‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ actor Aron Eisenberg dies at age 50

J. Michael Mendel, an animation producer who won four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons and Rick and Morty, has died. He was 54. His wife, Emmy-winning casting director Juel Bestrop (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, MORE

Robert Hunter, the primary lyricist on many of the Grateful Dead’s most memorable songs, including “Uncle John’s Band,” “Scarlet Begonias,” “Dark Star” and “Truckin’,” died on Monday night at his home in San Rafael, Calif. MORE

The former Doctor Who writer and script editor Terrance Dicks has died aged 84. Dicks had a long association with the BBC’s longest-running sci-fi show, writing episodes from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. MORE