Recent Obituaries in the News
Television
Music
Sports
- Warren Ferguson, judge who helped pave the way for teenage basketball players to join the NBA, dies at 87
- John Harrell, a point guard who helped lead Duke to the 1978 NCAA championship game, dead at 50
- NHRA driver Kalitta killed in horrific crash
- John Pont, who guided Indiana to its only Rose Bowl appearance 40 years ago, dies at 80
Politics
- Robert C. Seamans Jr., leading NASA manager during the race to the moon who later became secretary of the Air Force, dies at 89
- Abdel Wahab Al-Meseri, Leader of Egyptian movement demanding end to Mubarak's rule dies
- Kent Snyder, described as one of the strongest voices that convinced Texas congressman Ron Paul to run for president, dead at 49
- John Renteria, a Utah Latino activist and former Salt Lake City mayoral candidate dead at 56
International
Science and Technology
- James Davidson, a political science professor who was the last man to serve as Newcomb College's permanent dean, dies at 88
- William R. Bennett Jr., physicist who helped develop one of the first lasers nearly 50 years ago, dies at 78
- Leonid Hurwicz, who won Nobel Prize for economics last year, dies at 90
- Gunther Stent, one of the first scientists to confirm the structure of DNA, dies at 84
Other
- Franklin Otis Booth Jr., member of the founding family of the Los Angeles Times, dies at 84
- John Barnett, led Washington state's Cowlitz Indians to federal recognition, dies at 73
- Kermit Scott, inspiration for Jim Henson's proto-Muppet, Kermit the Frog, dies at 71
- Walter A. Netsch Jr., architect who designed the University of Illinois-Chicago campus, dies at 88
Business
- Philanthropist Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, heir to the StarKist tuna fortune, dies at 92
- Pamela Forrester, one of three northern Nevada women awarded millions in damages this year against pharmaceutical giant Wyeth, died Thursday. She was 65.
- Monroe J. Carell, Jr., former chairman and CEO of Central Parking, dies at 76
- Tony Schwartz, helped create the infamous "daisy ad" dies at 84
