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'
John O'Quinn: Flamboyant trial lawyer who won numerous billion...
6 Nov 2009 at 7:00pm
In the high-octane city of Houston, indeed in the entire outsized state of Texas, there pro...
Keith Kettleborough: Midfielder whose artistry and industrious...
6 Nov 2009 at 7:00pm
With his balding head, pallid features and scuttling gait, Keith Kettleborough didn't cut a...
Lives Remembered: Eddie Lever
6 Nov 2009 at 7:00pm
Eddie Lever died on 25 August at the end of a long life dedicated to his socialist ideals a...
Arthur Giardelli: Painter steeped in the avant-garde who used ...
5 Nov 2009 at 7:00pm
The painter Arthur Giardelli was steeped in the work of the European avant-garde and brough...
Ian Craig: Lobby journalist for the 'Liverpool Echo' and 'Manc...
5 Nov 2009 at 7:00pm
The sudden death of Ian Craig, who was a stalwart of the Westminster press lobby for more t...
Obits in Brief: Robert H. Rines
5 Nov 2009 at 7:00pm
Robert H. Rines, who died on 1 November aged 87, was a lawyer, composer, inventor and physi...