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May 8, 2008 1:16 PM CDT

Country's Eddy Arnold Dies at 89

The 'Tennessee Plowboy' sold 85M records, brought music to the masses

(Newser) - Eddy Arnold, the “Tennessee Plowboy,” died this morning at the age of 89, the Tennessean reports. Ranked as Billboard’s most popular country musician of all time, Arnold sold more than 85 million records and had 37 singles on the pop charts. Besides being remembered as a caring...

Ice Cream Guru
Robbins Dead

May 6, 2008 11:45 PM CDT

Ice Cream Guru Robbins Dead

'31 Flavors' co-founder leaves behind countless fans

(Newser) - Irvine Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, has died at 90, the LA Times reports. Robbins grew up scooping ice cream at his family’s Tacoma, Wash., shop and opened his own store in California in 1945. As his chain expanded, he loved inventing and naming new...

Woman Who Defied Interracial Marriage Ban Dies at 68

May 5, 2008 4:11 PM CDT

Woman Who Defied Interracial Marriage Ban Dies at 68

Mildred Loving launched case that led to Supreme Court changing law in 1967

(Newser) - Mildred Loving, whose challenge to Virginia law led to the Supreme Court decision overturning bans on racially mixed marriage, has died at the age of 68. Loving, who was black, and her white husband Richard pleaded guilty to “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of...

Would-Be Hitler Killer Dead at 90

Obituary

May 3, 2008 6:29 PM CDT

Would-Be Hitler Killer Dead at 90

Von Boeselager escaped after trying to murder the Führer twice

(Newser) - The last surviving member of a cabal that twice tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler died this week at age 90, the Telegraph reports. Nearly all of Phillip Von Boeselager’s co-conspirators were executed after a 1944 attempt to plant a bomb under the table at Hitler’s East Prussian headquarters,...

Soldier Laid to Rest
After 4 Years

Apr 28, 2008 10:27 AM CDT

Soldier Laid to Rest After 4 Years

Thousands pay tribute to Sgt. Matt Maupin in Ohio memorial services

(Newser) - Thousands attended emotional memorial services over the weekend for an Ohio Army reservist whose remains made the journey home 4 years after he was captured in Iraq. Ten thousand filed past Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin's casket, and 3,000 attended a ceremony at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati yesterday,...

Jazzman Giuffre Dead at 86

Apr 26, 2008 6:26 AM CDT

Jazzman Giuffre Dead at 86

Adventurous instrumentalist and composer Jimmy Giuffre was a '50s jazz hero

(Newser) - The iconoclastic clarinetist and composer Jimmy Giuffre died Thursday, two days before what would have been his 87th birthday, the New York Times reports. The Texas-born jazz legend's 50-year career took him from big-band hits with Woody Herman to minimalist trios, with a stint playing in mess halls as a...

E Street Rocker
Danny Federici Is Dead at 58

Apr 18, 2008 7:36 AM CDT

E Street Rocker Danny Federici Is Dead at 58

Keyboardist played on decades of Springsteen hits

(Newser) - Longtime Bruce Springsteen keyboardist Danny Federici died yesterday at the age of 58 in New York after a three-year battle with melanoma. As a member of the Boss’ E Street Band, he performed on hit records for decades and helped bring Springsteen into the spotlight after jamming in New Jersey...

Pioneering Disney Animator Dead at 95

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Apr 16, 2008 2:40 AM CDT

Pioneering Disney Animator Dead at 95

Bambi's creator Johnston was last of Disney's 'Nine Old Men'

(Newser) - The last surviving member of Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men," who pioneered character animation, has died at the age of 95, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ollie Johnston's many creations, often in collaboration with Frank Thomas, included sequences and characters in Pinocchio, the Jungle Book, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty,...

Tragic Bond Links Heart Donor, Recipient

Apr 7, 2008 4:16 PM CDT

Tragic Bond Links Heart Donor, Recipient

Men married same woman, committed suicide 12 years apart

(Newser) - A Georgia man who took his own life last week had lived 12 years after receiving a transplanted heart from a South Carolina man who also committed suicide, police said. And in a twist worthy of Edgar Allan Poe, the donor's widow had met and married the recipient, the Hilton...

Charlton Heston Dead at 84

Apr 5, 2008 11:50 PM CDT

Charlton Heston Dead at 84

Longtime leading man, former NRA president, had Alzheimer's

(Newser) - Charlton Heston, the longtime Hollywood leading man who portrayed everyone from Moses to Michelangelo and won an Oscar for his chariot-driving performance in Ben Hur, has died at age 84, the AP reports. Heston, who announced in 2002 that he had Alzheimer's, became the unapologetic head of the NRA in...

Film Noir
Master
Dassin
Dead at 96

Obituary

Apr 1, 2008 7:53 AM CDT

Film Noir Master Dassin Dead at 96

American director made classic Rififi in France

(Newser) - Jules Dassin, a master of film noir who left Hollywood after being blacklisted, has died in an Athens hospital at the age of 96, reports the Los Angeles Times. Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Connecticut, Dassin made such dark crime dramas as Brute Force and The Naked City in...

'Killing Fields'
Photog Dith
Dead at 65

Obituary

Mar 30, 2008 12:39 PM CDT

'Killing Fields' Photog Dith Dead at 65

Times photojournalist and anti-Khmer Rouge crusader had pancreatic cancer

(Newser) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful of...

McMuffin Man Dead at 89

Mar 27, 2008 2:45 AM CDT

McMuffin Man Dead at 89

Herb Peterson invented fast-food breakfast in a sandwich

(Newser) - The inventor of the Egg McMuffin has died in his Southern California home at the age of 89, AP reports. Herb Peterson began working with McDonald's in the advertising department, and later switched to the hands-on side of the business, owning six restaurants in the Santa Barbara area. Peterson,...

'Fifth Beatle' Aspinall Dies at 66

Obituary

Mar 25, 2008 7:59 AM CDT

'Fifth Beatle' Aspinall Dies at 66

First road manager became guardian of group's legacy

(Newser) - "Fifth Beatle" Neil Aspinall, the first road manager of the legendary band who later ran the Beatles' recording company, has died from lung cancer. Aspinall, 66, was the chief guardian of the group's musical legacy after the Beatles broke up. "He vigorously fought to protect the Beatles franchise,...

Actor Paul Scofield Dead at 86

Mar 20, 2008 7:25 AM CDT

Actor Paul Scofield Dead at 86

British star of stage and screen won Oscar for A Man for All Seasons

(Newser) - Paul Scofield, the British actor who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons, has died at the age of 86. His agent told Reuters that the actor, who eschewed Hollywood stardom for smaller film roles and a robust theater career, had been...

Former Child Pilot
Commits Suicide

Mar 19, 2008 10:06 AM CDT

Former Child Pilot Commits Suicide

Youngest person to ever cross the Atlantic dead at 26

(Newser) - Vicki Van Meter, the girl who at age 11 astounded the nation with a 5-hour cross-country flight, is dead at 26, the AP reports, of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Van Meter’s trans-continental flight was a record at the time, and a year later she became the youngest pilot...

Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead at 90

Mar 18, 2008 8:55 PM CDT

Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead at 90

'2001' author shaped space-age thought

(Newser) - Arthur C. Clarke, the sci-fi author who helped shape 20th-century scientific imagination, is dead at 90, the New York Times reports. The co-creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey faced post-polio syndrome in recent decades and died at his home in Sri Lanka due to breathing trouble. “No one can...

Director Minghella
Dead at 54

Mar 18, 2008 11:02 AM CDT

Director Minghella Dead at 54

Filmmaker won Oscar in 1997 for The English Patient

(Newser) - Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella died today at 54, the Guardian reports. Minghella won the 1997 best director Oscar for The English Patient and was nominated as a screenwriter for The Talented Mr. Ripley in 2000. "This is a shattering blow from someone who was a major figure in...

Hundreds
Mourn Metzenbaum

Mar 17, 2008 5:07 AM CDT

Hundreds Mourn Metzenbaum

Ex-Ohio senator fondly recalled as truth-teller, dreamer

(Newser) - Hundreds of relatives, friends, and fellow politicians gathered outside Cleveland yesterday for the funeral of Howard Metzenbaum, recalling the ex-senator as a fighter for the little guy and a self-made millionaire who never forgot his modest roots, the Plain Dealer reports. "No one . . . was a better ally or a...

Ohio's 'Senator No' Metzenbaum Dead at 90

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Mar 13, 2008 3:20 AM CDT

Ohio's 'Senator No' Metzenbaum Dead at 90

Crusading Democrat took on big business in long Senate career

(Newser) - Former Ohio senator Howard Metzenbaum has died at home at the age of 90, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Democrat, his views shaped by the Great Depression and FDR's policies, fought hard for the rights of workers during a political career that began in 1943. Colleagues nicknamed the self-made...