Obituaries in the News

A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school. At least 24 people...

Georges Moustaki, an Egyptian-born composer, singer and poet who wrote songs for Edith Piaf and other French stars, has died at age 79.

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died in Germany. He was 74.

Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died at his home in New York.

Leonard Marsh, the co-founder of the Snapple beverage brand, has died at age 80.

Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite...

Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records,...

Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93.