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.

Frank Neuhauser, winner of first national spelling bee, dies a...
22 Mar 2011 at 4:02am
by Emma Brown
Frank Neuhauser was a patent lawyer who made news headlines more than 85 years ago when he ...

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who negotiated s...
21 Mar 2011 at 6:05pm
by Bart Barnes Special to the Washington Post
Warren M. Christopher led the State Department during President Bill Clinton's first term.

Cleo Johnson, founder of nation's first black-owned modeling s...
21 Mar 2011 at 6:00pm
by Lauren Wiseman
Cleo Johnson started the country's first black-owned modeling school in the 1950s.

A Local Life: John Hoke, 85, never ran out of inventive ideas
22 Mar 2011 at 12:20am
by Emma Brown
John Hoke invented an air-conditioned pith helmet powered by solar energy.

Carol Anne Patt, cataloguer
19 Mar 2011 at 7:03pm
by Post
Carol Anne Patt, 50, a cataloguer with the Library of Congress and Drug Enforcement Adminis...

Nancy B. Landon, book buyer
19 Mar 2011 at 6:55pm
by Post
Nancy B. Landon, 74, who was the children's book buyer for two stores in suburban Maryland ...

The Rev Alex Leckey obituary
16 May 2012 at 8:33am
My father, Alex Leckey ? who has died of pneumonia, a complication of Parkinson's, aged 69 ...

Carlos Fuentes obituary
15 May 2012 at 4:52pm
by Nick Caistor
Mexico's most celebrated novelistThe writer and polemicist Carlos Fuentes, who has died age...

Sir Roy Shaw obituary
15 May 2012 at 2:11pm
by Richard Hoggart
Champion of adult education and Arts Council head who fought for fundingWhen Roy Shaw, who ...

Günther Kaufmann obituary
15 May 2012 at 1:50pm
by Ronald Bergan
German actor best known for his roles in the films of FassbinderFilmgoers familiar with the...

Bruce King obituary
15 May 2012 at 1:14pm
Some Esher residents may have known that their elderly paperboy, Bruce King, was also their...

Letter: Canon Eric James was one of the founder members of the...
15 May 2012 at 1:07pm
Readers of Canon Eric James's obituary who were interested in the reference to his 1998 lec...