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Co-Creator of Beloved
Holiday Specials Dies at 87

OBITUARY

Oct 28, 2022 12:00 PM CDT

Co-Creator of Beloved Holiday Specials Dies at 87

Jules Bass brought 'Frosty' to life

(Newser) - Jules Bass, co-creator of some of the most beloved Christmas specials in history, has died at age 87. Bass, described by Variety as an "animator, producer, director, and composer," worked with Arthur Rankin Jr. on holiday specials including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus ...

Schitt's Creek Executive
Producer Dead at 47

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Oct 26, 2022 6:34 AM CDT

Schitt's Creek Executive Producer Dead at 47

Ben Feigin, who helped launch the hit CBC/Netflix series, has died of pancreatic cancer

(Newser) - One of the driving forces behind the award-winning CBC television series Schitt's Creek is gone. Variety reports that executive producer Ben Feigin died of pancreatic cancer, with confirmation on his death from United Talent Agency, his former employer. Feigin was 47. The Maryland native kicked off his career at...

'World's Dirtiest Man' Went Decades Without Bathing

'World's Dirtiest Man' Has Died

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Oct 25, 2022 1:04 PM CDT

'World's Dirtiest Man' Has Died

Iranian hermit is said to have relented and bathed just months ago

(Newser) - The media had named him "the world's dirtiest man," a moniker that was backed up by the alleged details of the Iranian hermit's life, which has come to an end after 94 years. In reporting his Sunday death, the Guardian explains the man was known as...

Ash Carter Oversaw
Big Changes to US Military

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Oct 25, 2022 11:28 AM CDT

Ash Carter Oversaw Big Changes to US Military

Former defense secretary dies of heart attack at age 68

(Newser) - Ash Carter, who as defense secretary in the final two years of the Obama administration opened military combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, has died at age 68. Carter died after suffering a heart attack on Monday evening, according a statement...

Man Who Turned Krating Daeng Into Red Bull Dead at 78

Billionaire Co-Founder
of Red Bull Dead at 78

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Oct 23, 2022 5:31 AM CDT

Billionaire Co-Founder of Red Bull Dead at 78

Dietrich Mateschitz co-founded energy drink company, founded Red Bull F1 racing team

(Newser) - Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and founder and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, has died. He was 78. Officials with the Red Bull racing team announced Mateschitz's death Saturday. The Guardian reports his death came after a long-term...

Carly Simon Honors Sisters Who Died a Day Apart

Carly Simon
Mourns Her Sisters,
Who Died a Day Apart

Oct 22, 2022 4:45 PM CDT

Carly Simon Mourns Her Sisters, Who Died a Day Apart

Joanna and Lucy Simon, who started out as a family act, both died of cancer

(Newser) - As a child, Carly Simon stammered. Her mother suggested she sing what she couldn't quite say, and her sisters, Joanna and Lucy, accompanied her in encouragement. "At dinner we wouldn't just say, 'Please pass the salt, thank you,' Lucy Simon later said. "We'd...

Son of a Man Born Into Slavery in Virginia Dies at 90

America's 'Last Direct Link
to Slavery' Has Died at 90

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Oct 21, 2022 6:59 AM CDT

America's 'Last Direct Link to Slavery' Has Died at 90

Civil rights activist Daniel Smith's father told family about the horrors of slavery

(Newser) - Daniel Smith, who may have been the last surviving child of an American born into slavery, has died at age 90 after a life so remarkable that a friend joked that he was the "Black Forrest Gump." Smith's father was born on a plantation in Virginia in...

JK Rowling
Knew He Had
to Be Hagrid

obituary

Oct 14, 2022 2:05 PM CDT

JK Rowling Knew He Had to Be Hagrid

British actor Robbie Coltrane from the Harry Potter movies is dead at 72

(Newser) - Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane has died at the age of 72, and while he had a long and successful career, US audiences will surely remember him best as Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies. Coltrane died in a Scottish hospital, and no cause of death was immediately provided, reports the...

Beloved Murder, She Wrote
Star Dies at 96

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Oct 11, 2022 3:12 PM CDT

Beloved Murder, She Wrote Star Dies at 96

Angela Lansbury was also a film, theater star in her long career

(Newser) - Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals Mame and Gypsy and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, has died five days shy of her 97th birthday. Lansbury died Tuesday at her...

'She Told the Truth
About Hollywood'

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Oct 10, 2022 9:25 AM CDT

'She Told the Truth About Hollywood'

Nikki Finke, founder of Deadline entertainment news site, has died at age 68

(Newser) - Deadline is reporting on a death that hits especially hard among its own: Nikki Finke, the fiery entertainment journalist who founded the Hollywood trade site, died Sunday at the age of 68 at her home in Boca Raton, Fla., after a long illness. Finke, who Variety notes was notorious...

WWE Wrestler
Sara Lee Dead at 30

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Oct 7, 2022 2:40 PM CDT

WWE Wrestler Sara Lee Dead at 30

'Tough Enough' contestant, mother of 3 dies unexpectedly of unknown cause

(Newser) - Sara Lee, a professional wrestler who nabbed a WWE contract as season 6 winner of the Tough Enough reality TV competition, has died. Lee's mother confirmed the 30-year-old mother of three, who was married to fellow wrester Westin Blake, died unexpectedly. "We are all in shock and arrangements...

Always a
'Happy Time
to Be Around
Her'

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Oct 7, 2022 9:55 AM CDT

Always a 'Happy Time to Be Around Her'

'Love Goddess' comedian Judy Tenuta dies at 72 of ovarian cancer

(Newser) - Judy Tenuta, a brash stand-up who cheekily styled herself as the "Love Goddess" and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died Thursday. She was 72. Tenuta died at home in Los Angeles, with her family around her, publicist Roger...

Track Dad Who
Helped Son Finish
Memorable Race Has Died

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Oct 5, 2022 10:25 AM CDT

Track Dad Who Helped Son Finish Memorable Race Has Died

Jim and Derek Redmond participated in 'one of the most inspirational moments in Olympic history'

(Newser) - Jim Redmond wasn't supposed to be on the track at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. He wasn't even an athlete, yet he played a key role in what the Olympic Committee calls "one of the most inspirational moments in Olympic history." Per NPR, Jim Redmond died...

'True Legend'
Loretta Lynn Takes
Her Final Bow

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Oct 4, 2022 10:35 AM CDT

'True Legend' Loretta Lynn Takes Her Final Bow

Trailblazing country singer died at home in Tennessee on Tuesday at the age of 90

(Newser) - The "Coal Miner's Daughter" has sung her last tune. Country singer Loretta Lynn died "peacefully ... in her sleep" Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., family members tell the AP . The 90-year-old, who suffered a stroke in 2017, died from natural causes, a rep tells TMZ...

2 Weeks After Academy
Apology, Littlefeather Dies at 75

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Oct 3, 2022 8:03 AM CDT

2 Weeks After Academy Apology, Littlefeather Dies at 75

Native American actor received 50-year-old mea culpa after she turned down Brando Oscar in '73

(Newser) - Last month, Sacheen Littlefeather received a mea culpa 50 years in the making from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which apologized for how she was treated when she rebuffed a 1973 Oscar for Marlon Brando. Now, just over two weeks later, the Native American activist and actress...

His 'Fight of the Century'
Against Ali Made Him Famous

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Oct 1, 2022 9:00 AM CDT

His 'Fight of the Century' Against Ali Made Him Famous

Popular Japanese wrestler and lawmaker Antonio Inoki is dead at 79

(Newser) - Popular Japanese professional wrestler and lawmaker Antonio Inoki, who faced world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in a mixed martial arts match in 1976, has died at 79. Inoki brought Japanese pro wrestling to fame and pioneered mixed martial arts matches between top wrestlers and champions from other combat sports like...

Judah Samet
Survived
Bergen-Belsen,
Mass Shooting

obituary

Sep 29, 2022 6:40 PM CDT

Judah Samet Survived Bergen-Belsen, Mass Shooting

After 'Schindler's List,' he decided to tell his story

(Newser) - Judah Samet, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped a shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, died Tuesday. He was 84. Samet, who survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in World War II, was running a few minutes late for services at the Tree of Life of Life synagogue and...

A Hip-Hop
Legend
Is Dead
at 59

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Sep 29, 2022 12:01 AM CDT

A Hip-Hop Legend Is Dead at 59

'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper Coolio dies in Los Angeles

(Newser) - The rapper Coolio, one of the biggest hip-hop stars of the 1990s, has died at age 59, reports the AP . The rapper—real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr.—is best known for his monster hit "Gangsta's Paradise" of 1995, featured in the Michelle Pfeiffer film Dangerous Minds....

Farewell to
One of Film's
Greatest Villains

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Sep 24, 2022 10:15 AM CDT

Farewell to One of Film's Greatest Villains

Oscar winner Louise Fletcher, Nurse Ratched in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' dies at 88

(Newser) - Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman's 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, has died at the age of 88, reports ABC7 . She died in her sleep at her home in Montdurausse, France, of unspecified causes, agent...

Death of
Hilary Mantel
'an Enormous
Loss to Literature'

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Sep 23, 2022 6:34 AM CDT

Death of Hilary Mantel 'an Enormous Loss to Literature'

British writer who wrote historical fiction about Thomas Cromwell suffered a stroke

(Newser) - Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Wolf Hall saga, has died. She was 70. Mantel died "suddenly yet peacefully," surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday, per the AP . Her longtime literary agent, Bill Hamilton, confirmed to the New York Times that...