Here's to crying when you want to. The AP reports that Lesley Gore died of cancer today at NYU Langone Medical Center at the age of 68, leaving behind her long-term partner Lois Sasson. » 2/16/15 4:10pm 2/16/15 4:10pm

Author Colleen McCullough has died at 77. Her multi-part "Masters of Rome" saga has been much praised, but it's The Thorn Birds she'll be remembered for. » 1/29/15 2:45pm 1/29/15 2:45pm

Bess Myerson, public servant, presidential advisor, and the first and only Jewish Miss America, died on December 14th at the age of 90. The New York Times released an obituary Monday, reigniting public interest in a woman who lived loudly despite the traps of disadvantage—economic, religious, gender—that sought to… » 1/06/15 1:45pm 1/06/15 1:45pm

Luise Rainer, a star from Hollywood's golden age and the first woman to win back-to-back Oscars, has passed away at 104. » 12/30/14 12:30pm 12/30/14 12:30pm

Sabah, the Lebanese legend whose prolific singing and acting career lasted over 70 years, passed away at home in Beirut Wednesday morning, aged 87. She was, according to Beirut's Daily Star, "the first Arab singer to perform at Olympia in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, Piccadilly Theater in London and Sydney… » 11/26/14 4:30pm 11/26/14 4:30pm

Mike Nichols, the acclaimed director behind such iconic films as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate, passed away late Wednesday night. Let's celebrate his legacy by reading The Cut's tribute to Mrs. Robinson, one of the most fascinatingly complicated characters to ever appear in a Nichols movie (or any… » 11/20/14 3:10pm 11/20/14 3:10pm

Jane Byrne has died, Chicago's first—and to date, only—female mayor. She was 81. Byrne served from 1979 to 1983, and was a reformer in a number of other important ways, appointing the first black superintendent, proclaiming the city's first Gay Pride parade, and passing the first ordinance to ban the possession of… » 11/14/14 1:20pm 11/14/14 1:20pm

In a statement, Robin Williams' wife Susan Schneider has revealed that Williams learned he had Parkinson's Disease shortly before his death. "Robin's sobriety was intact and he was brave as he struggled with his own battles of depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson's Disease, which he was not yet… » 8/14/14 2:40pm 8/14/14 2:40pm

Ann B. Davis, the woman who played Alice on The Brady Brunch died Sunday at a San Antonio, Texas hospital. » 6/01/14 8:39pm 6/01/14 8:39pm

Pin-up photographer and former model Bunny Yeager – who was best known for her Playboy centerfold of Bettie Page – died this weekend. She was 85. » 5/27/14 5:00pm 5/27/14 5:00pm

A University of Alabama swimmer died Monday after saving his girlfriend during a Southern Tornado. » 4/30/14 12:20pm 4/30/14 12:20pm

Eric Hill, a contestant on ABC's upcoming season of The Bachelorette, has died after suffering critical injuries during a paragliding accident. » 4/23/14 5:30pm 4/23/14 5:30pm

Adrianne Wadewitz, an important and rare figure in the world of Wikipedia editors and a scholar of 18th-century British literature, died earlier this month from head injuries sustained during a rock climbing fall. According to Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wadewitz – who worked on the… » 4/18/14 7:15pm 4/18/14 7:15pm

Gabriel García Márquez, the author of famed, beautiful books such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died. Márquez, who was recently hospitalized for pneumonia and other health issues, was 87. » 4/17/14 4:30pm 4/17/14 4:30pm

Not only was Walter George Bruhl Jr. likely a lovely person, he was the kind of person that surrounded himself with people who have great senses of humor – plus he knew how to write a good obit. » 3/12/14 12:20pm 3/12/14 12:20pm

Still upset about that lack of gender equality in book reviews? Consider this more frightening and fundamental imbalance: so far in the month of August, the NYT has published 78 obituaries. And only six of them were for women. » 8/30/10 6:06pm 8/30/10 6:06pm

Very sad: Nelson Mandela's 13-year-old great-granddaughter was killed in a car accident on Friday. According to reports, the driver of the car was drunk and lost control of the car after departing from a World Cup concert. [CBS, NYT] » 6/11/10 9:20am 6/11/10 9:20am