Dead Celebrity Alert

CHICAGO — Iva Toguri D’Aquino, who was convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist “Tokyo Rose,” died Tuesday of natural causes, said her nephew, William Toguri. She was 90. … Read full obituary

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Edward Albert, who starred opposite Goldie Hawn in the 1972 comedy Butterflies Are Free and was the son of film and TV star Eddie Albert, has died. He was 55. … Read full obituary

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Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba, known worldwide for his appearance in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, has died aged 84… Read full obituary

Golfing great Byron Nelson, who won an unprecedented 11 PGA Tour events in a row during 1945, has died at the age of 94. … Read full obituary

Patrick Quinn, a former president of the Actors’ Equity Association who was about to become its first new executive director in 25 years, died yesterday at his country home in Bushkill, Pa. He was 56 and lived in Manhattan. … Read full obituary

September 15, 2006 — LOS ANGELES — Actor Pat Corley, who served sage advice along with drinks as Phil the barkeep on “Murphy Brown,” has died. He was 76. … Read full obituary

Played saxophone and uttered the word “Tequila!” in the pop song “Tequila”; of complications from pneumonia, at Huntington Beach Hospital in California.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — World-renowned bassist Aladar Pege, who moved with ease from jazz to classics and lifted his bulky instrument to star status, has died, the Hungarian cultural ministry said Sunday. He was 67. … Read full obituary

British composer; won Oscar for scoring “The Bridge on the River Kwai”; Saturday, of a chest infection, at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

Helene Deschamps Adams, a hero of the French Resistance who saved American fliers from capture and Jews from execution by the Nazis, and played a role in secret preparations for Allied invasions of France, died in Manhattan Saturday of heart failure. … Read full obituary

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Oscar-winning filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was legendary director Ingmar Bergman’s cinematographer of choice, died Wednesday after a long illness, his son said. He was 83. … Read full obituary

Robert Earl Jones, Broadway actor, father of actor James Earl Jones; at the Lillian Booth Actors’ Home.

Former Mr. Universe, actor, ex-husband of blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, and father of actress Mariska Hargitay.

Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of President John F. Kennedy and widow of actor Peter Lawford; in New York.

Pablo Santos, the 19-year-old star of the WB series Greetings from Tucson, died Friday in a plane crash in Mexico, a hospital official told the Associated Press. … Read full obituary

Oriana Fallaci, a dissecting interviewer of the powerful and an iconoclastic journalist turned icon herself, who in recent years wrote angrily about the threat of Islam, died today in her home city of Florence, the hospital reported. She was 77. … Read full obituary

AUSTIN, Texas — Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73. … Read full obituary

NASSAU, Bahamas — The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith died while visiting his mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police official said Monday. …

Anna Nicole Smith, 38, gave birth to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce girl at the hospital Thursday, her Web site said. … Read full obituary

Tupou IV, the ruler of Tonga, who became the country’s king in 1967, was the fourth longest-reigning monarch in the world and, according to the record books, was at one stage the heaviest. … Read full obituary

Brock, 61, was driving with co-driver Mick Hone in a Daytona Coupe when his car hit the tree. … Read full obituary

Peter Greenough, a journalist and the husband of opera soprano Beverly Sills for nearly a half-century, has died, Sills’ manager said Thursday. He was 89. … Read full obituary

Belgian filmmaker Remy Belvaux, whose sole feature “Man Bites Dog” became a cult hit, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 38. … Read full obituary

JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 5 — Vladimir Griegorovich Tretchikoff, an exile from Siberia whose emotional depictions of wilting flowers, dancers and especially the daughter of a San Francisco Chinese merchant earned both global popularity and critics’ scorn, died in Cape Town on Aug. 26. He was 92. … Read full obituary

Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut — virtually without rehearsal — in a nationally broadcast performance and went on to sing for half a century, has died. She was 88. … Read full obituary

MIAMI — Guy Gabaldon, who as an 18-year-old Marine private single-handedly convinced more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender in the World War II battle for Saipan, died Thursday at his home in Old Town, Fla. He was 80. … Read full obituary