WWII 'Flying Tigers' nurse dies at 95
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Rita Wong, the only Chinese nurse who cared for the famous "Flying Tigers" &#151; U.S. airmen who defended Chinese supply routes over the Himalayas during World War II &#151; has died, state media reported Thursday. She was 95.
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An American woman convicted of treason   and later pardoned for being "Tokyo Rose," one of several radio   announcers Japan used during World War Two to spew propaganda   to undermine American morale, has died, a Chicago hospital said   on Wednesday.
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[Sports India, Cricket]: Melbourne, Oct 11 : Legendary Australian Test cricketer and fighter pilot Keith Ross Miller Monday died in a nursing home here.
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The pilot of a civilian World War II stunt plane died Friday after the plane crashed while practicing just hours before an air show, officials said.
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Actress Shell Kepler, who for years played the gossipy nurse Amy Vining on the TV soap opera "General Hospital," has died. She was 49.
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Dr Raja Ramanna, the bellwether of Indiaâs nuclear programme, passed away at Bombay Hospital in the early hours of Friday. He was 79.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In sad news for animal lovers, the San Francisco Zoo announced Friday that Emily, a 12-year-old female Siberian tiger, died Thursday night from unknown causes.
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The Ministry of Defence has named the first British female soldier to die during military operations in Iraq. The body of Staff Sgt Denise Rose, 34, of the Royal Military Police&#39;s Special Investigation Branch, at a Basra military camp on Sunday.
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Groton ââ When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 63 years ago today, Catherine Kolnaski was just about 20 years old and training to become a nurse at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
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A middle-aged Alaskan woman who died in Harborview Medical Center with dementia hinting of an ailment similar to mad cow disease appears to have succumbed to an unknown kind of neurodegenerative disease.
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Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of the great post-World War II opera divas who Arturo Toscanini said had the "voice of an angel," has died, a family friend said Sunday. She was 82.
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Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, died Sunday (Sept. 19) at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She was 73.
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The woman treated at Harborview Medical Center this summer for a mysterious brain ailment related to mad-cow disease has died.
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Iva Toguri, 90, the American woman branded "Tokyo Rose" during World War II who was imprisoned for making treasonous radio broadcasts and exonerated decades later with a presidential pardon, died Sept. 26 at her home in Chicago. No cause of death was reported.
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A 25-year-old Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, Egypt's Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - The nurse who cared for an 83-year-old woman just before she died of a potassium overdose told an inquest Thursday that an intravenous pump was set at twice the speed she expected.
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Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, 90, an American woman branded "Tokyo Rose" during World War II, imprisoned for making treasonous radio broadcasts and decades later exonerated with a presidential pardon, died Sept. 26 at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. No cause of death was reported.