Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Obituaries

Neil Peart, drummer for influential rockers Rush, dead at 67

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SANTA MONICA (AP) — Neil Peart, the renowned drummer and lyricist from the influential Canadian band Rush, has died. He was 67. His representative, Elliot...

Prolific ‘Graduate’ writer-actor Buck Henry dies at 89

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ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Buck Henry, "The Graduate" co-writer who as screenwriter, character actor, "Saturday Night Live" host and cherished talk-show...

‘Prozac Nation’ author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies at age 52

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NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the best-selling "Prozac Nation" made...

Acclaimed Conceptual artist John Baldessari dies at 88

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JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — John Baldessari, who pioneered a new genre of art in the 1970s and in the process helped...

Charles Ervin Confer

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Charles Ervin Confer died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. He was born Saturday, Feb. 2, 1946, in Beloit, Wisconsin, to his parents, Charles and Carolyn...

DJ Imus, made and betrayed by his mouth, dead at 79

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DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue...

‘Mame,’ ‘Hello, Dolly!’ composer Jerry Herman dies at 88

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MARK KENNEDY Associated Press Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as "Mame," "Hello, Dolly!"...

DeeAnn Carmen Schmidt

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DeeAnn Carmen Schmidt, age 76, of Clarksville, Tennessee, died Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, at her residence.DeeAnn was born Aug. 23, 1943, in Britton, South...

Songwriter Allee Willis, who did “Friends” theme, dies

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Allee Willis, a songwriter whose work included the Broadway musical "The Color Purple" as well as the theme song from...

Junior Johnson, “The Last American Hero,” dies at 88

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JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson, the moonshine runner turned NASCAR driver described as "The Last American Hero" by author Tom...