James O. Rigney Jr., Wrote as Robert Jordan, Dies at 58
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James Oliver Rigney Jr. was a prolific author who under the pseudonym Robert Jordan wrote the âWheel of Timeâ series, a best-selling multivolume fantasy saga.
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Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. He was 92.
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Country and Western singer Jerry  Scoggins, whose baritone rendition of the theme song of "The  Beverly Hillbillies" became one of television's favorite tunes,  has died in Los Angeles at age 93, his family said on Thursday.
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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89, a publicist said.
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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A hit 1960s songwriter was wrongly reported dead after the death of a man who claimed authorship.
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Laura Branigan, who had a slew of hits in the 80s, passed away suddenly on Thursday night at the age of 47. The cause of death was described as a brain aneurysm.
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Top-selling British author Arthur Hailey, whose novels sold 170 million copies around the world, died in his sleep at his Bahamas home, his wife said on Thursday.
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J. A. Riggs Jr. was a former executive vice president at The New York Times who oversaw the newspaperâs conversion from hot-lead type to modern offset printing.
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Paul Arizin, an early pioneer of the jump shot who led the Philadelphia Warriors to the 1956 NBA championship and was chosen one of the 50 greatest NBA players, died Tuesday at his home in suburban Philadelphia. He was 78.
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David Groh, the handsome, hardworking character actor who was best known to television viewers as the easygoing man Rhoda Morgenstern married and divorced during the run of Valerie Harper's hit 1970s sitcom "Rhoda," has died. He was 68.
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New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a lead writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to the noodle shops of Saigon and restaurants of Paris to write about the food and wine he loved, died on Wednesday. He was 71.
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Playbill - Roy Scheider, a character actor who in the 1970s found an unlikely career as a leading man, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, AR, the New York Times reported. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
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James Arthur "Jimmy" Griffin, who was a founding member of the 1970s pop group Bread and shared an Oscar for co-writing "For All We Know," died of complications from cancer. He was 61.
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Twardowski, Robert J. "Bobby" Suddenly passed away December 10, 2006 at the age of 55 years. Beloved husband of Sharon (nee McNabb) for 12 years. Brother of Linda (Tom) Wheeler, Greg Twardowski, and other family members. Preceded in death by his parents Richard and Jean Twardowski.
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A man has lost his wife and sister to a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) which strikes one in a million people. Barry Harper&#39;s wife Phyllis, from Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, died last month after battling
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British-born author, Arthur Hailey, died peacefully in his sleep Wednesday night at his home in Lyford Cay on New Providence Island, the Bahamas where he had lived for forty years.