Peter Aykroyd, an Emmy-nominated actor and writer on “Saturday Night Live” for the 1979-80 season who later worked with an older brother, Dan, on everything from a TV show about the paranormal to such films as “Dragnet” and “Coneheads,” has…
Jerry Douglas, best known to daytime TV fans for playing family patriarch John Abbott on Global’s “The Young and the Restless,” died at 88. According to Deadline, his family announced the news Wednesday that Douglas had died on Nov. 9 after…
Norm Macdonald, the Canadian-born comedian who became an influential cast member of Saturday Night Live after he joined in 1993, has died. He was 61. His brother Neil said Macdonald died Tuesday in Los Angeles from leukemia, which he was diagnosed with…
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, born Sadaho Maeda in Fukuoka, Japan, on Jan. 22, 1939, died on Thursday of COVID complications at age 82. His agent and manager confirmed the passing to Variety, also telling Japan’s Oricon News that he passed in the hospital after…
The Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, who came to the United States as a childhood refugee from war-torn Poland and later became a leader in cross-church cooperation and the first Eastern Orthodox president of the National Council of Churches, has died. Kishkovsky…
Judith Keating was a lawyer and constitutional expert who spent several decades as a senior civil servant in New Brunswick, including as a legal adviser to the premier. She was also the first woman to be the deputy minister of…
Rabbi Reuven Bulka died Sunday morning in New York City, where he had moved to spend time with his five children after being diagnosed with advanced-stage pancreatic and liver cancer in January. Bulka was the Rabbi, and then rabbi emeritus,…
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced growing pressure Friday to impose a strict nationwide lockdown, despite the economic pain it will exact, as an incredible surge in coronavirus cases that has battered the country’s health system…
