Celebrity Deaths | featured news

A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was the oldest living U.S. citizen has died.

Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died in Rome at the age of 103.

Fontella Bass, whose voice soared in the 1965 hit "Rescue Me," died Wednesday at 72, her family said in a statement.

After inheriting the title of world’s oldest living person less than two weeks ago, Iowa woman Dina Manfredini died at age 115, according to her family. The Italian immigrant, who experienced life in three different centuries, resided at a nursing home in Johnston, Iowa.

France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit - the first man to climb an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite, a man who later went on to scale the heights of French politics....

Norman Joseph Woodland, who was co-inventor of the barcode, has died at the age of 91.

Music star Jenni Rivera's remains have been identified and given to her family, a government spokesman in Mexico says.

Pandit Ravi Shankar, the best known contemporary Indian musician, died Tuesday evening in San Diego, Calif. He was 92. The sitar star's website announced his death.

Besse Cooper, who had the distinction of being the world's oldest person, at 116, dies.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the matriarch of the English-speaking world’s most pervasive media empire, who instilled toughness in her son Rupert by tossing him as a child into the deep end of a cruise ship’s pool to teach him how to swim, died Dec. 5 at her estate outside Melbourne, Australia.