Remembrances

Hawking gives a talk titled "A Brief History of Mine" to workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 9, 2013.

Stephen Hawking, Who Awed Both Scientists And The Public, Dies

9:45am March 14, 2018

by Joe Palca

Hawking was a theoretical physicist who changed how scientists think about gravity. He also wrote the best-selling book A Brief History of Time and lent his machine-aided voice to TV shows. He was 76.

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Arts

French Fashion Designer Hubert De Givenchy Dies At 91

12:36pm March 13, 2018

by Neda Ulaby

Hubert de Givenchy has died at 91. He dressed some of the world's most glamorous women including Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy and Grace Kelly.

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U.S. Air Force Retired Lt. Col. Floyd J. Carter has died at age 95. One of the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, Carter is seen here signing the tail of a TU-43 plane at the opening of the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee, Ala., in 2008.

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Floyd J. Carter, A Tuskegee Airman And NYPD Detective, Dies At 95

2:42pm March 12, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Carter was one of the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous unit that overcame both internal challenges and enemy fire to serve in World War II.

French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy at his design house at the Plaine Monceau in Paris, circa 1955. Givenchy has died at age 91.

Arts

Hubert de Givenchy, Famed Couturier, Dies At 91

11:55am March 12, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Known for designing the little black numbers worn by Audrey Hepburn, a British fashion declared of his first collection: "These dresses remind you of that first, best, glass of champagne."

French Fashion Designer Givenchy Dies At 91

11:33am March 12, 2018

by Eleanor Beardsley

French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy styled some of the world's most fashionable women — icons like Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy and Princess Grace of Monaco. He died at age 91 on Saturday.

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Arts

Remembering Barry Crimmins, A Comic Who Advocated For Survivors Of Sexual Abuse

2:35pm March 08, 2018

by Terry Gross

Crimmins, who died last week, mentored Bobcat Goldthwait when they were up-and-coming comics in the '80s. The two men spoke to Fresh Air in 2015 about their documentary Call Me Lucky.

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On May 6, 1954, Britain's Roger Bannister hits the tape to become the first person to break the 4-minute mile in Oxford, England. His family said Sir Roger Bannister died peacefully in Oxford on March 3 at age 88.

Roger Bannister, First Runner To Break 4-Minute Mile Mark, Dies At 88

2:51am March 05, 2018

by Doreen McCallister

Roger Bannister's 3:59:4 mile in 1954 unlocked the door to what was possible in track — both physically and psychologically.

Barry Crimmins, A Mainstay Of Boston's Comedy Scene, Dies At 64

8:02pm March 01, 2018

A month after announcing he was diagnosed with cancer, comedian Barry Crimmins has died. A mainstay of Boston's comedy scene, Crimmins was one of its early champions who founded two clubs in the '80s where new talent could try their acts.

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Famous Evangelist, 'America's Pastor' Billy Graham Dies At 99

9:01pm February 21, 2018

by Tom Gjelten

Billy Graham, the most famous American evangelist of the 20th century, has died. He preached during a time when the U.S. was less polarized politically and culturally, and he was known as "America's Pastor." Largely silenced by illness in his final years, Graham was somewhat eclipsed by his son Franklin, who took his father's ministry in a far more conservative direction.

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Graham preaches in the early 1950s. Over his career, he preached to more than 200 million people in 185 countries, radically changing the face of born-again Christianity.

'America's Pastor' Billy Graham Dies At 99

2:29pm February 21, 2018

by Tom Gjelten

One of the most influential religious figures of the 20th century, he radically changed the face of born-again Christianity from fundamentalism to a more embracing evangelicalism.

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