Tommy Newsom, the former backup bandleader on “The Tonight Show” whose “Mr. Excitement” nickname was a running joke for Johnny Carson, has died. He was 78. … Read full obituary
Former racing writer and columnist Bill Casey has died in Sydney after a long illness. He was 72. … Read full obituary
Josh Hancock, a relief pitcher who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series last season, died early Sunday when his sport utility vehicle slammed into the back of a tow truck. … Read full obituary
Dick Motz, the first bowler to take 100 wickets in test cricket for New Zealand, has died in Christchurch.
Motz, 67, was found dead yesterday by his former New Zealand and Canterbury captain Graham Dowling, The Press reported today. … Read full obituary
ZAGREB, April 29, 2007 — Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan died in a Zagreb clinic early today as a result of kidney cancer. He was 63. … Read full obituary
BERLIN (AP) — Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, a physicist who researched atomic weapons for the Nazis and became a philosophy professor who espoused pacifism after the Second World War, died Saturday, his family said. He was 94. … Read full obituary
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Johnny Perkins, who caught 163 passes in a seven-year NFL career spent entirely with the New York Giants, died of complications following heart surgery. He was 54 … Read full obituary
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who became an international symbol of the fight for artistic freedom under Soviet rule, died on Friday aged 80. … Read full obituary
Jack Valenti, the longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, died Thursday of complications from a stroke he suffered in March, his family announced. He was 85. … Read full obituary
NEW YORK — He does the “Monster Mash” no more. Bobby “Boris” Pickett, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music’s most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was 69. … Read full obituary
Anne Pitoniak, the Tony-nominated actress best known for her work in Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “‘night, Mother,” has died of complications from cancer. She was 85. … Read full obituary
Warren E. Avis, a Michigan car dealership owner who, frustrated at waiting for taxis outside airports, founded a chain of car rental agencies and turned it into the nation’s second biggest, died yesterday at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 92. … … Read full obituary
Killed in a three-car accident in Menlo Park, California.
Former President Boris Yeltsin died of heart failure in a Kremlin hospital on Monday. He was 76. The Kremlin’s top doctor, Sergei Mironov, said Yeltsin died at 3:45 p.m. at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. … Read full obituary
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., died early Sunday of cancer, an aide said. … Read full obituary
BEAUFORT, S.C. — A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot, the county coroner said. … Read full obituary
Pianist and composer Andrew Hill, one of the most vital and groundbreaking artists in jazz’s post-bop movement during a career that spanned a half-century, died early Friday after a three-year struggle with lung cancer, his record label announced. He was 69. … Read full obituary
Helen Robson Walton, widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, died Thursday evening at her home, the company said in a news release. She was 87. … Read full obituary
NEW YORK — Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie “A Night at the Opera,” died after a battle with pneumonia, her son said Wednesday. She was 96. … Read full obituary
The Sharks mourned Monday’s sudden passing of Gaetan Duchesne, whose 14-season NHL career included 117 games spent with San Jose from 1993 to ‘95. …
Duchense, 44, died apparently of cardiac arrest while training at a Quebec-area gym Monday. … Read full obituary
Brant Parker, whose encouragement of Endicott native Johnny Hart led to the creation of Hart’s comic strip “B.C.” and then to their collaboration on “The Wizard of Id,” died on Sunday in Lynchburg, Va. — eight days after Hart, 76, died in Nineveh. Parker’s death was announced by Creators Syndicate, which distributes both comic strips. … Read full obituary
Former South Australian National Football League and Collingwood footballer Len Fitzgerald has died at the age of 76. … Read full obituary
Australia’s movie and TV community was today mourning the death of actress Justine Saunders.
The Queensland-born Saunders died yesterday morning, the Australia Council: Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Arts (ATSIA) board said in a statement. … Read full obituary
All Things Considered, April 14, 2007 — The jazz vocalist Dakota Staton passed away this week at the age of 76. Staton received critical acclaim for more than two-dozen albums. She was best known for her 1957 hit song “The Late, Late Show.” … Listen to NPR obituary
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