Dead Celebrity Alert

Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British historian who wrote a best-selling account of Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker but damaged his reputation 35 years later by authenticating forged Hitler diaries, died yesterday in Oxford, England. He was 89. … Read full obituary

The patriarch of Italian auto manufacturer Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, has died, the ANSA news agency announced today. … Read full obituary

Nedra Volz, a character actress remembered for her early 1980s roles as housekeeper Adelaide Brubaker on the popular television comedy “Diff’rent Strokes” and postmistress Miz Emma Tisdale on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” has died. She was 94. … Read full obituary

Actress and singer Nell Carter, best known for her role as the housekeeper in the TV sitcom “Gimme a Break!”, died Thursday. She was 54. … Read full obituary

Al Hirschfeld, whose inimitable caricatures captured the vivid personalities of theater people and their performances for more than 75 years, died at his home in Manhattan yesterday. He was 99. … Read full obituary

Obit to come.

January 17, 2003 — Robert J. Braidwood, a University of Chicago archaeologist who uncovered evidence of the beginnings of agriculture and the subsequent rise of civilization in the Middle East, died on Wednesday in Chicago. He was 95. … Read full obituary

Douglas Herrick, who gets both the credit and the blame for perhaps the tackiest totem of the American West, the jackalope — half bunny, half antelope and 100 percent tourist trap — died on Jan. 6 in Casper, Wyo. He was 82. … Read full obituary

Richard Crenna, the Emmy award-winning character actor who starred as a lovesick teenager on “Our Miss Brooks” and Sylvester Stallone (news)’s Green Beret mentor in the “Rambo” films, has died. He was 76. … Read full obituary

… State police identified the dead as the SUV’s driver, Sean Fenton, 20, of Newport Beach, Calif.; Andrew Dwyer, 19, of Hobe Sound, Fla.; and Kyle Burnat, 19, of Atlanta, a pitcher on Yale’s baseball team. … Read full obituary

Mike Echols, author of the book chronicling the kidnapping of Steven Stayner, and a child crime victims’ advocate, died in the Monterey County jail early Saturday morning of an apparent heart attack. He had been serving time since last month for violating his probation for two 1999 misdemeanor convictions of making criminal threats. … Read full obituary

Micky Finn, percussionist with glam rock group T Rex, has died at the age of 55. … Read full obituary

Bee Gee Maurice Gibb died in hospital this morning, his family said. The 53-year-old had been in a critical condition in hospital after suffering a heart attack during an operation to remove an intestinal blockage after he collapsed at his Florida home last week. … Read full obituary

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Frank Sipe, who threw the first pitch in the first Little League baseball game, died at 74. … Read full obituary

Sydney Omarr, the astrologer to the stars who came to write horoscopes that appear in more than 200 newspapers, has died. He was 76. … Read full obituary

A body found in a burning Hollywood Hills mansion on New Year’s Day was identified Thursday as veteran film and TV character actor Royce Applegate, a co-star of the old sci-fi series “SeaQuest DSV.” … Read full obituary