Obituaries

Former Cincinnati Reds great Pete Rose (14) meets with former teammates, left to right, Tommy Helms, Tom Browning, Cesar Geronimo, Tony Perez, and Eric Davis, during ceremonies celebrating the 25th anniversary of Rose breaking Ty Cobb's hit record prior to a baseball game between the Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Tommy Helms, a Reds second baseman who later managed in Pete Rose’s place in 1988-89, dies at 83

Tommy Helms, the slick-fielding infielder for the Cincinnati Reds who was the 1966 NL Rookie of the Year and had two short stints as the team’s manager, has died. He was 83.

Malaysian outgoing Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, also Defense Minister, waves during a farewell ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, April 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

Former Malaysian leader Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who extended political freedoms, dies at 85

Writer Mario Vargas Llosa speaks to reporters in New York, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89

England's David Beckham shakes hands with Trinidad and Tobago's coach Leo Beenhakker, right, during their World Cup Group B soccer match in Nuremberg, Germany, Thursday, June 15, 2006. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Leo Beenhakker, Dutch soccer great who coached Real Madrid and two World Cup teams, dies at 82

The hat and sunglasses of Dominican singer Rubby Perez, who died in the roof collapse at the Jet Set nightclub during his merengue concert, sit on his casket during his wake at the Eduardo Brito National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Mourners pay tribute to merengue icon Rubby Pérez, who died in the Dominican roof collapse

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FILE - Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant, left, talks to his father, Joe, as they watch a baseball game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, June 21, 2009. Joe “Jellybean” Bryant has died, his alma mater announced Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Joe Bryant, who spent eight seasons in the NBA with three different franchises, was 69. The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing La Salle coach Fran Dunphy, reported that Joe Bryant recently had a massive stroke. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant, the father of Kobe Bryant, dies at 69

Peter Buxtun is pictured in San Francisco in this undated photo. Bruxton, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, died on May 18, 2024, from Alzheimer's disease in Rocklin, Calif. (Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86

FILE - Actor James Sikking poses for a photograph at the Los Angeles gala celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Organization for Women, Dec. 1, 1986. Sikking, who starred as a hardened police lieutenant on “Hill Street Blues” and as the titular character's kindhearted dad on “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” has died of complications from dementia, his publicist Cynthia Snyder said in a statement Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Avery, File)

James Sikking, star of ‘Hill Street Blues’ and ‘Doogie Howser, MD,’ dies at 90

FILE - Video artist Bill Viola speaks at a news conference, Oct. 18, 2011, in Tokyo. Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, died Friday, July 12, 2024, at age 73. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

Acclaimed video artist Bill Viola dies at 73, created landmark `Tristan und Isolde’ production

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2013 file photo, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones cheers in overtime of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Baltimore. The Houston Texans, Jones' team for the first five seasons of his career, announced his death Sunday, July 14, 2024. He was 40. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

Jacoby Jones, a star of Baltimore’s most recent Super Bowl title run, has died at age 40

FILE - Shannen Doherty attends the G-Star Fall 2010 collection, in New York, on Feb. 16, 2010. Doherty, the "Beverly Hills, 90210" star, has died, Saturday, July 13, 2024. She was 53. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)

Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ star, dies at 53

FILE - Richard Simmons speaks to the audience before the start of a summer salad fashion show at Grand Central Terminal in New York on June 2, 2006. Simmons, a fitness guru who urged the overweight to exercise and eat better, died Saturday, July 13, 2024, at the age of 76. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)

Richard Simmons, a fitness guru who mixed laughs and sweat, dies at 76

FILE - Dr. Ruth Westheimer signs a copy of her book "Sexually Speaking" in New York on April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96

Stanley Tshabalala, former South Africa soccer coach, dies at age 75

Benji Gregory, former child star on the 80s sitcom ‘ALF,’ dies at 46

FILE - Former U.S. Rep. Tommy Robinson speaks at a meeting, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006, in Little Rock, Ark. Robinson died Wednesday, July 10, 2024, after a brief illness. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Former U.S. Rep. Tommy Robinson, who gained notoriety as an Arkansas sheriff, dies at 82

FILE - Shelley Duvall poses for photographers at the 30th Cannes Film Festival in France, May 27, 1977. Duvall, whose wide-eyed, winsome presence was a mainstay in the films of Robert Altman and who co-starred in Stanley Kubrick's “The Shining,” has died. She was 75. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy, File)

Shelley Duvall, star of ‘The Shining’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 75

FILE - The Oak Ridge Boys, from left, Joe Bonsall, Richard Sterban, Duane Allen and William Lee Golden hold their awards for Top Vocal Group and Best Album of the Year for "Ya'll Come Back Saloon", during the 14th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Los Angeles, Calif., May 3, 1979. Bonsall died on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, from complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Hendersonville, Tenn. He was 76. (AP Photo/Lennox Mclendon, File)

Joe Bonsall, celebrated tenor in the country and gospel group the Oak Ridge Boys, dies at 76

FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to reporters following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Inhofe has died Tuesday, July 9, 2024. He was 89. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a ‘hoax,’ dies at 89

Jon Landau, Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ producer, dies at 63

FILE - Oregon defensive back Khyree Jackson runs the 40-yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Indianapolis. Minnesota Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson was killed Saturday morning, July 6, 2024, in a car crash in Maryland, police and the team said. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Vikings’ Khyree Jackson, 2 former high school teammates killed in car crash in Maryland

FILE - Vic Seixas of the United States backhands a volley from Denmark's Jurgen Ulrich in the first round of men's singles match at Wimbledon, England, June 27, 1967. Vic Seixas, a Wimbledon winner and tennis Hall of Famer who was the oldest living Grand Slam champion, has died at the age of 100. The International Tennis Hall of Fame announced Seixas’ death on Saturday July 6, 2024, based on confirmation from his daughter Tori. (AP Photo/File)

Vic Seixas, a Wimbledon champion and tennis Hall of Famer, dies at 100

FILE - Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel, March 7, 2006, in New York. Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other acclaimed films whose work on "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, died Monday, July 1, 2024, surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles, said publicist Carri McClure. She declined to comment on any cause of death. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File)

Robert Towne, Oscar-winning writer of ‘Chinatown,’ dies at 89

FILE - Pål Enger, center, sits in court during his appeal case, in the Borgarting Court of Appeal in Oslo, Monday, April 7, 1997. Enger, a talented Norwegian soccer player turned gentleman art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch’s famed “The Scream” painting at the National Gallery in Oslo and later exhibited his abstract paintings in a gallery, is dead at 57. Press officer Tina Wulf at Vålerenga Fotball, an acclaimed Oslo soccer club, told the Associated Press on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, that Enger died Saturday evening. (Bjørn Sigurdsøn/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Pål Enger, Norwegian art thief behind famed 1994 heist of Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ dead at 57

FILE - Associated Press Sports Editor Darrell Christian addresses a writing seminar for the AP's Nashville staff in September 1980, in Nashville, Tenn. Christian, a former managing editor and sports editor of the AP known for a demanding demeanor and insistence on excellence during more than four decades with the news agency, died Monday, July 1, 2024. He was 75. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives, File)

Darrell Christian, former AP managing editor and sports editor, dies at 75

FILE - Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare arrives at the Elysee Palace to receive the France's Legion d'Honneur medal by French President Francois Hollande, in Paris, on May 30, 2016. Renowned Albanian novelist Kadare has died after being rushed to a hospital in the Albanian capital, his publishing editor said on Monday. He was 88. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Albania’s world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88

FILE- Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority political party Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan gestures as he speaks during a media conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2010. Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

R. Sampanthan, face of the Tamil minority’s campaign for autonomy after Sri Lanka’s civil war, dies

FILE - Atlanta Braves' Orlando Cepeda poses for a photo in 1970, location not known. Cepeda, the slugging first baseman nicknamed “Baby Bull” who became a Hall of Famer among the early Puerto Ricans to star in the major leagues, has died. He was 86. The San Francisco Giants and his family announced the death Friday night, June 28, 2024, and a moment of silence was held on the scoreboard at Oracle Park midway through a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. (AP Photo, File)

Orlando Cepeda, the slugging Hall of Fame first baseman nicknamed ‘Baby Bull,’ dies at 86

FILE - Martin Mull participates in "The Cool Kids" panel during the Fox Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton hotel on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Martin Mull, whose droll, esoteric comedy and acting made him a hip sensation in the 1970s and later a beloved guest star on sitcoms including “Roseanne” and “Arrested Development,” has died, his daughter said Friday, June 28, 2024. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Martin Mull, hip comic and actor from ‘Fernwood Tonight’ and ‘Roseanne,’ dies at 80

FILE - House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, performs a mock swearing in for Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., right, with his wife Rhonda Massie, center, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, in Washington. Rhonda Massie, the wife of U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, has died, the Kentucky congressman announced Friday, June 28, 2024, on social media. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie announces the death of his wife, Rhonda Massie

FILE - New Orleans City Council member-at-large Jackie Clarkson speaks at a news conference in New Orleans, Sept. 29, 2011. Jackie Clarkson, a former Louisiana legislator and three-term New Orleans City Council member who was the mother of Academy Award-nominated actor Patricia Clarkson, has died at age 88. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Jackie Clarkson, longtime New Orleans politician and mother of actor Patricia Clarkson, dead at 88

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2009 file photo, Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman talks with the media at his campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas. Friedman, the singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist who also dabbled in Texas politics with a campaign for governor, died Thursday at his family’s Texas ranch near San Antonio. He was 79. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, file)

Singer, songwriter, provocateur and politician Kinky Friedman dead at 79

FIL - Actor Bill Cobbs, a cast member in "Get Low," arrives at the premiere of the film in Beverly Hills, Calif., July 27, 2010. Cobbs, the veteran character actor who became a ubiquitous and sage screen presence as an older man, died Tuesday, June 25, 2024, at his home in Inland Empire, Calif. He was 90. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Bill Cobbs, prolific and sage character actor, dies at 90

FILE - Chicago Bears running back Darren Lewis (33) falls to the ground as Phoenix Cardinals linebacker Garth Jax (53) and safety Dave Duerson, behind Lewis, make the tackle after Lewis picked up 5 yards during the first half of an NFL football exhibition game in Chicago, Aug. 14, 1993. Lewis, Texas A&M's all-time leading rusher, has died of cancer, the school announced Friday, June 21, 2024. He was 55. The university did not say how it learned of Lewis' death. (AP Photo/John Zich, File)

Former Texas A&M running back Darren Lewis dies of cancer at 55

FILE - Actor Taylor Wily, also known as Teila Tuli, gestures to fans after throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers in Seattle on June 14, 2014. Wily, an actor known for his roles on “Hawaii Five-0” and “Magnum P.I,” has died at 56. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

‘Hawaii Five-0’ fan favorite and former UFC fighter Taylor Wily dies at 56