In Memoriam

James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic, has died, his foundation announced. He was 92.

Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman who became the sparkplug of the Big Red Machine and the prototype for baseball’s artificial turf era, has died. He was 77.

Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century and helped the Yankees become baseball’s perennial champions in the 1950s and ’60s, has died. He was 91.

Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her feminist anthem “I Am Woman” and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78.

Country star and hit Elvis songwriter Mac Davis has died

The first person known to be cured of HIV infection, Timothy Ray Brown, has died

Singer Helen Reddy, best known for her song “I Am Woman,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 78.

After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday from metastatic pancreatic cancer, politicians from both sides of the aisle took to social media to offer their condolences.

British actress Diana Rigg, who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel in TV series “The Avengers,” has died

Michael B. Jordan expressed his shock and sadness at the death of his friend and co-star Chadwick Boseman, who died last week after a secret battle with colon cancer. In an emotional post on Instagram, Jordan wrote he wished they “had more time.” “I’ve been trying to find the words, but nothing comes close to how I feel. I’ve been reflecting...

The college basketball coaching great John Thompson of Georgetown has died

In a tragically brief but historically sweeping life as an actor, Chadwick Boseman played men of public life and private pain

Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who built his family’s drive-in theater chain into a multibillion-dollar empire encompassing CBS and Viacom and later became the center of a jilted lover’s lawsuit that nearly cost his family his financial legacy, has died. He was 97. Redstone, who often boasted that would live forever, died Tuesday, according to a statement from National...

Former professional wrestler James Harris, who was known as Kamala “the Ugandan Giant,” has died at age 70, the WWE said. Harris was a mainstay from the ’80s and ’90s when a cast of wrestling legends that also included Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker and Andre the Giant entertained fans. WWE did not detail Harris’ cause of death but Kenny Casanova,…

A longtime adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H

Family says filmmaker Alan Parker, director of ‘Midnight Express’ and ‘Evita,’ has died at 76