Dugald Stermer, artist who updated medals design for 1984 Olympics, dies at 74
As the art director of the influential counterculture magazine Ramparts, artist Dugald Stermer had already left an imprint on popular culture when he was asked to update the design of the Olympic...
View ArticleEntertainer Heesters dies at age 108
The agent for Dutch-born entertainer Johannes Heesters says the artist died on Christmas Eve. He was 108.
View ArticleDutch-born entertainer Heesters dies at age 108
Dutch-born entertainer Johannes Heesters, who made his name performing in Adolf Hitler's Germany and was dogged later in his long career by controversy over his Nazi-era past, died Saturday, his agent...
View ArticleStermer, artist who redesigned Olympic medal, dies
Dugald Stermer, who served as art director of the left-leaning magazine Ramparts and redesigned the Olympic medals for the 1984 Los Angeles games, has died. He was 74.
View ArticleJacob E. Goldman, creator of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, dies at 90
Jacob E. Goldman, the former Xerox chief scientist who created the company's famed Palo Alto Research Center, whose scientists and engineers invented the modern personal computer in the 1970s and...
View ArticleArt Rogers, ex-L.A. Times photographer, dies at 93
Art Rogers, an award-winning former longtime Los Angeles Times photographer best known for his sports coverage, has died. He was 93.
View ArticleJames A. Brennan Jr., 95, aide to Claude Pepper
James Anthony Brennan, Jr., a close advisor to the late U.S. Rep. Claude D. Pepper and prolific builder of structures for the Catholic Church in Florida, died Dec. 20 of complications from heart surgery.
View ArticleMexican actor Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at age 71
Mexican character actor Pedro Armendariz Jr. died Monday at the age of 71. There was no immediate confirmation of the cause of death.
View ArticleSupreme Court gay privacy case victor dead at 68
The Texas man whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted privacy rights to gay men and lesbians has died at age 68.
View ArticleAbstract painter Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83
Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in...
View ArticleEx-`Saturday Night Live' writer Joe Bodolai dies
Former "Saturday Night Live" writer Joseph Bodolai has committed suicide in a Hollywood hotel room, the Los Angeles coroner's office said Tuesday.
View ArticleAcquitted pastor's ex-wife dies years after attack
The discovery of the wife of one of Dallas' most prominent ministers choked with a cord and left convulsing and near death on their garage floor led to a sensational trial. Prosecutors charged Walker...
View ArticleArtist Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83
Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II...
View ArticleArtist Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83
Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II...
View ArticleSurfing entrepreneur Sean Collins dies after heart attack at 59
Sean Collins, an avid surfer and entrepreneur whose self-taught ability to forecast ocean swells changed the way surfers worldwide chase the perfect wave, died Monday after suffering a heart attack...
View ArticleHerbert Nipson, former executive editor of Ebony magazine, dies at 95
When Herbert Nipson joined Ebony magazine's editorial staff in 1949, the publication, founded just four years earlier, had a target readership of urban African-Americans, and its stories reflected that...
View ArticlePop artist James Rizzi dies at 61
James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61.
View ArticlePop artist James Rizzi dies at 61
James Rizzi, a New York-born and based pop artist best known for his playful and childlike three-dimensional sculptures, has died. He was 61.
View ArticleJazz musician Sam Rivers dies from pneumonia at 88
Sam Rivers, an internationally-known jazz musician who played with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, has died. He was 88.
View ArticleBeloved pop artist James Rizzi dies at 61
James Rizzi applied his playful, cartoon-like art style to unusual projects worldwide, from Volkswagen Beetles and Japanese train ads to cow sculptures in New York and the front page of a German...
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