Film critic Roger Ebert passed away today in Chicago after a decade-long battle with cancer. Ebert wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years, celebrating his anniversary at the paper with his last column on Tuesday. H...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/04/RIP-Roger-Ebert/
Senator Daniel Inouye became a U.S. Representative on the day that Hawaii became a state, on August 21, 1959. He was elected Senator in 1962, and became the longest-serving member of the Senate. But he was already quite...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/18/RIP-Daniel-Inouye/
Larry Hagman, the actor who brought us two enduring TV characters among other roles, died yesterday of cancer at at Medical City in Dallas. He portrayed astronaut Major Anthony Nelson on the 1965-1970 TV series I Dream o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/24/RIP-Larry-Hagman/
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon, has died. He gave the world a quote on that occasion on July 20, 1969, that will live in history: "That is one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/25/RIP-Neil-Armstrong/
Astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died today in La Jolla, California of pancreatic cancer. The announcement was made by her company, Sally Ride Science.
Ride, who was a physicist, became a househo...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/23/r-i-p-sally-ride/