Gone But Not Forgotten is the category where those well-known people who gave so much to society died
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929. He led an American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He was the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr.…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Bells ran at midday Monday from St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town to honor Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu one day after his death at age 90. The cathedral is where Tutu urged South Africans to…
Lester Bird was born in New York City on 21 February 1938. Lester and his elder brother Vere Bird Jr., also a British-educated lawyer, were considered sometime rivals, with The New York Times writing in 1990 that Lester had always overshadowed his brother, according to…
Ed Asner, the seven-time Primetime Emmy-winning actor, best known for his role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died at 91.
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith survived cancer twice diagnosed in 1996 and thyroid cancer in 1998. She died Friday morning in Nashville, a rep for her management company confirmed to Variety.
Chucky Thompson, one of the in-house producers (known as The Hitmen), dies at 53.
Richard, a huge, flame-throwing right-hander who spent ten years with the Houston Astros before his career was cut short by a stroke, died at 71
The U.S. actress Olympic Dukakis, born Olympia Mary Dukakis, died on May 1, 2021, at 89. She was born on June 20, 1931. Olympia Dukakis was an American actress, director, producer, teacher, and activist. She performed in over 130 stage…
Rapper DMX family, in a statement, said, “We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50-years-old at White Plains Hospital with his family by his side after being…
Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later, he was so disgusted after losing a decision to Sugar Ray…
ICU Grandpa story: For nearly 15 years, David Deutchman — aka the “ICU Grandpa” — cuddled babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and played with ailing toddlers as a volunteer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. His efforts to help…
Wife of Dr. J. Michael Lane, Lila Elizabeth Summer, said her husband’s died from colon cancer. John Michael Lane was born in Boston on Feb. 14, 1936, to Eileen O’Connor and Alfred Baker Lewis II. Their subsequent marriage was her…
