Wife of Cuba's acting leader dies at 77
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Vilma Espin Guillois, the wife of acting President Raul Castro and one of the communist nation's most politically powerful women, died Monday, the Cuban government announced. She was 77.
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Hilda Bernstein, an anti-apartheid activist and author whose husband was tried for treason alongside Nelson Mandela, has died. She was 91.
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Cuban authorities transferred a jailed  dissident suffering from a herniated disc to a military  hospital on Thursday after his wife staged an unprecedented  protest in Havana's Revolution Square.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning actress and first wife of former US President Ronald Reagan, dies at 93.
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A Cuban exile who helped lead a group that tried for decades to overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro has died. He was 88.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died today, a family spokeswoman said.
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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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The daughter of a CIA pilot executed  during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion plans to go after Cuban  assets in the United States after winning an $86.5 million  lawsuit against President Fidel Castro, her lawyer said on  Friday.
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Mary Elaine Gennoy, a medical marijuana activist and a ubiquitous and popular figure in the Castro, where she lived and once ran as a write-in candidate for San Francisco supervisor, died Sept.
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Cubans ratified a slate of parliamentary candidates on Sunday including Fidel Castro, the ailing 81-year-old leader who has not been seen in public for nearly 18 months.
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Maria Esther de Capovilla, a 116-year-old woman believed to have been the world's oldest person, has died in her native Ecuador, her granddaughter said Monday. Her successor is likely a woman from Tennessee.
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The ailing Cuban president said Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed revolution.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - 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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Billy Graham's wife and partner passes away after a lifetime of evangelism and celebrity
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Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who became a bitter critic of Washington's Cuba policy, has died aged 72
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A US woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in Alaska has died at the age of 89.
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Ignacio Insua, a Cuban cameraman working   for Reuters Television in Havana, died on Monday of a heart   attack after suffering spine injuries in a car accident. He was   57.