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Actors Who Died in April 2023

  • Apr 8 Michael Lerner, American stage and screen actor (Eight Men Out; Harlem Nights: Barton Fink), dies at 81
  • Apr 10 Al Jaffee, American comic strip cartoonist and illustrator (MAD Magazine), dies at 102 [1]
  • Apr 10 Anne Perry [Juliet Marion Hulme], English-born crime writer (convicted of murder as a child as filmed in "Heavenly Creatures"), dies at 84 [1]
  • Apr 19 Moonbin [Moon Bin], South Korean K-pop singer and actor, dies in a suspected suicide at 25 [1]
  • Apr 22 Barry Humphries, Australian Tony Award-winning comedian, actor and author known for his stage alter egos (Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson), dies of complications after hip surgery at 89 [1]
  • Apr 22 Len Goodman, British ballroom dancing champion and television personality (Strictly Come Dancing, 2004-16; Dancing with the Stars, 2005-22), dies of bone cancer at 78

Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)

Apr 25 Jamaican-American Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning calypso singer ("Banana Boat Song"), actor (Buck & the Preacher), and human rights activist, dies of congestive heart failure at 96 [1]

  • Apr 25 Paul van Vliet, Dutch comedian and singer, dies at 87

Jerry Springer (1944-2023)

Apr 27 German-American politician (Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977), and television tabloid talk show host (Jerry Springer, 1991-2018), dies of pancreatic cancer at 79

  • Apr 29 Mike Shannon, American baseball utility (World Series 1964, 67 St. Louis Cardinals) and broadcaster (St. Louis Cardinals radio 1972-2021), dies of long COVID at 83