The world continues to be upended by the coronavirus pandemic, with more people contracting COVID-19 as the days pass. While many have recovered, some have died from complications of the illness.
Wonderwall.com takes a look at the stars we have lost due to the coronavirus pandemic.
World War Veteran
Captain Sir Tom Moore — the 100-year-old WWII veteran who catapulted to fame in 2020 when he helped raise more than $43 million for Britain’s National Health Service charities in the early days of the U.K.’s coronavirus lockdowns by walking more than 100 laps in the garden of his home in Bedfordshire, England — has died after being diagnosed with COVID-19, his family announced on Feb. 2.
Tony award-winning playwright
Terrence McNally, a four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, died on March 24 at the age of 81 of complications from the coronavirus.
His works included “Master Class,” “Love! Valour! Compassion!” and “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” which later became a film with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino.
Italian actress Lucia Bosè, who starred in such films as Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Story of a Love Affair” (1950) and Juan Antonio Bardem’s “Death of a Cyclist” (1955), died on March 23 of pneumonia after contracting COVID-19, according to the Guardian. She was 89.
The broadcast legend
Broadcast legend Larry King passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at 87 on Jan. 23, 2021 — just a few weeks after leaving the ICU for a regular hospital room after facing breathing issues amid his battle with COVID-19 that began in December.
Mark Blum, who starred in “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “Crocodile Dundee” and the Lifetime/Netflix series “You,” died on March 26 of coronavirus complications. The veteran character actor and regular on New York City stages was 69.
Maria Mercader, a CBS News veteran who worked for over 30 years as a reporter and talent director, died March 29 after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 54.
Legendary music producer
Legendary “Wall of Sound” music producer Phil Spector died at 81 on Jan. 16 while incarcerated for the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson.
According to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, he was “pronounced deceased of natural causes … at an outside hospital.”
British actress Barbara Shelley — who was best known for her roles in horror films like 1958’s “Blood of the Vampire,” 1960’s “Village of the Damned” and 1966’s “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” — died from complications of the coronavirus on Jan. 4, the BBC reported.
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