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On January 13, 1941, Irish literary genius James Joyce died in Zurich after undergoing surgery for a perforated ulcer. The day after his death, English newspaper The Guardian published a fitting ...

A Texas father suffered a medical episode and died while trying to save his teen son, who was killed in an accidental shooting involving his own brother, according to authorities and a local report.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A culinary figure, dubbed the “Queen of Southern Cooking” by Southern Living, has died at age 85. Nathalie Dupree authored more than a dozen southern-style ...

Uecker, a baseball icon, television and movie funnyman and Hall of Fame Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer, died Thursday at the age of 90, following a "private battle with small cell lung cancer ...

Thriller writer Andrew Pyper, who also wrote under the pseudonym Mason Coile, has died aged 56 due to complications ... Yassine Belkacemi, the author’s UK editor, said: "It has been one of ...

James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland, on January 13, 1941, but how did the most famous chronicler of Dublin life end up being buried in Zurich? According to Richard Ellmann’s spectacular ...

an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II in her 1973 memoir, “Farewell to Manzanar,” died in her Santa Cruz home Dec. 21.

A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project ... For his children’s books, Charlie had mainly used watercolor — a notoriously unforgiving medium — whereas Nicky mostly painted ...

He also wrote the 2004 movie "I Heart Huckabees" with director David O. Russell. Baena died by suicide on January 3. If you or someone you know is experiencing depression or has had thoughts of ...

In memory of the celebrities who have died this year, including Jeff Baena, The Vivienne and Leslie Charleson Astrid Stawiarz/Getty; Chelsea Guglielmino/WireImage ...

Award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95. The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning performances in TV ...