Jörg Immendorff, who died on Monday aged 61, was Germany's best-known and most provocative artist, a close friend of the former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and, in 2003, the central figure in a sex scandal involving prostitutes and cocaine-fuelled orgies at a luxury hotel ( Read more... )

Charles Nelson Reilly, whose persona as a wacky game show panelist and talk show guest overshadowed his serious work as a director and Tony-winning actor, has died. He was 76 ( Read more... )

Terry Ryan, who wrote the book "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," later turned into a movie, about how her mother kept the family financially afloat by winning jingle contests, has died. She was 60 ( Read more... )

Yolanda King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, collapsed and died. She was 51 ( Read more... )

The Rev. Jerry Falwell has died, a Liberty University executive said Tuesday. He was 73 ( Read more... )

Veteran war correspondent Kate Webb, whose obituary was once written in 1971 after she went missing and was feared dead during the Vietnam War, died on Sunday. She was 64 ( Read more... )

Clarinetist Alvin Batiste, who toured with Ray Charles, recorded with Branford Marsalis and taught pianist Henry Butler, died Sunday of an apparent heart attack. He was in his 70s ( Read more... )

Wally Schirra, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury 7 project, died Thursday at age 84, NASA officials said ( Read more... )

Tommy Newsom, the former backup bandleader on "The Tonight Show" whose "Mr. Excitement" nickname was a running joke for Johnny Carson, has died. He was 78 ( Read more... )

Jack Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday. He was 85 ( Read more... )