Oral Roberts
Pioneering televangelist Oral Roberts has died after suffering a fall near his Newport Beach, Calif., home. He was 91.
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Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry's mother, who was the inspiration for his popular character Madea, has died. She was 64.
"Willie Maxine Perry. February 12, 1945 to December 8, 2009. Thank you ...
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Ken Ober
Ken Ober, host of MTV's Remote Control, has died at the age of 52, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
"His body was discovered in his home on Sunday," Mark Measures, Ober's talent agent, said. "The last person to have spoken to him was on Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, no suicide, it looks like natural causes, just no one knows the exact cause yet."
Gallery: In Memoriam 2009
Ober began his career on...
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Wipeout
A contestant who participated on the ABC series Wipeout has died, a spokesman for the L.A. County Coroner's office told TVGuide.com.
Tom Sparks, 33, was hospitalized Oct. 19 after he complained of ...
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Janet Weidenheimer
Janet Weidenheimer, who was known as Nana Janet when taking care of the children on Jon & Kate Plus 8, has died. She was 72.
Weidenheimer, who appeared several times in early seasons of the show, most notably while riding a horse at the sextuplets' third birthday party, was a friend of the Gosselin family and regularly volunteered to help Kate take care of the children.
She passed away on Oct. 28, according to Entertainment Tonight. Details about her death have not been released, but funeral services were scheduled to take place in Pennsylvania Saturday.
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An expedition guide for a children's program was killed by a charging elephant in Tanzania with three children nearby, Britain's Press Association reports.
Anton Turner, 38, was tracing the footsteps of explorer David Livingstone in Africa for the children's BBC series titled...
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Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales, the boundary-breaking comedian who good-naturedly endured, by his count, more than 20,000 pies to the face, has died. He was 83.
The comic's anything-for-a-laugh pie-throwing shtick became his trademark, and stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Shirley MacLaine took one in the face on the comedian's television show in the early 1960s.
His nerdy cool paved the way for such later comedians as Pee Wee Herman ...
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Collin Wilcox-Paxton, who portrayed the false accuser in the classic 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, has died of brain cancer, according to The Associated Press.
Wilcox-Paxton died Oct. 14 in her hometown, Highlands, N.C., at age 74. She had been diagnosed with...
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Capt. Lou Albano
Captain Lou Albano, the legendary wrestling icon who bridged World Wrestling Entertainment and rock music after starring in Cyndi Lauper's music videos, has died. He was 76.
Albano was "one of the company's most popular and charismatic legends," read a statement on the WWE website. "WWE extends its ...
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