May 24 Tina Turner, indomitable rock legend and survivor, dies at 83 By Hillel Italie, Associated Press Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows and survived her horrifying marriage to become a solo super star in middle age, has died at… Continue reading
May 20 Critically acclaimed British novelist Martin Amis dies at 73 By Associated Press British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. He was 73. Continue reading
May 18 Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies at 81 By Associated Press Bearded and blunt-spoken, Zell reveled in bucking traditional wisdom. He had a golden touch with real estate, and got his start managing apartment buildings as a college student. Continue reading
May 07 Vida Blue, pitcher who led Oakland to 3 World Series titles, dies at 73 By Ronald Blum, Associated Press Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A’s to three straight World Series titles before his career was derailed by drug problems, died Saturday, according to… Continue reading
May 06 Newton Minow, former FCC chief and champion of public television, dies at 97 By Tammy Webber, Associated Press Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a "vast wasteland," died Saturday. He was 97. Continue reading
May 02 Gordon Lightfoot, legendary folk singer-songwriter, dies at 84 By Associated Press One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway," “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."… Continue reading
Apr 22 Barry Humphries, award-winning Australian entertainer, dies at 89 By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, has died. Continue reading
Apr 11 Al Jaffee, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist, dies at 102 By Hillel Italie, Associated Press Former Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Jaffee, one of the magazine's longest contributors, had delighted millions of kids with such fixtures as the Fold-In and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions."… Continue reading
Apr 09 Ben Ferencz, last living prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg trials, dies at 103 By Mike Schneider, Associated Press Ben Ferencz, the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps, has died. He had just turned… Continue reading
Apr 02 Ryuichi Sakamoto, world-renowned composer and musician, dies at 71 By Yuri Kageyama, Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Ryuichi Sakamoto, a world-renowned Japanese musician and actor who composed for Hollywood hits such as “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant,” has died. He was 71. Continue reading