Vin Scully, born Vincent Edward Scully on November 29, 1927, was an American sportscaster best known for his 67 seasons calling games for Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers, beginning in 1950 and ending in 2016. His was the longest tenure of any broadcaster with a single…
Sidney Poitier died on Friday at age 94. The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis broke the sad news in a speech broadcast on Facebook Sidney Poitier was Born Sidney L. Poitier on February 20, 1927. He was a Bahamian-American actor, film director,…
JOHANNESBURG (A.P.) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist policy of apartheid, and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders,…
Skilyr Hicks, former America’s Got Talent contestant, died Monday, Dec. 6, at age 23, TMZ reports. The singer-songwriter’s mom, Jodi, told the site that Hicks was found dead at a friend’s home in Liberty, S.C. She also shared that the young artist had struggled…
Bob Dole was born Robert Joseph Dole on July 22, 1923. He was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. Before his 27 years in the Senate, Bob Dole served…
Stephen Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, into a Jewish family in New York City. His father manufactured dresses designed by his mother. He died on November 26, 2021. According to Celebrity Net Worth, the American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s…
Sam Huff, the hard-hitting Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the New York Giants reach six NFL title games from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s and later became a popular player and announcer in Washington, died Saturday. He was…
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…
Colin Powell was born in New York, a city, on April 5, 1937, and he died on – October 18, 2021. He was an American politician, diplomat, statesman, and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State…
Edward Registe died on Wednesday, August 1; news reports out of Dominica stated he died due to a heart attack. He was only 50. Registe was best known as a social worker before entering politics. He was first appointed in…
