Historian Arthur Schlesinger dies
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U.S. historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger Jr. died of a heart attack in Manhattan on Wednesday night, the New York Times reported on Thursday. He was 89.
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller has died  after battling cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition, The New  York Times reported on its Web site on Friday.
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r. Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, the psychiatrist whose pioneering work with terminally ill patients helped to revolutionize attitudes toward the care of the dying, died Tuesday at her home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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"MASH" director Robert Altman, who revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking with a chaotic, irreverent style that critics hailed as "American Art Cinema," has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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Artist Charles Biederman, known for his  geometric paintings and aluminum reliefs depicting his fiercely  held beliefs that art springs from nature, has died, a museum  spokesman said on Tuesday.
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AVIGNON, France, Oct 17  - Pierre Salinger, who served as press secretary to two US presidents, has died of a heart attack near his home in southern France, and is to be buried in his native United States, his French wife said early Sunday.
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Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in releasing his independent report this week on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, called the night shift at the prison &quot;a kind of &#39;Animal House.
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Vivian Green, a religious historian at Oxford University who was an inspiration for John le Carre's fictional spymaster George Smiley, has died. He was 89.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. - George Swift Schairer, a scientist whose discovery of Nazi wind tunnel research played a crucial role in development of swept-wing jets, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimerâs disease, his son said.
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Politicians and scholars pay tribute to Schlesinger's contribution to our understanding of American power.
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Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Sune Bergstroem, who shared the 1982 medicine award for research that led to new treatments for ulcers and menstrual pain, has died.
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Miles Lerman, 88, who as a young man fought the Nazis in the forests of Poland and who helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as an enduring reminder of the millions who perished, died Jan. 22 at his home in Philadelphia. The cause of death was "multiple complications of aging," his...
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Carl Mydans, 97, who died of a heart ailment Aug. 16 at his home in Larchmont, NY, was one of the most celebrated war photographers and roaming journalists of the past century. He often worked in tandem with his wife, the writer Shelley ...
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Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, whose provocative books revolutionized how the living talk about death and advocated a belief in the afterlife, died Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Arthur Miller, whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" made him one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, has died at the age of 89.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Warren Mitofsky, a survey researcher who pioneered the use of exit polls to cover elections and helped develop the sampling method used in most modern telephone polling, has died.