The German-Austrian actress was Germany’s first winner of a Golden Globe Award.
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International soccer star played for Ajax Amsterdam.
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Sandor Tarics, the oldest living Olympic champion, died May 21, according to the Hungarian Olympic Committee. He was 102. Tarics was a member of the Hungarian water polo team that …
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Rescue crews were searching early Thursday for EgyptAir Flight 804, which French President Francois Hollande said “was lost and that it has crashed” into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people …
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Gene Gutowski, who produced films of the director Roman Polanski during the 1960s and later teamed with Polanski to produce the Academy Award-winning Holocaust masterpiece, “The Pianist,” died May 10 …
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Guy Hamilton, a film director who helmed four of the James Bond movies, died Thursday. He was 93. Hamilton died at his home in Majorca, Spain. No cause of death …
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Jules Schelvis, a Dutch historian who was the last insurgent of the Nazis’ Sobibor World War II extermination camp, died Sunday evening in his native Netherlands, according to multiple news …
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Holocaust survivors’ obituaries are loving reflections of their legacies.
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George Gaynes, the actor who played Punky Brewster’s adoptive father on the eponymous TV show, has died, according to multiple news sources. He was 98. Gaynes died Monday at his …
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News Obituaries
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922 – 2016), former secretary-general of the United Nations
by Legacy StaffBoutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian scholar, statesman and former secretary-general of the United Nations, died Tuesday, Feb. 16. He was 93. Boutros-Ghali became the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations Jan. …