Jan 10, 2008 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more than...
Sir Edmund Hillary, the beekeeper from Auckland who conquered Mount Everest and went on to become one of the greatest adventurers of the 20th century, has died...
Skating champion Bowman found dead LOS ANGELES - Christopher Bowman, the former U.S. figure skating champion dubbed "Bowman the Showman" for his flair on the...
FULLERTON, Calif. -- Carl Karcher, who turned a lone hot dog cart in Los Angeles into the Carl's Jr. fast-food chain, died Friday at a Fullerton hospital, five...
Johnny Podres, who became the most beloved 'Bum' of all pitching Brooklyn to its only World Series title before the team moved to LA, died Sunday at Glens...
Maila Nurmi LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She...
TMZ has learned actor Brad Renfro is dead. The 25-year-old actor was found dead at his Los Angeles home this morning. The cause of death has not been...
PALM SPRINGS, California (AP) -- Costume designer Bill Belew, who created Elvis Presley's jumpsuits and the tight black leather outfit he wore on his 1968...
Chess genius Bobby Fischer, from American hero to paranoid fugitive REYKJAVIK (AFP) — Bobby Fischer, who died on Thursday aged 64, was a high school dropout...
'Brady Bunch' actor dies at 84 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has...
Suzanne Pleshette, known as 'Newhart's' wife, dies in Los Angeles Associated Press - January 20, 2008 1:14 AM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - Suzanne Pleshette has died....
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Published: January 19, 2008 Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the National Football League's Rams for nearly three decades and the first...
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Actress Lois Nettleton passed away Thursday, Jan. 18, 2008 in Woodland Hills at age 79 due to lung cancer. Starting her career under the stage name 'Lydia...
Actress Suzanne Pleshette, best remembered in her motion picture and television acting career for for having played comedian Bob Newhart's wife 'Emily' on the...
Guitarist and songwriter John Stewart passed away on Sat. Jan. 19, 2008, due to complications from a stroke. He is best remembered as a member of the folk...
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Christian Brando, the troubled eldest son of the late famed actor Marlon Brando, has died from pneumonia at a Los Angeles...
TV star Allport killed by avalanche TV actor Christopher Allport has been named as the third victim killed by the snowstorms roaring towards Southern...
LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley Passed Away According to Utah newspaper Deseret News, LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley passed away this evening around...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Hundreds of mourners, many sobbing, gathered Monday at Athens' cathedral to file past the remains of Archbishop Christodoulos, the first...
President Suharto, 86; Indonesian ruler left mixed legacy of prosperity and untold deaths JAKARTA, INDONESIA -- Former President Suharto, an army general who ...
Mystery writer Truman, daughter of president, dies KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman who became...
Dwight Arlington Hemion, a television director and producer best known for his musical specials who won 18 Emmy Awards and was nominated a record 47 times,...
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Earl Butz, the U.S. secretary of agriculture who was forced to resign after telling an obscenity-laced racist joke in 1976, died...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Actress Shell Kepler, who for years played the gossipy nurse Amy Vining on the TV soap opera "General Hospital," has died. She was 49....
Last Iwo Jima flag veteran dies A soldier believed to be the last survivor of a group of marines pictured raising the US flag on the Japanese island of Iwo...
LONDON, England (AP) -- Actor Barry Morse, who played a detective pursuing the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble in 1960s TV series "The Fugitive," has died,...
[Not just guru to the Beatles, but to many, many high-profile celebs...] Beatles' mystical guru dies THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a...
Ruth Stafford Peale, who with her late husband, Norman Vincent Peale, co-founded the global inspirational organization Guideposts, died Wednesday. She was 101....
Former ABC News Correspondent Killed In Skiing Accident KEYSTONE, Colo. -- Former ABC News correspondent John McWethy died Wednesday after a skiing accident at...