Articles Tagged: Notable Death

Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died. He was 88.

Born James Mountain Inhofe on Nov. 17, 1934, in Des Moines, Iowa, Inhofe grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Tulsa in 1959.

Here’s a roll call of some of the year’s most notable deaths.

ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, the long-bearded bassist for the million-selling Texas blues rock trio, has died at 72. The band played the Delaware County Fair earlier this month.

Bobby Schilling, who died at 57, ran in 2020 2nd Congressional District Republican primary after moving from Illinois to Iowa