Iconic singer and New Jersey native Connie Francis, known for hits such as “Pretty Little Baby” and “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” has died at 87. Francis’ death was confirmed on social media by her friend and copyright manager Ron Roberts Thursday — two…
Browsing: Obituaries
Shigeo Nagashima, Japan’s most celebrated baseball player and a linchpin of the storied Tokyo Yomiuri Giants dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s, died in a Tokyo hospital on Tuesday. He was 89. He died of pneumonia, according to a joint…
Herbert Migdoll, the official photographer and designer of the Joffrey Ballet for about a half-century, who was admired for capturing the flight of its dancers with his lens, died on April 19 in the Bronx. He was 90. His death,…
David Cope, a composer and pioneer in the field of algorithmic composition, who in the 1980s developed a computer program for writing music in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and other Classical masters, died on May…
Loretta Swit, the Emmy-winning actress who made the high-strung and relentlessly militaristic Maj. Margaret Houlihan human, dignified and, against all odds, sympathetic on the acclaimed television series “M*A*S*H,” died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87. Her…
Bill Aitken, a self-described “founding father of the hippies” who hitchhiked from England to India in 1959 and became a literary guru for generations of wanderers with books that explored the subcontinent’s rivers and railways and the spiritual quest that…
