Gitta Sereny chronicled Nazis and killers
Gitta Sereny, an acclaimed investigative journalist who wrote books about Nazis and murderers, died June 14.
Film critic Andrew Sarris promoted ‘auteur theory’
Andrew Sarris, former Village Voice critic who promoted ‘auteur theory’ of film, died June 20.
Comic actor Victor Spinetti, who appeared in Beatles movies, dies at 82
Victor Spinetti, 82, who appeared in three Beatles movies in the 1960s and won a Tony Award for his multiple roles in the ribald antiwar musical “Oh, What a Lovely War,” died June 19.
Susan Tyrrell, Oscar nominee for ‘Fat City,’ dies at 67
Susan Tyrrell, 67, who gave one of the screen’s most convincing and textured portraits of alcoholism as the young barfly in director John Huston's “Fat City,” died June 16.
William S. Knowles, Nobel winner, dies
Dr. Knowles, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who helped devise the chemical process used to make a drug for Parkinson’s disease, was 95.
Rodney King, victim of police beating, dies at 47
Rodney King, the black motorist whose violent encounter with white Los Angeles police officers after a car chase in 1991 helped prompt one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, and an abiding controversy about American justice, died June 17.
Local Obituaries
- Katherine F. Smith, financial controller
- Patricia Chapman, executive assistant
- Harriet B. Presser, sociology professor
- Willie W. Flood, Baptist minister
- Michael J.L. Greene, Army brigadier general
- Elisabeth Wells, volunteer
- Jim Wells, photographer
- Herbert Gordon, Foreign Service officer
- Obituary: Gerald Cravens, a retired Army colonel
- Obituary: Ralph Sanders, retired professor at Industrial College of the Armed Forces
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Those remembered and those forgot
Seventy years ago, a group of Americans stationed on a tiny island in the Pacific came under attack from Japanese fighter planes and bombers.
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Novelist Ray Bradbury: 1920-2012
The imaginative and prolific author wrote "The Martian Chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451."
Bee Gees member Robin Gibb dies at 62
The singer-songwriter for one of the most successful pop groups of all time died.
Lockerbie bomber dies
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in connection with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, was 60.
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Author Maurice Sendak dies at 83
Author used children’s literature to address the psychological intensity of growing up.
Charles W. Colson dies
Nixon political operative went on to found a worldwide prison fellowship ministry.
Dick Clark, ‘American Bandstand’ legend, dies at 82
Legendary television host died after a massive heart attack.
Journalist Mike Wallace dead at 93
Mike Wallace, whose prosecutorial style transformed television journalism died April 7.
