#VOA: Country Rocker and Fiddler Charlie Daniels Dies at Age 83. #VOANews

#VOA: Country Rocker and Fiddler Charlie Daniels Dies at Age 83. #VOANews

July 6, 2020 No Comments

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Country music firebrand and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” has died at age 83.   A statement from his publicist said the Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday at a hospital in Hermitage, Tennessee, after he had a

#VOA: Legendary US TV Personality Hugh Downs Dies at 99. #VOANews

#VOA: Legendary US TV Personality Hugh Downs Dies at 99. #VOANews

July 2, 2020 No Comments

Legendary U.S. broadcaster Hugh Downs, who at one time held the record for the most hours appearing on American television, has died at 99. Downs’ daughter said her father died Wednesday of a heart ailment. Hugh Downs once described himself as “a jack of all trades and a master of

#VOA: Entertainment Legend Carl Reiner Dies at 98. #VOANews

#VOA: Entertainment Legend Carl Reiner Dies at 98. #VOANews

June 30, 2020 No Comments

Legendary comedian, writer, producer, director, and actor Carl Reiner, who rose to fame in the 1950s as part of Sid Ceasar’s legendary comedy show and went on to create television shows and direct movies, has died at the age of 98. Reiner’s assistant, Judy Nagy confirmed that Reiner died of

#VOA: Dame Vera Lynn, Britain’s World War Two ‘Forces’ Sweetheart,’ Dies at 103. #VOANews

#VOA: Dame Vera Lynn, Britain’s World War Two ‘Forces’ Sweetheart,’ Dies at 103. #VOANews

June 19, 2020 No Comments

Dame Vera Lynn, the woman whose voice boosted British spirits during the darkest days of World War Two, has died at 103. Her family did not give a cause of death when it announced her passing Thursday in East Sussex. Along with Winston Churchill’s, Lynn’s was the most recognized and

#VOA: Larry Kramer, Playwright And AIDS Activist, Dies at 84. #VOANews

#VOA: Larry Kramer, Playwright And AIDS Activist, Dies at 84. #VOANews

May 27, 2020 No Comments

NEW YORK – — Larry Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, has died at 84.Bill Goldstein, a writer who was working on a biography of Kramer, confirmed the news to

#VOA: William Small, ‘Hero to Journalism’ at CBS, NBC, Dies at 93 . #VOANews

#VOA: William Small, ‘Hero to Journalism’ at CBS, NBC, Dies at 93 . #VOANews

May 26, 2020 No Comments

NEW YORK – Longtime broadcast news executive William J. Small, who led CBS News’ Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and Watergate and was later president of NBC News and United Press International, died Sunday, CBS News said. He was 93.  Small, whose career spanned from overseeing

#VOA: Phyllis George, Female Sportscasting Pioneer, Dies at 70. #VOANews

#VOA: Phyllis George, Female Sportscasting Pioneer, Dies at 70. #VOANews

May 17, 2020 No Comments

LEXINGTON, KY. – Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS’s “The NFL Today,” has died. She was 70. A family spokesperson said George died Thursday at a Lexington hospital after a long fight with a blood disorder. Her children, Lincoln Tyler George Brown

#VOA: Former ‘Quiz Kid’ Joel Kupperman Dies of COVID-19. #VOANews

#VOA: Former ‘Quiz Kid’ Joel Kupperman Dies of COVID-19. #VOANews

May 14, 2020 No Comments

A retired university philosophy professor who was, at one time, one of the most famous children in the United States but was frustrated and torn by his fame, has died of the coronavirus. The family of Joel Kupperman said Wednesday he died last month at a nursing home in Brooklyn

#VOA: Egyptian Director of Video Critical of el-Sissi Dies in Jail. #VOANews

#VOA: Egyptian Director of Video Critical of el-Sissi Dies in Jail. #VOANews

May 2, 2020 No Comments

BEIRUT – A young Egyptian filmmaker imprisoned for directing a music video critical of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has died in a Cairo jail, his lawyer said Saturday. Shady Habash, 24, died in Tora prison, said lawyer Ahmed al-Khawaga, who was unable to give a cause of death. “His health had

#VOA: Steve Dalkowski, Inspiration for ‘Bull Durham’ Character, Dies at 80. #VOANews

#VOA: Steve Dalkowski, Inspiration for ‘Bull Durham’ Character, Dies at 80. #VOANews

April 25, 2020 No Comments

Steve Dalkowski, a hard-throwing, wild left-hander whose minor league career inspired the creation of Nuke LaLoosh in the movie “Bull Durham,” has died. He was 80. He died Sunday at the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain. His sister, Patricia Cain, said Friday that he had several pre-existing conditions