Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

Note: This blog primarily covers actors, writers, and musicians. With few exceptions, notable sports figures are usually not covered in this blog. Political figures are also not covered unless they are exceptionally noteworthy.

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It wouldn't be 2016 without well-known people dying.

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

June 6:
- Kimbo Slice, 42, Bahamian-born American mixed martial artist (Bellator, UFC), boxer and actor (Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh), heart failure.
(I don't personally know who he was, but he seems to have been notable enough to include, especially given the shocking and untimely nature of his death.)

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Let's get the big one out of the way first, folks:

Nancy Reagan.

Mrs. Reagan was a national treasure. I can't even begin to list all the wonderful things Mrs. Reagan has done for America and the world. She was a wonderful human being, and she will truly be missed.

Other noteworthy deaths in the past week:
- Sir George Martin, the "Fifth Beatle".
- Paul Ryan, 66, American comic artist (Fantastic Four, Superman, Iron Man).

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America's Mom, Florence Henderson, born on Valentine's Day, died on Thanksgiving.

Appropriate, as she was a sweetheart, and generations of Americans are thankful for her career and contribution to our popular culture.

She was 82.

These are the notable American, British, Canadian, etc. deaths of celebrities, pop culture icons, etc. for the past week. As usual, for a full list of notable deaths in 2016 to date, see Wikipedia.

Joe Santos, 84, American actor (The Rockford Files), heart attack.
Tray Walker, 23, American football player (Baltimore Ravens), dirt bike accident.
Larry Drake, 66, American actor (L.A. Law, Johnny Bravo, Darkman), Emmy Award winner (1988, 1989).

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

June 27:
- Mack Rice, 82, American songwriter ("Mustang Sally", "Respect Yourself") and singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.

June 28:
- Buddy Ryan, 82, American football head coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals) and defensive coordinator (Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers).

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

July 24:
- Marni Nixon, 86, American singer (The King and I, West Side Story, My Fair Lady) and actress (The Sound of Music), breast cancer.

July 25:
- Tim LaHaye, 90, American Christian author (Left Behind series), stroke.

July 26:

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

- Buck Kartalian, 93, American actor (Planet of the Apes, Cool Hand Luke, The Rock).
- Burt Kwouk, 85, British actor (The Pink Panther, Last of the Summer Wine, Goldfinger).
- Angela Paton, 86, American actress (Groundhog Day, American Wedding, Lolita), heart attack.

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

Special mention this week, of course, goes to the horrible mass shooting in Orlando in which fifty people were killed and fifty-three others were wounded, as well as to the two-year-old who died tragically at a Disney resort after being dragged underwater by an alligator.

June 11:

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Here are some of the more notable deaths of the past week. Keep in mind that this blog primarily covers American, Canadian, and British celebrity deaths. As always, see Wikipedia for a complete list of 2016 deaths.

- Earl Hamner, Jr., 92, American television writer and producer (Falcon Crest, The Waltons, The Twilight Zone), cancer.

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Here are the most notable (subjectively, of course) deaths of the past week from America, Canada, parts of Europe, and Japan. As usual, check Wikipedia for the full list of notable deaths in 2016 to date.

Frank Levingston, 110, American supercentenarian, nation's oldest World War II veteran.

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

July 16:
- Bonnie Brown, 77, American country singer (The Browns), lung cancer.

July 17:
- Three police officers gunned down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in one of the latest widely publicized examples of how utterly insane and idiotic this country is.

July 19:

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2016 has seen many treasured and beloved celebrities pass away. In the past year, just to name a few, we've lost Carrie Fisher, David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Gene Wilder, William Christopher, Florence Henderson, Prince, and Muhammad Ali. So many more great people have died in this nightmare of a year.

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Man, I just don't know what to tell ya, folks.

This week, some great treasures of the small screen died. And so did one of the most influential figures of modern medicine.

The worst part is I somehow missed all of these until I was doing my weekly round-up. Alan Thicke's death came as a complete shock, as did Bernard Fox's. Both of those happened days ago.

Bernard Fox dying...that hurts. He's one of my favorite character actors from yesteryear.

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Here are the notable deaths for this past week from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

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Here are the notable deaths for the past two weeks from North America, Japan, and select parts of Europe. As usual, please see Wikipedia for a complete list of notable 2016 deaths.

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That's all I have to say about that.

Okay, look, folks.

Prince died. In an elevator. Alone.

It's confirmed this was no suicide. There's no obvious signs of anything unusual other than that he died.

By all accounts, Prince didn't have any sort of drug addiction. Not even painkillers.

So please, you media vultures, you media ghouls, stop trying to create a big dramatic narrative about opiates or Percoset or whatever the FUCK you want to sell papers and ad time with.

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Henceforth, the Weekly Death Blog will be posted on Saturdays. I'm combining this week's death blog with a little personal note about all my blogs, especially one particular ongoing blog series, just as a friendly and courteous reminder to my followers and readers. For the sake of not forcing everyone to read the latter, it will be placed after a cut.

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