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Singers Sinead OConnor and Tony Bennett and actors Lance Reddick and Raquel Welch are among the celebrities who have died in 2023.

Singers Sinead OConnor and Tony Bennett and actors Lance Reddick and Raquel Welch are among the celebrities who have died in 2023.

Singers Sinead OConnor and Tony Bennett and actors Lance Reddick and Raquel Welch are among the celebrities who have died in 2023.

Singers Sinead OConnor and Tony Bennett and actors Lance Reddick and Raquel Welch are among the celebrities who have died in 2023.

Singers Sinead OConnor and Tony Bennett and actors Lance Reddick and Raquel Welch are among the celebrities who have died in 2023.

LOS ANGELES — Phyllis Coates, who portrayed “Superman” Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, has died. She was 96.

Phyllis Coates, the first actor to portray DC Comics' Lois Lane on television, died Oct. 11 in Woodland Hills, Calif. She was 96.

Phyllis Coates, the first actor to portray Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane on television, died on Oct. 11 in Woodland Hills, Calif., her daughter Laura Press…

Phyllis Coates was perhaps best known for portraying Lois Lane in both the 1951 film “Superman and the Mole Men” and the first season of TV's “Adventures of Superman.”

She replaced Noel Neill, who had played Lois in two Superman movie serials; Ms. Neill in turn replaced her after one season.