Latest NY Times Obituaries
José van Dam, Suave and Riveting Opera Star, Dies at 85
One of the most esteemed singers of his era, he had a wide repertoire that included Mozart, Wagner and the title role in Messiaen’s epic “St. François d’Assise.”
Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84
An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and seeking the presidency. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.”
Robert Duvall, ‘Godfather’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ Actor, Dies at 95
An Oscar winner, he was known for disappearing into wide-ranging roles in movies like “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather” and in the television series “Lonesome Dove.”
Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies
He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant.
How The Times Remembered 15 Winter Olympics Greats
Obituaries have memorialized the lives of a figure-skating trailblazer, a “Miracle on Ice” hockey player, a bobsledder who overcame blindness, and more.
From 1966: Anna Akhmatova, Leading Soviet Poet, Is Dead
She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.
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