Dead Celebrity Alert

Hollywood song and dance man Donald O’Connor has died in Los Angeles at the age of 78. … Read full obituary

PARIS - British rock star Robert Palmer, who struck a hit MTV image in the 1980s with his sharp suits and a backup band of mini-skirted, glossy-lipped models on songs like “Addicted to Love,” died Friday in Paris of a heart attack. … Read full obituary

Graham W. Birdsall, Editor UFO Magazine, passed away suddenly on September 19th 2003, from a brain haemorrhage after he was taken ill at his home in Colton, east Leeds. …

Graham was respected the world over by the UFO community. His gifted writing, eloquent presentations and eye for a story helped inform millions of the reality of this fascinating subject we call UFOlogy. … Read full obituary

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Singer, songwriter and actor Sheb Wooley — who also recorded a series of parody hits as Ben Colder — died Tuesday (Sept. 16) at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. He was 82. Wooley had suffered from leukemia for the past five years, his widow, Linda Dotson, told CMT.com. … Read full obituary

MAITLAND, Fla. (AP) — A former Darmouth basketball player suspected of drowning his toddler daughter and attempting to drown his 4-year-old son killed himself Monday by swerving into the path of a tractor trailer, authorities said. His two other children were injured in the crash. … Read full story

COMPTON – An older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was shot to death Sunday following a dispute in this Los Angeles suburb, where the sisters grew up but which maintains a grim reputation for street gangs and violence. … Read full story

Gov. Frank O’Bannon, a gentle but powerful leader in his beloved Indiana for more than 30 years, died today in a Chicago hospital where he was treated for a massive stroke. … Read full obituary

Johnny Cash, a towering musical figure whose rough, unsteady voice championed the downtrodden and reached across generations with songs like “Ring of Fire,” “I Walk the Line” and “Folsom Prison Blues,” died Friday. He was 71. … Read full obituary

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HOUSTON Sept 11 — Actor Larry Hovis, who played Sgt. Carter in the 1960s television series “Hogan’s Heroes” and later taught drama at Texas State University, has died of cancer at the age of 67, the school said on Wednesday. … Read full obituary

BURBANK, Calif. — Actor John Ritter died of a heart problem Thursday after falling ill on the set of his ABC sitcom, his publicist and longtime assistant said.

Ritter … died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday, said his assistant of 22 years, Susan Wilcox.

The cause of death was a dissection of the aorta, the result of an unrecognized flaw in his aorta, said his publicist, Lisa Kasteler. … Read full obituary

Actor John Ritter, who gained fame playing bumbling and lovable characters in a pair of television comedies decades apart, has died, a representative said on Friday. … Read full obituary

Anna Lindh, who died early yesterday at the age of 46 after a stabbing attack, was one of Sweden’s most popular politicians. A lifelong member of the governing Social Democrats, she had been mentioned as a future party leader. In 1998, when she became foreign minister under Prime Minister Goran Persson, the Swedish press called her “Persson’s crown princess,” seeing her as his likely successor. … Read full obituary

SOUR LAKE, Texas (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who successfully defended the government in a lawsuit filed by surviving Branch Davidians was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.

A police officer found the body of former U.S. Attorney J. Michael Bradford on Tuesday after checking on an abandoned car in a wooded area near Sour Lake, about 20 miles from Beaumont. … Read full obituary

Charles Bronson, a muscular coal miner from Pennsylvania who became an international film star and archetypal American tough guy, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81 and lived in Los Angeles. … Read full obituary