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.

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss Remembered
3 Nov 2009 at 4:00pm
Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose books, films, lectures and collections...

French Anthropologist Levi-Strauss Dies At 100
3 Nov 2009 at 1:55pm
Claude Levi-Strauss is widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that in...

DeCarava's Photos Improvised The Music Of Life
31 Oct 2009 at 10:24am
In the 1950s, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as...

Remembering Roy DeCarava's 60 Years Of Photos
30 Oct 2009 at 1:43pm
The photographer, who died Oct. 27 at age 89, dedicated his decades-long career to capturin...

The Night The Martians Marched On Mississippi
30 Oct 2009 at 5:22pm
When Joe Pigott was growing up in Mississippi, he knew that his step-grandfather was an unu...

'This Is It': Michael Jackson's Last Act
29 Oct 2009 at 12:00pm
Late pop superstar Michael Jackson's last stage moments are captured in the new film, This ...

Robert Baker
6 Nov 2009 at 12:57pm
Producer of The Saint who launched a preBond Roger Moore as the dashing Simon Templar

Squadron Leader Reg Lewis
6 Nov 2009 at 12:49pm
RAF navigator supplying the French Resistance who had to bail out and escaped across the ...

Air ViceMarshal Peter Farr
5 Nov 2009 at 12:33pm
Pilot who served in North Africa the Middle East and Burma and was famous for his curries

Brigadier Dick Webster
5 Nov 2009 at 12:33pm
Allround athlete and polevaulter who set a longstanding British record and had a varied A...

Joan Furbank
5 Nov 2009 at 12:29pm
One of Britain's bestknown flower arrangers who worked tirelessly for charitable causes a...

Camillo Cibin
5 Nov 2009 at 12:19pm
Bodyguard whose bravery saw him dubbed the Pontiff's 'Guardian Angel'