German artist Immendorff dies at age 61
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German expressionist artist Joerg Immendorff, famous for his surreal and provocative paintings and sculptures, died on Monday at age 61 in Duesseldorf after a long illness, his wife Oda Jaune-Immendorff said. via Reuters
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was legendary director Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer of choice, died Wednesday after a long illness, his son said. He was 83.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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Susan Sontag, the internationally renowned novelist, essayist and critic died yesterday in New York. Her impassioned advocacy of the avant-garde and equally impassioned political pronouncements
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Abstract artist Edo Murtic, one of Croatia's most prominent painters, dies aged 83 after a long illness.
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti has died in hospital, aged 95.
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French artist, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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Novelist, essayist, critic, filmmaker, political commentator and lesbian Susan Sontag -- one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals -- died Tuesday at Memorial Sloan-Kettring Cancer Center in Manhattan from leukemia complications.
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Playbill - Marcel Marceau, the Frenchman whose name was synonymous with the art of mime, has died, according to Reuters. He was 84.
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Mr. Kleihues died in Berlin on Aug. 13, after a lengthy battle with Parkinson's disease.
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Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
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Cinematographer Sven Nykvist, who often worked alongside director Ingmar Bergman, dies at 83.
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Joachim Fest, a journalist and historian who worked closely with Adolf Hitler's architect Albert Speer on his memoirs and wrote one of the best-regarded biographies of the Nazi dictator, has died at age 79, his newspaper said Tuesday.
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans, a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has died at age 97.
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Josef Schwammberger, a former Nazi labor-camp commander who was known for his particular sadism and hid for 40 years in Argentina before being captured and returned to Germany for trial, has died in a prison hospital. He was 92.
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Former world heavyweight boxing champion  Max Schmeling has died at the age of 99, German sport news  agency SID reported Friday.