Karl Malden, one of Hollywood's strongest and most versatile supporting actors, who won an Oscar playing his Broadway-originated role as Mitch in "A Streetcar...
Comedy actress Mollie Sugden has died in hospital following a long illness, aged 86. The Yorkshire-born star of popular sitcom Are You Being Served? died in...
Modesto native Harve Presnell, a stage and screen actor whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," died...
Iconic and infamous music business entrepreneur Allen Klein has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's. He was 77. Klein -- a controversial manager whose...
Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair(notes) and a woman were found shot to death Saturday inside a residence in Nashville, police said. Nashville police...
Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense whose record as a leading executive of industry and a chieftain of foreign financial aid was all but erased...
Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95. Mayer's wife, Geraldine, said...
Published: July 8, 2009 John Bachar, a rock climber who inspired awe as a daredevil, condescension as an anachronism and eventually respect as a legend, fell...
[From JR: Many past references to The Mothman Prophecies on DeadCeleb from our Fortean friend Loren Coleman; search the messages to find them.] John Alva Keel...
Sad news for Beatles fans. Gordon Waller, one half of 1960s singing duo Peter & Gordon, passed away early today at age 64, in a hospital near his home in...
Front page of the New York Times (no other info yet, so feel feel to post first news link you find): Breaking News 8:09 PM ET: Broadcast Journalist Walter...
Sue Burns, the majority owner of the San Francisco Giants who was close friends with home run king Barry Bonds, has died. She was 58. Burns died late Saturday...
Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer...
Wednesday, July 22nd-For years rumors have been spread around the water cooler and through email chains that the Taco Bell dog died when they abruptly ended...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Brenda Joyce, a movie actress who played Jane in five "Tarzan" films, has died. She was 92. A family friend, David Ragan, says she...
Essence reports that Michigan-born novelist E. Lynn Harris has died, leaving behind eleven novels about the African American gay community. Before his writing...
John "Marmaduke" Dawson, founding member of the psychedelic country rock band New Riders Of The Purple Sage (NRPS), died Tuesday, July 21 of stomach cancer in...
Alexis Cohen, 25, who appeared in the audition rounds in two seasons of Idol, was struck by a car and killed, the Associated Press reports. Her first...
The Rev. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, the flamboyant minister better known as the Reverend Ike, who preached the blessings of material prosperity to a large...
The charismatic widow of assassinated opposition leader drove dictator from office, but the head of the 'people power' movement left a mixed legacy of...
Naomi Sims, one of the world's first black supermodels, has died at the age of 61 after a battle with breast cancer, according to her family. Alex Erwiah, her...
The author of the Hollywood novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" and the Oscar-winning screenplay for "On the Waterfront" has died in New York. Budd Schulberg was 95....
The US film director John Hughes, who created some of the most famous comedies of the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 59. The director died after a...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of the famed Kennedy clan who devoted much of her life to children's charities, including founding the Special Olympics, died...
Published: August 11, 2009 Merlyn Mantle, who for 43 years lived through the glory and the tumult of being married to the New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle,...
Les Paul, whose innovations with the electric guitar and studio technology made him one of the most important figures in recorded music, has died, according to...
Margaret Bush Wilson, who died Tuesday at age 90, was remembered by her family as an woman whose unassuming manner belied a strong passion for social justice...
Les Paul, the virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar and recording studio innovations changed the course of 20th-century popular ...
Ruth Ford, a onetime member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre who appeared in numerous Broadway plays and in films and television, has died. She was 98. Ford...
Washington's 'Prince of Darkness' Broke High-Stakes Scoops By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:50 PM Robert D. Novak,...
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