Obituaries

Remembering Susan Love, surgeon and advocate for breast cancer patients

4:59pm July 04, 2023

Renowned surgeon, researcher and activist Dr. Susan Love died at age 75 after a recurrence of leukemia. She was known in her field for fearlessly challenging the status quo.

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Joseph Pedott, man behind the ch-ch-ch Chia Pet, dies at 91

5:29pm July 03, 2023

Joseph Pedott, the advertising executive who popularized the Chia Pet, died June 22 at age 91.

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Rick Froberg performs in Drive Like Jehu at Coachella festival in Indio, Calif., in April 2015. Froberg died on Friday.

Rick Froberg was the perfect punk vocalist

5:14pm July 02, 2023

by James Doubek

Froberg's voice was unmistakable. In Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu, the frontman had the sweet mix of snarl and shrill.

Arts

Alan Arkin has died — the star of 'Get Smart' and 'Little Miss Sunshine' was 89

11:17am June 30, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

Arkin knew from childhood that he wanted to be an actor, and he spent a lifetime performing — the Academy Award winner appeared in more than 100 films in a career spanning over seven decades.

Julian Sands is best known for starring opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 film A Room with a View. He's pictured above in Mexico City in May 2012.

Arts

Actor Julian Sands found dead in California after going missing on hike

5:42pm June 27, 2023

by Andrew Limbong

The English actor was best known for starring opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 film A Room with a View. He was 65.

Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick at the Tony Awards in May 2016.

Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99

4:16pm June 23, 2023

by Jeff Lunden

The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist was one of the last masters of Broadway's Golden Age. His career extended over 60 years.

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Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers

2:40pm June 23, 2023

by Dave Davies

Ellsberg died June 16 at age 92. We listen back to a 2017 interview with him, and speak with New York Times correspondent Charlie Savage about Ellsberg's most recent document leak, at age 90.

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Peter Brötzmann, photographer in Buffalo, N.Y., in 2010.

Music & Culture

Peter Brötzmann, the heart — and lungs — of European free jazz, dead at 82

1:12pm June 23, 2023

by Nate Chinen

The indefatigable saxophonist who helped redefine jazz in the late 1960s died in his sleep Thursday.

British businessman Hamish Harding, pictured here in Beverly Hills, Calif., in January, was the holder of three Guinness World Records.

The 5 men who were aboard the wrecked Titan sub loved adventures — and taking risks

5:03pm June 22, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The five people who died while trying to catch a glimpse of the wrecked ocean liner included a Guinness World Record holder, a deep sea entrepreneur, wealthy businessmen and "Mr. Titanic."

National

Remembering Donald Triplett, the first person to be diagnosed with autism

4:40pm June 22, 2023

Donald Triplett, the first person to be diagnosed with autism, dies at 89.

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