Religious Historian Dies at 89
31515
Vivian Green, a religious historian at Oxford University who was an inspiration for John le Carre's fictional spymaster George Smiley, has died. He was 89.
107079
Mr. Massingberd, a celebrated former obituaries editor of The Telegraph of London who made a once-dreary page required reading, died on Christmas Day.
175514
The patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of the estimated 300,000 Orthodox Christians in Africa, died Saturday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen
672954
Oriana Fallaci, an Italian journalist who stirred controversy with her criticism of Islam, dies at the age of 76.
323412
Archbishop Christodoulos, who helped heal centuries-old grievances with the Roman Catholic Church but also but stirred controversy, was 69.
438485
VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 13, 2004 .- John Paul II fondly recalled his exchanges of letters and meetings with Orthodox Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, who died Saturday in a helicopter accident near Mount Athos.
39373
Sir William Deakin, a historian who founded St. Antony's College at Oxford University, helped Winston Churchill write about World War II, and led the first British mission to Marshal Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia, has died at the age of 91, his family said.
92455
The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, dies, aged 69, after a battle with cancer.
22057
The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
199821
The funeral has taken place of Dr Beyers Naude, one of the leading anti-apartheid campaigners in South Africa, who died earlier this month aged 89.
317697
The Patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians in Africa, died Saturday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed into the sea, government and church officials said.
316971
Pioneer soft porn filmmaker Russ Meyer, whose âskin flicksâ gained a cult following, has died at his home in the Hollywood Hills, aged 82.
32844
Cardinal James A. Hickey, former archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
596428
George Russell Barber, an Army chaplain from the U.S. landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day during World War II, has died at age 90.
613381
Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of  the Roman Catholic church in Washington, D.C., for 20 years,  died on Sunday, the city's regional church body said. He was  84.
768603
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78.
572675
George Habash, the founder of a radical movement that staged hijackings and kidnappings to highlight the Palestinian struggle, died in Jordan on Saturday, his family said. He was 80.