One-of-a-kind genre-bending musician Leon Redbone dies at 69
Leon Redbone, the blues and jazz artist whose growly voice, Panama hat and cultivated air of mystery made him seem like a character out of the ragtime era or the Depression-era Mississippi Delta, died Thursday at age 69. No details about his death were provided. Redbone's ...
Claus von Bulow, once accused of murdering heiress wife, dies at 92
Claus von Bulow, the Danish-born socialite who avoided a 30-year prison sentence in the 1980s after he was retried and acquitted of attempting to murder his wealthy wife with insulin injections, has died. He was 92. He died on Saturday at his home in London, ...
Ex-Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga, who shaped island's early independence, dies at 89
Edward Seaga, a former Jamaican prime minister who shaped the island's post-independence politics and cultural life, died Tuesday at 89. Seaga's death was announced on Twitter by Prime Minister Andrew Holness. Seaga, Jamaica's prime minister from 1980 until 1989, was the only remaining member of the ...
Bill Buckner, forever known for costly error in 1986 World Series, dies at 69
Bill Buckner was an All-Star and batting champion, a gritty gamer who was welcome on any team. A reliable fielder, too. But a little grounder forever changed his legacy. Buckner, who made one of the biggest blunders in baseball history when he let Mookie Wilson's trickler roll ...
Japanese film director Yasuo Furuhata, known for his work with the late actor Ken Takakura, died of pneumonia on May 20 in Tokyo, Toei Co. said Sunday. He was 84. After joining the film production company, Furuhata, a native of Nagano Prefecture, marked his debut ...
Legendary Packers quarterback Bart Starr, MVP of first two Super Bowls, dies at 85
Bart Starr was an ordinary quarterback until teaming with Vince Lombardi on the powerhouse Green Bay Packers teams that ruled the 1960s and ushered in the NFL as America's most popular sport. The quarterback's graceful throws helped turn a run-heavy league into a passing spectacle, ...
Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who brought order to the universe by helping discover and classify subatomic particles, has died at the age of 89. Gell-Mann died Friday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His death was confirmed by the Santa Fe ...
Tomonori Toyofuku, a sculptor known for his abstract works featuring many oval holes, died Saturday at a hospital in the city of Fukuoka, according to his assistant. He was 94. Born in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Toyofuku learned woodcarving under the late sculptor Chodo Tominaga after ...
I.M. Pei, the pre-eminent U.S. architect who forged a distinct brand of modern building design with his sharp lines and stark structures, has died in New York, his sons' architecture firm said Thursday. He was 102 years old. From the controversial Louvre Pyramid in Paris ...
Australian 'larrikin' ex-Prime Minister Bob Hawke dies at 89
Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker with a "larrikin' streak who served as Australian prime minister from 1983 to 1991, died on Thursday aged 89, his family said. "Today we lost Bob Hawke, a great Australian — many would say the greatest Australian ...
Machiko Kyo, internationally acclaimed Japanese actress, dies at 95
Actress Machiko Kyo, who starred in a number of films by legendary Japanese directors including Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon," has died of heart failure, Toho Co. said Tuesday. She was 95. Kyo, whose real name was Motoko Yano, died on Sunday at a Tokyo hospital, according ...
The very name "Doris Day," cheerful as a sunrise on a studio lot, was an invention. The beloved singer and actress, who died Monday at 97, was a contemporary of Marilyn Monroe but seemed to exist in a lost and parallel world of sexless sex ...
