Obituaries

Israel’s ‘War Singer’ Yaffa Yarkoni dies

Israeli singer Yaffa Yarkoni, who entertained Israeli troops for decades beginning in 1948, has died.

Judge who ruled Holocaust a fact dies

Thomas Johnson, a California judge who ruled that the Holocaust was “a fact and not reasonably subject to dispute,” has died.

Billionaire businessman, bluegrass musician Warren Hellman dies at 77

Warren Hellman, an iconoclastic Bay Area businessman who used his wealth for philanthropy and to focus on projects he loved, such as bluegrass banjo, died at 77 on Dec. 18. In many online and newspaper tributes to Hellman, he was described as an “only in San Francisco” character. A photo of him on the front […]

Media full of commentary, cheeky and loving, about Christopher Hitchens, who died Dec. 15

Rocket scientist Boris Chertok update: He wanted to go into space

Larry Rickles, son of comedian Don Rickles, dies at 41

Billionaire Robert Pritzker dies at 85

Hollywood producer, director Gil Cates dies at 77

Sanford ‘Corky’ Kurland, co-founder of popular Cleveland-area deli, dies at 81

Nobel Prize winning chemist Herbert A. Hauptman dies at 94

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