Tag: Obituaries

Gary Becker, 1930-2014

The Scrapbook · May 19, 2014 4:00 am

Ken Tomlinson, 1944-2014

Fred Barnes · May 19, 2014 4:00 am

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2009, file photo Jack Brabham poses for a photo at his home on the Gold Coast, in Australia. Three-time Formula One champion Brabham died early Monday, May 19, 2014, at his home on the Gold Coast, the Australian Grand Prix Corporation said. He was 88. (AP Photo/Steve Holland, File)

3-time F1 champion Jack Brabham dies at 88

Dennis Passa · May 19, 2014 2:14 am

Serb writer Cosic, civil war president, dies at 92

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 3:09 pm

Casual Podcast: Fred Barnes Remembers Ken Tomlinson

TWS Podcast · May 18, 2014 1:00 pm

FILE - An Aug. 20, 2012 photo from files showing Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul. Police in Sweden say the film director behind the Oscar-awarded music documentary "Searching for Sugarman," Malik Bendjelloul died Tuesday, May 13, 2014. He was 36. Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik said Bendjelloul died in Stockholm late Tuesday, but wouldn't specify the cause of death. She said no crime is suspected in relation to the Swedish film maker's death. (AP Photo/TT, Anders Wiklund, File) SWEDEN OUT

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director dies at 36

Malin Rising · May 14, 2014 2:05 am

FILE - In this June 29, 2007 file picture Swiss artist H.R. Giger poses with two of his works at the art museum in Chur, Switzerland. H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger museum in Chateau St. Germain told The Associated Press Tuesday May 13, 2014 that Giger had died in a hospital the day before. Giger received a 1979 Academy Award for special effects in 'Alen'. Giger's works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for "biomechanical" tattoos. (AP Photo/Keystone,Arno Balzarini,File)

‘Alien’ artist H.R. Giger dies at 74

Frank Jordans · May 13, 2014 9:56 am

Werner Dannhauser, 1929-2014

The Scrapbook · May 12, 2014 4:00 am

This Dec. 10 1992, file photo shows Gary S. Becker, left, from the University of Chicago, receiving the 1992 Nobel Economics Prize from the hands of Sweden's King Carl Gustaf, during the Nobel awarding ceremony in the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. Becker died Saturday, May 3, 2014, at Northwestern Hospital from complications after an extended illness. He was 83. (AP Photo/Tobbe Gustavsson,File)

Remembering Gary Becker, who deserved renown outside his fields of economics, sociology

Thomas Sowell · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Washington Examiner Assistant Managing Editor Bob Kemper in 2013. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Remembering Washington Examiner editor, former White House correspondent Bob Kemper

Jennifer Peebles · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

FILE - This Oct. 1937 file photo shows Federal Agent Walter Walsh during a demonstration of him as he takes aim in a mirror, in Quantico, Va. Walsh, the world's oldest living Olympian, has died. He was 106. USA Shooting says Walsh died Tuesday _ six days before his 107th birthday _ at his home in Arlington, Virginia. Walsh finished 12th in the men's 50-meter free pistol event at the 1948 London Olympics. He had already demonstrated his marksmanship working for the FBI and the Marine Corps. During the Depression, Walsh was instrumental in the capture and killing of several gangsters, including discovering the body of Baby Face Nelson and catching Arthur (Doc) Barker. Walsh spent more than 20 years as a shooting instructor before his retirement in 1970. (AP Photo, File)

Walter Walsh, FBI agent and Olympian, dead at 106

Jessica Gresko · May 1, 2014 10:43 pm

In this Oct. 24, 2013 photo, Win Tin, a former political prisoner and an opposition party stalwart poses for a picture at his home in Yangon, Myanmar. Win Tin, a prominent journalist who became Myanmar's longest-serving political prisoner after challenging military rule by co-founding the National League for Democracy has died. He was 85. He died of renal failure Monday morning, April 21, 2014, family said. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Anti-junta Myanmar journalist Win Tin dies at 85

AYE AYE WIN · April 21, 2014 4:46 pm