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Bernard Cohen, age 68, a civil liberties attorney, is Dead

October 18, 2020 whodied-admin Comments Off

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. […]

Dead at 70 is Linda Tripp, the whistleblower in the Bill Clinton impeachment

April 9, 2020 whodied-admin Comments Off

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 […]

Lynn Cohen, an actor, best known for playing the plainspoken housekeeper and nanny Magda in Sex and the City, has died. She was 86. Cohen died on Friday in New York City, said her manager, Josh Pultz. Additional details were not immediately available. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Cohen had a long and diverse career as a stage, film and television performer. Her dozens of credits ranged from Nurse Jackie and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to the feature films Across the Universe and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. In HBO's Sex and City, Cohen's character was used by attorney Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon. Magda was featured in the TV and movie versions of the popular show, which also starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Kim Cattrall. Life and career - Lynn Cohen Lynn Cohen born on August 10, 1933, and died February 14, 2020. She was an American actress, best known for playing Magda in the HBO series Sex and the City and the 2008 film of the same name, as well as its 2010 sequel, and Mags in Cohen was born as Lynn Harriette Kay in Kansas City, Missouri, and was Jewish. She began her career appearing on the Off-Broadway productions as of the 1970s, receiving Drama League Award and Lucille Lortel Awards nominations. Cohen's first notable film role was in the 1993 comedy Manhattan Murder Mystery. From 1993 to 2006, she played Judge Elizabeth Mizener in the NBC drama series Law & Order, appearing total in 12 episodes. She also guest-starred on NYPD Blue, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and had a recurring role on Damages. From 2000 to 2004, Cohen had a recurring role as Magda in the HBO comedy series, Sex, and the City. She reprised her role in the 2008 film of the same name, as well as its 2010 sequel. Cohen also appeared in the movies Munich (2005) playing Golda Meir, Vanya on 42nd Street, Synecdoche, New York, Eagle Eye, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. According to her manager Josh Pultz, Cohen died on February 14, 2020, in New York. The cause of death not yet known at the time of post this story.

Lynn Cohen, the actor, best known as Magda in Sex and the City, dies aged 86

February 16, 2020 whodied-admin Comments Off

Lynn Cohen, an actor, best known for playing the plainspoken housekeeper and nanny Magda in Sex and the City, has died. She was 86. Cohen died on Friday in New York City, said her manager, […]

Pittsburgh Jewish Community Mourns 11 death in a Mass Shooting

October 29, 2018 whodied-admin Comments Off

Pittsburgh Jewish community mourns the senseless killing of 11 members of their religious faith. Synagogue shooting survivors recount terror as gunfire erupted. They were a few minutes late on Saturday. They said that’s why they […]

Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve as US Attorney General, Dies

November 7, 2016 whodied-admin Comments Off

Janet Reno, the former US attorney general under President Bill Clinton, died following a long battle with Parkinson's disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVl8rYUcII

B.B. King, Blues Legend, Dead at 89

May 15, 2015 whodied-admin Comments Off

B.B. King the legend remember! B.B. King, the larger-than-life guitarist and singer who helped popularize electric blues and brought it to audiences for more than six decades, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89. […]

R.I.P. Actor James Avery dies at 68

January 1, 2014 Administrator Comments Off

James Avery, the actor who played the family patriarch on NBC’s long-running The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, died December 31 in Glendale, CA after complications from open heart surgery, his publicist said today. Avery was […]

Actor Dennis Farina dies

July 22, 2013 Administrator 2

(CNN) — Dennis Farina, the well-known film and TV character actor with the distinctive Chicago accent, has died, his representative said Monday. He was 69. The actor — a one-time Chicago police officer — played […]

Former NDC general manager passes on

December 25, 2012 Administrator Comments Off

Dominica News Online has received information that former general manager of the National Development Corporation, now Invest Dominica Authority, Kenny Alleyne, has died. Reports are that he passed away on Sunday morning at the Princess […]

Dallas’ star Larry Hagman, scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing on TV’s long-running soap, dies

November 26, 2012 Administrator Comments Off

LOS ANGELES — Larry Hagman, whose predatory oil baron J.R. Ewing on television’s long-running nighttime soap opera “Dallas” became a symbol for 1980s greed and coaxed forth a Texas-sized gusher of TV ratings, has died. […]

Cherry Charles Beausoliel

June 9, 2007 Administrator Comments Off

A prominent lawyer is dead Cherry Charles Beausoliel, who was known to many Dominicans as “Bo” because of his size, died here last Friday at the age of 81, he was born in St. Vincent, […]