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Obit-David Johansen
David Johansen, singer from seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies aged 75
David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego Buster Poindexter, has died aged 75.

Sat, 01 Mar, 2025

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cisse, pioneer of African cinema, dies aged 84
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cisse, pioneer of African cinema, dies aged 84
Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cisse, a pioneer of African cinema with a career spanning 50 years, has died aged 84, Malian television announced. The cause of Cisse’s death was not announced.

Wed, 19 Feb, 2025

Yrjo Kukkapuro, whose postmodern chairs graced waiting rooms and museums, dies
Yrjo Kukkapuro, whose postmodern chairs graced waiting rooms and museums, dies
Yrjo Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms, offices and living rooms across Finland as well as collections in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, ...

Sun, 09 Feb, 2025

Teri Garr, offbeat comic actress of Young Frankenstein and Tootsie, dies aged 79
Teri Garr, offbeat comic actress of Young Frankenstein and Tootsie, dies aged 79
Garr died on Tuesday 'surrounded by family and friends'

Tue, 29 Oct, 2024

Mitzi Gaynor
Mitzi Gaynor, star of South Pacific, dies aged 93
Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actress who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of South Pacific and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, has died aged 93.

Thu, 17 Oct, 2024

Albert Ruddy
Albert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of The Godfather, dies aged 94
Albert S Ruddy, a colourful, Canadian-born producer and writer who won Oscars for The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby, developed the raucous prison-sports comedy The Longest Yard and helped create the hit sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, has died aged 94.

Tue, 28 May, 2024

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Composer Jan A P Kaczmarek, Oscar winner for Finding Neverland, dies aged 71
Polish composer Jan A P Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the musical score of Finding Neverland, has died aged 71. Kaczmarek’s death was announced by Poland’s Music Foundation, which had been informed of his death by the composer’s wife.

Tue, 21 May, 2024

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Composer Jan A P Kaczmarek, Oscar winner for Finding Neverland, dies aged 71
Polish composer Jan A P Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the musical score of Finding Neverland, has died aged 71. Kaczmarek’s death was announced by Poland’s Music Foundation, which had been informed of his death by the composer’s wife.

Tue, 21 May, 2024

Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dies aged 92
Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dies aged 92
A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died on Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario

Tue, 14 May, 2024

US sculptor Richard Serra, the ‘poet of iron’, dies aged 85
US sculptor Richard Serra, the ‘poet of iron’, dies aged 85
American artist and sculptor Richard Serra has died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of 85.

Wed, 27 Mar, 2024

Ang Phula Sherpa, Dr Beck Weathers & David Breashears attending the "Everest" American Premiere held at the Chinese Theatre in L
Everest filmmaker David Breashears dies aged 68
Mountaineer, author and filmmaker David Breashears, who co-directed and co-produced a 1998 IMAX documentary about climbing Mount Everest, has died aged 68, his manager confirmed.

Sat, 16 Mar, 2024

Prominent K-pop composer found dead in South Korea
Prominent K-pop composer found dead in South Korea
Lee Ho-yang, a prominent K-pop composer and producer better known by his professional name of Shinsadong Tiger, has been found dead, South Korean police said. The Seoul Metropolitan Police said Lee, 40, was discovered dead at his Seoul studio.

Fri, 23 Feb, 2024

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Early rock ‘n’ roll drummer Jimmy Van Eaton dies aged 86
JM “Jimmy” Van Eaton, a pioneering rock n’ roll drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, has died aged 86, a family member said.

Sat, 10 Feb, 2024

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Early rock ‘n’ roll drummer Jimmy Van Eaton dies aged 86
JM “Jimmy” Van Eaton, a pioneering rock n’ roll drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, has died aged 86, a family member said.

Sat, 10 Feb, 2024

Fellini’s muse and Italian film star Sandra Milo dies aged 90
Fellini’s muse and Italian film star Sandra Milo dies aged 90
Sandra Milo, an icon of Italian cinema who played a key role in Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 and later became his muse, has died aged 90.

Mon, 29 Jan, 2024

Fellini’s muse and Italian film star Sandra Milo dies aged 90
Fellini’s muse and Italian film star Sandra Milo dies aged 90
Sandra Milo, an icon of Italian cinema who played a key role in Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 and later became his muse, has died aged 90.

Mon, 29 Jan, 2024

One Life To Live actor Kamar de los Reyes dies aged 56
One Life To Live actor Kamar de los Reyes dies aged 56
Kamar de los Reyes, a television, film and voice actor best known for playing a gang member-turned-police officer in the soap One Life To Live and a villain in the video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, has died in Los Angeles aged 56, his family ...

Mon, 25 Dec, 2023

Influential US TV producer Norman Lear dies aged 101
Influential US TV producer Norman Lear dies aged 101
Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionised US prime time television with shows such as All In The Family and Maude, has died aged 101.

Wed, 06 Dec, 2023

Frances Sturnhagen
Frances Sternhagen, Tony Award-winning actor, dies at 93
Frances Sternhagen, the veteran character actor and Tony Award winner, has died aged 93. Sternhagen died peacefully of natural causes in her home in Washington, DC, her son, John Carlin, said in a statement posted to Instagram.

Wed, 29 Nov, 2023

Charlie Munger
Warren Buffett ally Charlie Munger dies aged 99
Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse, has died aged 99.

Wed, 29 Nov, 2023

Acclaimed US photographer Larry Fink dies aged 82
Acclaimed US photographer Larry Fink dies aged 82
Acclaimed photographer Larry Fink, whose work ranged from family portraits and political satire to insights into working class lives and the showbusiness elite, has died aged 82.

Wed, 29 Nov, 2023

Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies aged 88
Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies aged 88
Jerry Moss, a music industry giant who co-founded A&M Records with Herb Alpert and rose from a Los Angeles garage to the heights of success with hits by Alpert, The Police, the Carpenters and hundreds of other performers, has died aged 88.

Wed, 16 Aug, 2023

Soprano Renata Scotto dies aged 89
Soprano Renata Scotto dies aged 89
Renata Scotto, a soprano of uncommon intensity who became a successful director after her singing career, has died in her home town of Savona, Italy, aged 89.

Wed, 16 Aug, 2023

Paul Reubens
Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies of cancer aged 70
Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon, has died aged 70. Reubens died on Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement.

Mon, 31 Jul, 2023

Brazilian composer and pianist Joao Donato dies aged 88
Brazilian composer and pianist Joao Donato dies aged 88
Brazilian composer and pianist Joao Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, has died aged 88. His death was announced on his verified Instagram account.

Mon, 17 Jul, 2023

A mural on a Kingman building eulogizing the famous Route 66, Kingman, Arizona
Route 66 TV star George Maharis dies aged 94
US actor George Maharis, who starred in the hit television series Route 66, has died aged 94. Maharis’ friend and caretaker Marc Bahan said in a Facebook post that the actor died on Wednesday.

Mon, 29 May, 2023

Austrian actor Helmut Berger dies aged 78
Austrian actor Helmut Berger dies aged 78
Austrian-born actor Helmut Berger, a European movie star in the 1960s and 1970s who rose to prominence with roles in films by Italian director Luchino Visconti, has died aged 78.

Fri, 19 May, 2023

Todd Haimes, who led theatre company to Broadway, dies aged 66
Todd Haimes, who led theatre company to Broadway, dies aged 66
Todd Haimes, who led the Roundabout Theatre Company from an off-off-Broadway company teetering on the edge of bankruptcy into a major theatrical force with works on five stages and dozens of Tony Awards, has died aged 66.

Thu, 20 Apr, 2023

Record executive who signed Madonna, Seymour Stein, dies aged 80
Record executive who signed Madonna, Seymour Stein, dies aged 80
Seymour Stein, the brash, prescient and highly successful founder of Sire Records who helped launched the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and many others, has died at the age of 80.

Mon, 03 Apr, 2023

Novelist and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe dies aged 88
Novelist and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe dies aged 88
Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan’s post-war occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has died aged 88.

Mon, 13 Mar, 2023

Lynyrd Skynyrd founder member Gary Rossington dies
Lynyrd Skynyrd founder member Gary Rossington dies
Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s last surviving original member who also helped to found the group, has died at the age of 71. No cause of death was given.

Mon, 06 Mar, 2023

Toyota founder’s son, who led global growth, dies aged 97
Toyota founder’s son, who led global growth, dies aged 97
Shoichiro Toyoda, who as a son of the company’s founder oversaw Toyota’s expansion into international markets, has died aged 97.

Wed, 15 Feb, 2023

Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough, who played news anchor in Murphy Brown, dies aged 86
Charles Kimbrough, a Tony and Emmy-nominated actor who played a strait-laced news anchor opposite Candice Bergen on Murphy Brown, has died. The 86-year-old died on January 11 in Culver City, California.

Sun, 05 Feb, 2023

Milan, Italy. 31st Mar, 2016. Tom Verlaine of the American rock band Television, performs live at Live Music Club Trezzo Sull'Ad
Guitarist Tom Verlaine, co-founder of Television, dies aged 73
Tom Verlaine, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal proto-punk band Television who influenced many bands while playing at ultra-cool New York music venue CBGB alongside the Ramones, Patti Smith and Talking Heads, has died aged 73.

Sun, 29 Jan, 2023

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - OCTOBER 29: Gregory Allen Howard arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Focus Features' 'Harriet'
Remember The Titans screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard dies aged 70
Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard, who skilfully adapted stories of historical black figures in Remember The Titans, starring Denzel Washington, Ali with Will Smith, and Harriet with Cynthia Erivo, has died at the age of 70.

Sat, 28 Jan, 2023

Obit Frank Galati
Tony Award-winner Frank Galati dies aged 79
Frank Galati, an actor, director, teacher and adapter who was a pivotal figure in Chicago’s theatre community and a two-time Tony Award winner, has died aged 79, according to Steppenwolf Theatre.

Tue, 03 Jan, 2023

Obit Frank Galati
Tony Award-winner Frank Galati dies aged 79
Frank Galati, an actor, director, teacher and adapter who was a pivotal figure in Chicago’s theatre community and a two-time Tony Award winner, has died aged 79, according to Steppenwolf Theatre.

Tue, 03 Jan, 2023

Something To Talk About songwriter Shirley Eikhard dies aged 67
Something To Talk About songwriter Shirley Eikhard dies aged 67
Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who supplied songs for Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, Chet Atkins and found lasting fame penning Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy-winning 1991 hit Something To Talk About, has died aged 67.

Sat, 17 Dec, 2022

Obit Robert Clary
Robert Clary, last of the Hogan’s Heroes stars, dies aged 96
Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, has died aged 96.

Thu, 17 Nov, 2022

Italy Gal Costa Obit
Brazilian singer Gal Costa dies aged 77
Singer Gal Costa, a star in the Tropicalia and Brazilian popular music movements who enjoyed a nearly six-decade career, has died aged 77. Her death was confirmed by a press representative, who provided no further information.

Wed, 09 Nov, 2022

France Obit Soulages
Famed French painter of black Pierre Soulages dies aged 102
French painter Pierre Soulages, a star of post-Second World War European abstract art famed for his use of black, has died aged 102, according to the Soulages Museum in his home town of Rodez.

Wed, 26 Oct, 2022

Obit Leslie Jordan
Emmy-winning actor Leslie Jordan dies aged 67
'Knowing that he has left the world at the height of both his professional and personal life is the only solace one can have today.'

Mon, 24 Oct, 2022

Obit Art Laboe
‘Oldies but goodies’: Longtime radio DJ Art Laboe dies aged 97
Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ who read heartfelt song dedications to generations of loyal listeners and was credited with helping end segregation in southern California during an eight-decade broadcast career, has died aged 97.

Tue, 11 Oct, 2022

Obit-Charles Fuller
A Soldier’s Play writer Charles Fuller dies aged 83
Charles Fuller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Soldier’s Play, has died aged 83.

Wed, 05 Oct, 2022

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