Photos: 2023 celebrity deaths

Billy Miller, the actor and Emmy Award winner known for his roles on the popular daytime series “The Young and the Restless,” “General Hospital” and “All My Children,” died on Friday, Sept. 15, in Austin, Texas. He would have celebrated his 44th birthday on Sunday. The actor was struggling with manic depression when he died, his agent said in a statement shared with CBS News. A cause of death was not given. (AP Photo/JPIStudios.com, Howard Wise)

FILE – Country music artist Charlie Robison poses for a photo in Nashville, Tenn., June 30, 2009. Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the country charts until he was forced to retire after a medical procedure left him unable to sing, has died. A family representative says Robison died at a hospital in San Antonio after suffering cardiac arrest. He was 59. (AP Photo/Ed Rode, File)

BROOKLYN, NY – SEPTEMBER 12: Steve Harwell of Smash Mouth performs at 90sFEST Pop Culture and Music Festival on September 12, 2015 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for 90sFEST)

Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico who later served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas, has died. He was 75. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Jimmy Buffett performs at his sister’s restaurant in Gulf Shores, Ala., on June 30, 2010. “Margaritaville” singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has died at age 76. A statement on Buffett’s official website and social media pages says the singer died Friday, Sept. 1, 2023 “surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs”. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Television host Bob Barker appears on the set of his show, “The Price is Right” in Los Angeles on July 25, 1985. Barker died Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at his home in Los Angeles, his publicist Roger Neal said. Barker was 99. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 29: WWE Superstars Braun Strowman, Bray Wyatt and Erick Rowan ring The New York Stock Exchange Opening Bell in honor of WrestleMania 32 at New York Stock Exchange on March 29, 2016 in New York City. Wyatt, whose real name was Windham Rotunda, died “unexpectedly,” Thursday. He was 36. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

FILE – Ron Cephas Jones arrives at the second night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Cephas Jones, a veteran stage and screen actor who became best known and won two Emmy Awards for his role as a long-lost father on the NBC drama series “This Is Us,” died Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, a representative said. He was 66. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Musician Robbie Robertson arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Robertson, the lead guitarist and songwriter for The Band, whose classics include “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” has died at 80, according to a statement from his manager. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Director William Friedkin poses for portraits after interviews for his film Killer Joe in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” died Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, in Los Angeles, his wife, producer and former studio head Sherry Lansing told The Hollywood Reporter. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)

FILE – Mark Margolis attends the premiere of “Noah” at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 in New York. Margolis, who played murderous former drug kingpin Hector Salamanca in “Breaking Bad” and then in the prequel “Better Call Saul,” has died at age 83. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Angus Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill on the HBO series “Euphoria,” has died. He was 25. Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said McCloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Actor Paul Reubens portraying Pee-wee Herman poses for a portrait while promoting “The Pee-wee Herman Show” live stage play, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, in Los Angeles. Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

Randy Meisner of the rock band ‘Eagles’ performs onstage at the Omni Theatre on June 20, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia. Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Easy” and “The Best of My Love” and stepped out front for the waltz-time ballad “Take It to the Limit,” has died, the band said July 27, 2023. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Sinéad O’Connor performs at Camp Bestival at Lulworth Castle on Sunday, August 3, 2014, in Dorset, England. O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s but was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music, has died at 56. The singer’s family issued a statement reported Wednesday by the BBC and RTE. (Photo by Jim Ross/Invision/AP Images)

FILE – Singer Tony Bennett performs at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration on May 15, 2019, in New York. Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died July 21, 2023. He was 96. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE- Taiwanese-American singer Coco Lee poses for photos during the pink carpet ahead of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China, Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer who had a highly successful career in Asia, died on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. She was 48. (AP Photo, File)

FILE – Alan Arkin poses with the Oscar he won for best supporting actor for his work in “Little Miss Sunshine” at the 79th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007, in Los Angeles. Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in comedy and drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died. He was 89. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Homer Hogues, left, speaks with Master Sgt. Wesley Clark, 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, during a visit to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on December 27, 2014. Homer Hogues, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, died this week in Dallas, just two days after the death of his wife, according to an obituary provided by his family. He was 96.

FILE – Actor Julian Sands attends the “Forbidden Fruit,” readings from banned works of literature, May 5, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and ’90s including “A Room With a View” and “Leaving Las Vegas,” was found dead on a Southern California mountain five months after he disappeared while hiking, authorities said Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

In this photo taken Dec. 16, 2010, Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg speaks at a National Press Club news conference in Washington about the disclosure to WikiLeaks of classified documents. To this day, Ellsberg regrets staying mum for as long as he did. “I was part, on a middle level, of what is best described as a conspiracy by the government to get us into war,” he said. His message to whistleblowers now: Speak up sooner. “Don’t do what I did. Don’t wait until the bombs start falling.” (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FILE – In this May 6, 2019 file photo, Glenda Jackson attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” exhibition on in New York. Glenda Jackson, a double Academy Award-winning performer who had a long second career as a British lawmaker, has died at 87. Jackson’s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday, June 15, 2023 at her home in London after a short illness. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker,” has died at age 92. (Michael Lionstar/Knopf via AP)

Treat Williams, the veteran actor who starred in the television dramas “Blue Bloods” and “Everwood,” died Monday, June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle accident in Vermont, according to his former agent Barry McPherson. Actor Treat Williams attends the world premiere of “Second Act” at Regal Union Square Stadium 14 on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi attends the presentation of the ‘Berlusconi trophy’ after a soccer match between AC Milan and Juventus at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Aug. 21, 2011. From his grand entrance by helicopter after buying AC Milan to empowering Monza up to Serie A for the first time in its history, Silvio Berlusconi dominated Italian soccer for decades just like he commanded the show in Italian politics. Berlusconi, a former three-time Italian premier, died Monday, according to his television network. He was 86. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Rev. Pat Robertson, center, talks to attendees at a prayer breakfast, Jan. 16, 2010, in Richmond, Va. Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93. Robertson’s death Thursday, June 8, 2023 was announced by his broadcasting network. (AP Photo/Clem Britt, File)

The Iron Sheik appears during 140: The Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2009. The Iron Sheik, born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, died Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at age 81. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

FILE – Artist Francois Gilot poses with her work at a personal art exhibition in Milan, Dec. 21, 1965. Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for well more than a half-century but was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent relationship with Pablo Picasso — and for leaving him — died Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in New York, where she had lived for decades. She was 101. (AP Photo, File)

Ed Ames, the youngest member of the popular 1950s singing group the Ames Brothers, who later became a successful actor in television and musical theater, has died. He was 95. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Tina Turner performs in a concert in Cologne, Germany on Jan. 14, 2009. Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer, died Tuesday, after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. She was 83. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, file)

Irish born actor Ray Stevenson, who played the villain in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior the ‘Thor’ films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,” has died. He was 58. Representatives for Stevenson told The Associated Press he died Sunday, May 21, 2023, but had no other details to share. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

FILE – Author Martin Amis prepares to give a speech at the Texas Book Festival at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. He was 73. His death, from cancer of the esophagus, was confirmed by his agent, Andrew Wylie, on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

FILE – Jim Brown is introduced before the inaugural Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Fest Friday, May 2, 2014, at the International Exposition Center in Cleveland. NFL legend, actor and social activist Jim Brown passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home on Thursday night, May 18, 2023, with his wife, Monique, by his side, according to a spokeswoman for Brown’s family. He was 87. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

This image released by Peter Ashdown shows a selfie of mommy blogger Heather Armstrong in Salt Lake City on April 1, 2023. Armstrong, died by suicide, her boyfriend Pete Ashdown told The Associated Press, saying he found her Tuesday night, May 9, 2023, at their Salt Lake City home. She was 47. She laid bare her struggles as a mother and her battles with depression and alcoholism on her site Dooce.com and on social media. (Peter Ashdown via AP)

FILE – This 1976 file photo shows Oakland A’s Vida Blue, the hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970’s and helped lead brash Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series titles. Blue has died. He was 73. The A’s said Blue died Saturday, May 6, 2023 but did not give a cause of death. (AP Photo)

FILE – Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, appears before the House Antitrust Subcommittee which is probing newspaper competition, March 13, 1963, Washington. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday, May 6, 2023. He was 97 . (AP Photo, File)

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits include “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” has died. He was 84. This cover image released by Warner Music Canada shows “Solo,” the latest release by Gordon Lightfoot. (Warner Music Canada via AP)

FILE – Talk show host Jerry Springer speaks in New York on April 15, 2010. Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died. He was 79. A family spokesperson died Thursday at home in suburban Chicago. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE – Actor, singer and activist Harry Belafonte from the documentary film “Sing Your Song,” poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 21, 2011. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home. He was 96. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, file)

FILE – Australian TV presenter Barry Humphries performs on stage as Dame Edna for the Farewell Tour, at the London Palladium theatre, in central London, on Nov. 13, 2013. Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, died on Saturday, April 22, 2023, after spending several days in a Sydney hospital with complications following hip surgery, a Sydney hospital said. He was 89 years old. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Mark Russell, Washington’s social-political satirist and stand-up comic who spoofed celebrities and politicians alike for more than 50 years from behind his star-spangled piano, died March 30 at his home in D.C. He was 90. (AP/BARRY THUMMA)

Actor Lance Reddick appears at the world premiere of “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” in New York on May 9, 2019. Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” @Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, died suddenly on Friday, March 17, 2023. He was 60. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Bobby Caldwell performs onstage at the 2013 Soul Train Awards at the Orleans Arena on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 in Las Vegas. Caldwell, a singer of R&B, soul, adult contemporary and American standard music who had a major hit in 1978 with “What You Won’t Do For Love,” died at his home in Great Meadows, N.J. on Tuesday, March 14. He was 71. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP, File)

Robert Blake, the Emmy award-winning performer who went from acclaim for his acting to notoriety when he was tried and acquitted of murdering his wife, died Thursday, March 9, 2023, at age 89. A statement released on behalf of his niece, Noreen Austin, said Blake died from heart disease, surrounded by family at home in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

FILE – In this March 13, 2006 file photo, members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, from left, Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Artimus Pyle, Ed King and Bob Burns, appear backstage after being inducted at the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dinner in New York. Founding guitarist Gary Rossington, the band’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, died Sunday, March 5, 2023, at the age of 71. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

Actor Tom Sizemore poses in New York, April 18, 2013. Sizemore, the “Saving Private Ryan” actor whose bright 1990s star burned out under the weight of his own domestic violence and drug convictions, died Friday, March 3, 2023, at age 61. (AP Photo/John Carucci, File)

FILE – Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter performs at the 5 Continents Jazz Festival in Marseille, southern France on July 23, 2013. Shorter, whose lyrical jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music and made him one of the most influential innovators in jazz, died in Los Angeles on Thursday, March 2, 2023. He was 89. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Richard Belzer and his dog Bebe attend The King Of Comedy Screening on Saturday, April 27, 2013, in New York. Belzer, the longtime stand-up comedian who became one of TV’s most indelible detectives as John Munch in “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Law & Order: SVU,” has died at age 78 at his home in Beaulieu-sur-Mer in southern France. (Photo by Dario Cantatore/Invision/AP )

Tim McCarver, a member of the St. Louis Cardinals’ 1967 World Series championship team, takes part in a ceremony honoring the 50th anniversary of the victory before the start of a baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox on May 17, 2017, in St. Louis. McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as the one of the country’s most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Thursday morning, Feb. 16, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., due to heart failure, baseball Hall of Fame announced. He was 81. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Raquel Welch appears during a rehearsal for the Broadway show “Woman of the Year,” with, from left, Ed Nolfi, Sterling Clark and Paul Bogave in New York, on Nov. 12, 1981. Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 82. Welch died early Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna. (AP Photo/Angel Franco, File)

Honoree Dave Jude Jolicoeur of De La Soul performs at the 2008 VH1 Hip Hop Honors at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, Oct. 2, 2008. Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the Long Island hip-hop trio De La Soul, has died. He was 54. His representative Tony Ferguson confirmed reports of Jolicoeur’s death Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (Evan Agostini/AP Images for VH1, file)

Burt Bacharach attends the 2016 Newport Beach Film Festival Honors in Newport Beach, Calif. on April 23, 2016. The Grammy, Oscar and Tony-winning Bacharach died Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, at home in Los Angeles of natural causes, publicist Tina Brausam said Thursday. He was 94. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Franco-Spanish fashion designer Paco Rabanne acknowledges the applause at the end of his fall-winter 2000/2001 collection on March 3, 2000 in Paris, France. The Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his fashion house announced on its website Friday Feb.3, 2023. He was 88. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)

Former Chicago Blackhawks player Bobby Hull is introduced to fans during the NHL hockey team’s convention in Chicago, July 26, 2019. Hull, a Hall of Fame forward who helped the Blackhawks win the 1961 Stanley Cup Final, has died. He was 84. The Blackhawks and the NHL Alumni Association announced the death of the two-time NHL MVP on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, file)

Cindy Williams arrives to the TV Land Awards 10th Anniversary in New York on April 14, 2012. Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the popular sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Los Angeles at age 75, her family said Monday, Jan. 30. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

CBS announcers Billy Packer, left, and Jim Nantz laugh during a break in the championship game in the Big Ten basketball tournament in Indianapolis, March 12, 2006. Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Thursday night, Jan. 26, 2023. He was 82. Packer’s son, Mark, told The Associated Press that his father had been hospitalized in Charlotte, N.C., for the past three weeks and had several medical issues, and ultimately succumbed to kidney failure. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

2019 Kennedy Center honoree, Sesame Street co-founder Lloyd Morrisett attends the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, in Washington. “Sesame Street” co-creator Lloyd Morrisett has died at age 93, Sesame Workshop announced Monday. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

FILE – David Crosby arrives at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. Crosby turns 81 on Aug. 14. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

FILE – Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida arrives at the “Monaco Red Cross Ball”, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, in Monaco. Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida has died in Rome at age 95. Italian news agency Lapresse reported Lollobrigida’s death on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 quoting Tuscany Gov. Eugenio Giani. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

FILE – Robbie Knievel gives a thumbs up after jumping a train at the Texas State Railroad Park in Palestine, Texas on Feb. 23, 2000. Knievel, an American stunt performer, died early Friday at a hospice in Reno, Nev., with his daughters at his side, his brother Kelly Knievel said. He was 60. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the 46th annual Country Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 1, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, after a hospitalization, according to her mother, Priscilla Presley. She was 54. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Guitarist Jeff Beck performs in concert at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 18, 2010 in New York. Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the way and becoming known as the guitar player’s guitar player, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, after “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis,” his representatives said in a statement released Wednesday. He was 78. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

FILE – Washington Mystics’ Nikki McCray, right, is defended by New York Liberty’s Teresa Weatherspoon during the first half Saturday, June 16, 2001 in New York. Two-time Olympic gold medalist and former ABL MVP Nikki McCray-Penson has died. She was 51. McCray-Penson was an assistant women’s basketball coach at Rutgers last season and the school confirmed her death, although the cause of her passing was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)