Mar 24 Terrence McNally, lauded American playwright, dies at 81 By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press McNally, one of America’s great playwrights whose prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class" and the musicals "Ragtime" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman," has died of complications from the coronavirus. Continue reading
Mar 02 Former GE CEO Jack Welch dies at 84 By Associated Press Welch became one of the nation's most well-known and highly regarded corporate leaders during his two decades as GE's chairman and chief executive, from 1981 to 2001. Continue reading
Feb 29 Joe Coulombe, founder of popular Trader Joe’s markets, dies By John Rogers, Associated Press Joe Coulombe envisioned a new generation of young grocery shoppers emerging in the 1960s, one that wanted healthy, tasty, high-quality food they couldn’t find in most supermarkets and couldn’t afford to buy in the few high-end gourmet outlets. Continue reading
Feb 28 Pioneering theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson dies at 96 By Justin Stabley In popular culture, Dyson is most famous for his thought experiments on space travel and future civilizations. Continue reading
Jan 22 Monty Python star Terry Jones dies at 77 By Jill Lawless, Associated Press Jones, a founding member of the anarchic Monty Python troupe who was hailed by colleagues as “the complete Renaissance comedian" and “a man of endless enthusiasms,” has died at age 77 after suffering from dementia. Continue reading
Jan 09 Buck Henry, writer-actor who helped pen ‘The Graduate,’ dies at 89 By Associated Press Henry was an established film and television writer who became widely recognizable during the early years of “Saturday Night Live.”… Continue reading
Jan 07 ‘Prozac Nation’ author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies at age 52 By Associated Press Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-selling “Prozac Nation” made her a voice and a target for an anxious generation, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. Continue reading
Dec 27 The influential people we said goodbye to in 2019 By Bernard McGhee, Associated Press This year saw the deaths of people who shifted culture through prose, politics, pragmatism and persistence. It also witnessed tragedy, in talent struck down in its prime. Continue reading
Sep 17 Longtime political journalist Cokie Roberts dies at age 75 By David Bauder, Associated Press Roberts served a reporter and analyst at ABC and NPR, as well as a contributor to PBS' The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Continue reading
Sep 10 Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 By Hillel Italie, Associated Press The Swiss-born Frank influenced countless photographers and was likened to Alexis de Tocqueville for so vividly capturing the United States through the eyes of a foreigner. Continue reading