Producer-director Ivan Reitman died unexpectedly in his sleep at his home in Montecito, California. He was 75 years old. The cause of death was not disclosed. Reitman was born in what was then Czechoslovakia to […]
Military pilot Charles McGee, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, died in his sleep on January 17 at the age 102. […]
Sidney Poitier, America’s first black movie star and Academy Award winner, died at the age of 94. Born in Miami while his parents were there selling the tomato crop they grew on Cat Island in […]
Desmond Tutu, teacher, priest and theologian who was the first black Dean of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg, Bishop of Lesotho, and first black General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, died of cancer […]
Columnist, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, political reporter, and memoirist Joan Didion died on December 23 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. She was 87 years old. Her writing career began when she entered a short story contest […]
Edward O. Wilson was an American biologist and the leading authority on ants whose study led to some of the biggest and most provocative scientific ideas of the 20th century—the biological basis to human behavior(sociobiology) and […]
Poet, author, feminist, professor, critic and activist Gloria Jean Watkins died on December 15th at the age of 69 after a lengthy illness. She adopted the pen name of bell hooks in honor of her […]
Anne Rice died on December 11th at the age of 80. The author of over 30 novels, she was best known for “Interview with the Vampire”, which became a best seller and a 1994 hit […]
Children’s and YA author Gary Paulsen wrote over 200 books, over 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays for teens. He died suddenly at the age of 82. […]
Actor Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021 at the age of 54. […]
Charlie Watts, the drummer for the what some might say is the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band, The Rolling Stones, died on August 24, 2021. […]
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