Obituaries & memorials

British royal photographer Lord Snowdon dies aged 86

London (dpa) – Lord Snowdon, a royal portrait photographer and former husband of Queen Elizabeth II’s sister, died on Friday aged 86, his family and colleagues said. “Camera Press is very sad to announce the death of royal photographer Lord Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones,” Snowdon’s photographic agency said on Twitter. Born Antony Armstrong-Jones, Snowdon was best […]

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The wrestling world is in mourning as a Hall of Famer has passed away

Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka has passed away at age 73, according to the Snuka family: Our family @TaminaSnuka asked me to share the sad news that her dad Jimmy Snuka has just passed away. Alofa atu i le aiga atoa. #RIPSuperfly — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) January 15, 2017 The news comes following reports that Snuka had

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Dick Gautier, best known as Hymie the robot on ‘Get Smart’, dies at 85

To some, he was the voice of Rodimus Prime on the mid-1980s animated TV show “The Transformers,” or Serpentor on the animated “G.I. Joe.” But for baby boomers, Dick Gautier was best known for his deadpan performance as Hymie the robot in the ’60s spy spoof “Get Smart.” Gautier’s daughter Denise told the Hollywood Reporter

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Famed ‘Exorcist’ author, filmmaker William Peter Blatty dead at 89

WASHINGTON, January 14, 2017 – Screenwriter and novelist William Peter Blatty, who won widespread fame as the author of “The Exorcist” (1971), died Thursday morning, January 12 at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, the Washington, D.C. suburb where he lived. He was 89. William Friedkin, a longtime friend and colleague who directed iconic 1973 film

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Israel baseball team helps dedicate ambucycle

JERUSALEM (Press Release)- Jeff Aeder, owner of Chicago’s restaurant Milt’s BBQ for the Perplexed, and founder of the Jewish Baseball Museum, donated an ambucycle to United Hatzalah in honor of his late father Arthur Aeder. Jeff said that his father was a true Zionist, a lover of the Jewish people. The date of the ambucycle

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Clare Hollingworth, the woman who broke the news of WWII, dead at 105

Hong Kong (dpa) – British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth is dead, aged 105, it was announced on her Facebook page Tuesday night. Hollingworth made history for her discovery that Germany was about to invade Poland and start World War II. She got the scoop just a week into her first job as a journalist at

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Former German president Roman Herzog dies aged 82

AFP- Former German president Roman Herzog, best remembered for urging “a jolt” of political and social reform in his country, has died at the age of 82, the presidential office said Tuesday. He died in the early hours of Tuesday in a hospital near his hometown in the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg, a spokeswoman said.

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Akbar Rafsanjani, former Iranian president, dies at 82

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president whose support for social freedoms and outreach to the United States made him a powerful ally of moderates despite allegations of corruption and authoritarianism, died Sunday. The cause was a heart attack, state news media reported. Iran declared three days of mourning for one of its most significant

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Civil rights leader Roy Innis, who moved from liberalism to libertarianism, dies at 82

Civil rights icon Roy Innis, who for over 50 years in public life confounded stereotypes and the conventional wisdom of politics, died Sunday morning in New York City after a long illness. He was 82. “Roy got up every day and followed his conscience on what he thought was right, and if that led him

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Obituaries & memorials, USA

Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds buried in Los Angeles

Los Angeles (dpa) – Hollywood actresses Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher were buried in a Los Angeles cemetery on Friday in a private service. The ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills was attended by family and friends including Fisher’s brother Todd and her daughter Billie Lourd, according to US media reports.

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Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia dies aged 75

Buenos Aires (dpa) – Argentine novelist and short story writer Ricardo Piglia died on Friday at the age of 75, his publisher Anagrama confirmed. Piglia, one of the most important Argentine writers of the past 50 years, had been suffering for several years from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. He published his first

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