From the Washington Post:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Character actor Calvert DeForest, best known for his dead-pan appearances as the pudgy, bespectacled everyman Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late-night TV show, has died at age 85.

DeForest died on Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital on New York’s Long Island after a lengthy illness, Letterman’s production company announced on Wednesday.

And……from the Hollywood Reporter:

WASHINGTON — Luther Ingram, the soul singer who seduced audiences with his hit “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” and wrote the Staple Singers hit “Respect Yourself,” died Monday of a heart attack in Belleville, Ill. He was 69.

Ingram had diabetes and suffered kidney failure in 2003, his son Eric said.

“He couldn’t tolerate the dialysis,” said Eric, an aspiring music producer. “It began to take a toll on his heart, which caused his heart to fail.”

Luther Ingram had been a part of the deep talent pool at the influential Memphis label Stax Records and its subsidiaries that included such soul music stars as Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and the MG’s and Rufus Thomas.

RIP Gentlemen!