Whitney Houston, once one of the biggest stars in American popular culture, has died.

It was just under a year ago that the last American veteran and the last combat veteran of World War One passed away, and over the weekend that last known veteran died in England at the age of 110: The last veteran of World War I was a waitress, and for 90 years no one [...]

Soul Train’s Don Cornelius has been shot to death. He was 75. CNN (“Coroner: ‘Soul Train’ founder dead of gunshot wound“): Don Cornelius, the founder of “Soul Train,” has been found dead in Los Angeles, Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said Wednesday. He died of a gunshot wound at a [...]

After a depressing and sad end to a storied career, Penn State’s legendary JoePa has passed away.

One of the most recognizable faces of 1990s politics has passed away: Tony Blankley, a noted conservative author and commentator and former editorial page editor of The Washington Times, died Sunday morning, according to family sources. He was 63 and had been battling stomach cancer. Mr. Blankley was an executive vice president of the Edelman [...]

Vaclav Havel, who spent the 70s and 80s as a playwright-turned-dissident protesting in his own way against the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia and then became leader of the country in the 1990s, has died at the age of 75: PRAGUE — Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down [...]

R.I.P.

We held Kim’s services this morning. These were my prepared remarks.

My wife, Kimberly Webb Joyner, died this morning in her sleep from unknown causes. She was 41.

Greg Halman, an outfielder for the Seattle Mariners baseball team, was stabbed to death in his native Holland. His brother is the chief suspect.

Andy Rooney, best known to recent generations as the cranky old man at the end of “60 Minutes,” has died at 92.

William Niskanen, one of the key architects of Ronald Reagan’s economic polices and longtime chairman of the Cato Institute, has died. He was 78. Oddly, while the news is all over Twitter, his Cato colleague Chris Edwards‘ personal reflection is the only news item I’m seeing: We were all saddened today at Cato to learn of [...]

The co-founder of one of the most successful technology companies ever has passed away after a years-long battle with cancer: Steve Jobs, the demanding visionary who understood before anyone else how deeply we would live our lives through our devices, has died at the age of 56, only weeks after resigning as chief executive of [...]

Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.

Charles Percy, who was one of the stalwarts of the moderate “Rockefeller” wing of the Republican Party, which pretty much died off after the 1980 election, has died at the age of 91: Charles H. Percy, the wonder boy from Illinois, president of Bell & Howell at 29, a United States senator at 47, and [...]

Former Oregon governor and long-time US Senator Mark Hatfield has died.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

TMZ (“Amy Winehouse Found Dead“): Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment in London today … this according to several reports. A press release from the Metropolitan Police, which doesn’t specifically name Winehouse, says: “Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23 [...]

Former First Lady Betty Ford passed away yesterday evening in California: Betty Ford, the outspoken and much-admired wife of President Gerald R. Ford who overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the best-known rehabilitation centers in the nation, died Friday in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 93. Her death was [...]

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger

James Arness, best known as the iconic Marshal Dillon on Gunsmoke, has died at 88.

Jack Kevorkian, the man who’s illegal assisted suicide rampage earned him the nickname “Dr. Death,” has died.

Gil Scott-Heron, most famous “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” has died at 62.

Actor Jeff Conaway, best known for his role of Bobby Wheeler on “Taxi,” is dead after a drug overdose.

Just two months after Frank Buckles, the last American veteran of World War One, passed away, the world has now reached the point where there are no living combat veterans of what was once called The War To End All Wars: Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died Thursday [...]

A moment of silence across all of Washington Hubert Schlafly created the teleprompter, the device that helps actors and politicians read scripts on television without looking down. Then he helped develop the satellite and cable networks that sent their words around the globe. Mr. Schlafly, an engineer who died April 20 at age 91, created [...]

Tim Hetherington, who produced and co-directed the excellent Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo about one American platoon’s experiences in Afghanistan over the course of a year, has been killed during a battle in Misrata, Libya: BENGHAZI, Libya — Tim Hetherington, the Oscar-nominated film director and conflict photographer who produced the film “Restrepo,” was killed in the besieged [...]

The first female, and the first Italian-American, to run on a major party Presidential ticket passed away earlier today at the age of 75: Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who in 1984 strode onto a podium to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as [...]

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

The legendary columnist David Broder has died.

The last American veteran of a conflict which ended nearly a century ago has died.

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne has succumbed to the inevitable at the ripe old age of 96.

Major Dick Winters, whose World War II exploits with the 2nd of the 506th were made famous by the HBO mini-series “Band of Brothers,” has died at 92. Dick Winters, the former World War II commander whose war story was told in the book and miniseries “Band of Brothers,” has died. Dick Winters led a [...]

Doc Searls reports the sad news that humorist Gil Templeton died last night.  He was just 53. I haven’t seen my old friend Gil Templeton since his brother David’s wedding, whenever that was. Ten years ago? Twelve? Both Gil and David worked for me — Gil as a copywriter in North Carolina and David as a [...]

The woman who became the inspiration for one of the most well-known propaganda posters of the World War Two era has died: Geraldine Doyle, 86, who as a 17-year-old factory worker became the inspiration for a popular World War II recruitment poster that evoked female power and independence under the slogan “We Can Do It!,” [...]

One of the most active American diplomats of the past twenty-five years has passed away.

Elizabeth Edwards has died: Elizabeth Anania Edwards, who became a national figure in her fight against cancer and as a partner in her husband John’s political career, died today. She was 61. Edwards spent much of her life as a little-known Raleigh lawyer and mother. But that all changed when her husband, John Edwards, entered [...]

Via the DMN:  Legendary Cowboys, SMU quarterback Don Meredith dies. Don Meredith, the Dallas Cowboys and SMU quarterback and Monday Night Football icon, died Sunday evening in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 72. Meredith died at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, a hospital spokesman confirmed this morning. The Meredith family’s attorney, Lisa Fine Moses, [...]

Theodore Sorensen, a speechwriter and close adviser to President John F. Kennedy, died today at the age of 82

Actor Tom Bosley, best known for his role as Howard Cunningham on TV’s “Happy Days,” had died at 83.

Barbara Billingley of “Leave it to Beaver” and “Airplane” fame has died at the ripe old age of 94.

Stephen J. Cannel, the man behind “The Rockford Files” and “The A-Team,” had died at 69.

The obituary of Mr. Donald Charles Unsworth asks that people donate to Obama’s opponent rather than sending flowers.

Leonard Skinner, the PE teacher whose name inspired former students to name their band Lynyrd Skynyrd has died at 77. The teacher’s distaste for the long hair of pupils at Robert E Lee high school in Jacksonville in the 1960s led to many a shaggy-fringed student being sent to the headteacher’s office – among them [...]

Dan Rostenkowski has died: Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a family friend said. He was 82. 1/4 Rostenkowski, who served 18 terms before losing in 1994, died surrounded by family [...]

Authorities and family are now confirming that former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has died in a plane crash in Alaska: (CNN) — Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has died in a plane crash near Dillingham, Alaska, a source familiar with ongoing rescue efforts confirms to CNN. The private plane carrying Stevens and a former head [...]

Daniel Schorr’s journalism career ended far too early, lasting a mere eighty-one years.

The WSJ has an interesting interaction time of Byrd’s life here:  click.

Senator Robert Byrd has died at 92, after years of poor health.

Sausage king Jimmy Dean has died. Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, “Big Bad John,” and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81. [...] Born in 1928, Dean was raised in poverty in Plainview, Texas, and dropped out of high school [...]