PROMINENT PEOPLE WHO DIED ACROSS THE U.S.

Charley Pride, one of the first Black performers to break through in the country music scene, died at age 86. He was born in Sledge, Mississippi, a sharecropper’s son.

Tom Seaver, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and star of the Miracle Mets, died from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19. He was 75.

Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza who sought the Republican nomination for president in 2012, was 74.

Broadway star Nick Cordero was 41.

Henry Grimes, jazz bassist, was 84.

John Prine, revered folk and country songwriter, died at the age of 73.

Tom Dempsey, New Orleans Saints kicker who was born without toes on his right foot and wore a flat shoe for kicking field goals, died on April 4.

Ellis Marsalis Jr., New Orleans jazz legend and father of Wynton and Branford Marsalis, died at age 85.

Terrence McNally, a four-time Tony Award-winning playwright, died at the age of 81.

Spanish bullfighter Manolo Navarro died at age 93.

Carol Sutton, actress who has starred on HBO’s “Lovecraft County” and OWN’s “Queen Sugar” and appeared in such films as “Monster’s Ball,” “Ray” and “The Help,” died at age 76.

American rock musician Alan Merrill, best known for co-writing and recording the original version of “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll,” was 69.

Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, White House butler to 11

presidents, was 91.

Toots Hibbert, founder and lead singer of Toots and the Maytals, was 77.

Trini Lopez, the singer of “If I Had a Hammer” and an actor in “The Dirty Dozen,” died at age 83.

Dawn Wells, who starred as the girl-next-door Mary Ann in the 1960s hit TV show “Gilligan’s Island,” died at age 82.

U.S. Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, a Republican from Louisiana, died Tuesday, days before he was to be sworn in. He was 41.