Carrie Fisher - whose credits include Shampoo, The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally - who wrote the best seller "Postcards from the Edge" - who is best known as Princess Leia from the Star Wars franchise - has died at age 60 following a heart attack.
Just a reminder of many of the famous deaths of 2016:
MUSIC
David Bowie
Prince
Leonard Cohen
George Michael
Glenn Frey
Vanity
Merle Haggard
Bobby Vee
Sir George Martin - Beatles manager
Paul Kantner - Jefferson Airplane
Pete Burns - Dead or Alive
Frank Sinatra Jr.
Ricci Martin, son of Dean Martin
MOVIES/TV
Alan Rickman
Anton Yelchin
Florence Hendserson
Debbie Reynolds
Carrie Fisher - Leia
Kenny Baker - R2-D2
Gene Wilder
Garry Shandling
Patty Duke
William Schallert - The Patty Duke Show
Doris Roberts
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Alan Thicke
Abe Vigoda - Barney Miller, The Godfather
Ron Glass - Barney Miller, Firefly
Pat Harrington - One Day at a Time
Bob Elliott - Get a Life
George Gaynes - Police Academy, Punky Brewster
Tony Burton - The Rocky movies
Robert Vaughn - The Man from UNCLE
Jon Polito - Miller's Crossing
Andrew Sachs - Fawlty Towers
Angus Scrimm - Phantasm
Peter Vaughan - Game of Thrones
Bill Nunn - Do the Right Thing
Burt Kwouk - The Pink Panther
Jerry Doyle - Babylon 5
George Kennedy - The Naked Gun
Dan Haggerty - Grizzly Adams
David Huddleston - The Big Lebowski
James Noble - Benson
Bernard Fox - Bewitched
Kevin Meaney - Uncle Buck TV show
Alan Young - Mr. Ed, Scrooge McDuck
Steven Hill - Law & Order
Larry Drake - Dr. Giggles
Garry Marshall - Director of Pretty Woman
Michael Cimino - Director of The Deer Hunter
ALSO...
Muhammad Ali
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Nancy Reagan
Antonin Scalia
Morley Shafer
Gwen Ifill
Arnold Palmer
LaVell Edwards
John Glenn
Rob Ford
David Gest
Buddy Ryan
Pat Summit
Janet Reno
Shimon Peres
Craig Sager
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