News Obituaries
Phil Donahue, whose daytime talk show launched an indelible TV genre, has died at 88
August 19, 2024 at 2:19 p.m.
The affable host launched his show in Ohio in 1967, creating a format that is.
July 18, 2024 at 4:45 p.m.
He hosted “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on FOX Business from 2011 to 2021, following two separate.
July 18, 2024 at 1:36 p.m.
Newhart is best remembered now as the star of two hit television shows of the.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
Doug Ingle, the lead singer and organist of Iron Butterfly, the San Diego-bred band that.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
San Diego powerhouse attorney Milt Silverman, whose courtroom successes included some of the biggest cases.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
A man whom many people referred to as the “Bee Guy of Encinitas” because of.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
James T. Hubbell, an iconic local sculptor, artist and humanitarian whose organically inspired works can.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
David Sanborn, one of the most popular and influential saxophonists of the past 50 years.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
Sean Burroughs, a former first-round draft pick of the Padres who became a part of.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
Joan Jacobs, one half of a powerhouse philanthropic couple whose gifts have shaped the cultural.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
Vernor Vinge, the San Diego State University professor whose award-winning science fiction novels helped foretell.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
Frank L. Hope, one of San Diego's postwar architects who helped reshape the city and.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
There are few things that Bob Boss didn't do extremely well as a musician in.
June 13, 2024 at 12:42 a.m.
Stephen L. Weber, who greatly improved San Diego State University's standing in teaching and research.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
Candace Mattoon Carroll, a highly regarded appellate attorney and past president of the San Diego.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
Mojo Nixon, the roots-rocking wild man and former San Diegan who was an MTV mainstay.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
Trish Dugger, 94, the city of Encinitas’ first and thus far only poet laureate, died.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
Teenage Roy Benjamin Cazares spent his summers in the 1950s reading to his siblings in.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
For 50 years, Maxine Mahon was San Diego's doyenne of dance as the founder and.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
Bill W. Stacy, the founding president of California State University San Marcos, died Jan. 4.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
He was a proud child of the Upper Midwest, but nonetheless seized an early opportunity.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
Alexis Smith may have spent her working life in Los Angeles, but the conceptual and.
June 13, 2024 at 12:43 a.m.
Les McCann stood only 5 foot 7, but he was a towering figure when he.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
Mary Shepardson, Jan. 22, 77A Poway resident since age 3, she was a member of.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
Tom Smothers, who died Tuesday from cancer at the age of 86, was a folk.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
Norman Lear, the legendary TV producer and devoted advocate of liberal causes, will be best.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with "All.
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June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
Howard Wayne — the unabashed liberal who spent most of his life in public service.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
Robert Irwin, a longtime San Diego artist associated with the Light and Space movement of.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series "The Man.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
NORTH COUNTY — Dan Rios, a longtime North County newspaper photographer who donated his 1 million-image collection.
June 13, 2024 at 12:44 a.m.
Jimmy Buffett, who died Friday at the age of 76 following a four-year battle with.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
Greg Knoll, a passionate advocate for impoverished San Diegans and leader of the Legal Aid.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
Byron Shewman, a standout athlete at Mar Vista High School and Southwestern College and a.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — Ron Cephas Jones, a veteran stage actor who won two Emmy Awards for his.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
Renata Scotto, a soprano of uncommon intensity who became a successful director after her singing.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
NEW YORK — Clarence Avant, the judicious manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
Robbie Robertson, the leader and co-founder of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers The Band.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
Has there ever been a more unlikely musical subject of an Oscar-winning film documentary than.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
As Larry Ott prepared for the 3-mile hike to the summit of Iron Mountain last.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
In a world of cookie-cutter pop-music stars and automatons, Sinéad O’Connor was a one-off. The.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
Rick Froberg, the singer, guitarist and visual artist best known for taking the knotty, overdriven.
June 13, 2024 at 12:45 a.m.
Paxton Whitehead, a comic actor who earned a Tony nomination for his role in a.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Fisherman, lawyer, lobbyist — Augie Felando spent his working years in and around the ocean.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Harry Markowitz, the renowned scholar who was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for research.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Armando Vergara, a longtime National City employee who had just been promoted to city manager.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Longtime San Diego criminal defense attorney Stephen Cline collapsed in a downtown San Diego courtroom.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Unlike many musicians who sold millions of albums and drew devoted concert audiences for several.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
NEW YORK — Françoise Gilot, an accomplished painter whose art was eclipsed by her long.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Carey Driscoll was a big bear of a man with a mane of white hair.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
James Goldsborough, a veteran opinion columnist who left the Union-Tribune in protest and went on.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Sam Zell, who made his billions resurrecting troubled businesses that ran the gamut from bicycles.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Gloria Molina, the daughter of working-class parents and an unapologetic Chicana who transformed the political.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Paul Bloom, a TV reporter and anchor who worked at several San Diego stations in.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose graceful and literate songwriting made him one of the.
June 13, 2024 at 12:46 a.m.
If there was one constant during Harry Belafonte's groundbreaking career, it was that he repeatedly.
June 13, 2024 at 12:47 a.m.
George Coburn, a Pearl Harbor survivor who never forgot his harrowing wartime experiences but refused.
June 13, 2024 at 12:47 a.m.
Richard J. Riordan, the take-charge venture capitalist who as mayor shepherded Los Angeles’ rebound from.
June 13, 2024 at 12:47 a.m.
Lew Scarr, a longtime Union-Tribune reporter whose storytelling range covered topics as momentous as a.
June 13, 2024 at 12:47 a.m.
Ahmad Jamal was a jazz piano master whose feathery touch, lyrical elegance and pinpoint command.
June 13, 2024 at 12:47 a.m.
Businessman, family man, local history buff. Those are some of the ways that loved ones.
June 13, 2024 at 12:47 a.m.
John Brockington believed in providence, that what happened to him — the football career, the.
June 13, 2024 at 12:47 a.m.
SAN DIEGO — Ricochet, San Diego’s favorite surfing therapy dog, has caught her final wave. The 15-year-old.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
Theophilus “Theo” Logan is best known for his work in local real estate, where he.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
Lance Reddick, who was known for his roles on television series "The Wire," "Fringe" and.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
Bobby Caldwell, a blue-eyed soul singer whose smooth touch camouflaged his idiosyncrasies, died on Tuesday.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
Animator-turned-theme park designer Rolly Crump, who was instrumental in the design of early Disneyland, died.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
SAN DIEGO — Father Louis Maria Solcia was more than a “father” in the religious sense, but.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
Jerry Trimble, who arrived in San Diego in 1977 to take charge of downtown's faltering.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
David Lindley may not have been a household name for most music fans, but he.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
Charles Harrington Elster, a writer who turned a love of the English language into a.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
David Lindley, a multitalented guitarist who was a fixture in Los Angeles recording studios during.
June 13, 2024 at 12:48 a.m.
Wayne Shorter, a saxophonist and composer who was universally acknowledged as one of the most.
June 13, 2024 at 12:49 a.m.
April 14 was going to be a big full-circle moment for Nicolas Reveles. After retiring.
June 13, 2024 at 12:49 a.m.
Last week's unexpected death of prominent member of San Diego's music, arts and skateboarding communities.
June 13, 2024 at 12:49 a.m.
It wasn't long before Rose Schindler's words drew tears from her audience members, as often.
June 13, 2024 at 12:49 a.m.
Raquel Welch had only three lines in the 1966 film “One Million Years B.C.,” but.
June 13, 2024 at 12:49 a.m.
As one of the greatest and most innovative songwriters in pop-music history, Burt Bacharach inspired.
