Obituaries
Frederick Wiseman made roughly 50 documentaries, many of which chronicled the inner workings of everyday institutions. He's pictured above at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. Larry Busacca/Getty Imageshide caption
Robert Duvall in February 2005. Mark Mainz/Getty Images North Americahide caption
Ebo Taylor played his his first show in the U.S. in 2022 after an invite from the music label Jazz is Dead. Jazz is Deadhide caption
Actor James Van Der Beek arriving at the Emmy Awards in 2019. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Imageshide caption
'Dawson's Creek' star James Van Der Beek has died at 48
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Demond Wilson (right) in a still from a 1974 episode ofSanford and Son. The actor played Lamont Sanford, the disgruntled offspring of Redd Foxx's Fred Sanders (left), in the hit 1970s NBC sitcom. NBC Television/Getty Images/Hulton Archivehide caption
Moira Rose (Catherine O'Hara) appears in a commercial for Herb Ertlinger's fruit wine in an episode ofSchitt's Creek. Screenshot by NPRhide caption
Remembering actor Catherine O'Hara of 'Schitt's Creek' and 'Home Alone'
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Catherine O'Hara in Los Angeles in 2025. Chris Pizzello/Invision/APhide caption
Gladys West went from a one-room schoolhouse in rural Virginia to college and to working on planetary motions and modeling. "I really did like geometry," she said of her high school years. "I fell in love with that." Courtesy of the West familyhide caption
Claudette Colvin sits for a portrait, Feb. 5, 2009, in New York. Julie Jacobson/APhide caption
Cartoonist Scott Adams poses with his a life-size cutout of his creation, Dilbert, in 2014. Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Imageshide caption
Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68
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Bob Weir performs with the Grateful Dead at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, Calif. in 1983. A member of the Dead from its inception, Weir took few solos, but his distinctive rhythm guitar playing and emotive singing were signatures of the group. Ed Perlstein/Getty Imageshide caption
Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames leaves federal court after pleading guilty to espionage and tax evasion conspiracy charges April 28, 1994, in Alexandria, Va. Wilfredo Lee/APhide caption
Hungarian director Béla Tarr at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. Andreas Rentz/Getty Imageshide caption
Renfrow Smith in her cap and gown the day she graduated from Grinnell College in 1937. Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collectionhide caption
Eva Schloss, the stepsister of Anne Frank and a Holocaust survivor, attends a March 2019 news conference in Newport Beach, Calif. Jae C. Hong/APhide caption
Clockwise from top left: Diane Keaton, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Robert Redford, Susan Stamberg, Rob Reiner and Eddie Palmieri. Rachel Luna/Getty Images; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images; Andreas Rentz/Getty Images; Frans Schellekens/Redferns/Getty Imageshide caption
Cecilia Gimenez, left, who restored a version of 'Ecce Homo' mural by 19th century painter Elías Garcia Martínez, died Monday. Javier Vinuela/APhide caption
Brigitte Bardot pictured in 1960. Keystone Features/Getty Imageshide caption
Bob Kafka, a disabled Vietnam veteran, talks with an Austin Police Officer as he and others try to enter a hotel property. Ilana Panich-Linsman/Getty Imageshide caption
Robert Smith, left, Simon Gallup, center, and Perry Bamonte of British rock group The Cure hold a plaque after being inducted into Hollywood's Rockwalk in Los Angeles, Friday, April 30, 2004. Chris Pizzello/APhide caption
1969: Singer Sly Stone of the psychedelic soul group "Sly & The Family Stone" strums his Fender Telecaster electric guitar in 1969. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Imageshide caption
Three versions of Activision's Call Of Duty games are seen on sale at a Best Buy store in Mountain View, Calif., in 2011. Vince Zampella, one of the creators behind the best-selling video games, has died at age 55. Paul Sakuma/APhide caption





















