Gone but not forgotten

IMDB.com has a longer list of those celebrities who died in 2016; these are the ones Rico knew of:

Alan Rickman
Actor, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton in West London, England to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett) and Bernard Rickman, who worked at a factory. He was oif English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry.

David Bowie
Bowie is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of pop music. Born David Jones, he changed his name to Bowie in the 1960s, to avoid confusion with the then well-known Davy Jones, the lead singer of The Monkees.

Abe Vigoda

The tall, dour-faced and slouch-shouldered character actor Abe Vigoda proved himself in both gritty dramatic roles, and as an actor with wonderful comedic timing. Vigoda was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to Lena Moses and Samuel Vigoda, both Russian Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor on the Lower East Side.

Frank Finlay

One of Britain's finest actors of stage, film, and television, Frank Finlay, with his dark and handsomely serious-to-mordant looks, was born on 6 August 1926, in Farnworth, England, the son of Josiah, a butcher, and Margaret Finlay.

Glenn Frey

Frey was born on 6 November 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, and was a member of the band the Eagles.

Dan Haggerty

Haggerty was an actor, known for The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977), Big Stan (2007) and Grizzly Mountain (1997). He was married to Samantha Hilton and Diane Rooker.

Paul Kantner

Father of China Kantner and Gareth Alexander Kantner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.

Richard Libertini

Libertini was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, to parents who had come to America from southern Italy. Having grown up in a household where both Italian and English were spoken, he developed an ear for foreign accents, a facility he would later use to advantage on stage and in films.

Vilmos Zsigmond

Along with László Kovács, a fellow student who also fled Hungary in 1956, Zsigmond rose to prominence in the 1970s, known for his use of natural light and vivid use of color on features such as The Long Goodbye and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.