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NATIONAL OBITUARIES
  • Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100

    PARIS (AP) -- After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology....

  • NH WWII pilot who sought his lost wings dies at 90

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died Tuesday at age 90....

  • Inventor who claimed to have seen Nessie dies

    BOSTON (AP) -- Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died. He was 87....

  • UAB spokesman: Former NBA player Alan Ogg dies

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Alan Ogg, a 7-foot-2 shotblocker who played for UAB and spent parts of three seasons in the NBA, died Sunday from complications from a staph infection, a university spokesman said. He was 42....

  • Former South Korean spy master Lee Hu-rak dies

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday. He was 85....

  • 'Palimony' figure Michelle Triola Marvin dies

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michelle Triola Marvin whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony" into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76....

  • Lawyer in landmark breast implant lawsuits dies

    HOUSTON (AP) -- Flamboyant lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck. He was 68....

  • STORY REMOVED: FBN--Obit-Vikings-Thomas

    EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) -- The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about former Minnesota Vikings strong safety Orlando Thomas dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease. The team - the source of the incorrect information - and Thomas' agent now say Thomas has not died. A corrected story will follow....

  • Retired AP reporter Neuerbourg dies at 88

    GENEVA (AP) -- Hanns Neuerbourg, a roving Associated Press correspondent in eastern Europe who also covered the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and interviewed Elvis Presley, has died in Switzerland. He was 88....

  • Chief bodyguard of Pope John Paul II dies

    ROME (AP) -- The longtime chief bodyguard of the late Pope John Paul II, who accompanied him in trips abroad and was nearby during the 1981 attempted assassination of the pontiff, has died in Rome at 83....

  • NHL icon Bill Chadwick dies at 94

    CUTCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) -- Bill "The Big Whistle" Chadwick, the first U.S.-born official in NHL history who was later a popular broadcaster for the New York Rangers, died Saturday. He was 94....

  • Maine girl with 'mermaid syndrome' dies at 10

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with fused legs, a rare condition often called "mermaid syndrome," and gained a wide following on the Internet and national television, has died. She was 10....

  • Ohio prof who pioneered study of pop culture dies

    TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Ray Browne, an Ohio university professor who was credited with coining the phrase "popular culture" and pioneering the study of things such as bumper stickers and cartoons, has died. He was 87....

  • Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83

    DETROIT (AP) -- Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83....

  • Wife of former AP general manager dies at 93

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Betty Gallagher, the wife of a former Associated Press general manager and president who helped him run the Berlin bureau after World War II, died Thursday. She was 93....

  • Education reformer Theodore Sizer dies at 77

    BOSTON (AP) -- Theodore Ryland Sizer, a passionate leader in education reform who led Ivy League education departments and progressive high schools, has died after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 77....

  • 'To Kill a Mockingbird' actress dies in NC

    HIGHLANDS, N.C. (AP) -- Actress Collin Wilcox-Paxton, who portrayed the false accuser in the movie classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," died of brain cancer just months after the diagnosis. She was 74....

  • Australian TV star Don Lane dies

    SYDNEY (AP) -- Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," died Thursday. He was 75....

  • Nancy Spero, feminist artist, dies at 83 in NYC

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Feminist artist Nancy Spero, whose works have been included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, has died. She was 83....

  • Former LA Times journalist Jack Nelson dies at 80

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the Los Angeles Times and was the paper's Washington bureau chief for 20 years, died Wednesday. He was 80....

  • Former Wyo. governor, US Sen. Clifford Hansen dies

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Former Wyoming governor and U.S. Sen Clifford Hansen, a rancher who rode his agricultural background to political success in Cheyenne and Washington, D.C., died Tuesday night. He was 97....

  • NJ mass murderer who killed 13 in 1949 dies at 88

    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation's worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88....

  • Film, TV producer Daniel Melnick dies at 77

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Daniel Melnick, the producer who brought gutsy, smart movies like "Straw Dogs," "Network" and "Midnight Express" to the big screen, has died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 77....

  • Church Universal and Triumphant leader dies

    BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the spiritual leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, which gained notoriety in the late 1980s for its followers' elaborate preparations for nuclear Armageddon, has died. She was 70....

  • Ex-LA Rams running back Cullen Bryant dies at 58

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Cullen Bryant, who spent 11 seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, was a running back on their 1980 Super Bowl team and fought the NFL's trading rules to remain in town, has died. He was 58....

  • Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein dies at 61

    Bruce Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard Ltd. and a prominent Wall Street dealmaker who helped negotiate some of the largest corporate takeovers in history, died Wednesday. He was 61. The death of the driving force behind Lazard raises questions about the future of one of Wall Street's top mergers and acquisitions advisory firms....

  • Navajo Nation mourns passing of Code Talker

    PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) -- Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday. He was 88....

  • Federal judge who shattered old Texas dies at 89

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice, whose rulings shattered old Texas by changing the way the state educated children, treated prisoners and housed its poorest and most vulnerable citizens, has died. He was 89....

  • Pro wrestler, music video icon Albano dies at 76

    NEW YORK (AP) -- "Captain" Lou Albano, who became one of the most recognized professional wrestlers of the 1980s after appearing in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" music video, died Wednesday. He was 76....

  • Former big league pitcher Larry Jansen dies

    VERBOORT, Ore. (AP) -- Larry Jansen, the winning pitcher for the New York Giants in the 1951 playoff game decided by Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World," has died. He was 89....

  • Gately, of Irish boy band Boyzone, dies in Spain

    PORT D'ANDRATX, Mallorca (AP) -- Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site. He was 33....

  • Founder of Warburg Pincus dies

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Lionel Pincus, founder and chairman of New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has died, according to a spokesman for his longtime partner, Princess Firyal of Jordan. He was 78....

  • Singer Luis Aguile has died

    MADRID (AP) -- Luis Aguile, an Argentine singer-songwriter whose career blossomed after he moved to Spain, died in a Madrid hospital on Saturday, his manager said. He was 73....

  • Swiss writer Chessex, 75, dies

    YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland (AP) -- Jacques Chessex, one of French-speaking Switzerland's leading novelists and the first non-Frenchman to receive the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has died, officials said Saturday. He was 75....

  • Russian crime boss Ivankov dies in hospital

    MOSCOW (AP) -- Vyacheslav Ivankov, a Russian crime boss who spent nearly 10 years in a U.S. prison, died Friday in a Moscow hospital, two months after being shot several times coming out of a restaurant. He was 69....

  • Ben Ali, founder of Ben's Chili Bowl in DC, dies

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ben Ali, the founder of Ben's Chili Bowl diner, a landmark in Washington's black business and entertainment district and a frequent stop for politicians and celebrities, has died. He was 82....

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