Celebrities from Newark
Newark: 21 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
Memorial
Connie Francis
née Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero
12/12/1937 – 07/16/2025
87 years
American singer and actress
Memorial
Cissy Houston
née Emily Drinkard
09/30/1933 – 10/07/2024
91 years
American singer
Memorial
John Amos
12/27/1939 – 08/21/2024
84 years
American actor
Memorial
Al Attles
11/07/1936 – 08/20/2024
87 years
American basketball player and coach
Memorial
Paul Auster
02/03/1947 – 04/30/2024
77 years
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
Memorial
Tom Courtney
08/17/1933 – 08/22/2023
90 years
American athletics competitor
Memorial
Wayne Shorter
08/25/1933 – 03/02/2023
89 years
American jazz saxophonist and composer
Memorial
Ray Liotta
12/18/1954 – 05/26/2022
67 years
American actor
Memorial
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
05/23/1954 – 03/13/2021
66 years
American boxer
Memorial
Allen Garfield
née Allen Goorwitz
11/22/1939 – 04/07/2020
80 years
American actor
Memorial
Mark Blum
05/14/1950 – 03/25/2020
69 years
American actor
Memorial
Philip Roth
03/19/1933 – 05/22/2018
85 years
American novelist
Memorial
Jerry Lewis
née Joseph Levitch
03/16/1926 – 08/20/2017
91 years
American comedian, actor and film director
Memorial
Amiri Baraka
née Everett LeRoi Jones
10/07/1934 – 01/09/2014
79 years
African-American writer
Memorial
Paul Kurtz
12/21/1925 – 10/20/2012
86 years
American professor of philosophy
Memorial
Whitney Houston
08/09/1963 – 02/11/2012
48 years
American singer, actress, and film producer
Memorial
Harold Garfinkel
10/29/1917 – 04/21/2011
93 years
American sociologist
Memorial
Allen Klein
12/18/1931 – 07/04/2009
77 years
American businessman, music publisher
Memorial
Jack Warden
09/18/1920 – 07/19/2006
85 years
American actor
Memorial
Ted Schroeder
07/20/1921 – 05/26/2006
84 years
US tennis player
Memorial
Allen Ginsberg
06/03/1926 – 04/05/1997
70 years
American poet and writer