Golf great Mickey Wright (Feb. 14, 1935- Feb. 17, 2020) won 13 majors, and gave the fledgling LPGA a crucial lift. The Hall of Famer's 82 wins place her second on the all-time list...
Golf great Mickey Wright (Feb. 14, 1935- Feb. 17, 2020) won 13 majors, and gave the fledgling LPGA a crucial lift. The Hall of Famer's 82 wins place her second on the all-time list...
A song-and-dance man who, while in the Army's Special Services entertainment branch served under Sgt. Leonard Nimoy, Ken Berry (November 3, 1933-December 1, 2018) had hoped for a career in movie ...
Comic actor, writer and producer Bob Einstein (November 20, 1942-January 2, 2019) debuted his character "Super Dave" Osborne (a stuntman whose daredevil attempts usually backfire spectacularly) on ...
At 5'5, science fiction writer Harlan Ellison (May 27, 1934-June 28, 2018) was bullied as a youth, which may have fueled his loud-mouthed attitude, once punching an Ohio State University professor ...
For 50 years, Don Imus (July 23, 1940-December 27, 2019) was the flamethrower of morning drive-time radio, a provocateur as outrageous as he'd been influential. "I wasn't trying to be outrageous ...
Notable deaths in 2017. 27 / 142. Back image_gallery ... After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Texas, in 1949 Smith headed off for New York with two suitcases and $50 ...
Notable deaths in 2018. 21 / 142. ... as he tried to lean on it to pay almost $2 billion in arrears, at the same time he pushed against the invasion of Iraq. ... Schoendienst ranks second in ...
The winner of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award last year, virtuoso drummer Hal Blaine (February 5, 1929-March 11, 2019) was a member of the famed Los Angeles-based group of session musicians ...
Southern California private detective Kinsey Millhone was the alter ego of Sue Grafton (April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017), author of the bestselling "alphabet series" of mystery novels, which ...
In all, the Country Music Hall of Fame member wrote more than 1,000 songs, and in 2012 received a National Medal of Arts for bringing "his unique blend of warmth and humor to the great tradition ...
As a child, he listened to Lebanese and Polish folk tunes played by his parents. Eventually he graduated to big band, swing, country and rockabilly. The self-taught guitarist Richard Monsour, who ...
As flight director during the Mercury and Gemini missions, Chris Kraft (February 28, 1924-July 22, 2019) brought a no-nonsense management style to America's space program, and helped define ...
Fats Domino (February 26, 1928-October 24, 2017), who helped create a new style of music called rock 'n' roll (and who became the first purely rock 'n' roll musician to be awarded the National...
Actor Burt Reynolds (February 11, 1936-September 6, 2018) rose to stardom with action films and raucous comedies like "Deliverance," "The Longest Yard," "Smokey and the Bandit" and "The Cannonball ...
Keith Flint (September 17, 1969-March 4, 2019) was lead singer of the influential British dance-electronic band The Prodigy, which produced an incendiary fusion of techno, breakbeat and acid house ...
Born in Cyprus, singer and guitarist Leon Redbone (August 26, 1949-May 30, 2019) emigrated with his family in the 1960s to Canada, where he attended folk music festivals, performing jazz, ragtime ...
"The Man Upstairs has a plan for me," he told The Salem News in 2012. "I'm not having too many issues with this, mentally. This is the hand I've been dealt and I've made my peace with it.
Martin Charnin (November 24, 1934-July 6, 2019) made his Broadway debut playing a Jet in the original "West Side Story," and went on to become a Broadway director and a lyricist best known for...
When he was 14, Isiah Robertson (August 17, 1949-December 6, 2018) survived a freak accident aboard a fishing boat off Louisiana, when a fuel can exploded, killing two coaches from his high school.
Actor Billy Drago (November 30, 1945-June 24, 2019), who appeared in over 100 films and TV series over the years, was best known for playing villains. He appeared in Clint Eastwood's classic ...