Georges Moustaki, who penned for Piaf, dies
Georges Moustaki, an Egyptian-born composer, singer and poet who wrote songs for Edith Piaf and other French stars, has died at age 79.
Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93
Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi ...
Publicist: Founding member of The Doors dies at 74
Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy ...
Valtr Komarek, Czech leftist politician dies at 82
Valtr Komarek's son says the left-wing Czech politician and economist who helped overthrow the country's communist regime has died at age 82. His son ...
Geza Vermes, renowned Jesus scholar, dies at 88
Geza Vermes, a translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and renowned for books exploring the Jewish background of Jesus, has died at 88. He died on ...
Patriarch of fashion brand Missoni dies in Italy
Ottavio Missoni, the patriarch of the iconic fashion brand of zigzag-patterned knitwear that helped launch Italian ready-to-wear and turn Milan into ...
British director Bryan Forbes dies at age 86
British film director Bryan Forbes, whose work includes the original 1970s horror classic "The Stepford Wives," has died at age 86 after a long ...
Special effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92
When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by "King Kong" that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his ...
Italy's ex-premier Giulio Andreotti dies at 94
Giulio Andreotti personified the nation he helped shape, the good and the bad. One of Italy's most important postwar figures, he helped draft the ...
Belgian Nobel Prize winner de Duve dies at 95
A Belgian university says that biochemist Christian de Duve, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1974, has died in an act of ...
Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98
Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States and performed until his mid-90s, has died. He was 98
ATP chairman Brad Drewett dies at 54
Brad Drewett, a former tour player who led the ATP as executive chairman and helped increase prize money at Grand Slam tournaments, died Friday after ...
One of oldest concentration camp survivors dies
An Austrian organization that tracks the fate of Nazi concentration camp inmates says that one of the oldest known survivors has died aged 107.
Early Hollywood teen star Deanna Durbin dies at 91
Deanna Durbin, the teen sensation whose sparkling soprano voice and girl-next-door looks made her a star during Hollywood's Golden Age, has died, a ...
Shanghai bishop who spent years in prison dies
Catholic news service AsiaNews says Shanghai bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian has died in China. He was 97. Jin worked to improve tense relations between ...
Leading Lebanese caricaturist Pierre Sadek dies
Lebanon's leading caricaturist Pierre Sadek who was famous for his decades of work poking fun at politicians died on Wednesday. He was 76.
Only Scotsman to have captained England dies
Mike Denness, the only Scotsman to have captained England's cricket team, has died. He was 72. Kent County Cricket Club, where Denness played and had ...
Pink Floyd album designer Storm Thorgerson dies
English graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, whose eye-popping album art for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin encapsulated the spirit of 1970s psychedelia, ...
Actor who played choked Death Star commander dies
Character actor Richard LeParmentier, who as a young Death Star commander learned the hard way that Darth Vader brooks no disrespect, died Tuesday.
London Symphony conductor Colin Davis dies at 85
Colin Davis, the former principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and one of Britain's elder statesmen of classical music, has died at 85.
Rock and soul songwriter George Jackson dies at 68
Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.
Polio vaccine developer Koprowski dies
Dr. Hilary Koprowski, the Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, died this week at his Philadelphia ...
Leader of Egypt's Jewish community dies at 82
The leader of Egypt's dwindling and aging Jewish community, known for her tireless work preserving synagogues and a once-sprawling Jewish cemetery, ...
Ex-AP writer McArthur, who covered Vietnam, dies
Former Associated Press writer George McArthur, who was the quintessential foreign correspondent as he reported from the boulevards of Paris to the ...
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