Former MVP Dick Allen, one of baseball’s most feared hitters in the late 1960s and a star in Philadelphia and Chicago, died Monday at his home in Wampum, Pennsylvania, his family announced on Twitter. A seven-time All-Star, Allen was dominant…
Natalie Desselle Reid was an American actress who performed in several films, including Def Jam’s How to Be a Player and Cinderella. She also acted in the television series Built to Last and For Your Love, and for three seasons, she played Janie Egins on Eve. Natalie Desselle Reid died…
LOS ANGELES — Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. According to family friend Michael Roth, he died at his home in…
David Prowse, the actor, best known for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died at 85. Breaking the sad news is his agent, Thomas Bowington. He said, “it’s with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and millions…
Hal Ketchum has died at age 67. The country singer’s wife, Andrea, shared the news on his Facebook page on Tuesday. “With great sadness and grief, we announce that Hal passed away peacefully last night at home due to complications of Dementia,”…
Alex Trebek, the beloved host of gameshow “Jeopardy!” since its 1984 debut in syndication, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 80. The official “Jeopardy!” Twitter account announced the news on Sunday morning, writing: “‘Jeopardy!’ is saddened to share that…
Dr. J. Michael Lane, a globe-trotting epidemiologist who waged a 13-year war against the scourge of smallpox and led the final drive for its global eradication in 1977, when the last known vestige of the disease was snuffed out in…
Jerry Walker (Jerry Jeff Walker) was a Texas country singer and songwriter who wrote the pop song “Mr. Bojangles.” Walker died Friday, Oct. 23, of cancer, a family spokesman John T. Davis told The Associated Press. “He had battled throat cancer…
The British musician Tony Lewis, who enjoyed chart success with the British rock band “The Outfield” with their 1980s hit “Your Love,” died suddenly at age 62. Tony’s publicist revealed he passed away ‘suddenly and unexpectedly’ near his home in London on…
Bernard Cohen was a civil liberties attorney and Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates; he died at age 68. On April 10, 1967, with co-counsel Philip Hirschkop, he presented an oral argument for the petitioners in Loving v. Virginia before the U. S. Supreme Court. On June 12,…
There is breaking news that Eddie Van Halen, the legendary hard rock guitarist and co-founder Van Halen has died after a long battle with throat cancer at the age of 65 at the Providence St John’s hospital Santa Monica. Reporter…
Helen Jones Woods was an African-American jazz musician who toured the country in the 1930s and ’40s, including in the Jim Crow South. This touring could be the start of a familiar story of racism on the road. But Woods’…
