`Raymond' dad Peter Boyle dies in NYC
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Peter Boyle, the actor who transformed from an angry workingman in "Joe" to a tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and finally the comically grouchy father on "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71.
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Controversial Mancunian stand-up comedian dies of kidney failure at age of 76.
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Rod Kanehl, who hit the first grand slam in the history of the New York Mets, has died. He was 70.
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The son of Italian immigrants who turned an Armenian recipe into Rice-A-Roni, the popular dish known to Americans since the 1960s as "The San Francisco Treat," has died, his family said on Monday.
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Arts & entertainment: Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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Actor Jerry Orbach, longtime star of the &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; television series, died from prostate cancer on Wednesday, his manager told a local New York City radio station.
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HONOLULU - Hiram L. Fong, a Chinese immigrants&#39; son who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American elected to the US Senate, died Wednesday. He was 97.
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Barry Morse, who played a detective pursuing the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble in 1960s TV series "The Fugitive," has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 89.
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Jerry Orbach, acclaimed as a quintessential New York actor for his work on Broadway, in films and as the star of television&#39;s &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; has died from cancer.
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New York lost one of its signature artists Tuesday night when Broadway, movie and TV actor Jerry Orbach, who played hard-bitten Detective Lenny Briscoe in the NBC series &quot;Law and Order,&quot; died
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George Osmond, father of the famous singing siblings The Osmonds, dies in Utah at the age of 90.
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American intellectual and author Susan Sontag has died in New York at the age of 71. Her son, David Rieff, said the cause was complications stemming from acute myelogenous leukaemia, one of the deadliest forms of leukaemia.
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The mayor went to Queens to reach out to relatives and communities affected by the death.
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JERUSALEM  &#151; The son of Israeli novelist and peace activist David Grossman has been killed in southern Lebanon, the army said Sunday, just days after the author urged the government to end the war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Jerry Orbach, who starred in the television series &quot;Law &amp; Order&quot; and portrayed the overprotective father in the dance-film classic &quot;Dirty Dancing,&quot; died of prostate cancer on Tuesday evening, according to reports.
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Mickey Hargitay, the actor and world champion bodybuilder who was married to 1950s sex siren Jayne Mansfield and whose daughter is Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay, has died. He was 80.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion and portrait photography into art forms and captured unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker magazine said.