Actress Helen Wagner, who played Nancy Hughes on As the World Turns, died last Saturday. She was 91.
Wagner said the first words on As the World Turns and holds the world record for the longest amount of time playing the same character. She was still on the show when its cancellation was announced.
Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92 and lived in Manhattan.
Her death was announced by her son-in-law, Kevin Buckley.
Percussionist Francisco Aguabella, who backed up Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Simon, the Doors, and Santana, died last Friday. He was 84.