

Photo credit:
Getty ImagesVilmos Zsigmond, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” died in Big Sur, California on Jan. 1 at the age of 85.

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Clayton TaylorCraig Strickland, frontman for the country band Backroad Anthem, was found dead from hypothermia on Jan. 4. He was last seen on Dec. 27 when his boat capsized while duck hunting in Oklahoma. He was 29.

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Getty ImagesRobert Stigwood, former manager of Cream and The Bee Gees, died in London on Jan. 4 at the age of 81. He produced the smash hit albums “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease.”