Obituaries
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Former Milan captain and Italy coach Cesare Maldini dies
Apr 03, 2016 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Football is in mourning following the death of former AC Milan and Italy legend Cesare Maldini at the age of 84. In a statement Sunday, the club remembered ...
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Latin Jazz saxophonist Gato Barbieri dies at age 83
Apr 02, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Latin Jazz saxophonist Leandro "Gato" Barbieri, who composed the Grammy-winning music for the steamy Marlon Brando film "Last Tango in Paris" and recorde...
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Actor Douglas Wilmer, a 1960s Sherlock Holmes, dies at 96
Apr 02, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Douglas Wilmer, who played detective Sherlock Holmes in a 1960s television series, has died at 96. The Sherlock Holmes Society of London says Wilmer died T...
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Former German foreign minister Genscher dies at 89
Apr 01, 2016 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the longest-serving German foreign minister who was one of the key architects of the country's 1990 reunification between east and ...
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Renowned football agent Eugene Parker dies at 60
Apr 01, 2016 7:00 am - Eugene Parker, a renowned football agent who represented Hall of Fame players Emmitt Smith and Deion Sanders, has died. He was 60. He died in Atlanta of cancer Thursday,...
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Winningest high school football coach in Pennsylvania dies
Apr 01, 2016 7:00 am - BERWICK, Pa. (AP) - George Curry, the winningest high school football coach in Pennsylvania history, has died, months after he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. B...
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Former Duke AD Tom Butters, who hired Coach K, dies at 77
Apr 01, 2016 7:00 am - DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Former Duke athletic director Tom Butters has died. Duke spokesman Art Chase said Friday the family told him Butters died Thursday night at age 77. T...
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Innovative Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid dies at 65
Mar 31, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, whose modernist, futuristic designs included the swooping aquatic center for the 2012 London Olympics, has died at age ...
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Ronnie Corbett, half of comedy's 'Two Ronnies,' dies at 85
Mar 31, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - A diminutive, verbally dexterous entertainer with exquisite comic timing, Ronnie Corbett has been hailed as a giant of comedy by fans and fellow stars mour...
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Nobel literature laureate Imre Kertesz dies at 86
Mar 31, 2016 7:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Imre Kertesz, the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for a body of fiction largely drawn from his experience as a teen...