Archive for May, 2004

Tony Randall, 84

Posted: Tuesday, May 18th, 2004 3:28 pm

Odd CoupleEmmy Award-winning actor Tony Randall, best known for his comic role as the fastidious photographer Felix Unger in The Odd Couple, has died at age 84. …

Randall became a father for the first time at age 77 after marrying his second wife, Heather, 50 years his junior. … Read full obituary


Samuel Iwry, 93 Dead Sea scrolls scholar

Posted: Thursday, May 13th, 2004 3:28 am

Samuel Iwry, 93, a scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls whose life story could rival the plot of an international adventure novel, died of a stroke May 8 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. … Read full obituary


Olive Osmond, Osmond Brothers’ mother, 79

Posted: Monday, May 10th, 2004 1:26 pm


Anti-gay crusader Pete Knight (R-Calif.), 74

Posted: Monday, May 10th, 2004 12:52 pm

California state senator William J. “Pete” Knight, who sponsored the state’s same-sex marriage ban and took it directly to voters after twice failing to get it through the legislature, has died of leukemia. He was 74. …

Knight’s son, David Knight, married Joseph Lazzaro, his partner of 10 years, at San Francisco’s City Hall earlier this year, just two days before the California supreme court halted the weddings. … Read full obituary


Comedian-actor Alan King, 76

Posted: Monday, May 10th, 2004 12:47 pm

Alan King, 76, the dyspeptic wisecracker whose withering stare, Brooklyn accent and mockery of modern American life made him a comic favorite for six decades, died May 9 at a hospital in New York. He had lung cancer. … Read full obituary