Dead Celebrity Alert

Emmy Award-winning actor Tony Randall, best known for his comic role as the fastidious photographer Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, has died at age 84. …

Randall became a father for the first time at age 77 after marrying his second wife, Heather, 50 years his junior. … Read full obituary

Samuel Iwry, 93, a scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls whose life story could rival the plot of an international adventure novel, died of a stroke May 8 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. … Read full obituary

California state senator William J. “Pete” Knight, who sponsored the state’s same-sex marriage ban and took it directly to voters after twice failing to get it through the legislature, has died of leukemia. He was 74. …

Knight’s son, David Knight, married Joseph Lazzaro, his partner of 10 years, at San Francisco’s City Hall earlier this year, just two days before the California supreme court halted the weddings. … Read full obituary

Alan King, 76, the dyspeptic wisecracker whose withering stare, Brooklyn accent and mockery of modern American life made him a comic favorite for six decades, died May 9 at a hospital in New York. He had lung cancer. … Read full obituary