Lincoln Hall, survivor of Mount Everest ordeal, dies at 56
Left for dead near the summit of Mount Everest, Australian adventurer Lincoln Hall survived the night alone, without supplies, in temperatures well below zero. And then he got lucky.
View ArticleBoxing writer Bert Sugar dies of cardiac arrest
Bert Sugar, an iconic boxing writer and sports historian who was known for his trademark fedora and ever-present cigar, died Sunday of cardiac arrest. He was 75.
View ArticlePatience Abbe, best-selling child author, dies at 87
Patience Abbe was only 11 when the memoir she wrote with her two brothers, "Around the World in Eleven Years," climbed onto the best-seller lists for grown-ups in 1936.
View ArticleLarry Stevenson, skateboard innovator and publisher, dies at 81
Larry Stevenson, a Venice Beach lifeguard who helped popularize skateboarding in the early 1960s by marketing his Makaha boards to riders eager to essentially surf on land, has died. He was 81.
View ArticleInfluential art critic Hilton Kramer dies at 84
Hilton Kramer, the former chief art critic at The New York Times and founding editor of The New Criterion magazine, has died. He was 84.
View ArticleDonald P. Kennedy, led growth of title insurance firm, dies at 93
First American Financial Corp. was known as Orange County Title Co. and had only one office when Donald P. Kennedy, fresh out of law school, joined the family firm in 1948.
View ArticleFeminist poet and essayist Adrienne Rich dies
Adrienne Rich, a fiercely gifted, award-winning poet whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82.
View ArticleAdrienne Rich, feminist poet and essayist, dies at 82
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home...
View ArticleEarl Scruggs, banjo legend who was half of Flatt & Scruggs, dies at 88
Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's...
View ArticleBluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at age 88
It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly...
View ArticleWarren Stevens, 'Forbidden Planet' actor, has died
Actor Warren Stevens, whose most memorable role was his portrayal of "Doc" Ostrow in the 1956 sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet," has died in Los Angeles at 92.
View ArticleFuneral for banjo innovator Sunday at Ryman
The funeral for legendary bluegrass banjo artist Earl Scruggs will be Sunday in Nashville.
View ArticleThe Rev. John Gregory Tweed, minister to AIDS patients, dies
The Rev. John Gregory Tweed, whose calling led him from the pulpits of historic Northeastern churches to the bedsides of desperate South Florida AIDS patients when HIV was still a death sentence, died...
View ArticleAuthor Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76
Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his extreme, but comic tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76 and had suffered...
View ArticleRex Babin, Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist, dies at 49
Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Rex Babin, whose piercing pen skewered presidents, governors and self-important legislators, died Friday at his home after a long battle with cancer. He was 49.
View ArticleAuthor Harry Crews dies in Florida
Harry Crews, the wildman novelist whose absurd and tragic Southern tales earned him national acclaim in the 1970s and a cult following for decades after, died Wednesday at his home in Gainesville at...
View ArticleArthur Sekoff, Book Horizons owner, dies
Arthur Sekoff, known as “The Big A’’ to generations of students who shopped at Book Horizons, the University of Miami-area store he ran for nearly 60 years, died Friday...
View ArticleHarry Crews, Southern writer with darkly comic vision, dies at 76
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques - characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their...
View ArticleGeorge Anderson, Raiders trainer who created widely used knee brace, dies at 82
George Anderson, the longtime athletic trainer for the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders who devised an innovative knee brace that became standard for football players, died Thursday in Santa Fe, N.M.,...
View ArticleMiguel de la Madrid, former Mexican president, dies at 77
MEXICO CITY-Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, 77, who led the country during economic meltdown and natural disaster in the 1980s and laid the groundwork for freer markets and politics, died...
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