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Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor perhaps best known for his role in the TV show Fantasy Island, has died. He was 88. He arrived in Hollywood in 1946 after starring in Mexican movies. He was cast in a number of musicals. ()
A member of the Carter Cabinet, Bell arrived at the Justice Department in the wake of Watergate. ()
For 13 years Suzman was the sole representative in South Africa's Parliament to reject segregation. ()
January 1, 2009 · Claiborne Pell, the six-term U.S. senator who created a program that helped tens of millions of Americans attend college, has died. He was 90. His family noted that the Rhode Island senator defined his job in seven words: "Translate ideas into actions and help people." ()
December 30, 2008 · Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Freddie Hubbard has died at the age of 70. He collaborated with such greats as John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Hubbard had been hospitalized since a heart attack last month.Web Extra: Hear an Interview with Hubbard ()
December 27, 2008 · Africa and the world grieved earlier this year when South African Miriam Makeba died. She was 76. She campaigned tirelessly against apartheid, becoming one of the voices of Africa — and of conscience. ()
December 25, 2008 · Harold Pinter, an influential British playwright and political activist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. Pinter died Christmas day at the age of 78 after a long battle with esophageal cancer. ()
December 25, 2008 · Singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died of colon cancer. She was 81. Kitt, who was ostracized as a child in South Carolina because of her mixed-race heritage, got her start in show business as a dancer and vocalist, and earned early international notice as a featured singer in a Paris nightclub. ()
December 25, 2008 · Playwright Harold Pinter came into prominence at a time when Tennessee Williams' and Arthur Miller's plays were being performed in the U.S. and Bernard Shaw and the Boulevard Comedies dominated London's West End. In contrast to the work at the time, Pinter's plays dealt with the theater of menace. ()
December 19, 2008 · W. Mark Felt, the FBI associate director who leaked key information to the press during the Watergate scandal, has died. He revealed himself as "Deep Throat" in 2005, after more than 30 years of secrecy. Jim Mann, whose 1992 article pointed to Felt as the probable source, says Felt was an ordinary guy who had dedicated his life to the FBI. ()
December 19, 2008 · One of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of professional football has died. Sammy Baugh, who played for the Washington Redskins, was 94. Nicknamed Slingin' Sammy, he transformed the quarterback position with his accuracy and long passing. ()
December 18, 2008 · Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation, has died. He was 66. Weyrich was a beacon on the right in American politics for over four decades. ()
December 12, 2008 · Bettie Page, the pinup bombshell from the 1950s, has died in Los Angeles. She was 85. Page was a secretary-turned-model who helped inspire the sexual revolution. ()
December 5, 2008 · Henry Gustav Molaison, known to neuroscientists as H.M., was one of the world's most memorable amnesiacs. He died Tuesday at the age of 82. Suzanne Corkin, professor of Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who worked him, offers her insight. ()
December 3, 2008 · Odetta's folk songs made her a symbol of the civil rights movement. She performed at the civil rights march on Washington in 1963 and sang "O Freedom." Her ballads and songs became, for many, the soundtrack to the American civil rights movement. Manager Doug Yeager says Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at the age of 77. ()
The soldier from Southwest Ohio was missing for four years before an Iraqi tip led the U.S. Army to his remains.
The resident of Wallace, N.C., worked as a police officer and as a butcher, and served in the National Guard. He was on deployment in Iraq when he was killed by mortar fire in Baghdad.
The Navy SEAL from California posthumously receives the Medal of Honor after he threw himself on a hand grenade thrown by an insurgent in Ramadi.
The 14-year veteran chose to return to Iraq for a third tour of duty. The Pennsylvanian was killed by a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad in March.
The Florida native was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in March. Rogers was killed by a bomb in Iraq in January.
