Obituaries

The 28-year-old award winning young man was declared dead on Friday, April 20, days after he was nominated for a Billboard Music Award for top dance/electronic album. His rep confirmed...

Thousands of mourners gathered in Soweto, South Africa, on Saturday to bid farewell to anti-apartheid heroine, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, in a funeral that united the nation as people from various political...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former wife of the late President Nelson Mandela, has died at age 81. The family said in a statement that she passed...

Russian businessman, Sergei Mavrodi, whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Russians of their savings in the 1990s, has died of a heart attack. Reports said the 62-year-old was rushed...

The mother of a young man killed in what police believe was a random shooting in Toronto's northwest end pleaded for her son's killers to turn themselves in Tuesday. "You...

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, has died at age 76. “We are deeply saddened...

Hubert de Givenchy, the aristocratic French fashion designer famous for the “Little black dress” and styling Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy, has died aged 91, his partner said Monday. Givenchy...

Reverend Billy Graham, the influential Southern preacher who became a spiritual advisor to several US presidents and millions of Americans via their television sets, has died, his family said Wednesday....

Nigerian playwright, dramatist and actor, Prof Akinwumi Ishola has died, aged 79. Ishola, who wrote the popular play, Efunsetan Aniwura, when he was a student of the University of Ibadan...

Former Nigeria goalkeeper  Raymond King has died on Monday at the age of 52. According to King’s former teammate, Taju Disu, the former Abiola Babes keeper died at the Lagos...