OSS agent who led WWII rescue of 500 dies in NY
George Vujnovich, the intelligence agent who organized a World War II mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber crew members shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia, has died at his home in New York. He...
View ArticleTomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement, dies at 81
Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it battled U.S.-backed forces for decades, has died. He was 81.
View ArticleMourners say farewell to famed track coach LeRoy Walker
His grandchildren called him Papa. Olympians he mentored called him Doc. And though he was a Ph.D., a university chancellor and president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, most people called him Coach.
View Article1950s Hollywood leading lady Patricia Medina dies
The actress who became a leading lady of Hollywood films in the 1950s opposite Glenn Ford, Alan Ladd, Karl Malden and Fernando Lamas has died in Los Angeles. Patricia Medina was 92.
View ArticlePolice: Junior Seau found dead at California home
Former NFL star Junior Seau was found dead at his home Wednesday, authorities said.
View ArticleFormer Chargers linebacker Junior Seau dies in apparent suicide
Through her tears, Luisa Seau said that there had been no warning of this. How could her son, Junior, who had so much promise in his life and during a glittery football career, want to kill himself? "I...
View ArticleEx-CBS newsman, journalism prof. Ben Silver dies
Former CBS news correspondent and Arizona State University journalism professor Ben Silver has died. He was 85.
View ArticlePatricia Medina, leading lady in string of 1950s Hollywood films, dies at 92
Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was...
View ArticleBob Smith, orthodontist invented better ski goggles, dies
At his kitchen table, orthodontist Bob Smith tried to solve a problem that dogged him on the ski slopes in the early 1960s by using dental tools and foam to fashion prototypes of fog-resistant goggles.
View ArticleBuddy Havlin, TV producer and radio-station founder, dies
Buddy Havlin, who traveled with big-name rock bands in the 1960s, produced local TV in the ’70s, co-founded Miami’s first community-access radio station in the 1980s, and taught...
View ArticleSkatalites' bassist Brevett dies in Jamaica at 80
Lloyd Brevett, a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band The Skatalites, died Thursday at age 80.
View ArticleCharles Higham, controversial celebrity biographer, dies at 81
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially,...
View ArticleCelebrity biographer Charles Higham dies at 81
Celebrity biographer Charles Higham, who wrote about the lives of Lucille Ball, Errol Flynn, Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hughes and others, has died in Los Angeles at age 81.
View ArticleAdam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, dies at 47
LOS ANGELES - The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, best known the world over as the thoughtful, witty, in-your-face rapper MCA, has died, according to Rolling Stone and the hip-hop website Global Grind, which...
View ArticleAdam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47
Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, has died. He was 47.
View ArticleAdam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, dies at 47
LOS ANGELES - The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, best known the world over as the thoughtful, witty, in-your-face rapper MCA, has died.
View ArticleReaction to death of Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys
Reaction to the death Friday of Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys:
View ArticleJim McCrary, photographer who shot Carole King's 'Tapestry' cover, dies at 72
Photographer Jim McCrary was on the verge of shooting one of his most famous images when he stopped to ask singer Carole King if the cat sleeping across the room could be part of the tableau.
View ArticleGreek actor and lawmaker Costas Karras dies at 75
Costas Karras, a popular actor and former conservative politician, died Sunday in Athens of complications from cancer, his family announced. He was 75.
View ArticleGeorge Lindsey, Goober Pyle on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dies at 83
George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.," died early Sunday morning....
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