Obituaries

Actress Nagiko Tono has died, it was learned Thursday from the Sugamo Police Station of the Metro...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dave Parker, a hard-hitting outfielder who was set to be inducted into the Base...

Mick Ralphs, a guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member of the classic British rock band...

Scriptwriter James Miki, whose real name was Kiyomoto Yamashita, died of pneumonia on June 14 at ...

LONDON (AP) — Alfred Brendel, a pianist and poet renowned for his refined playing of Beethoven ov...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements ...

LONDON (AP) — Frederick Forsyth, the British author of "The Day of the Jackal" and other bestsell...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Famil...

Martha Miyake, a pioneering female jazz singer, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and...

Ellie Omiya, a painter, author and scriptwriter, died of illness on Wednesday, her management com...

Ruling and opposition party lawmakers, as well as government officials, are mourning the passing ...

WAKAYAMA (Jiji Press) - Shuhei Kishimoto, governor of Wakayama Prefecture, died of septic shock a...

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, known for his expertise on J...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of La...