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Community members and family members are mourning the loss of a veteran journalist from Washington, D.C. who died Tuesday. Derrick Ward Sr., a reporter at NBC4 Washington (WRC-TV) and formerly of ...
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.
Brian Oldfield (June 1, 1945 – March 26, 2017) [1] was an American athlete and personality of the 1970s and early 1980s. A standout shot putter, Oldfield was credited with making the rotational technique popular.
Valter Nyström, 95, Swedish Olympic track and field athlete. [129] Danny Stiles, 87, American radio host. [130] Donny George Youkhanna, 60, Iraqi archaeologist, anthropologist and author, heart attack. [131] Notable Japanese killed during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: Miki Endo, 25, voice warning and alarm agent. [132]
The Carter Center also announced his death in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Carter's wife of nearly eight decades, Rosalynn Carter , died 13 months earlier at the age of 96.
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (/ z ə ˈ h ɑːr i ə s /; née Didrikson; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field.
The couple, identified by family as Beverly and Wendell Harmon, were found shot to death in their home a week ago. Mystery surrounds shooting death of beloved Altadena couple Skip to main content
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...