Obituaries

Yukio Kasaya, who won Japan’s first gold medal at a Winter Olympics when he soared to victory in ...

Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago...

Dickey Betts, who died Thursday at age 80, really was born a ramblin' man.

Novelist Osamu Souda, the author of "Bokura no Nanokakan Senso" ("Seven Days War"), has died at t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Faith Ringgold, an award-winning author and artist who broke down barriers for Bl...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he kill...

Jockey Kota Fujioka died Wednesday night at a hospital where he was taken after falling off a hor...

Former yokozuna Akebono died from heart failure. He was 54.

LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-cal...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Democrat Joseph E. Brennan, whose hardscrabble childhood shaped his workin...

Former NHK announcer Kenji Suzuki, who gained popularity as the host of culture and information p...

HONOLULU (AP) — Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded ...

Ushio Amagatsu, who led the internationally acclaimed butoh dance company Sankai Juku for almost ...

A farewell ceremony for enka ballad singer Aki Yashiro, who passed away in December at 73, was he...

Actor Minori Terada, whose career spanned over six decades, died of lung cancer on March 14. He w...