The Obituary Page

08/05/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/obituaries/rahaman-ali-dead.html

Some said he had shown nearly as much promise in the ring as Muhammad Ali. But he gave up his own career to join the champ’s entourage.

08/03/2025

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station's empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy "WKRP in Cincinnati," died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.

07/29/2025

https://apnews.com/article/dwight-muhammad-qawi-braxton-dead-ba5953ee0859a3b2d08592ef76679f40

Dwight Muhammad Qawi, the Hall of Fame fighter who took up boxing in prison and became a two-weight world champion, has died. He was 72.

07/29/2025

https://apnews.com/article/ryne-sandberg-dead-bef54481c04d15870c48ee7aea7ed131

Ryne Sandberg, a Hall of Fame second baseman who became one of baseball’s best all-around players while starring for the Chicago Cubs, has died. He was 65.

07/27/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/obituaries/polina-gelman-overlooked.html

She was a navigator with an all-female unit of Soviet aviators who attacked German troops at night, whooshing in wooden planes like witches on broomsticks.

07/27/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.

07/27/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/business/joan-anderson-dead.html

Because of a deal made on a handshake in a parking lot, she was long left out of a famous toy’s story. When she was 94, a documentary changed that.

07/25/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/roy-black-dead.html

With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith r**e case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.

07/24/2025

https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/chuck-mangione-dead-feels-so-good-jazz-horn-player-1236469147/

Chuck Mangione, the jazz flugelhorn and trumpet player whose catchy instrumental 'Feels So Good' made the pop top 10, has died at 84.

07/24/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/science/sarah-morlok-cotton-dead.html

She was the last of four sisters who became a Depression-era sensation, performing onstage. Offstage, they endured abuse and were studied for their schizophrenia.

07/24/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/arts/television/eileen-fulton-dead.html

She was a mainstay of the long-running soap opera for 50 years — so long that she liked to say she led a double life.