Larry King

 Larry King, born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger (November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021)

He was a television host, radio host, and paid spokesman, whose work was recognized with awards including two Peabody awards, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards. King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. From 2012 to 2020, he hosted Larry King Now aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He continued to host Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show which aired weekly on the same two channels from 2013 until his death in 2021. King received many awards during his life, including several Cable ACE Awards, Peabody Awards and lifetime achievement awards. He guest starred in episodes of Arthur, 30 Rock and Gravity Falls, had cameos in Ghostbusters and Bee Movie, and voiced Doris the Ugly Stepsister in Shrek 2 and its sequels. He also played himself in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story and appeared as himself in an episode of Law and Order: Trial by Jury. After his 1987 heart attack, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, a non profit organization, which paid for life-saving cardiac procedures for people who otherwise would not be able to afford them.

King was married eight times, to seven women. From his seven wives, King had five children and nine grandchildren, as well as four great-grandchildren. On January 2, 2021, it was revealed that King had been hospitalized 10 days earlier in a Los Angeles hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. He died two days later on January 23, 2021 at age 87. King is interred at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City, California.