Deaths So Far (and it's just July)

[IceWizard]

JANUARY 2026




Victoria Jones with dad Tommy Lee Jones
at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014..

Actress Victoria Jones, the daughter of Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones,
was found dead in a San Francisco hotel room on Jan. 1. She was 34. The actress
appeared in her father's films Men in Black II, The Homesman, and The
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, as well as the Robin Wright-starring Sorry,
Haters, and an episode of the TV series One Tree Hill.





Sidney Kibrick
in 'Our Gang' circa 1935.

Former Our Gang child star Sidney Kibrick died Jan. 3. He was 97.
Kibrick appeared in dozens of Little Rascals shorts in the 1930s
and 1940s, first as unnamed children before turning up regularly
as the character Woim, the sidekick of Tommy Bond's bully Butch.
He retired from Hollywood as a teenager.





Elle Simone Scott in 2022.


America's Test Kitchen host Elle Simone Scott died on Jan. 5
after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 49. In addition
to serving as the first Black woman to be a regular host of the
hit PBS show, Scott authored bestselling cookbooks and
hosted The Walk-In podcast.






Béla Tarr at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in 2024.

Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, known for films like Sátántangó and Damnation,
died on Jan. 6 at age 70. Recognized as a pioneer of the slow cinema movement,
Tarr wrote and directed nine feature films throughout his career, beginning with
his 1979 feature debut Family Nest, which won the Grand Prix at the
Mannheim Film Festival, to 2011's The Turin Horse.






Nickelodeon composer Guy Moon.

Emmy-nominated composer Guy Moon, who wrote music for Nickelodeon hits like
The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, and SpongeBob SquarePants, died on Jan. 8
from injuries sustained in a car accident. He was 63. Moon also served as a
music writer for Big Time Rush, Back at the Barnyard, and The Grim Adventures
of Billy & Mandy. On the big screen, he composed scores for The Brady Bunch Movie
and its sequel, and contributed to the soundtracks for Minority Report, Fight Club,
and Mystic Pizza.







Bob Weir
performing with the Grateful Dead in 1981.

Legendary Grateful Dead co-founder and rock guitarist Bob Weir died on Jan. 10
due to underlying lung issues after previously beating cancer, according to his daughter.
He was 78. Weir and fellow guitarist Jerry Garcia formed the legendary jam band
in 1965 with bassist Phil Lesh, keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and
drummer Bill Kreutzmann. Weir wrote or co-wrote the lyrics to some of the band's
most famous tunes, including "Truckin'," "Sugar Magnolia," "Cassidy," and "Throwing Stones."
He spent the next six decades touring, including three with the Dead,
who became one of the highest-grossing American touring acts.






Cartoonist Scott Adams
poses with a life-sized cutout of his Dilbert character in 2014.

Cartoonist and Dilbert creator Scott Adams died on Jan. 13 after a battle with
prostate cancer. He was 68. Adams created his defining comic strip in 1989,
satirizing white collar work life. After finding mainstream success throughout
the 1990s, Dilbert was dropped from newspapers across the U.S. in 2023
after its creator's racist comments, calling Black people a "hate group"
and advising white people to "get the f--- away" from them.






Siouxsie & the Banshees members
Steve Severin, Siouxsie Sioux, John McKay, and Kenny Morris.

Drummer Kenny Morris, a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees,
died on Jan. 15. He was 68.
Morris played on the influential goth rock band's first two albums.







Kianna Underwood on 'All That'.

Former child actress Kianna Underwood, best known for costarring on Nickelodeon's All That,
died on Jan. 16, after being struck in a hit-and-run in New York. She was 33. Underwood
appeared on the 10th season of the Nickelodeon kids' sketch show that originally starred
Amanda Bynes and Kenan Thompson. She also appeared in 1999's The 24 Hour Woman,
was cast in the original national tour of Hairspray, and did voice work on Bill Cosby's
animated show Little Bill and 2001 TV movie Santa, Baby.