WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Harry Browne, best-selling author and two-time Libertarian Party presidential nominee, died in his home in Franklin,...
COLUMBIA, Tenn. - North Carolina native James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, a former NASCAR driver who once won a race at Daytona International Speedway, died...
Jack Wild, whose angelic, cheeky face shot him to stardom and almost an Oscar as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film Oliver!, has died from cancer aged 53 after...
Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett dies Kirby Puckett died Monday, a day after the Hall of Fame outfielder had a stroke at his Arizona home, a hospital spokeswoman...
Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, dies of lung cancer Tuesday, March 7, 2006; Posted: 9:26 a.m. EST (14:26 GMT) WHITE PLAINS, New York(AP) -- Dana Reeve,...
Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black...
Profumo Dead; Liaison with Prostitute Nearly Brought Down British Government John Profumo, a former British Cabinet minister whose liaison with a prostitute...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Slobodan Milosevic, branded the "butcher of the Balkans" for conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart in the 1990s, was found dead in his...
Bernie Geoffrion, Who Popularized the Slap Shot, Is Dead at 75 By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Published: March 13, 2006 Bernie Geoffrion, the Montreal Canadiens' Hall of...
Maureen Stapleton, an Oscar-winning actress who created a gallery of pugnacious but vulnerable heroines on Broadway, in films and on television and who put an...
Calif. Plane Crash Kills Ex-TV Host, Wife By DAISY NGUYEN, SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A former TV game show host and his wife were killed Monday morning when their...
John Falotico, Detective Who Arrested Berkowitz, Dies at 82 Paul Hosefros/The New York Times Detective John M. Falotico, in white shirt, leading David R. ...
Roller derby legend Ann Calvello dead at 76 Ann Calvello, a grand doyenne of roller derby and a Bay Area icon, died Tuesday in a Peninsula hospital after a...
Robert C. Baker, Who Reshaped Chicken Dinner, Dies at 84 E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Reprints Save Article By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: March 16, 2006 Robert...
Oleg Cassini; Created Jackie Kennedy's Look Oleg Cassini, 92, the dapper descendant of Russian aristocrats who married a movie star, designed clothes for a...
Oleg Cassini, a son of impoverished Italian and Russian nobility who achieved fame and wealth as a fabulously successful couturier based in New York, designing...
Longtime ABC News Anchor Bill Beutel Dies at 75 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: March 19, 2006 Filed at 3:25 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- Bill Beutel, the...
Kolkata tortoise, Clive's pet, dies at 250 years Thu Mar 23, 9:00 AM ET KOLKATA (Reuters) - A giant aldabra tortoise thought to be around 250 years old has...
Paul A. Flaherty, a computer engineer who helped create the pioneering AltaVista online search engine, has died. He was 42. Flaherty died March 16 of a heart...
Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the...
Erma Ora James Byrd 1917-2006 It is with great sadness that the Office of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd announces that Senator Byrd's wife of nearly 69 years,...
20,000 Leagues Director Dies Richard Fleischer, 89, who directed the 1954 sci-fi movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, died on March 25, 2006. The film is a...
HOMESTEAD, Fla. Mar 26, 2006 (AP) — Paul Dana was an up-and-coming rookie driver living his dream, a former motorsports journalist who was hours away Sunday...
Outback artist Pro Hart has died at his Broken Hill home after battling motor neurone disease. The 77-year-old was diagnosed with the debilitating disease that...
Lyn Nofziger, 81, Irreverent Adviser to Reagan, Is Dead LOS ANGELES, March 27 — Lyn Nofziger, the cigar-chomping former newspaperman who served as spokesman...
Born: San Francisco, 1917 Educated: Harvard Military: Entered U.S. Army in 1941 Politics: Became chair of California Republican Party in 1962 Washington:...
Hal Coyote, 1, Dies; Romped in the Park Hal, the coyote who led park rangers and police officers on a two-day chase in Central Park last month, died on...
American superstar Gene Pitney has been found dead aged 65 in his bed in a Cardiff hotel. Pitney - who found fame with Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa - was ...
Jim Clack, 58, Steelers and Giants Lineman, Dies NEW YORK TIMES Published: April 11, 2006 Jim Clack, an offensive lineman who played 11 seasons in the National...
Pointer, the youngest of the Grammy-winning trio the Pointer Sisters, who scored hits with "I'm So Excited" and "Jump (For My Love)," died of an undisclosed...