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Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman: A character actor who was spellbinding as tough guys and fools
The Oscar-winning American actor and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead in their home in New Mexico

Thu, 27 Feb, 2025

Former German president Horst Kohler dies aged 81
Former German president Horst Kohler dies aged 81
Horst Kohler, a former head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the country by resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country’s military, has died aged 81.

Sat, 01 Feb, 2025

SHOWBIZ Nolan
Linda Nolan: Pop star whose life spanned decades of dancing and showbusiness
The Irish performer’s family home laid the groundwork for a career in showbusiness spanning decades

Wed, 15 Jan, 2025

Oldest living Olympic medal winner Agnes Keleti dies aged 103
Oldest living Olympic medal winner Agnes Keleti dies aged 103
Agnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, has died aged 103. Keleti died on Thursday morning in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency reported.

Thu, 02 Jan, 2025

Former Estonian president Arnold Ruutel dies aged 96
Former Estonian president Arnold Ruutel dies aged 96
Arnold Ruutel, the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after the restoration of independence, has died at the age of 96.

Wed, 01 Jan, 2025

James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones, one of pop culture’s most recognisable voices, dies aged 93
The American actor was known for being the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in the 1994 film The Lion King

Tue, 10 Sep, 2024

Ismail Haniyeh
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh had lauded October 7 attacks
Mr Haniyeh’s death makes him the latest Hamas official to be killed by Israel since the Hamas-led assault last October

Wed, 31 Jul, 2024

Donald Sutherland death
Donald Sutherland: An enduring legacy of playing both heroes and villains
Canadian actor Donald Sutherland had an enduring legacy of playing both heroes and villains but is best remembered for his various war film roles. From starring in The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Kelly’s Heroes (1970).

Thu, 20 Jun, 2024

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Rob Burrow: The Leeds Rhinos great whose biggest battle was fought off the pitch
The Leeds Rhinos great hung up his boots at the end of the 2017 season and was just getting into his stride as coach of the club’s academy team when the news came that he was suffering from the incurable illness.

Sun, 02 Jun, 2024

Marian Shields Robinson
Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, dies aged 86
Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, has died at the age of 86. Mrs Robinson died peacefully on Friday, the former US first lady and her brother, Craig Robinson, and their families announced in a statement.

Sat, 01 Jun, 2024

Terry Anderson, reporter held captive in Lebanon for years, dies aged 76
Terry Anderson, reporter held captive in Lebanon for years, dies aged 76
American reporter Terry Anderson, who was held hostage for nearly seven years after being snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985, has died aged 76.

Mon, 22 Apr, 2024

Brian Mulroney
Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney dies aged 84
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has died. He was 84. He forged close ties with two Republican US presidents through a sweeping free trade agreement that was once vilified but now celebrated.

Fri, 01 Mar, 2024

Barry John/ Wales
Barry John: Mesmerising fly-half for Wales and the Lions
John was rugby royalty in anyone’s language.

Sun, 04 Feb, 2024

David Soul death
Starsky & Hutch actor David Soul’s 50 years on screen and stage
Actor David Soul was best known for his role as Detective Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the classic crime-solving television series Starsky & Hutch.

Fri, 05 Jan, 2024

Wolfgang Schaeuble, German finance minister during euro debt crisis, dies
Wolfgang Schaeuble, German finance minister during euro debt crisis, dies
Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis more than two decades later, has died aged 81.

Wed, 27 Dec, 2023

Juanita Castro, anti-communist sister of Fidel and Raul, dies aged 90
Juanita Castro, anti-communist sister of Fidel and Raul, dies aged 90
Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raul Castro, who worked with the CIA against their communist government, has died in Miami aged 90. Florida had been her home since shortly after fleeing the island nearly 60 years ago.

Wed, 06 Dec, 2023

England Training 5
Terry Venables: The charismatic manager who so nearly brought football home
The former England boss has died after a long illness. 

Sun, 26 Nov, 2023

Climate scientist Saleemul Huq dies aged 71
Climate scientist Saleemul Huq dies aged 71
Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, has died aged 71.

Mon, 30 Oct, 2023

Life of Friends star Matthew Perry was a tale of two halves
Life of Friends star Matthew Perry was a tale of two halves
The US actor was one of the best-known and best-paid television stars during the decade from 1994 when Friends first aired

Sun, 29 Oct, 2023

Ex-premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, dies aged 68
Ex-premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, dies aged 68
Former premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died of a heart attack aged 68.

Fri, 27 Oct, 2023

Richard Roundtree
Shaft star Richard Roundtree dies aged 81
Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several Shaft films beginning in the early 1970s, has died at the age of 81.

Wed, 25 Oct, 2023

Former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari dies
Former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari dies
The foundation he created for preventing and resolving violent conflicts said he had died on Monday

Mon, 16 Oct, 2023

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - World Film Premiere
Michael Gambon was a titan of the stage and film
The thespian started out life in Dublin during the Second World War and later moved to England with his family

Thu, 28 Sep, 2023

Colombian artist and sculptor Fernando Botero dies aged 91
Colombian artist and sculptor Fernando Botero dies aged 91
Renowned Colombian artist and sculptor Fernando Botero has died aged 91. Lina Botero told the Colombian radio station Caracol that her father died on Friday in Monaco of pneumonia complications.

Fri, 15 Sep, 2023

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‘Godfather of Black Music’ Clarence Avant dies aged 92
Clarence Avant, the manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as “The Godfather of Black Music”, has died at the age of 92.

Mon, 14 Aug, 2023

Tom Jones, creator of longest-running musical The Fantasticks, dies at 95
Tom Jones, creator of longest-running musical The Fantasticks, dies at 95
Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical in history, has died of cancer at the age of 95.

Sun, 13 Aug, 2023

Unbearable Lightness of Being author Milan Kundera dies aged 94 in Paris
Unbearable Lightness of Being author Milan Kundera dies aged 94 in Paris
Kundera’s novel won critical acclaim, earning him a wide readership among Westerners who embraced both his anti-Soviet subversion and the eroticism threaded through many of his works

Wed, 12 Jul, 2023

Leon Gautier, last surviving member of elite French D-Day unit, dies aged 100
Leon Gautier, last surviving member of elite French D-Day unit, dies aged 100
Second World War veteran Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined US and other Allied forces in the 1944 D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died at the age of 100.

Mon, 03 Jul, 2023

Great British Film Reception - Los Angeles
Julian Sands broke through with romance role before developing taste for horror
Human remains found in the San Gabriel mountains in southern California have been confirmed to be those of Julian Sands. Here's a look back at his film career

Wed, 28 Jun, 2023

Obituary: Three-time Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi
Obituary: Three-time Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi
To admirers, the three-time Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was a charismatic statesman who sought to elevate Italy on the world stage.

Mon, 12 Jun, 2023

SOCIAL Women
Tina Turner: Queen of rock ‘n’ roll with a commanding stage presence
Tina Turner secured her status as the queen of rock ‘n’ roll with a catalogue of powerful hits

Wed, 24 May, 2023

All-time NFL great running back and social activist Jim Brown dead at 87
All-time NFL great running back and social activist Jim Brown dead at 87
One of the greatest players in football history and one of the game’s first superstars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1965

Fri, 19 May, 2023

‘Godfather of poker’ Doyle Brunson dies aged 89
‘Godfather of poker’ Doyle Brunson dies aged 89
Doyle Brunson, one of the most influential poker players of all time and a two-time world champion, has died aged 89. Brunson’s agent Brian Balsbaugh posted a statement on Twitter from the family.

Mon, 15 May, 2023

Jerry Springer
Jerry Springer forged a new kind of entertainment with his eponymous TV show
The US broadcaster and politician, who has died aged 79, was a campaign adviser to Robert F. Kennedy, worked as a journalist and served as mayor of Cincinnati in the state of Ohio

Thu, 27 Apr, 2023

Craig Breedlove, daring land-speed recordholder, dies aged 86
Craig Breedlove, daring land-speed recordholder, dies aged 86
Breedlove battled Tom Green and Art Arfons on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to set and then break each other’s speed records during the freewheeling 1960s, a golden era of American motorsports

Fri, 21 Apr, 2023

Czech human rights activist Dana Nemcova dies aged 89
Czech human rights activist Dana Nemcova dies aged 89
Dana Nemcova, one of the leading Czech dissidents and human rights activists from the communist era, has died aged 89.

Tue, 11 Apr, 2023

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Ken Buchanan – a true boxing great who had battles in and out of the ring
Ken Buchanan, who has died aged 77, is among a handful of British names to adorn the International Boxing Hall of Fame but always felt robbed of his true destiny

Sat, 01 Apr, 2023

Pedigree's Feeding Brighter Futures campaign
Paul O’Grady: The comedian and presenter who rose to fame as Lily Savage
The comedian and TV personality first rose to prominence as his drag queen persona Lily Savage in the 1980s and 1990s before going on to host a string of television programmes

Wed, 29 Mar, 2023

Trailblazing transgender politician Georgina Beyer dies aged 65
Trailblazing transgender politician Georgina Beyer dies aged 65
Ms Beyer had previously suffered from kidney failure and underwent a kidney transplant in 2017

Mon, 06 Mar, 2023

Tom Sizemore: The Hollywood hardman who fell from grace
Tom Sizemore: The Hollywood hardman who fell from grace
Tom Sizemore made a name for himself as a quintessential Hollywood hardman, after starring in multiple high-octane thrillers.

Sat, 04 Mar, 2023

Tom Sizemore: The Hollywood hardman who fell from grace
Tom Sizemore: The Hollywood hardman who fell from grace
Tom Sizemore made a name for himself as a quintessential Hollywood hardman, after starring in multiple high-octane thrillers.

Sat, 04 Mar, 2023

Kremlin image-maker turned critic Gleb Pavlovsky dies aged 71
Kremlin image-maker turned critic Gleb Pavlovsky dies aged 71
Gleb Pavlovsky, a Soviet-era dissident who served as a Kremlin political consultant helping burnish President Vladimir Putin’s image, has died aged 71, his family said.

Mon, 27 Feb, 2023

Bobby Charlton/Dickie Davies
Dickie Davies: Much-loved broadcaster who took fringe sports to the masses
Davies died on Sunday at the age of 94. 

Sun, 19 Feb, 2023

East Germany’s last communist leader dies aged 95
East Germany’s last communist leader dies aged 95
Hans Modrow, who served as the former East Germany’s last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country’s first and only free election, has died aged 95.

Sat, 11 Feb, 2023

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