Rue McClanahan died today after suffering a massive stroke. She was 76.
McClanahan was best known for playing Blanche Deveraux on The Golden Girls, but before then had played Maude's ditzy neighbor Vivian on Maude, and was on the first season of Mama's Family.
Betty White is now the only surviving Golden Girl.
Food critic Egon Ronay, whose eponymous restaurant guides helped Britain embrace fine dining after years of postwar austerity, died Saturday. He was 94.
Donald Windham, Novelist and Memoirist, Dies at 89
Donald Windham, a novelist and memoirist who left vivid pictures of literary life in New York, both fictional and factual, when he was an intimate of Tennessee Williams, Lincoln Kirstein and Truman Capote, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
Girl, five, dies days after singing for Simon Cowell
A five-year-old from Gloucestershire has lost her battle with a brain tumour days after fulfilling her ambition to sing for Simon Cowell.
Bethany Fenton, who performed Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the Britain's Got Talent judge last Saturday, died on Tuesday with her family at her side.
Himan Brown, who created dramas that used sound effects like a creaking door and a steam engine to enthrall listeners during the golden age of radio, died June 4 in Manhattan. He was 99