Days before her death, she was honored with a birthday luncheon where she spoke of a life in promoting entertainment and working with legends like Cameron Mackintosh and Barbra Streisand. She and her close friends all looked fabulous.
David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls, has died.
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” was killed early Saturday in a car crash. She was 63.
Douglas Peterson, who died in February, helped found the Green Man Theatre Group and the Elmhurst Center for the Performing Arts.
Funeral services will be held Sunday for Dan Casper, founder of the Manhattan Weather Channel, who died Feb. 21 at age 60.
Martin E. Marty, an ordained Lutheran pastor, seminary professor and highly influential voice on religion, has died.
Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog were found dead in different rooms of their Santa Fe home, and they had been dead for some time, according to investigators.
Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor, has been found dead along with his wife at their home. He was 95.
Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who appeared in the 1996 “Harriet the Spy” hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy TV shows at the dawn of the millennium — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl” — has died. She was 39.
Allen Sanderson, a University of Chicago economics professor who built a national reputation for his knowledge about sports economics, has died.