Goodbye to Burt Young at the age of 83.
The veteran actor is best known for his supporting role in the Rocky films as "Paulie" Adrian's (Rocky's wife) brother and Rocky's best friend.
Young was nominated for an Academy Award for the role for the first Rocky film and along with Sylvester Stallone, Tony Burton, and Stu Nahan are the only actors to appear in each of the first six films in the series.
Young also was an author and painter with several paintings in galleries worldwide.
Goodbye to Ken Mattingly at the age of 87.
Mattingly might be remembered by more people for the Apollo mission that he didn't fly than for the one that he did.
Mattingly was pulled from Apollo 13 days before launch when he tested positive for exposure to Rubella, which he would never develop and played a key role in the successful return of the crippled craft home.
Mattingly was portrayed by Gary Sinise in the film "Apollo 13" and the film established Mattingly for not being part of the mission more than his mission to the moon as the command module pilot on Apollo 16.
Mattingly would later fly two Space Shuttle missions in 1982 and 1985 and was one of two people (John Young) to fly to the Moon and a Space Shuttle mission.
Goodbye to Frank Borman at the age of 95.
Borman was the commander of Apollo Eight, the first manned mission to the Moon in December of 1968.
Borman's mission is remembered for the reading from the Book of Genesis on Christmas Eve as the craft orbited the Moon and the famous "Earthrise" photo taken by crewmate Bill Anders.
Borman also flew into space with Apollo crewmate Jim Lovell on the Gemini Seven mission and was the key NASA investigator on the Apollo One fire that cost the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.
Borman testified in front of a Congressional committee on the fire. His testimony is credited as a key part of getting through the committee and continuing the program.
Goodbye to Shane MacGowan at the age of 65.
The lead singer of the Irish punk band The Pogues, MacGowan is perhaps most remembered for co-writing the Christmas tune "Fairytale of New York" which MacGowan performed with the late Kirsty MacColl and with various others through the years after MacColl's tragic passing in 2000.
MacGowan was dismissed from the band in 1991 for unprofessional behavior but returned in 2001 through 2014.
Goodbye to Marty Krofft at the age of 86.
Part of the brother duo that that brought so many bizarre memories to children in the 1970s, Marty Krofft was involved in other television projects as well including arguably the worst television idea ever in the 1976 Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
The Krofft brothers also once started an amusement park in Atlanta in an eight-story building that featured their characters but lasted less than a year before the building then called "The Omni" as part of the facility that housed the Atlanta Flames and Hawks was sold and stands today as CNN Center.
The brothers first hit success with their Saturday morning programs such as "H.R Pufnstuff" and "The Bugaloos" on NBC and moved to ABC with the "Krofft Supershow".
ABC also used the Krofft puppets and production team with the Brady Bunch Variety Hour and a much bigger hit in the variety genre' with Donny and Marie Osmond and a later hit with NBC with Barbara Mandrell and her sisters, Louise and Irlene.
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