Dame Olivia Newton-John, born on 26 September 1948, was a British-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included five number one hits and another ten Top Ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and…
LONDON (AP) — Lester Piggott, a jockey who won the English Derby nine times in his haul of victories in horse racing’s top events, has died at age 86. On Sunday, Piggott’s death was confirmed to Britain’s PA news agency…
LONDON (AP) — British author Jack Higgins, who wrote “The Eagle Has Landed” and other bestselling thrillers and espionage novels, has died. He was 92. Publisher HarperCollins said that Higgins died at his home on the English Channel island of…
In the 1961 trial of notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann, Gabriel Bach, a prosecutor who served on Israel’s Supreme Court, died at age 94. On Friday, the Israel Judiciary Authority announced Gabriel Bach’s death but provided no cause of death. Bach…
Jon Zazula passed away in Florida surrounded by his brother, daughters, granddaughters, and friends. He was one of Megaforce Records co-founders, that launched the iconic label and released the first albums from Metallica, Anthrax, and many others, together with his…
Dean Taylor was shy, leaned into unusual melodies and offbeat storylines, and was one of the few white performers on the Black-owned label. And despite lending his pen as co-writer on Motown hits and soaring to the top of the…
NEW YORK (AP) — Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” and “I’d Do…
Sidney Poitier died on Friday at age 94. The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis broke the sad news in a speech broadcast on Facebook Sidney Poitier was Born Sidney L. Poitier on February 20, 1927. He was a Bahamian-American actor, film director,…
JOHANNESBURG (A.P.) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist policy of apartheid, and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders,…
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…
