DECEMBER

Juice WRLD, 21. A rapper who launched his career on SoundCloud before becoming a streaming juggernaut and rose to the top of the charts with the Sting-sampled hit “Lucid Dreams.” Dec. 8.

René Auberjonois, 79. A prolific actor best-known for his roles on the television shows “Benson” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and his part in the 1970

film “M.A.S.H.” playing Father Mulcahy. Dec. 8.

Caroll Spinney, 85. He gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on “Sesame Street.” Dec. 8.

Paul Volcker, 92. The former Federal Reserve chairman who in the early 1980s raised interest rates to historic highs and triggered a recession as the price of quashing double-digit inflation. Dec. 8.

Pete Frates, 34. A former college baseball player

whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge. Dec. 9.

Danny Aiello, 86. A blue-collar character actor whose long career included roles in “Fort Apache, the Bronx,” “Moonstruck” and “Once Upon a Time in America” and his Oscar-nominated performance as a pizza man in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.” Dec. 12.

Jerry Herman, 88. The Tony Award-winning composer wrote the cheerful, good-natured music

and lyrics for shows “Mame,” “La Cage aux Folles” and “Hello, Dolly!” Dec. 26.

Lee Mendelson, 86. The producer who changed the face of the holidays when he brought “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to television in 1965. Dec. 25.

Don Imus, 79. The disc jockey whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge after a nationally broadcast racial slur. Dec. 27.