According to a Houston-based news outlet, pioneering trans journalist Monica Roberts has passed away. Roberts is…

Groundbreaking feminist thinker and sexologist Shere Hite, best known for her pioneering 1976 work The Hite Report:…

Nick Cordero, a Broadway actor who starred in hits like Rock of Ages and Waitress, died on Sunday of complications…

Professional wrestler and Terrace House star Hana Kimura has died. She was 22.

Jimmy Webb, a downtown NYC mainstay, punk rock stylist, and manager/buyer for famed East Village boutique Trash &…

Linda Tripp, best known for her involvement in the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal that resulted in President…

You may not know the name Bernhard Mayer-Klenk, inventor and founder of a German company called Kemitron GmbH, but…

Lil Bub, the internet cat famous for challenging and redefining the world’s ideals of feline beauty, has died. She…

When my brother died, I was too shattered to write his obituary. There is little record of his 29 years of life; it…

Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts has died from breast cancer. She was 75.

Toni Morrison wrote and spoke with rare clarity, poetry, and context about the interior lives of black people in…

Judith Krantz, a towering figure in American popular culture who defined her era in a series of bestselling novels…

In a century that saw its fair share of larger-than-life socialites, few covered quite as much ground as Gloria…

Agnès Varda, the French New Wave pioneer, has died at the age of 90. The New York Times reports that Varda’s death…

Janice Freeman, a singer and contestant on season 13 of The Voice, has died. She was 33 years old.

Carol Channing, an indomitable Broadway legend, has died. Per the AP, her publicist B. Harlan Boll confirmed that…

Pegi Young, an activist and singer who founded a school for children with severe disabilities, is the latest woman…

Audrey Geisel, who worked as an executive producer for many movies based on the books of her late husband, Dr.…

I didn’t make a habit of idolizing people when I was growing up and, as was the case with so many elements of my…

Sondra Locke has died. She was a director and Oscar-nominated actress, but by The Hollywood Reporter’s account, she…