Dead Celebrity Alert

Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73. …

He had been awaiting a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being found last month to have a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis. … Read full obituary

Country music icon Porter Wagoner has died in Tennessee at 80, days after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Wagoner was hospitalized Oct. 15, and was transferred Friday from the hospital to hospice care. He died Sunday night, The Nashville Tennessean reported. … Read full obituary

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Max McGee, the unexpected hero of the first Super Bowl and a long-time challenge for Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, died Saturday after falling from the roof of his home, police confirmed. He was 75. … Read full obituary

SALISBURY, Conn. (AP) — Catherine Roraback, a pioneering attorney who was among the founders of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, died this week at a local retirement home, according to family members. She was 87. … Read full obituary

Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack, has died at 89. He was the group’s last surviving member. Peter Lawford died in 1984, Sammy Davis Jr. in 1990, Dean Martin in 1995, and Sinatra in 1998. … Read full obituary

Singer Teresa Brewer, an Ohio native who topped the charts in the 1950s with such hits as “Till I Waltz Again with You” and performed with jazz legends Count Basie and Duke Ellington, died Wednesday. She was 76. … Read full obituary

Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood’s most famous kisses and made her mark with such roles as the correct widow in “The King and I” and the unhappy officer’s wife in “From Here to Eternity,” has died. She was 86. … Read full obituary

Australian author and playwright Steve J. Spears [who had an international hit in 1976 with the play The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, a wickedly funny story about an ageing gay elocution teacher who fell for one of his pupils] died yesterday at an Adelaide nursing home after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 56. … Read full obituary

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Actress Carol Bruce, perhaps best known for her role as Mama Carlson on television’s “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died. She was 87. … Read full obituary

From September 22:

ATLANTIS, Florida (AP) — The Rev. Rex Humbard, a former itinerant preacher whose televangelism ministry once reached more parts of the globe than any other religious program, died Friday, a family spokeswoman said. He was 88. … Read full obituary

The discus great who won gold medals in four straight Olympics to become one of track and field’s biggest stars in the 1950s and ’60s, died Monday of heart failure, less than two weeks after his 71st birthday. … Read full obituary

Popular former West Coast premiership player Chris Mainwaring will be remembered for his central role in establishing the Eagles as a formidable force in the AFL both on and off the field. … Read full obituary