tomorrow 2).