Ted Turner
May 6, 2026
Media mogul Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, died May 6, 2026, at his home in Florida, eight years after announcing he had been diagnosed with the progressive brain disease Lewy Body Dementia. He was 87.
Turner was one of the most influential figures in modern media history, transforming his father's billboard company into a broadcasting empire that helped launch...
John Sterling
May 4, 2026
John Sterling, the broadcaster whose booming baritone and theatrical flair made him the defining radio voice of the New York Yankees for more than three decades, died May 4, 2026, at the age of 87.
Sterling was embraced by generations of Yankees fans who listened to him on summer nights throughout the New York region, and by the wider baseball...
Doris Fisher
May 2, 2026
Doris Fisher, the co-founder of the retail clothing giant, The Gap, died May 2nd, 2026, in San Francisco. She was 94.
Fisher was not only The Gap's merchandiser for the company's first four decades, she was also the person who came up with the name The Gap, in reference to the generation gap of the 1960s.
She is being remembered...
Alex Ligertwood
May 1, 2026
Alex Ligertwood, the Scottish-born singer who served as the lead vocalist of the Latin rock band Santana across multiple eras from 1979 to 1994, died May 1, 2026, at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 79.
Ligertwood was cherished by rock and Latin music fans who came of age with Santana's songs in the late 1970s and '80s,...
Gwen Farrell Adair
Apr 30, 2026
Gwen Farrell Adair, the "M*A*S*H" actress who went on to break barriers in professional boxing by becoming the first licensed woman to referee a world championship fight, died April 30, 2026, of natural causes, in Sherman Oaks, California. She was 93.
Farrell Adair was cherished by fans of classic American television; by the boxing community that watched her earn her...
J. Craig Venter
Apr 29, 2026
J. Craig Venter, the American biologist whose competitive drive and unconventional methods helped transform humanity's understanding of its own genetic code, died April 29, 2026, in San Diego, following complications that arose during treatment for recently diagnosed cancer. He was 79.
Venter led the scientific team that created one of the first two draft sequences of the human genome in...
Nedra Talley Ross
Apr 26, 2026
Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving founding member of the Ronettes and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer whose harmonies helped shape the sound of early 1960s pop, died at her home April 26, 2026, at the age of 80.
Her daughter Nedra K. Ross announced the news on Facebook: "At approximately 8:30 this morning our mother Nedra Talley...
Máire Brennan
Apr 13, 2026
Máire "Moya" Brennan, longtime singer with the Grammy Award-winning Irish folk band Clannad, died April 13, 2026, at home in Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland, at the age of 73.
In a family statement, her brothers and fellow Clannad members Pól and Ciarán Brennan said she died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, and that they were "completely heartbroken" at the...
Sid Krofft
Apr 10, 2026
Sid Krofft, the television producer behind such popular American children's shows as "H.R. Pufnstuf" and "Land of the Lost," died April 10, 2026, in Los Angeles, at the age of 96.
Alongside his late brother, Marty Krofft (1937–2023), he helped build a children's television empire that was beloved by generations of viewers.
Born in Montreal in 1929, Sid Krofft took...
Afrika Bambaataa
Apr 9, 2026
Afrika Bambaataa, the DJ, rapper, and producer whose block parties in the South Bronx helped give rise to hip-hop and whose 1982 recording "Planet Rock" defined the musical genre of electro-funk, died Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer, according to his lawyer. He was 68. Mick Benzo, a close friend and fellow Zulu Nation member, wrote on...