Rest In Peace Jason Molina

On the evening of Saturday 16th March 2013, Jason Molina’s body finally packed in. Drink had done for him. He would not see his 40th birthday. His will ultimately be a very small footnote in the wider history of...

Charlie Richardson obituary

Charlie Richardson, who has died of peritonitis aged 78, was the head of the notorious Richardson gang, the main criminal rivals to the Krays in the 1960s. In 1967 he was sentenced to 25 years following...

We’re all doing it – now Jeffrey Zaslow crashed & died

We’re all doing it – dying that is  For some it is a long and dragged out affair, for others it is short and sweet. There is a plethora of possibilities in between and many are unpleasant and for others...

Remember Howard Cosell saying his name, “Angelo Dundee?”

Remember Howard Cosell saying his name, “Angelo Dundee?” Four years younger than the champion sportscaster, the champion corner trainer and Muhammad Ali’s coach has died at age 90. When Cosell said it, it...

World's Oldest Working Musician Dies at 103

Ukulele legend and jazz guitarist, Bill Tapia, known to many fondly as "Uncle Bill," passed away in his sleep today at his home in Westminster, CA. Born on New Year's Day 1908, he was less than one month shy of his...

Cliff Robertson, solid actor

Solid actor. I thought he portrayed John Kennedy with genuine accuracy. I enjoyed him as sponge diver too. " “Actor Cliff Robertson dies at 88 By Adam Bernstein, Published: September 10 Cliff...

Boston Globe Obituary writer shares 6 life lessons: from the dead

" What does an obituary writer learn about life from covering the dead? [Boston Globe] asked the Globe's Bryan Marquard, who has written nearly 800 obituaries since switching to that beat three and a half years...

Scooby Secrets

"File this under little known facts. ‘Scooby-Doo’ cartoonist dies at 81 Iwawo Takamoto said he created Scooby-Doo after talking with a Great Dane breeder and named him after Frank Sinatra’s final phrase in “Strangers in the Night."

Obituaries and Memorial Services Going Social Networking

For years, families and friends have traditionally mourned their loved ones in private settings, mostly enclosed only to those who were relatively close to the deceased person. However, as social networks are becoming more of the everyday living for many people around the...

Author Frank McCourt dies

Frank McCourt was an Irish-American raconteur and memoirist whose abilities gained a world-wide audience only after entering retirement. Prior to springing to international acclaim, Frank had been a public school teacher for 30 years and was fondly regarded as a jovial and...

Tony Hart Children's TV Legend Dies

The artist and children's TV presenter Tony Hart has died aged 83. Hart was a regular on TV's Vision On and then had his own art programmes for children called Take Hart and Hart Beat. He inspired children all...

Oliver Postgate Dies

It is a sad day for children of a certain age, that the creator of Bagpuss and Ivor the Engine has died, aged 83.With the help of artist Peter Firmin, Postgate created some of Britain's most popular children's...

Silent Star, Anita Page dies, aged 98

Actress Anita Page has has died at her Los Angeles home, aged 98.New York born, she started her film career in her teens with a small role in the film A Kiss for Cinderella.  In the 1930's, she became a...

Steve Jobs is Dead! I Mean... Alive! (Erroneous Obituary Published)

What, is it that slow a news day that Bloomberg had to spice things up by declaring Apple honcho Steve Jobs dead? Or, more likely, to they have an ongoing obituary file on hand in case he doesn't live to reach eighty-something? INdeed, it's common practice for news outfits to...

Solzhenitsyn passes away in Moscow

News just in:The Russian Gazeta is reporting the death of writer and Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  Initial reports suggest that he died of heart-failure.  He  was 89.This story has just...

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