Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist who revolutionized the field, dies at 84
With one high-profile haircut on the Paramount Studios lot, Vidal Sassoon vaulted to fame in Hollywood.
View ArticleNicholas Katzenbach, attorney general in '60s who helped write Civil Rights...
Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the landmark civil rights...
View ArticleBobby Dukoff, recorded bands, revolutionized sax mouthpiece, dies
In the contemporary music world, the name Dukoff means top-of-the-line, hand-made saxophone mouthpieces that cost the pros about the same as a high-school band kid pays for an entire horn.
View ArticleRomanian baby born with stunted intestines dies
A Romanian baby born with virtually no intestines who confounded doctors by tenaciously clinging to life and captured international attention and offers of medical help, died on Thursday. He was nine...
View ArticlePollak, US judge who helped in civil rights, dead
Louis Pollak, a federal judge who helped work on the pivotal school-desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, has died. He was 89.
View ArticleGeorge Murdock, actor who played Lt. Scanlon on 'Barney Miller,' dies at 81
George Murdock, 81, a veteran character actor who had a recurring role as Lt. Scanlon on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" and played God in the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," died...
View ArticleEarly female pilot Evelyn Bryan Johnson dies, 102
Pioneering female pilot and Guinness world record holder Evelyn Bryan Johnson, known as "Mama Bird," died Thursday, according to a funeral home. She was 102.
View ArticleMort Lindsay, musical director for Judy Garland, dies at 89
Mort Lindsey, a conductor, arranger and composer best known as the music director for Judy Garland in the 1960s and for his more than two decades as music director for "The Merv Griffin Show," has...
View ArticleHorst Faas, AP combat photographer, dies at 79
As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting - he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign...
View ArticleWillie Middlebrook, photographer who documented African-American life, dies...
Willie Robert Middlebrook, a photographer who sought to enlarge public perceptions of the African-American community through painterly depictions of its people and places, died Saturday at Brotman...
View ArticleRabbi Nathan Bryn, Holocaust survivor, dies
Funeral services for Rabbi Nathan Bryn, a Holocaust survivor who once led Temple Bet Tov in Little Havana, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Riverside Gordon/Aventura, 20955 Biscayne Blvd. Burial...
View ArticleGarland music director Mort Lindsey dies at 89
Mort Lindsey, a composer and jazz pianist who was a music director for Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, has died. He was 89.
View ArticleLegendary car designer, racer Shelby dies at 89
Decades after a heart condition forced him to retire from racing, Carroll Shelby still loved to drive muscle cars. Well into his 80s, the legendary car designer spent hours testing his last Mustang...
View ArticleCarroll Shelby, cult classic designer, dies at 89
Carroll Shelby, the charismatic Texan who parlayed a short-lived racing career into a specialized business building high-performance, street-legal cars, died Thursday. He was 89.
View ArticleCorrection: Obit-Faas story
In an obituary May 10 for former Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, the AP incorrectly reported that Faas photographed a ski-masked Palestinian terrorist at the Munich Olympic Village building...
View ArticleCorrection: Obit-Faas story
In an obituary May 10 for former Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, the AP incorrectly reported that Faas photographed a ski-masked Palestinian terrorist at the Munich Olympic Village building...
View ArticleSon of Lebanese immigrants went on to real-estate notoriety in Northwest;...
There's Benaroya Hall. And the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason Medical Center.
View Article'Sweet Joe' Russell, tenor with the Persuasions, dies at 72
"Sweet Joe" Russell, who spent half a century harmonizing with the Persuasions, an influential vocal group widely regarded as the "kings of a cappella," has died. He was 72.
View ArticleBass player Donald 'Duck' Dunn dies in Tokyo
Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.
View ArticleRobert Miles Parker, artist who was an architectural preservationist, dies at 72
Robert Miles Parker, a free-spirited artist who sparked an architectural preservation movement in San Diego and translated the personalities of Los Angeles and New York into distinctive pen-and-ink...
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