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Danny Gans, a singer, actor and impressionist who for nearly two decades was one of the most popular entertainers on the Las Vegas Strip, died suddenly in his sleep today. He was 52.

NBC exec Nora O'Brien dies at 44

Nora O'Brien died suddenly on April 29 while on the set of the new NBC series pilot "Parenthood" in Berkeley, Calif. She was 44.

Actor Daryl Hury dies at 35

Actor and comic Daryl Hury died of brain cancer April 26 in Edinburg, Texas. He was 35.

DJ Barbara Birdfeather dies at 69

Barbara Birdfeather, a husky-voiced disc jockey from the early days of Los Angeles underground radio, died of lung cancer April 26 in Hollywood. She was 69.

Lighting designer Tharon Musser dies

Tharon Musser, a Tony-winning lighting designer of more than 100 Broadway shows, including such musicals as "A Chorus Line,"

Theater vet John Blankenchip dies

Theater designer and director John Blankenchip died April 1in Los Angeles of age-related causes. He was 89.

British actor Peter Dennis dies

British actor Peter Dennis, whose one-man show of readings from A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" books took him from the Hollywood Bowl to Westminster Palace in London, died of cancer April 18 in Los Angeles. He was 75.

Wendy Blair dies at 70

TV producer Wendy Blair, who also worked for many years with the Smothers Brothers, died of cancer on April 14 in North Hollywood, Calif.�She was 70.

Actress Marilyn Cooper dies at 74

Marilyn Cooper, a Broadway character actress best known for her Tony-winning performance in the musical "Woman of the Year," died April 22 in Englewood, N.J. She was 74.

Artist Michael Bowen dies at 71

American artist and socio-cultural provocateur Michael Bowen died March 7 from complications related to childhood polio in Stockholm. He was 71.

Filmmaker Ken Annakin dies at 94

Film director Ken Annakin has died at the age of 94.

Cinematographer Jack Cardiff dies

British cinematographer Jack Cardiff has died at the age of 94.

Stage vet Lawrence Miller dies

Production designer and art director Lawrence Miller, who was Tony-nommed for "Nine, the Musical," died after a long illness April 11 in Los Angeles. He was 64.

Writer J.G. Ballard dies at 78

Writer J.G. Ballard, best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire Of The Sun," which drew on his childhood detention in a Japanese prison camp in China, died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.

Jody McCrea dies at 74

Jody McCrea, son of actor Joel McCrea who appeared in Westerns and beach party movies, died of cardiac arrest April 4 in Roswell, N.M. He was 74.

Distrib vet James C. Cargile dies

Exhibition and distribution vet James C. Cargile died after a long illness April 7 in Oak Park, Calif. He was 71.

Actor and director Jim Hutchison dies

Actor and director Jim Hutchison, a mainstay of the Honolulu arts community, died April 16 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was 75.

Former TAMC prexy Rhodes dies

Shirley Rhodes, former president of Sammy Davis Jr.'s Trans America Media Corporation, died April 2 in Los Angeles.

Director Shakti Samanta dies at 83

Bollywood director Shakti Samanta, who helmed such hits as "Aradhana," "Kati patang," and "Howrah Bridge" died April 9 following a short illness in Mumbai.

British film producer Williams dies

British film producer Simon Channing Williams has died of cancer at the age of 63.

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Spotlight

'Golden Girls' star Bea Arthur dies

Beatrice Arthur, the tall, baritone-voiced actress who won Emmys for her roles in the series �Maude� and �The Golden Girls,� died Saturday.

Natasha Richardson dies in N.Y.

After sustaining brain damage in a freak ski accident Monday, actress Natasha Richardson died Wednesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. She was 45.

Writer John Updike dies at 76

John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died of lung cancer Tuesday at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass. He was 76.

Ricardo Montalban dies at age 88

Ricardo Montalban, the actor best known as the white-suited �boss� Mr. Roarke of �Fantasy Island,� died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 88.

Studio exec Ned Tanen dies at 77

Studio exec and producer Ned Tanen, who served as president of Universal and Paramount and produced three popular Brat Pack films in the 1980s, died Monday of natural causes in Santa Monica. He was 77.

Historic Hollywood

Hal Roach dies at 100

Hal Roach, the one-time mule skinner and gold prospector who later mined the careers of such comedic greats as Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, Will Rogers and the "Our Gang" kids, died yesterday, two months shy of his 101st birthday.