Obituaries

Remembering Ahmad Jamal, jazz piano legend and Grammy Lifetime Achievement winner

5:53pm April 17, 2023

by Karen Michel

Ahmad Jamal, a prodigious pianist, composer and bandleader whose seemingly effortless mastery resulted in part from a childhood dare, has died at age 92.

Music & Culture

Ahmad Jamal, measured maestro of the jazz piano, dies at 92

8:59pm April 16, 2023

by Martin Johnson

The pianist's 1958 recording At The Pershing: But Not For Me spent 108 weeks on the Billboard album chart.

Books
Arts

Remembering Raghavan Iyer, an icon of Indian cooking

5:33pm April 14, 2023

Raghavan Iyer, the chef who did so much to popularize Indian cooking in the U.S., has died after years of cancer treatments. He released his final book, "On the Curry Trail," a couple of months ago.

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Designer Mary Quant, one of the leading lights of the British fashion scene in the 1960s, having her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon in 1964.

Arts

Mary Quant, fashion designer who styled the Swinging Sixties, dies at 93

4:29pm April 13, 2023

by Neda Ulaby

Quant made playful clothes for young modern women they could wear to work and "run to the bus in." Her London shop was an epicenter of youth culture that popularized hot pants and miniskirts.

National

Remembering Maryann Gray, an advocate for those who have accidentally killed someone

5:15pm April 11, 2023

Maryann Gray spent her life advocating for those who have accidentally caused someone else's death, after she mistakenly hit a child while driving. Gray died on April 1.

'Mad Magazine' cartoonist Al Jaffee has died at 102

4:26pm April 11, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

Al Jaffee, the award-winning cartoonist, has died. He was 102. Jaffee developed some of Mad Magazine's most influential features, including the Fold-In and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions."

Lasse Wellander performs on stage with ABBA at the Wembley Arena in London in 1979.

Music & Culture

Lasse Wellander, longtime ABBA guitarist, has died at 70

10:21am April 11, 2023

by Barry Gordemer

Lasse Wellander, lead guitarist for the band ABBA, died Friday at the age of 70.

Queue Listen Now

Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee attends an event to honor veteran contributors to the magazine at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society on Oct. 11, 2011, in Savannah, Ga. Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102.

Arts

Al Jaffee, longtime 'Mad Magazine' cartoonist, dies at 102

7:25pm April 10, 2023

by The Associated Press

Mad Magazine's ageless wise guy delighted millions of readers with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions." Al Jaffee had retired at age 99.

National

Mimi Sheraton, pioneering NYC restaurant critic, dies after lifetime of good eating

4:16pm April 10, 2023

Mimi Sheraton, who chronicled New York's culinary scene, has died at 97. She is being remembered as the New York Times' first female restaurant critic, who enjoyed great food from little-known spots.

Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer and chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg war crimes trials, speaks during an opening ceremony for the exhibition commemorating the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, on Nov. 21, 2010.

World News

Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor of Nazis, has died at 103

12:01am April 09, 2023

by The Associated Press

Ben Ferencz tried Nazis for genocidal war crimes and was among the first outside witnesses to document the atrocities of Nazi labor and concentration camps.