Obituaries & memorials

Clare Hollingworth, the woman who broke the news of WWII, dead at 105

Hong Kong (dpa) – British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth is dead, aged 105, it was announced on her Facebook page Tuesday night. Hollingworth made history for her discovery that Germany was about to invade Poland and start World War II. She got the scoop just a week into her first job as a journalist at […]

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Former German president Roman Herzog dies aged 82

AFP- Former German president Roman Herzog, best remembered for urging “a jolt” of political and social reform in his country, has died at the age of 82, the presidential office said Tuesday. He died in the early hours of Tuesday in a hospital near his hometown in the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg, a spokeswoman said.

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Akbar Rafsanjani, former Iranian president, dies at 82

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president whose support for social freedoms and outreach to the United States made him a powerful ally of moderates despite allegations of corruption and authoritarianism, died Sunday. The cause was a heart attack, state news media reported. Iran declared three days of mourning for one of its most significant

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Middle East, Obituaries & memorials

Civil rights leader Roy Innis, who moved from liberalism to libertarianism, dies at 82

Civil rights icon Roy Innis, who for over 50 years in public life confounded stereotypes and the conventional wisdom of politics, died Sunday morning in New York City after a long illness. He was 82. “Roy got up every day and followed his conscience on what he thought was right, and if that led him

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Obituaries & memorials, USA

Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds buried in Los Angeles

Los Angeles (dpa) – Hollywood actresses Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher were buried in a Los Angeles cemetery on Friday in a private service. The ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills was attended by family and friends including Fisher’s brother Todd and her daughter Billie Lourd, according to US media reports.

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Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia dies aged 75

Buenos Aires (dpa) – Argentine novelist and short story writer Ricardo Piglia died on Friday at the age of 75, his publisher Anagrama confirmed. Piglia, one of the most important Argentine writers of the past 50 years, had been suffering for several years from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. He published his first

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Bishop who smuggled arms to Palestinians dies in Rome

Hilarion Capucci, who spent four years in Israeli prison, participated in Gaza flotillas, called a ‘martyr’ by PA By Times of Israel staff Archbishop Hilarion Capucci (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Piotr Zygulski/Wikimedia Commons) A Syrian Catholic bishop famous for his support of Palestinians, who was once imprisoned by Israel for smuggling weapons to West Bank

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“M.A.S.H” fans are mourning one of the show’s most beloved actors, William Christopher

PASADENA, Calif. — William Christopher, best known as the calm-voiced Father Francis Mulcahy on “M.A.S.H.,” has died. He was 84. His son, John Christopher, told KABC his father died of non-lung small cell carcinoma. RELATED: On New Year’s Eve, someone from Mariah Carey’s team asked an embarrassingly obvious question William Christopher played the role of

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Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher to be buried together

Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher will have a joint funeral and are to be buried together in Hollywood, according to Reynolds’ son. Todd Fisher said no date had been set for the funeral, which will be private. Carrie Fisher’s body was released to her family on Friday. The actress and writer who starred

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Tyrus Wong, artist whose paintings inspired Disney’s ‘Bambi’ and other films, dies at 106

LOS ANGELES—In the late 1930s, when few doors were open to the son of a poor Chinese immigrant, Tyrus Wong landed a job at Walt Disney’s studio as a lowly “in-betweener,” whose artwork filled the gaps between the animator’s key drawings. But he arrived at an opportune moment. Disney’s animators were struggling to bring “Bambi”

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