Dick Button, Figure Skating Champion and Commentator, Dies at 95
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Dick Button, Figure Skating Champion and Commentator, Dies at 95

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Dick Button, whose passionate and often tart commentary on figure skating competitions became a television staple over six decades and made him the sport’s unofficial spokesman, died on Thursday in North Salem, N.Y. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his son,…

Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78
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Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a 1964 party for the Rolling Stones, she was approached by their manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, who was drawn by her beauty. “He asked me, ‘Can you sing?’ And I said, ‘Mm-mm, I can,” she said in a 2005 interview on NPR….

William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102
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William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian whose books cemented the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt among the greatest American presidents, died on Tuesday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 102. His death was confirmed by Miguel La Serna, chairman of the…

Pableaux Johnson, the Heart of New Orleans Hospitality, Dies at 59
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Pableaux Johnson, the Heart of New Orleans Hospitality, Dies at 59

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Pableaux Johnson, a New Orleans food writer, photographer and cook who spread the gospel of community by serving bowls of red beans and rice to thousands of people, and who documented the city’s singular Mardi Gras traditions, died there on Sunday. He was…

Mike Hynson, Surfing Star of ‘The Endless Summer,’ Dies at 82
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Mike Hynson, Surfing Star of ‘The Endless Summer,’ Dies at 82

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer” and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos of the sport on his way to being hailed a colossus…

Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94
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Derek Humphry, Pivotal Figure in Right-to-Die Movement, Dies at 94

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Derek Humphry, a British-born journalist whose experience helping his terminally-ill wife end her life led him to become a crusading pioneer in the right-to-die movement and publish “Final Exit,” a best-selling guide to suicide, died on Jan. 2 in Eugene, Ore. He was…

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier
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Nancy Leftenant-Colon, 104, Dies; Army Nurse Broke a Color Barrier

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces, died on Jan. 8 in Amityville, N.Y., on Long Island. She was 104. Her great-niece Gilda Leftenant confirmed the death,…

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95
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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations made by the Fleischer brothers in the 1930s and ’40s. When…

Cecile Richards, Former Planned Parenthood President, Dies at 67
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Cecile Richards, Former Planned Parenthood President, Dies at 67

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tall and elegant, she was an engaging, charismatic speaker. “She spoke to you, rather than at you,” the journalist and novelist Anna Quindlen said in an interview on Monday, “a kind of authenticity with a touch of Texas.” During her 12-year-term, Ms. Richards…

Heinz Kluetmeier, Inventive Sports Photographer, Dies at 82
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Heinz Kluetmeier, Inventive Sports Photographer, Dies at 82

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Heinz Kluetmeier, a prominent photographer for Sports Illustrated who captured the exultation of the United States men’s Olympic hockey team when it upset the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Games and the swimmer Michael Phelps’s minuscule margin of victory in a gold…