Dead Celebrity Alert

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. A former major league baseball player who is best-known for serving once as a pinch runner for a midget has died. Jim Delsing played outfield for the St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees in his career. … Read full obituary

The last American to remember seeing hundreds of fellow passengers drown in the icy North Atlantic when the Titanic sank 94 years ago has died at age 99, a funeral home spokesman said on Sunday. … Read full obituary

Veteran Nine Network reporter Richard Carleton has died after suffering a suspected heart attack at Tasmania’s Beaconsfield gold mine this afternoon.

Carleton collapsed shortly after asking a question at a news conference about 1pm. Members of the media began performing chest compressions as an ambulance crew arrived. … Read full obituary

Jay Presson Allen, a famed adapter of novels for stage and screen who stood out in an era when few women worked in that field, died Monday at her home in Manhattan after suffering a stroke. She was 84. … Read full obituary

HARTFORD, Conn. — Louis Rukeyser, a best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on complicated business and economic news, died Tuesday. He was 73. … Read full obituary

COVELO — Robert “Bobby” Fetzer, a well-known Mendocino County winemaker and cattle rancher, died Sunday in a rafting accident on the Middle Fork of the Eel River. … Read full obituary

John Kenneth Galbraith, an influential liberal economist and author of “The Affluent Society,” has died at age 97. … Read full obituary