Famous People Obituaries

Famous People Obituaries help to make their lives and work a little closer to the rest of us. When famous people pass away, it can be a shock to the community because their life and work as touched many people far and near. Here are selected Famous People's Obituaries.

A Son's Premonition, And A Final Baseball Game
20 Nov 2009 at 12:21am
Dr. Gregg and Kathryn Korbon tell the story of the Brian C. Korbon Field in Charlottesville...

Civil Rights Champion Remembered
19 Nov 2009 at 4:00pm
Birmingham, Ala., barber and civil rights champion James Armstrong died Wednesday, at age 8...

Remembering Former U.S. Envoy To China
16 Nov 2009 at 4:00pm
James R. Lilley, the U.S. ambassador to China during the Tiananmen Square crisis in 1989, d...

Television Writer David Lloyd Dies At 75
15 Nov 2009 at 4:00pm
One of television's most successful comedy writers, David Lloyd, died this week. He was 75....

Mike Cahill, The Only Civilian To Die At Fort Hood
15 Nov 2009 at 8:00am
Funerals are being held this weekend for some of the 13 people killed in the Fort Hood shoo...

In Memory Of Gene Cohen, Visionary On Aging
13 Nov 2009 at 9:57am
Dr. Cohen's research showed that old age can be a time of creativity.

Lino Lacedelli
20 Nov 2009 at 1:03pm
Climber whose conquest of K2 restored Italy's national pride but was later tainted by con...

Max Robertson
20 Nov 2009 at 1:01pm
BBC presenter on Panorama and Going for a Song who also excelled as 'the other voice of W...

JeanneClaude
20 Nov 2009 at 8:29am
Artist whose monumental installations included wrapping up the Reichstag and the Pont Neu...

Stanley Ellis
19 Nov 2009 at 12:44pm
Dialect expert who warned against 'Wearside Jack' and counted 88 ways of saying 'gibblefi...

Tomaz Humar
19 Nov 2009 at 12:36pm
Daring climber who tackled the world's highest peaks and brought mountaineering into the ...

Tom Hudson
19 Nov 2009 at 12:12pm
Chairman of ICL who sought to take on the American computer giant IBM