"British musician Liam James Payne, composer and guitarist, former member of the band One Direction, died today after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Palermo," the statement read. "In the afternoon, police personnel from Precinct 14B were directed to the hotel by a 911 call repo...
- Date of birth: May 26 (Died: Sept. 28, 1991) It's hard to understate the cultural impact of iconic jazz musician Miles Davis, whom Rolling Stone called the "most revered jazz trumpeter of all time." Born in St. Louis and educated at New York's prestigious Juilliard School, Davis s...
13% ofparticipantswithahighschooldegreeor lesseducationdiedcomparedwithonlyapproximately5% ofcollegegraduates. Strikingly,whenlookingatraceandeducationat thesametime,theresearchersfoundthatdifferences relatedtoracealmostdisappeared:13.5% ofblack subjectsand13.2% ofwhitesubjectswithahigh schooldegreeorlessdiedduringthe...
“I think,” he declared, “that you’re over your head in a legal story like this, when you’re asking whether there’s going to be recompense for the man that died when it hasn’t been established whether he was at fault.” Is it possible, then, that everybody who’d been at ...
Comedian and actor Andy Kaufman died after a year-long battle with a rare form of lung cancer. His groundbreaking and often controversial work left a lasting impact on the world of comedy and performance art. In the months leading up to his death, Kaufman sought alternative treatments for his...
Randy Parton, Dolly Parton’s younger brother and a renowned musician, died in 2021 at 67.Todd Wetherington/The Daily Herald / AP Randy Parton,born Dec. 15, 1953, died in 2021 at the age of 67. On Jan. 21, 2021, Dolly shared his death onFacebook, revealing that her brother had die...
Denmark-based musician Simona Abdallah brings a new intensity to the traditional Arab drum, the darbuka. She is one of a brave new breed of Muslim women you’re going to hear a lot more about in the coming year. This is going to be the year of the Muslim woman you’ve never heard ...
(first on the left in the above image), died last year just weeks before their classic albums were finally released on streaming services. I was lucky enough to have seen them at London's Brixton Academy in 1990. If you were too young to seeDe Laback at their height of ...
One of Hollywood’s most beloved actors, Burt Reynolds, died today in Florida. News outlets are reporting that he did not yet film his role as George Spahn in Tarantino’s new film “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.” The film, shooting lately around town, is thought to be about the lat...
Testimonies from three hotel workers and two women who had been with Payne in his room hours before his death—but had already left the hotel when he died—were taken by authorities, per the release. Officials added that their investigation will aim at "reconstructing the circumstan...