'Gloria' Singer Laura Branigan Dies at 47
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Laura Branigan, a Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her 1982 platinum hit "Gloria," has died. She was 47.
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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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Marc Almond, former lead singer of electro-pop group Soft Cell, is critically ill after a motorcycle accident. The 48-year-old, best known for his number one hit Tainted Love, a cover of the Gloria Jones Northern
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Famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who appeared on stage with singers as varied as opera star Dame Joan Sutherland, U2's Bono and Liza Minnelli, died Thursday after suffering from pancreatic cancer.
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MODENA, Italy  - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who brought opera to the masses, died on Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 71.
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MODENA, Italy  - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who brought opera to the masses with his powerful voice and jovial personality, died on Thursday of pancreatic cancer, aged 71.
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US singer Laura Branigan, who had hits with Gloria and Self Control in the 1980s, dies unexpectedly in her sleep.
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Laura Branigan, the Grammy-nominated singer who shot to fame with   her 1982 anthem "Gloria," died of a brain aneurysm Thursday at her home   in East Quogue, New York. She was 47.
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Frankie Laine, who had a string of hit songs in the 1950s, dies in California at age 93
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Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
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(andPOP) - Jerry Orbach, the man who played Detective Lennie Briscoe for 12 years on Law &amp; Order, died Tuesday. He was 69. Orbach revealed earlier this month that he was being treated for prostate cancer.
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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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Grammy-nominated singer Laura Branigan, best know for her 1982 hit &quot;Gloria,&quot; died in her sleep Thursday. The cause? A brain aneurysm.
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Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles after a battle with throat cancer, her sister, Jacqueline Gaither, said.
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Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.
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Former Texas first lady Nellie  Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John  F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the  age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.