advertisement

Log Out

Obituaries

Toppled Tunisian ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dies at 83

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and ELAINE GANLEY
Sep 19, 2019 7:00 am - TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, an autocrat who led his small North African country for 23 years before being toppled by nationw...
Former Netherlands defender Fernando Ricksen dies at 43

The Associated Press
Sep 18, 2019 7:00 am - GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - Fernando Ricksen, a former Netherlands national team defender, has died after a six-year battle with motor neurone disease. He was 43. Rangers, ...
Humana co-founder David Jones Sr. dies

By BRUCE SCHREINER
Sep 18, 2019 7:00 am - David A. Jones Sr., who borrowed $1,000 to launch a nursing home company that grew into the $37 billion health insurance and health care giant Humana Inc., died Wednesda...
Author Graeme Gibson, longtime partner of Atwood, dead at 85

The Associated Press
Sep 18, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Graeme Gibson, a Canadian novelist and conservationist and the longtime partner of Margaret Atwood, died Wednesday at age 85. Gibson's death was announce...
Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75

By DAVID BAUDER
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, ...
Veteran television newsman Sander Vanocur dies at 91

By ANDREW DALTON
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil...
Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer
Sep 17, 2019 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians who grew up to cover the family business in Washington for ABC News and NPR over several decades, died Tuesday in W...
Despite challenges, Mike Lattof 'lived a fuller life'

By Eileen O. Daday
Sep 17, 2019 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct that his father was Warren Lattof, who was president of Lattof Chevrolet, a business started by his dad Nichola...
German industrial designer Luigi Colani dies at 91

The Associated Press
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Luigi Colani, a renowned German industrial designer, has died. He was 91. German news agency dpa reported that his partner, Yazhen Zha, confirmed that Cola...
Correction: US-Obit-Ocasek story

The Associated Press
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - In a story Sept. 16 about the death of Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, The Associated Press reported erroneously the number of studio albums the band released....

Showing 2,761-2,770 of 7,445 previous next