Dead Celebrity Alert

Princess Alice, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and the oldest member of the British royal family, has died aged 102, Buckingham Palace said Saturday. … Read full obituary

John Peel, who championed rock/pop music made by people other than chart acts has died aged 65. On his radio show from the sixties to the present day he would give exposure to all forms of music not normally accessible on radio to the UK public. … Read full obituary

Acclaimed singer Robert Merrill, the opera baritone who felt equally comfortable on opening night at the Metropolitan Opera House or opening day at Yankee Stadium, has died. He was 85. … Read full obituary

Pierre Emil George Salinger, 79, press secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and chief European foreign correspondent for ABC News, died of a heart attack yesterday at a hospital near his home in Le Thor, France, his wife said. … Read full obituary

NEW YORK — On the field, Ken Caminiti’s all-out style served him well. Off the field is where it got him in trouble.

The 1996 National League MVP, who later admitted using steroids during his major league career, died Sunday. He was 41. … Read full obituary

Christopher Reeve, the star of the Superman movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52. … Read full obituary

Rodney Dangerfield, the goggle-eyed comic famed for his self-deprecating one-liners and signature phrase “I can’t get no respect,” died on Tuesday at age 82, his publicist said. … Read full obituary

Janet Leigh’s most famous scene was so terrifying it put her off showers for the rest of her life. …

Leigh died at her Beverly Hills home, with husband Robert Brandt and her daughters, actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis, at her side. She was 77. … Read full obituary