Jacques Rogge, IOC president for 12 years, dead at 79
Jacques Rogge was an orthopedic surgeon who saw 5,000 patients and performed 800 operations a year at his medical practice in Ghent, Belgium
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Dead at 91 is Ed Asner, Emmy-Winning Actor
Ed Asner, the seven-time Primetime Emmy-winning actor, best known for his role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died at 91.
Sonny Chiba Iconic ‘Kill Bill’ & ‘Tokyo Drift’ Star Died Of COVID-19 Complications
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…
Nanci Griffith, Grammy-Winning Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 68
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith survived cancer twice diagnosed in 1996 and thyroid cancer in 1998. She died Friday morning in Nashville, a rep for her management company confirmed to Variety.
Bill Davis The Former Premier Ushered in Ontario, Canadian Dead 92
Bill Davis, the Progressive Conservative premier of Ontario for 14 years, died at home in Brampton at age 92.
Bobby Bowden, legendary Florida State football coach, dead at 91
Bobby's son, Terry, confirmed that his father Bobby Bowden died at home in Tallahassee, Florida, surrounded by family early Sunday morning.
The Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, an interfaith leader, dead at 78
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…
Bob Moses U.S. Civil Rights Activist Dead at 86
Bob Moses (Robert Parris Moses), a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, dies.…
Donald Rumsfeld, former US secretary of defense, dead at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. The pugnacious businessman, bureaucrat, and former lawmaker helped…
John Langley, the creator and executive producer of Cops, died today at 78
John Langley died on Saturday of an apparent heart attack in Baja, Mexico; his representatives told Variety. According to the outlet, Langley was competing in the Coast to Coast Ensenada-San Felipe 250 off-road race. TMZ adds that his son Zak was…
Dead at 85 is Mudcat Grant, the 1st Black 20-game winner in AL
MINNEAPOLIS (AP news): Mudcat Grant (Jim “Mudcat” Grant), the first Black 20-game winner in the American League and a key part of Minnesota’s first World Series team in 1965, has died. He was 85. The Twins announced Grant’s death Saturday…
Charles Grodin ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ Actor, Unrivaled Talk Show Curmudgeon Dead at 86
Charles Grodin, the comic, scene-stealing actor of such films as The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run, and Beethoven, who later established himself as a curmudgeonly talk show guest without rival, died today at his home in Wilton, Conn. His son, Nicholas, told The New…
