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Lee A. Archer Jr., Tuskegee Fighter Pilot, Dies at 90

2010-02-04T04:42:51+0000

Mr. Archer was a pioneering black fighter pilot who was credited with shooting down four German planes when he flew with the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.


Lee A. Archer, Ace Tuskegee Airman and V.C., Dies

2010-01-29T10:05:24+0000

Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 90.


Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Biographer of Clara Barton and Robert E. Lee, Dies at 64

2015-04-28T23:54:30+0000

Ms. Pryor, who served more than two decades in the State Department, was the author of well-regarded biographies of the founder of the American Red Cross and the Confederate commander.


Lee Phillip Bell, Soap Opera Creator and Talk Show Host, Dies at 91

2020-02-29T01:24:53+0000

She and her husband developed “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” while she also worked as a broadcast journalist in Chicago.


Lee Bennett Hopkins, Champion of Poetry for Children, Dies at 81

2019-08-12T22:51:50+0000

In the scores of anthologies he compiled and in his own writing, he sought to teach and expand young imaginations through verse.


Mona Lee Brock, Farmers’ ‘Angel’ on the Line, Dies at 87

2019-04-04T23:13:51+0000

She cautioned suicidal farmers to think what it would be like for their children “if they sat down at the supper table and there would be an empty chair.”


Lee Mendelson, Producer Behind ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas,’ Dies at 86

2019-12-28T23:09:51+0000

Mr. Mendelson, who worked on dozens of animated projects, also wrote the enduring lyrics to the song “Christmas Time Is Here.”


Lee Mendelson, Producer Behind ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas,’ Dies at 86

2019-12-28T23:09:51+0000

Mr. Mendelson, who worked on dozens of animated projects, also wrote the enduring lyrics to the song “Christmas Time Is Here.”


Dr. Burton J. Lee, 86, Reagan AIDS Panelist and Bush’s White House Physician, Dies

2016-12-02T01:16:51+0000

Dr. Lee diagnosed the elder Mr. Bush’s thyroid condition, treated him after he vomited at a state dinner and earlier recommended government support for AIDS patients.


Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Actor in Spike Lee Films, Dies at 70

2020-10-05T02:25:52+0000

The Tony-nominated actor, 70, was found by police with multiple gunshot wounds early Saturday morning.



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Jewel Thais-Williams, Whose Nightclub Catch One Celebrated ‘Queer Black Joy,’ Dies at 86

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:19:27 +0000

Catch One, which she opened in Los Angeles in 1973 in the face of local animosity, became a glittering sanctuary for a largely shunned community.

Alan Bergman, Half of a Prolific Lyric-Writing Team, Dies at 99

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:36:14 +0000

With his wife, Marilyn, he wrote the words to memorable TV theme songs and the Oscar-winning “The Way We Were” and “The Windmills of Your Mind.”

Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space, Dies Paragliding at 56

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:55:58 +0000

Nicknamed “Fearless Felix,” he jumped from the edge of space in 2012.

Robert Alvarez, 76, Dies; Called Attention to Nuclear-Waste Safety

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:32:04 +0000

A self-taught expert, he spent decades working in both nonprofits and the government to expose problems in the production of atomic weapons.

Sol Stern, Lapsed Liberal and Conservative Heretic, Dies at 89

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:59:30 +0000

A writer, editor and political adviser, he broke with the left over its criticism of Israel and what he saw as its anti-Americanism. But he also became a critic of Donald Trump.

Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:14:55 +0000

He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective as its antihero.



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