Read the latest on the deaths of notable people. These news stories recount the lives that made them prominent locally, nationally and worldwide.
Richard "Dick" Crews, a sports pioneer who was the first Black player on the Washington men’s basketball team, died Monday morning of Alzheimer’s. He was...
Ruth Buzzi, who rose to fame as the frumpy and bitter Gladys Ormphby on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and made...
His films, including “First Blood” and “Weekend at Bernie’s,” covered a range of genres. He later worked on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her...
Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian and Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, has died at 91.
Elaine Wynn’s influence reached beyond Las Vegas as a cultural steward, including serving on the Kennedy Center board and as a deep-pocketed art collector whose...
She not only helped develop the hit 1970s show, but also acted in it, and had a decades-long career in film, TV and theater.
One of the biggest stars of Philippine cinema in a career spanning seven decades, Nora Aunor has died.