obituary

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

4:30pm December 29, 2024

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old.

National

Opinion: Remembering Ethel Kennedy

8:00am October 12, 2024

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the legacy of Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy. She died Oct. 10 at the age of 96.

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Luis Tiant, charismatic Cuban who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a title, dies at 83

7:41pm October 08, 2024

The charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and pitched himself to the doorstep of the Hall of Fame.

Howard Blatt, stroke survivor who co-founded an aphasia support group, died at 88

5:17pm June 20, 2024

by Sacha Pfeiffer

After a stroke left Howard Blatt unable to speak, he helped create a support group for other people with aphasia, a brain condition that impairs communication. He recently died at age 88.

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Politics & Government

Ada Fisher, influential Black Republican in NC, dies at 74

11:10am October 11, 2022

by Associated Press

Dr. Ada Fisher, a retired physician who was one of North Carolina's members on the Republican National Committee for over a decade, has died at age 74, a funeral home said Tuesday.

Randy Weaver, the object of the Ruby Ridge siege, visits with the media at the main FBI roadblock outside the Freemen compound in Montana on April 27, 1996. Weaver, who served as a spark for the growth of anti-government extremists, has died at the age of

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Randy Weaver, participant in Ruby Ridge standoff, dies at 74

6:37pm May 12, 2022

by The Associated Press

A patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff with federal agents 30 years ago has died.

World News

A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed when Russian forces shelled his home

2:54pm March 21, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Boris Romantschenko was killed last week in a Russian attack in Kharkiv. He survived four concentration camps and later "campaigned intensively for the memory of the Nazi crimes."

Abdul Alim, one of Pakistan's oldest COVID survivors, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 104 years old.

A 104-year-old COVID survivor has died. He wanted to keep people safe until the end

5:14pm February 01, 2022

by Benazir Samad

In his final days, Alim asked people not to visit him or his family due to rising COVID cases in his community. "Even in death he wanted to keep people and our family safe," says his son.

Philip and Elizabeth carry around their eldest children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, circa 1951.

World News

Great Britain's Prince Philip Dies At Age 99

1:20pm April 10, 2021

by Vicki Barker

As Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip was the longest-serving consort in British history. He died Friday at Windsor Castle.

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The April 19 edition of The Boston Globe had 16 pages of obituaries.

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Obituary Writer Aims To Show How Coronavirus Impacts 'All People In Our Society'

11:46am May 27, 2020

Maureen O'Donnell of the Chicago Sun-Times says obituary writers aren't able to cover the life of each person who has died of COVID-19. But they do their best to tell "a variety of stories."

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