Dead Celebrity Alert

Fannie Lee Chaney, a $28-a-week bakery worker who became a target of racial hatred herself after her son James Chaney and two other civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964, died last week in Willingboro, N.J. She was 84. … Read full obituary

Gretchen Wyler, a veteran Broadway actress who enjoyed a second career in films and television and went on to become a leading animal-rights activist, has died. She was 75. … Read full obituary

Former Australian Test all-rounder Ron Archer has died of lung cancer at the age of 73. … Read full obituary

Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the “Tonight Show” and various game shows, has died. He was 76.

Reilly died Friday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his partner, Patrick Hughes, told the New York Times. … Read full obituary

International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn died in a Cape Town hospital on Sunday at the age of 57. … Read full obituary

Harold Froehlich, the innovative Minnesota engineer who helped design the deep-diving mini-sub used to explore the Titanic, has died at the age of 84. … Read full obituary

The roll call of Don Bradman’s 1948 “Invincibles” cricket team is down to five following the death of Bill Johnston at the age of 85. …

Johnston played 40 Tests between 1947 and 1955, taking 160 wickets at less than 24 runs apiece. … Read full obituary

Stanley L. Miller, a scientist whose spectacular discovery as a young graduate student pioneered the study of the origin of life on earth, died Sunday at a hospital near his home in National City, Calif. He was 77. … Read full obituary

Roy DeForest, a nationally renowned artist and professor who was a founding member of what was described as the “California funk” art movement, has died. He was 77. … Read full obituary

Prominent Melbourne lawyer Peter Hayes, QC, has died in an Adelaide hospital, 11 days after being found unconscious in an Adelaide hotel room.

The high flying QC, who represented Steve Vizard’s former bookkeeper Roy Hilliard, had been in a coma in the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s intensive care unit after being found unconscious in a hotel on May 11. … Read full obituary

Movie actor Carl Wright, who began his career as a tap dancer and comedian, has died of cancer at age 75, his family confirmed on Sunday. …

Wright’s film credits include “Barbershop,” “Soul Food” and “Big Momma’s House.” … Read full obituary

Australian golf has lost its godfather after fiery trailblazer Norman Von Nida passed away peacefully aged 93 at his Gold Coast nursing home. … Read full obituary

A minute’s silence was held this morning at the Le Mans circuit in memory of Australian Jack Findlay, who passed away last night. … Read full obituary

The Reverend Martin Luther King’s eldest child has died.

Yolanda King was a stage and television actress. She died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, California. … Read full obituary

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73. … Read full obituary

Obit to come.

Captured and held hostage in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

Jimmy Hall, a fearless man of adventure who had just been named the host of Discovery Channel’s popular series “Shark Week,” died in a base-jumping accident in Canada. … Read full obituary

Bernard Gordon, a screenwriter blacklisted during Hollywood’s anti-communist crusade in the 1950s, has died at the age of 88. Gordon died on Friday at his Hollywood Hills home after a long battle with cancer, according to his daughter, Ellen Gordon. … Read full obituary

ST. LOUIS — Gino Pariani, who played for the United States on the 1950 team that produced one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history, has died. He was 79. …

Pariani, a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, also played on the U.S. Olympic team in 1948. … Read full obituary

Former Los Angeles Times editor during the 1970s and 80s.

One of the first U.S. astronauts and only the fifth American in space, Walter Schirra, has died at age 84. The U.S. space agency NASA says he had been suffering from cancer, but has provided no further details. … Read full obituary

BALTIMORE — Gordon Scott, a handsome, muscular actor who portrayed an “intelligent and nice” Tarzan in 1950s movies, has died. He was 80. … Read full obituary

Abe Weissbrodt, an attorney whose career included work at the Nuremberg war crime trials, died in a Washington hospital at age 93. He succumbed to pneumonia April 16. … Read full obituary