Obituaries

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roger Corman, the "King of the Bs" who helped turn out such low-budget classic...

SEOUL (Reuters) — Kim Ki Nam, one of the longest-serving North Korean officials, who served all t...

LONDON (AP) — Actor Bernard Hill, who delivered a rousing cry before leading his people into batt...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Playwright Juro Kara, a leading figure in Japan’s underground theater moveme...

Popular pianist Fuzjko Hemming died on April 21 due to pancreatic cancer, the Fujiko Hemming Foun...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for suc...

Tomihiro Hoshino, quadriplegic poet and painter, dies at 78

Bridal fashion designer Yumi Katsura passed away Friday, it has been learned. She was 94.

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...