Hundreds of people turned out for the funeral of a 100-year-old war veteran from Jamaica who had no family in the UK, after a plea from his care home. Ex-RAF serviceman Oswald Dixon died on 25 September at Broughton House in Salford, Greater Manchester. RAF Cadets and members of 34 …
He led international effort to block 2003 U.S. war in Iraq His 40-year career culminated in two terms as head of state Jacques Chirac, the French president who led his country into Europe’s common currency and spearheaded international opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday. He was …
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who rose to power as a champion of anti-colonial struggle but during 37 years of authoritarian rule presided over the impoverishment and degradation of one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most promising countries, died Sept. 6 at a hospital in Singapore. He was 95. Zimbabwe’s current leader, …
The world is burning, and he and his brother own a share of the blame. By the time he died on Friday at the age of 79, David Koch was worth $42.4 billion. He will be remembered for what he did with it. Some people will probably praise his charitable …
While Pol Pot has gone down in history alongside Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong as one of the most murderous leaders of the 20th Century, his right-hand man is less known. But Nuon Chea, the mysterious “Brother Number Two” of the Khmer Rouge ultra-communists, was just as vital …
João Gilberto, a Brazilian guitarist and singer who helped define the subtle, swaying and quietly sensuous style of music known as bossa nova, which became a worldwide craze in the 1960s, died July 6 at his home in Rio de Janeiro. He was 88. His son, João Marcelo Gilberto, announced …
BANGKOK — Prem Tinsulanonda, an army commander in chief who served as prime minister of Thailand and later became the head of the influential Privy Council of the king, died on Sunday in Bangkok. He was 98. His death was confirmed by Chai Chidchob, a senior lawmaker in the National …
Herman Wouk, whose taut shipboard drama “The Caine Mutiny” lifted him to the top of the best-seller lists, where he remained for most of a career that extended past his 100th year thanks to page-turners like “Marjorie Morningstar,” “Youngblood Hawke” and the World War II epics “The Winds of War” …
Dan Robbins, the artist behind the paint-by-numbers craze that swept America, has died in Sylvania, Ohio at the age of 93, his son told the AP news agency. He was working at a paint products firm in the 1940s when he invented the kits. By the 1950s millions were being …
Dan Jenkins wrote, “You have to laugh trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.” But the loss of a father, a good father, is very big trouble, and he was the one person who could laugh that down to size for me. As his daughter, I’m …
Charles McCarry spent almost 10 years in the CIA as an undercover agent, operating alone as he roamed throughout Africa, Europe and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. He never carried a gun. He was in the agency when the Berlin Wall went up in 1961. He was in and …
The US sailor famously photographed kissing a stranger in New York’s Times Square to celebrate the end of World War Two has died aged 95. The picture of George Mendonsa bending over and kissing 21-year-old Greta Zimmer Friedman on VJ Day (Victory over Japan) became one of the most enduring …