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Wimbledon Champion Jana Novotna Dies at 49


'98 Wimbledon
Champ Dies of
Cancer at 49
OBITUARY
Nov 20, 2017 1:33 AM CST

'98 Wimbledon Champ Dies of Cancer at 49

Jana Novotna won 24 singles titles

(Newser) - The Women's Tennis Association says 1998 Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died at the age of 49. The women's tennis body says Novotna died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, the AP reports. The WTA made the announcement on Monday. Her family confirmed her death to the...

Charles Manson Dead at 83
Charles Manson
Dead at 83
Nov 20, 2017 1:09 AM CST

Charles Manson Dead at 83

Cult leader's name became a byword for evil

(Newser) - Charles Manson, the cult leader whose hippie followers terrorized Los Angeles with seven gruesome murders in 1969, has died after almost 50 years behind bars. He was 83. The California Department of Corrections says Manson, whose death sentence for orchestrating the killings was commuted to life imprisonment in 1972, died...

Malcolm Young of AC/DC Dies After Dementia Battle

Band co-founder/guitarist was 64

(Newser) - "Malcolm, job well done." So ends a Facebook post from Australian rock behemoth AC/DC announcing the death of band co-founder/guitarist Malcolm Young. He was 64 and reportedly died with his family at his bedside. Rolling Stone reports Young's three-year battle with dementia had led him to step...

Lil Peep, 'Emo' Rapper With Cult Following, Dead at 21

Sources say up and coming star may have overdosed

(Newser) - Rapper Lil Peep has died at age 21, the AP reports. A representative for the performer confirmed reports of his death Thursday. Lil Peep, whose real name was Gustav Ahr and whose stage name came from a childhood nickname his mother gave him, didn't take the stage during his...

Gossip Queen Liz Smith Dies at 94
'Grande Dame of Dish' Dies
OBITUARY
Nov 13, 2017 2:18 AM CST

'Grande Dame of Dish' Dies

Gossip columnist Liz Smith was 94

(Newser) - Liz Smith, the legendary gossip columnist who started dishing up inside info on celebrities when the grandparents of some of today's stars were babies, has died. She was 94. The New York Post , one of nine New York newspapers Smith wrote for in her long career, reports that her...

Magnum PI &#39;s &#39;Higgins&#39; Dies
Magnum PI's 'Higgins' Dies
OBITUARY
Nov 10, 2017 12:13 AM CST

Magnum PI's 'Higgins' Dies

John Hillerman was 84

(Newser) - John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series Magnum, PI, has died at age 84. Hillerman, who had been in declining health, died Thursday of natural causes at his home in Houston, nephew Chris Tritico says. Besides playing the...

Soldier Who Became WWII &#39;Accidental Spy&#39; Dead at 96
'Impromptu Spy' of WWII
Dead at 96
obituary
Nov 9, 2017 5:11 PM CST

'Impromptu Spy' of WWII Dead at 96

Irv Refkin carried out daring missions for Britain, then America

(Newser) - Irv Refkin enlisted in the Army in 1940, at age 19, and was sent to Canada after basic training to learn about explosives. But once there, a senior officer with whom he clashed sent him to Britain without notice. Shortly after arriving—the British military still thought he was Canadian,...

Apollo 12 Astronaut Who Flew to Moon Dies
Apollo 12
Astronaut
Who Flew
to Moon Dies 
OBITUARY
Nov 8, 2017 7:01 AM CST

Apollo 12 Astronaut Who Flew to Moon Dies

Richard Gordon was 'the kind of guy you want when you go to the moon'

(Newser) - Apollo 12 astronaut Richard "Dick" F. Gordon Jr., one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn't land there, has died, NASA said. He was 88. Gordon was a test pilot when he was chosen for NASA's third group of astronauts in 1963. He...

The Mountaineer We Never Knew Dies at 94
The Mountaineer We
Never Knew Dies at 94
OBITUARY
Oct 31, 2017 12:10 PM CDT

The Mountaineer We Never Knew Dies at 94

Fred Beckey, who sometimes climbed 50 peaks a year, had more first ascents than any American

(Newser) - Legendary mountain climber Fred Beckey, who wrote dozens of books and is credited with notching more first ascents than any other American mountaineer, has died. He was 94. Megan Bond, a close friend who managed his affairs, told the AP that Beckey died of natural causes in her Seattle home...

It Started With an Ad for Sex. It Ended With a Best Seller.

Jane Juska, who wrote about late-in-life sex, has died at age 84

(Newser) - Jane Juska, whose chronicle of searching for sex as a woman in her 60s became a best-selling memoir and later a stage show, has died in California, per the AP . She was 84. Juska died Oct. 24 at a Chico care facility after a long illness, her son, Andy Juska,...

&#39;Blueberry Hill&#39; Singer Fats Domino Dead at 89
RIP to a Rock Legend:
Fats Domino Is Dead
OBITUARY
Oct 25, 2017 9:58 AM CDT

RIP to a Rock Legend: Fats Domino Is Dead

'Blueberry Hill' singer was 89

(Newser) - Rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino is dead at age 89, reports WWL-TV of New Orleans. His daughter confirmed the news to the station. No cause of death was immediately released, but the singer—born Antoine Domino Jr. in New Orleans, per People —was surrounded by family and...

Robert Guillaume Dead at 89
Robert Guillaume
Dead at 89
Oct 24, 2017 3:37 PM CDT

Robert Guillaume Dead at 89

He won Emmy Awards for his portrayal of acerbic butler in 'Benson' and 'Soap'

(Newser) - Robert Guillaume, who rose from squalid beginnings in St. Louis slums to become a star in stage musicals and win Emmy Awards for his portrayal of the sharp-tongued butler in the TV sitcoms Soap and Benson, has died at age 89. Guillaume died at home Tuesday in Los Angeles, according...

Canada Just Lost a National Treasure
Canada Just Lost
a National Treasure
OBITUARY
Oct 18, 2017 9:51 AM CDT

Canada Just Lost a National Treasure

Tragically Hip's Gord Downie dead at 53

(Newser) - After he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer , the Tragically Hip's Gord Downie didn't wait for death to take him. He embarked on a sold-out concert tour , released a solo album, raised money for cancer research, and put a spotlight on issues affecting indigenous Canadians, leading to his...

Trailer Park Boys Actor John Dunsworth Dies
Trailer Park Boys Actor
John Dunsworth Dies
OBITUARY
Oct 17, 2017 12:11 AM CDT

Trailer Park Boys Actor John Dunsworth Dies

'Jim Lahey' was 71

(Newser) - A sad day for Sunnyvale Trailer Park: John Dunsworth, the Canadian actor best known for playing alcoholic trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey in the Trailer Park Boys, has died. He was 71. "With heavy and broken hearts the family of John F. Dunsworth would like to let people...

Journalist Writes Own Obituary: 'I Wish I Had Done More'

Mark Mooney died Friday of prostate cancer at 66

(Newser) - "If you are reading this, that means that I am no longer here," Mark Mooney writes in the final entry of his blog, Closing in on -30- , which he started in October 2016 after being given two years to live by a doctor. The former reporter and...

Psychologist Who Captured Zeitgeist With 'Primal Scream' Dies

Arthur Janov was 93

(Newser) - Arthur Janov, the California psychotherapist whose development of primal scream therapy in the 1970s garnered him both celebrity patients and celebrity, died Sunday in Malibu at the age of 93, the New York Times reports. Primal scream therapy, which Janov claimed could "cure" everything from alcoholism and asthma to...

Remembering the &#39;Psychedelic Strangeness&#39; of Tom Petty
Why Tom Petty's
Death Hurts
So Much
THE RUNDOWN
Oct 3, 2017 10:00 AM CDT

Why Tom Petty's Death Hurts So Much

We've all sung his songs at karaoke and played them on the guitar

(Newser) - Tom Petty died Monday night at UCLA Medical Center at the age of 66 after suffering from cardiac arrest, and the tributes are now pouring in. Thanks to a mixup in the media that led to a premature announcement, the tributes actually began a little early, as he was showered...

How News of Tom Petty's Death Got So Mangled

The confusion started with CBS News and the LAPD

(Newser) - For several hours Monday, music lovers believed Tom Petty was dead. Courtney Love, Talib Kweli, and Kid Rock were among scores of fans posting remembrances on Twitter. A memorial was scheduled for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But the 66-year-old entertainer was still alive at the time,...

Media Titan Si Newhouse Dead at Age 89
Conde Nast's Si Newhouse
Dead at 89
OBITUARY
Oct 1, 2017 9:46 AM CDT

Conde Nast's Si Newhouse Dead at 89

Media titan died after long illness, per family spokesperson

(Newser) - Si Newhouse Jr., whose father founded a media behemoth that eventually fell under his purview, died Sunday at his home after a long illness, a family spokesperson confirmed to Vogue . He was 89. Newhouse, along with his brother Donald, owned Advance Publications, which included the Conde Nast empire, more than...

Let&#39;s Make a Deal Host Dies
Let's Make a Deal Host Dies
OBITUARY
Oct 1, 2017 12:03 AM CDT

Let's Make a Deal Host Dies

Game show icon Monty Hall is dead at age 96

(Newser) - Monty Hall, the genial TV game show host whose long-running Let's Make a Deal traded on love of money and merchandise and the mystery of which door had the car behind it, has died, reports the AP . He was 96. Hall died Saturday of heart failure at his home...

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