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Tony- and Emmy-winning actress Mary Alice -- known for originating the role of Rose in August Wilson's "Fences" -- died ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929. He led an American civil rights movement from 1955 ...

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator whose fiery rhetoric forged a new landscape for talk radio and inflamed the partisan divide ...

Some famous people died in 2020, and in the last month of 2020, many more have died. Listed below four ...

Charley Pride, a 2000 inductee in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a three-time Grammy winner, Pride, was not ...

Dr. J. Michael Lane, a globe-trotting epidemiologist who waged a 13-year war against the scourge of smallpox and led the ...

Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen-raised theatergoers' consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in ...

John Conyers, later in November 2017, in the wake of allegations that he had sexually harassed female staff members and ...

The 92-Year-Old Michigan Democrat Michigan Democrat John Dingell Jr. was the longest-serving member of the United States Congress in history. ...

The former United States first lady and literacy campaigner, Barbara Bush, died at the age of 92. She was the ...

Jim Nabors, a comic actor who found fame in the role of the amiable bumpkin Gomer Pyle in two hit ...

US comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory has died at the age of 84, his family has announced. Gregory ...