Radio Nigeria offered no details on the death of Adebayo Adefarati, a former state governor and the presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy. He had earlier been reported in the hospital. Adefarati was not considered a leader among the 24 candidates elections officials had cleared to run. … Read full obituary
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jacob O. Booher, who worked for The Associated Press for 35 years and retired as a bureau chief in Ohio, has died at age 69. … Read full obituary
BOONSBORO, Md. (AP) — The last known surviving American female World War I veteran, a refined Civil War buff who met face-to-face with the Secretary of the Navy to fight for women in the military, has died. She was 109. … Read full obituary
Billy Martin Sr., head of one of the most influential wrestling families in America, died this afternoon of heart failure at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. He was 89. … Read full obituary
Oklahoma City-born country music singer Henson Cargill — known best for his hit “Skip A Rope” — dies at age 66 from complications following surgery. … Read full obituary
Ed Bailey, an All-Star catcher with the Cincinnati Reds in the 1950s, died Friday. He was 75. … Read full obituary
The University of North Carolina student who served as the mascot for the men’s basketball team has died.
Steve Kirscher, UNC’s associate athletics director for communications, said Jason Ray, 21, died at 8:38 a.m. Monday. Ray was struck near his hotel in Fort Lee, New Jersey on Friday. … Read full obituary
A spokeswoman announced the death of Andranik Margaryan, the Armenian prime minister, on Sunday.
“He has passed away,” Reuters reported her as saying, but no further information was given. … Read full obituary
Herman Stein, whose spooky music scores raised the hair on the back of moviegoers’ necks for decades, has died at his home in Los Angeles at 91. … Read full obituary
Damian McDonald, 34, was killed when his Mazda sedan was involved in Friday’s fatal crash in the Burnley Tunnel. … Read full story
Robert E. Petersen, the publishing magnate whose Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines helped shape America’s car culture and who gave millions to a museum dedicated to his passion, has died. He was 80. … Read full obituary
Jamaican police are now saying Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer was murdered, with post-mortem results showing he died from asphyxiation due to strangulation. … Read full story
John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 82. … Read full obituary
The balding, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late-night television shows has died after a long illness.
Brooklyn-born Calvert DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, the Letterman show announced Wednesday. … Read full obituary
DENVER — Actor Woody Harrelson’s father, Charles Harrelson, died of a heart attack in the Supermax federal prison where he was serving two life sentences for the murder of a federal judge, officials said Wednesday. … Read full obituary
Vilma Ebsen, who danced in the film “Broadway Melody of 1936″ with her brother Buddy long before he became famous on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died. She was 96. … Read full obituary
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Luther Ingram, best known for his passionate turn on the 1972 R&B/pop hit “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to be Right,” has died. The 69-year-old singer/songwriter succumbed to kidney disease yesterday (March 19) in St. Louis. He had undergone a kidney transplant several years ago. …” Read full obituary
Ernst Haefliger, the Swiss tenor noted for his interpretations of oratorio and lieder, died on Saturday at age 87, reports the Associated Press. … Read full obituary
Stuart Rosenberg, who directed the Paul Newman film classic Cool Hand Luke and haunted house hit The Amityville Horror, has died at the age of 79. … Read full obituary
Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died in hospital today after he was found unconscious on the floor of his World Cup hotel room. He was 58. … Read full story
Wilford “Crazy Ray” Jones, the boisterous Dallas Cowboys fan who energized crowds for decades with his cowboy getup and sideline cheerleading, died Saturday. He was 76. … Read full obituary
Bob DeBuhr is known as the former Red Cross manager who rushed to help citizens after Mount St. Helens ruptured — even though his own home had been ruined in the volcano’s wake.
Others recall his humorous commentary, 30-year career in the Boy Scouts of America and his devotion to wife Bette DeBuhr, who died in 1999 after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease. … Read full obituary
Went to prison murdering wife’s lover.
March 16, 2007 — BUFFALO … Kuhn died last night at 80 years of age, and you have to think he probably cringed at what passed for the first paragraph of his obituary, that he “lorded over baseball during 15 tumultuous years that saw players gain free agency and start the spiral of multimillion-dollar salaries.” … Read full story
Jovan Zebic, who held top government posts during the rule of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, died late Thursday, said Ivica Dacic, the leader of the late president’s Socialist Party.
The cause of death was not revealed. … Read full story
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