Nhạc sĩ Nguyễn Ánh 9 qua đời chiều nay 14-4, thọ 76 tuổi, sau một thời gian trị bệnh tại bệnh viện.
The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in prison, died on Saturday in the Bronx. He was 94.
Bettye Caldwell, an apostle of a prekindergarten program that prepared poor children for elementary school and became a catalyst for Head Start, died on Sunday in St. Louis. She was 91.
Jackie Carter, a publishing executive who promoted in children’s books the racial diversity she had missed growing up in a mostly white neighborhood, died on April 13 in Manhattan. She was 62.
Joseph Medicine Crow, the last living war chief of the Crow Tribe of Montana and a renowned Native American historian and anthropologist, died on Sunday at a hospice in Billings, Mont. He was 102.
The bear sprang from the imagination of Michael Bond, a BBC cameraman who had bought a forsaken teddy bear in Selfridges, the London department store, on Christmas Eve in 1956 as an eleventh-hour gift for his wife. It inspired him to write “A Bear Called Paddington,” published in 1958.
Merle Haggard, one of the most successful singers in the history of country music, a contrarian populist whose songs about his scuffling early life and his time in prison made him the closest thing that the genre had to a real-life outlaw hero, died at his ranch in Northern California on Wednesday, his 79th birthday.
William Hamilton, a cartoonist whose work for The New Yorkerover more than 50 years was known for skewering the wealthy and the powerful, died on Friday in a car crash in Lexington, Ky. He was 76.
Kazuko Hirabayashi, a Japanese-born modern-dance choreographer who was even more widely known as an exceptional teacher and mentor to many leading dancers, died on March 25 at her home in Harrison, N.Y. She was 82.
Robert MacCrate, a lawyer who served as a special civilian counsel on an Army panel investigating the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, and who oversaw a landmark report by the American Bar Association in 1992 calling for an overhaul of legal education, died on Wednesday at his home in Plandome, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 94.