WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her “Superman” husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44. … Read full obituary
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Mr Hunter, who died yesterday of prostate cancer aged 62, was a founding father of Greenpeace, and the most influential of all its early leaders. A radical young columnist on the Vancouver Sun newspaper, he had volunteered in 1969 to sail to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska in a barely seaworthy charter boat to try to stop the US testing an atomic bomb. … Read full obituary
Julia Child, whose chirping words of encouragement and unpretentious style brought French cuisine to American homes through her television series and books, died Friday. She was 91. … Read full obituary
Jane Barbe, whose voice was familiar to millions of telephone users across the country who ever dialed a wrong number or had to “Please listen to the following options” in a voice-mail system, died July 18 in Roswell, Ga., of complications from cancer. She was 74. … Read full obituary
SINGAPORE — Neurosurgeons separated 29-year-old Iranian twins joined at the head Tuesday after two days of delicate surgery, but both sisters died shortly after their parting.
Ladan Bijani died first, then her sister Lelah died hours later, said a nurse involved in the surgery. … Read full story
WINDHOEK, Namibia, July 5 — N!xau, the diminutive bushman catapulted from the remote sandswept reaches of the Kalahari Desert to international stardom in the film ”The Gods Must Be Crazy” has died, police officials said Saturday. … Read full obituary
ST. PETERSBURG — On a hot day in August 1952, George George climbed onto the roof of his downtown restaurant and wrote an invitation:
“Coffee Free Welcome Saucers” … Read full obituary
Fred Rogers, who gently invited millions of children to be his neighbor as host of the public television show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” for more than 30 years, died of cancer early Thursday. He was 74. … Read full obituary
Douglas Herrick, who gets both the credit and the blame for perhaps the tackiest totem of the American West, the jackalope — half bunny, half antelope and 100 percent tourist trap — died on Jan. 6 in Casper, Wyo. He was 82. … Read full obituary
Dr. Hugh Francis Hicks, the dentist whose Mount Vernon Place office was home to what is thought to be the world’s foremost collection of electric light bulbs, died yesterday of a heart attack at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Roland Park resident was 79.
His enthusiasm for glowing glass never exhausted, and through the years he amassed a collection that included a bulb from the original torch of the Statue of Liberty and headlamps from the Mercedes-Benz limousines of Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler.
Dr. Hicks regularly told visitors to his free, private museum that his was the only collection in the world containing an uninterrupted history of the light bulb, including 15 or 20 bulbs that Thomas Alva Edison probably held in his hands 122 years ago. … Read full obituary
“Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, the cousin of Jackie Kennedy Onassis whose squalid, eccentric life in the Hamptons was captured in the cult 1975 documentary “Grey Gardens,” has died at age 84. … Read full obituary
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