D. August 18, 2008
Author Ralph M. Kovel, known best for his pricing guides for collectibles and antiques, has died in Cleveland at the age of 88, his wife says. The man behind such published works as “Kovels’ American Silver Marks” and “Kovels’ Bid, Buy and Sell Online” died last month of complications of a broken hip…
June 2, 1915 - May 7, 2008
Margaret Yelding was a circus artiste born and bred to the travelling world, and one of the longest serving trapeze artistes in the world.
She was born Margaret Fossett in 1915, into one of the oldest circus families in the world. She was one of the four children of John Fossett, the original clown Comical Jacko, who was one of eleven children of the original circus proprietor “Sir” Robert Fossett. John Fossett’s mother Maria was one of the twelve children of George and Annie Proctor, from a family of circus and fairground folk. …
BEIJING, China (AP) — A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.
The 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported. … Read full story
Lady Nancy Fairfax died on Saturday, aged 90, after a long illness.
Lady Fairfax was the wife of late businessman, pastoralist, benefactor and charitable worker Sir Vincent, and mother of John B. Fairfax, a director of Fairfax Media. … 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
Nikki Bacharach, daughter of songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson, committed suicide, Bacharach and Dickinson said in a statement Friday.
Nikki Bacharach, 40, suffered from Asperger’s Disorder, a form of autism. She killed herself Thursday night at her condo in Thousand Oaks, said Linda Dozoretz, a spokeswoman for the family. … Read full obituary
LOS ANGELES — Spoony Singh, who once said he founded the world famous Hollywood Wax Museum to give tourists who couldn’t find any real celebrities in Hollywood the next best thing, has died. He was 83. … Read full obituary
Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of President John F. Kennedy and widow of actor Peter Lawford; in New York.
Robert C. Baker, an agricultural scientist who looked at chickens and envisioned chicken nuggets, not to mention chicken hotdogs, helping transform what is now a $29 billion poultry industry, died on Monday at his home in North Lansing, N.Y. He was 84. … Read full obituary
Joseph Waksberg, who helped invent a widely used method of conducting phone surveys so they efficiently reach people with unlisted as well as listed phone numbers, has died. He was 90. … Read full obituary
Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose condition ignited a protracted legal struggle and a national debate over end-of-life issues, died today at a Florida hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed under a court order. … Read full story
Richard Coleman, a founder of the Florida chapter of the Sierra Club who was as passionate an outdoorsman as he was a protector of the outdoors, died Friday in a head-on airboat collision. He was 59. … Read full obituary
Sydney Omarr, the astrologer to the stars who came to write horoscopes that appear in more than 200 newspapers, has died. He was 76. … Read full obituary
Shirley Nolan, who became world-famous for establishing an international bone marrow registry after losing her seven-year-old son to a rare disease 22 years ago, has committed suicide.
Incapacitated with Parkinson’s disease, Ms Nolan, 60, killed herself at home in Adelaide on Sunday night. She was alone.
A member of the South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society, Ms Nolan wanted her death to be used to bolster the campaign for national euthanasia legislation.
“I hope today I can end the horror my life has become,” she wrote in a letter released the day after her death. “Here today, my last day, I am an advocate of death.”
In the late 1970s, Ms Nolan won massive international support for her tireless efforts to save her son Anthony’s life. The boy had been diagnosed with a rare and debilitating condition that left his immune system unable to fight infection. … Read full obituary
Ann Landers, who was reputedly the most widely read columnist in the world and famously urged her readers to “wake up and smell the coffee,” died Saturday at the age of 83, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The Tribune, which had been her home base since 1987, said she died in her Chicago home of multiple myeloma — a malignant tumor of the bone marrow.
Her real name was Esther “Eppie” Pauline Friedman Lederer, and according to the Tribune her column was for 40 years the world’s best read and most widely syndicated — carried by 1,200 newspapers. …
Dispensing guidance that ranged from the practical to the expert and covering topics stretching from sex to religion, her column reached an estimated 90 million people daily.
Lederer along with twin sister Pauline Phillips writing as “Abigail Van Buren” under the “Dear Abby” flag, dominated the advice-giving genre in U.S. newspapers during most of the last half of the 20th century and beyond. … Read full obituary
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - An American man who ran a private animal sanctuary in remote northern Thailand was fatally shot by assailants who also killed a 3-year-old girl and three sanctuary employees, police said Saturday.
William Deters, 63, and the other victims, all Thai, were killed late Friday at Deters’ Highland Farm and Wildlife Refuge, police said, citing a Dutch visitor who said he hid from the attackers. They said the victims had bullet wounds in their foreheads, suggesting execution-style slayings.
The 35-acre farm is 27 miles south of Mae Sot, a major trading post town on Thailand’s border with Myanmar. The sanctuary was founded in 1991 and became a refuge for abandoned, mistreated or injured gibbons.
The border area has security problems because of guerrillas who cross over from Myanmar, but police speculated a personal dispute may have been the motive. … Read full obituary
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