The Obituary Page

01/07/2026

He played the bad kid known as “Woim” — Butch’s sidekick — in the Hal Roach films before calling it a career when he was 15.

01/07/2026

Aldrich Ames was a counterintelligence officer for the CIA who spied for the Soviet Union and later Russia.

01/05/2026

The king, who danced with Anne Frank’s stepsister in 2022, said he and Queen Camilla ‘admired her deeply’

01/03/2026

Pioneering jockey Diane Crump, who broke barriers as the first female rider in the Kentucky Derby in 1970, has died at 77 after a battle with brain cancer.

01/02/2026

REMEMBERING VICTORIA JONES Click Image to Open Gallery:Tommy Lee Jones' daughter, Victoria, was found dead at a California hotel on New Year's Day ... TMZ ha...

12/30/2025

Schlossberg wrote in the New Yorker on Nov. 22, 2025, that she had acute myeloid leukemia, with a rare mutation called Inversion 3.

12/28/2025

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/28/brigitte-bardot-french-screen-legend-and-animal-rights-activist-dies

Bardot became a celebrated s*x symbol in 1950s and 60s, but later embraced animal rights activism and an increasingly controversial political stance

12/27/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/world/canada/annette-dionne-dead.html

She was the first to crawl, the first to cut a tooth, the first to recognize her name, and the last to die. And, like her sisters, she resented being exploited as part of a global sensation.

12/24/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/movies/robert-nakamura-dead.html

In his work, he often returned to Manzanar, the camp in which he and his family, along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent, were interned during World War II.

12/24/2025

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/jumbo-ozaki-dies-78-cancer-japan-golfer

Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, widely considered Japanese’s greatest golfer, has died from cancer. He was 78.

12/22/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/betty-reid-soskin-dead.html

She began working as a park ranger at age 85, educating visitors about the women and people of color who served on the home front in World War II — herself among them.

12/21/2025

REMEMBERING JAMES RANSONE Click Image to Open Gallery:James Ransone-- an actor best known for his role in the hit show "The Wire" -- has died by su***de, acc...