Captain Sir Tom Moore popularly known as Captain Tom, was a British Army officer raised money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
LOS ANGELES — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. According to family friend Michael Roth, he […]
CNN: Tony Hsieh, the former CEO of Zappos, died peacefully and surrounded by family on Friday, according to a statement emailed to CNN by Megan Fazio, a spokesperson for DTP Companies, a Las Vegas-based enterprise […]
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 […]
Alex Trebek, the beloved host of gameshow “Jeopardy!” since its 1984 debut in syndication, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 80. The official “Jeopardy!” Twitter account announced the news on Sunday morning, writing: “‘Jeopardy!’ […]
Dr. J. Michael Lane, a globe-trotting epidemiologist who waged a 13-year war against the scourge of smallpox and led the final drive for its global eradication in 1977, when the last known vestige of the […]
Jerry Walker (Jerry Jeff Walker) was a Texas country singer and songwriter who wrote the pop song “Mr. Bojangles.” Walker died Friday, Oct. 23, of cancer, a family spokesman John T. Davis told The Associated Press. […]
Bernard Cohen was a civil liberties attorney and Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates; he died at age 68. On April 10, 1967, with co-counsel Philip Hirschkop, he presented an oral argument for the petitioners in Loving v. Virginia before the U. S. […]
John Turner, Canada’s 17th prime minister who spent decades in federal politics as a cabinet minister and Liberal Party leader during some of the most turbulent moments in modern Canadian history, has died at 91. […]
Fans of Chadwick Boseman woke up today Saturday morning to the devastating and shocking news that actor Chadwick Boseman died. From Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall to James Brown, he embodied immortalized so many black […]
Tommy Joe Coffey, the Canadian Football League, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are mourning the passing Canadian Football Hall of Famer and Ticats’ Wall of Honour. Tommy Joe was diagnosed with lung cancer in June and […]
Helen Jones Woods was an African-American jazz musician who toured the country in the 1930s and ’40s, including in the Jim Crow South. This touring could be the start of a familiar story of racism […]
Sir Everton Weekes – The West Indian cricket family mourns one of its favorite sons of cricket after the death of the great Sir Everton Weekes. He is dead at 95.The Bajan batsman was feted […]
Micheal Bruney, nicknamed Mickey, was called to the Dominica local Bar in 1988. He served as a registrar, state attorney, and, until his death, as a magistrate. Bruney died Wednesday, June 24, 2020 In a […]
The Bollywood actor Chiranjeevi Sarja died at the age of 39 on Sunday, 7 June 2020, after suffering a heart attack. Sarja was best known for movies such as Amma I Love You. Confirming the […]
Dr. Lorna Breen, who oversaw the ER at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital even after contracting COVID-19 herself, died by suicide. Her sister and brother-in-law, Jennifer and Corey Feist spoke with TODAY. She said the hospital “was […]
The Whitman County coroner said the cause of death was acute intoxication due to a combination of fentanyl and promethazine. Bryce Beekman, the Washington State football player, found dead at his home in late March, died from […]
Former Calgary Flames scout and hockey legend Tom Webster has passed away at the age of 71, the club said Friday. “Webby was one of the best hockey men that our game has ever seen, and it’s […]
Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died Wednesday, April 8th at age 70. Attorney Joseph Murtha confirmed her death. He provided no […]
Bill Withers (Bill William Withers Jr.) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985 with hit songs as “Lean On Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine.” Bill Withers, the acclaimed 1970s soul […]
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