Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., has died. She was 78. …
When King was assassinated outside a motel room in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, Scott King channeled her grief into action. … Read full obituary
See also:
Coretta Scott King Appears At MLK Event (January 16, 2006)
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled the feminist struggles and successes of the baby-boomer generation in such wryly observant works as “The Heidi Chronicles” and “The Sisters Rosensweig,” has died of lymphoma at the age of 55. … Read full obituary
Pioneering psychotherapist and writer Betty Berzon died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 78 years old.
Berzon had been sick with cancer, but still continued to see patients and write while undergoing chemotherapy. …
She [became] one of our community’s best-known, with a gift for helping gay people come to terms with their true selves and with each other. …
She was one of the founding board members for the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in 1971. … Read full obituary
Character actor Chris Penn, the younger brother of Oscar winner Sean Penn, was found dead today at an apartment near the Pacific Ocean in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica.
No cause of death was immediately determined but there were no signs of foul play, police sources said. …
Penn, 43, was a character actor who appeared in dozens of films including Reservoir Dogs, Mulholland Falls and the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch. … Read full obituary
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Shelley Winters
Soul legend Wilson Pickett had a heart attack and died while seeking help at a hospital in Reston, Virginia, near his home in Ashburn on Thursday (January 19); he was 64 years old.
Pickett, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, helped shape modern R&B with his stripped-down classics like “In the Midnight Hour” and “Mustang Sally.” … Read full obituary
Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, has died. She was 85. … Read full obituary
Phyllis Gates, the former wife of Hollywood star Rock Hudson and secretary to his agent, has died at the age of 80. Gates died of complications from lung cancer on 4 January at her Los Angeles home, her lawyer Mark Waldman said. …
Gates married Hudson in 1955, and they divorced in 1958. She later learned the romance was arranged to dispel rumours about Hudson’s homosexuality. … Read full obituary
Neil Strawser, who anchored CBS News radio coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination, died Saturday. He was 78. … Read full obituary
The death has taken place of Irish actor Brendan Cauldwell at the age of 83. …
Mr Cauldwell went on to act in a host of stage, screen and radio productions over the years, including Strumpet City, Far and Away and Angela’s Ashes. … Read full obituary
A 15-year-old son of Bahrain’s king has been killed in an accident while driving a car, the Bahraini Royal Court says.
Prince Faisal, the sixth son of Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, died instantly after he lost control of the car he was driving and collided with a traffic light and billboard… Read full obituary
National co-chair of Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign & assistant HEW secretary.
Alan Sytner, who founded the Cavern Club, has died on holiday in France. Inspired by Paris’s underground clubs, Sytner opened the converted cellars in Mathew Street, Liverpool, in 1957, as a jazz band venue. … Read full obituary
Joseph Waksberg, who helped invent a widely used method of conducting phone surveys so they efficiently reach people with unlisted as well as listed phone numbers, has died. He was 90. … Read full obituary
LUBBOCK, Texas — Dave Brown, a former Michigan All-America who played 16 seasons in the NFL and was an assistant coach at Texas Tech, died Tuesday. He was 52.
Brown suffered an apparent heart attack while playing basketball on campus… Read full obituary
Raymond “Cowboy Ray” Hofstatter, a recurring character on “Mancow’s Morning Madhouse” radio show, died Tuesday night as a result of lingering injuries from a hit-and-run auto accident last fall, WGN-Ch. 9 reported. … Read full story
Eric Namesnik, who won silver medals in swimming at the 1992 and ‘96 Olympics, died Wednesday following a car accident last week. He was 35. … Read full obituary
U.S. District Court Senior Judge Jack Tanner — known for his sometimes controversial decisions, his civil rights activism and his outspoken belief that the courts ought to be a place where people of any color, gender or class could find a measure of justice and equality — died peacefully at his home with family Tuesday night. … Read full obituary
Birgit Nilsson, the farmer’s daughter who became renown in the world’s great opera houses for her dazzling voice and among colleagues for her playful sense of humor, has died at age 87. … Read full obituary
The controversial mountaineering legend, Heinrich Harrer, died peacefully over the weekend; he was in his nineties. Harrer is likely most known by younger climbers through the film, Seven Years in Tibet, which was based on his life. … Read full obituary
A former Southern Baptist leader who was known to stress that racism was sinful has died of a heart attack. …
Valentine was executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission. It’s now called the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the denomination’s public policy panel. … Read full obituary
Jamie Hodgson, the photographer whose haunting images of jazz musicians helped immortalise its greatest stars, has died at the age of 76. … Read full obituary
Snow, a star wide receiver for the Rams from 1965-75 and a longtime team broadcaster, died Monday night, the club said. He was 62. … Read full obituary
Justice James D. Taylor, of the B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo, has died. He was 64. … Read full obituary
A Belfast-born former cabinet minister who supported moves for a national stadium in Northern Ireland died last night after suffering a stroke. … Read full obituary
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