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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 ...
Dame Lesley Strathie
8 Feb 2012 at 12:03pm
As chief executive and permanent secretary of HM Revenue and Customs, she was committed to ...
Doreen Woodford obituary
8 Feb 2012 at 11:54am
My friend and colleague Doreen Woodford, who has died aged 85, was an advocate of the right...
Jean Sargeant obituary
8 Feb 2012 at 11:37am
When Jean Sargeant, who has died aged 78, lost her job at the Sunday Times in the Wapping d...
Antoni Tąpies and his art - in pictures
8 Feb 2012 at 11:27am
The Catalan artist Antoni Tąpies, who saw his art as a meditation on 'the void', has died a...
Erna Bennett obituary
8 Feb 2012 at 9:32am
My friend Erna Bennett, who has died aged 86, was a bundle of contradictions and had a rang...
Joan White obituary
8 Feb 2012 at 9:00am
My mother Joan White, who has died aged 95, was a Yorkshire railwayman's daughter who, from...
Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110
8 Feb 2012 at 5:27pm
by By MARGALIT FOX
Mrs. Green, a teenage officers? mess waitress, signed up in the last months of the war and ...
Norton D. Zinder, Researcher in Molecular Biology, Dies at 83
8 Feb 2012 at 5:23pm
by By NICHOLAS WADE
Dr. Zinder helped lay the basis for molecular biology in the 1950s and ?60s.
Harry Keough, Member of U.S. Soccer Team That Shocked England,...
8 Feb 2012 at 8:36pm
by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr. Keough, a defender who had one goal in 19 appearances for the United States from 1949 t...
John Christopher, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 89
8 Feb 2012 at 5:23pm
by By PAUL VITELLO
Mr. Christopher was author of the ?Tripods? trilogy among many other books under many other...
Antoni Tąpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88
8 Feb 2012 at 5:23pm
by By WILLIAM GRIMES
Mr. Tąpies grounded his work in the brute reality of the Spanish street and in the turbulen...
Robert B. Cohen Dies at 85; Founded the Hudson News Chain
8 Feb 2012 at 5:32pm
by By DENNIS HEVESI
Mr. Cohen was president of the Hudson County News Company, a newspaper distributorship, whe...
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