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Dennis Hopper Dead at 74
 Dennis Hopper Dead at 74 
May 29, 2010 12:26 PM CDT

Dennis Hopper Dead at 74

He'd been suffering from prostate cancer

(Newser) - Dennis Hopper has died from complications of prostate cancer, a friend tells Reuters . The 74-year-old, who made his name by starring in and directing the 1969 cult hit Easy Rider, died this morning at his home in Venice, California. Other memorable roles included those in Rebel Without a Cause, Blue ...

Art Linkletter Dead at 97
 Art Linkletter Dead at 97 
May 26, 2010 3:46 PM CDT

Art Linkletter Dead at 97

He got kids to say the darndest things

(Newser) - Art Linkletter, whose People Are Funny and House Party shows entertained millions of TV viewers in the 1950s and '60s and who remained active as a writer and speaker through his ninth decade, died today at age 97. Linkletter was known on TV for his funny interviews with children and...

League of Their Own Inspiration Dead at 84

Dorothy 'Dottie' Kamenshek was a star at first base

(Newser) - A baseball legend is gone: Dorothy Kamenshek—the inspiration for the Geena Davis character Dottie in A League of Their Own—is dead at age 84. The Los Angeles Times leads its obit with this quote from Yankees first-baseman Wally Pipp: She "was the fanciest-fielding first baseman I've ever...

Ronnie James Dio of Black Sabbath Dead at 67

Heavy metal legend also fronted Rainbow, Heaven & Hell

(Newser) - Ronnie James Dio, the legendary heavy metal singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne as Black Sabbath's frontman, died today. He was 61 or 67, according to the LA Times , and suffered from stomach cancer. "Many, many friends and family were able to say their private good-byes before he peacefully passed...

Groundbreaking Lena Horne Dead at 92

 Groundbreaking 
 Lena Horne 
 Dead at 92 
obituary
May 10, 2010 5:44 AM CDT

Groundbreaking Lena Horne Dead at 92

'Stormy Weather' great broke ground for African Americans

(Newser) - Lena Horne, the legendary singer who broke new ground for African-Americans in Hollywood, has died at the age of 92. Best known for the song "Stormy Weather," the jazz vocalist won accolades as a cabaret and Broadway performer. Horne got her start in 1933 as a teenage chorus...

Beloved MLB Broadcaster Ernie Harwell Dead at 92

Detroit mourns legendary Tigers broadcaster

(Newser) - Ernie Harwell, the only baseball broadcaster ever traded for a player, has died aged 92 after a long fight with cancer. The beloved sportscaster spent 55 years broadcasting major league games, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers. The transplanted Southerner, rated as one of the best baseball broadcasters of...

Actress Lynn Redgrave Dead at 67
 Actress 
 Lynn Redgrave 
 Dead at 67 
OBITUARY
May 3, 2010 11:05 AM CDT

Actress Lynn Redgrave Dead at 67

Oscar-winner had been treated in 2003 for breast cancer

(Newser) - Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the freethinking title character of Georgy Girl and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances Shakespeare for My Father and Nightingale, has died. She was 67. Her publicist, speaking...

'As the World Turns' legend Helen Wagner dies - The Dish Rag - Zap2it
 Helen 
 Wagner 
 Dead at 91 
longest-running soap star
May 3, 2010 8:39 AM CDT

Helen Wagner Dead at 91

She spoke the first lines on 'As the World Turns'

(Newser) - Helen Wagner, a 54-year veteran of As the World Turns, died Saturday at age 91. Wagner spoke the first line (“Good morning, dear”) on ATWT’s 1956 premiere episode and appeared on the show for the last time April 5. Her role as Nancy Hughes earned her the...

Civil Rights Pioneer Dorothy Height Dead
 Civil Rights Pioneer 
 Dorothy Height Dead 
Obituary
Apr 20, 2010 1:13 PM CDT

Civil Rights Pioneer Dorothy Height Dead

Obama calls her the 'godmother' of movement

(Newser) - Civil rights luminary Dorothy Height has died of natural causes at age 98, says a spokesperson for the National Council of Negro Women, a group that Height headed for 40 years. Though never a media darling, Height was active in civil rights causes since the 1930s, lobbying everyone from Eleanor...

LAPD Chief During 1992 Riots Dead at 83
LAPD Chief During 1992 Riots Dead at 83
Obituary
Apr 16, 2010 10:11 AM CDT

LAPD Chief During 1992 Riots Dead at 83

Controversial lawman Daryl Gates had bladder cancer

(Newser) - Daryl F. Gates, Los Angeles police chief during the city's deadly 1992 riots, has died. He was 83 and had bladder cancer. A tart-tongued career cop with a short fuse and a penchant for making controversial statements, Gates had been a flashpoint for controversy long before the riots that broke...

Designing Women Star Dixie Carter Dies at 70

Actress had role ranging from 'Diff'rent Strokes' to 'Desperate Housewives'

(Newser) - Designing Women star Dixie Carter, whose Southern charm and natural beauty won her a host of television roles, died yesterday at age 70. "This has been a terrible blow to our family," husband and actor Hal Holbrook said in a written statement that did not disclose cause of...

Meinhardt Raabe, 'Oz' Munchkin, Dies at 94
 Meinhardt Raabe, 
 'Oz' Munchkin, Dies at 94 
OBITUARY
Apr 10, 2010 11:03 AM CDT

Meinhardt Raabe, 'Oz' Munchkin, Dies at 94

He pronounced Wicked Witch of East 'sincerely dead'

(Newser) - Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz and proclaimed that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died at 94. His caregiver said Raabe died yesterday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Fla. He was one of...

Sex Pistols Manager Dead
 Sex Pistols Manager Dead 
punk pioneer
Apr 8, 2010 5:04 PM CDT

Sex Pistols Manager Dead

Malcolm McLaren helped launch punk rock

(Newser) - British music personality Malcolm McClaren, who managed the Sex Pistols and helped define the '70s punk rock movement, has died of cancer at age 64. In the mid-'70s, McLaren was running a clothing boutique, which he'd renamed from "Let It Rock" to "Sex," when he became aware...

Cherokee Chief, Activist Wilma Mankiller Dies

First female chief was 64, had battled cancer

(Newser) - Former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller, one of the nation's most visible American Indian leaders and one of few women to lead a major tribe, died yesterday after suffering from cancer and other health problems. She was 64. Mankiller, whose first taste of federal policy toward Indians came when her...

Inventor of Personal Computer Dead at 68

H. Edward Roberts had a young employee named Bill Gates

(Newser) - H. Edward Roberts, the man who invented the MITS Altair in 1975, generally considered by computer historians to be the first personal computer, died Thursday in Macon, Georgia. While he was not well known outside the computer industry, one of his employees, Bill Gates, came to define, and some say,...

Dynasty Star John Forsythe Dead at 92

(Newser) - John Forsythe, a versatile actor who gained lasting fame as Blake Carrington on the pioneering prime-time soap Dynasty and as the voice of the mysterious Charlie on Charlie's Angels, died yesterday in California. He was 92. Best known at the time as the affable star of Bachelor Father, Forsythe played...

What's That White Powder on LiLo's Feet?
 What's That 
 White Powder 
 on LiLo's Feet? 
unsolved mysteries
Mar 29, 2010 10:56 AM CDT

What's That White Powder on LiLo's Feet?

Plus: news outlets already writing her obituary

(Newser) - You hear “white powder” and “Lindsay Lohan” in the same sentence, your mind inevitably goes to one place. But even on Lilo, feet would be an odd place to find cocaine—so what was the white powder puffing out of her shoes on Saturday? PopEater has a blown-up...

Rock Photog Jim Marshall Dies at 74
 Rock Photog 
 Jim Marshall 
 Dies at 74 
OBITUARY
Mar 24, 2010 8:15 PM CDT

Rock Photog Jim Marshall Dies at 74

Captured Hendrix, Dylan, Joplin, many more

(Newser) - Jim Marshall, whose iconic photography captured many of the stars of rock and roll’s 1960s heyday, died in his sleep last night at 74, Rolling Stone reports; cause of death is still unknown. Marshall shot everyone from Bob Dylan to Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis to the Beatles, Janis Joplin...

Ex-Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall Dies at 90

Spearheaded '60s conservation movement, Wilderness Act

(Newser) - Stewart Udall, an elder in a famed political family who led the Interior Department as it vastly expanded public lands and helped win passage of major environmental laws, has died at the age of 90. During his 1961-1968 tenure as Interior secretary, Udall sowed the seeds of the modern environmental...

Davy Crockett Star Fess Parker Dead at 85

His character became iconic in the 1950s

(Newser) - Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone star Fess Parker died today at age 85. Parker died of natural causes at his Santa Ynez home near the Fess Parker Winery, said a family spokeswoman. His death comes on the 84th birthday of his wife of 50 years, Marcella. Parker became every baby...

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