10 Famous Celebrities Who Passed Away This Week | April, Week 3 | News Today
Donald Donoher was an American college basketball coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Dayton from 1964 to 1989, compiling a record of 437–275. His Dayton Flyers were champions of the 1968 National Invitation Tournament and runners-up at the 1967 NCAA University Division basketball tournament. Donoher was also the athletic director at Dayton from 1976 to 1980. On April 12, 2024, Don Donoher died at 92.
Eleanor Jessie Coppola was an American documentary film director, screenwriter, and artist. She was married to director Francis Ford Coppola from 1963 until her death. She was best known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Coppola died in Rutherford, California, on April 12, 2024, at 87.
Ron Thompson was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and dancer. Thompson originated the role of Shanty Mulligan in the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning play No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone. In his review for The New York Times, Mel Gussow wrote that Thompson was “splendid” in his role. Thompson won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his 1973 theatre lead performance in the play Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Thompson died on April 13, 2024, at the age of 83.
Richard Horowitz was an American film composer known for his work on L’Atlantide, Three Seasons, and Tobruk. In 1991, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film The Sheltering Sky. Horowitz died in Morocco on April 13, 2024, at 75.
Stephen Charles Sloan was an American professional football player who became a college football coach and athletics administrator. He played in college as a quarterback at the University of Alabama from 1962 to 1965 and then spent two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Atlanta Falcons (1966–1967). Sloan served as the head coach at Vanderbilt University (1973–1974), Texas Tech University (1975–1977), the University of Mississippi (1978–1982), and Duke University (1983–1986), compiling a career record of 68–86–3. He died on 14th April at 79.
Pooch Tavares: Tavares is an American R&B and soul music group composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. They are best known for their 1976 hit “Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel.” In 1984, Ralph stepped down from the group. Pooch took over as Tavares’s non-commissioned business/booking agent from 1984 to 2014. Pooch Tavares died 0n 14th April 2024 at the age of 81.
Robert Hessen was an American economic and business historian. He was a professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a senior research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He was an Objectivist and authored several books analyzing business and economic issues from an Objectivist perspective. Hessen died at Stanford Hospital on April 15, 2024, at 87.
Barbara Olivia Jones, also known as Barbara, Barbara-O, and Barbara O., was an American actress from Ohio best known for her work in the films of the L.A. Rebellion movement of 1970s black filmmakers, starring in films by Haile Gerima and Julie Dash. She also appeared on television alongside Muhammad Ali in Freedom Road and had smaller roles in other films, including Demon Seed and on television. She worked in Black Chariot (1971). Goodwin raised funds for the film independently from the black community, raising many small donations, including $5000 for grocery stores’ Blue Chip Stamps. Jones died on April 16, 2024, at 82.
Susan Beatrice Chew was an American politician who was the Democratic Idaho State Representative from 2006 on, representing District 17 in the B seat. Chew died on 17thApril 2024, at the age of 66.
Crandell Addington was an American businessman and poker player best known as one of the founders of the World Series of Poker and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame. Addington participated in the first World Series of Poker in 1970 along with Amarillo Slim, Doyle Brunson, Sailor Roberts, Puggy Pearson, and Carl Cannon. Addington made the final table of the WSOP Main Event almost every year from 1972 to 1979 and still holds the record for most final table appearances. He finished second twice, losing to Johnny Moss in 1974 and Bobby Baldwin in 1978. However, since the WSOP Main Event was winner-take-all until 1978, most of these appearances were not in the money finishes. Addington died on 18th April 2024 at the age of 85.
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