Actress, legend, and original tabloid superstar Elizabeth Taylor died today at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles from congestive heart failure, which she was hospitalized for six weeks ago. She was 79 years old.
Music site Spinning Soul reports that R&B/disco legend Loleatta Holloway died "following a brief illness." Holloway, who started her career as a gospel and R&B singer, found success as a disco act in the late 1970s—but she might be most famous for providing the hook for Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's "Good Vibrations" (a sample from her "Love Sensation.") Above, Holloway performing "Hit & Run."
Tura Satana, the amazing star of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, has died at 75.
Eunice Sanborn, the world's oldest person, died on Monday morning. She was born on July 20 in either 1895 or 1896, and was 114 or 115. She lived under 21 presidents! The world's oldest person is now 114-year-old Besse Cooper.
Mississippi Winn, the oldest African-American, died this week at 113. Here's a nice appreciation.
Margot Stevenson, the prolific stage actress, has died at age 98.
Saying goodbye sucks, and 2010 was a sucky year. Here's a gallery of some of the people who died this year—from Elizabeth Edwards to J.D. Salinger to Alexander McQueen.
Geraldine Hoff Doyle, the woman who was the inspiration of the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster, died in her home state of Michigan from severe arthritis. She was 86, but will keep telling us "We Can Do It" for eternity.
Geraldine Doyle, model for the WWII-era "We Can Do It" poster that later became a feminist standard, has died at 86.
Philadelphia radio station WDAS and CNN correspondent Roland Martin are reporting that "Lovergirl" singer Teena Marie has died at age 54. Marie (a.k.a. Lady T) released 13 albums over her career, including the utterly badass Irons in the Fire.
New Orleans rapper Magnolia Shorty died on Monday after being shot 26 times. She was 28.
Elaine Kaufman, proprietress of the famed writers' haunt Elaine's, has died at 81 years of age.
Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek, a onetime Playboy club waitress and Milwaukee cop who escaped from prison after being convicted of killing her then-husband's ex-wife, died in hospice care on Saturday. She was in the midst of applying for a pardon.
The world's oldest person, Eugenie Blanchard, has died at age 114. Long lived the world's oldest person.
Ari Up, the lead singer of legendary English punk band the Slits, has died at 48.
Leave It to Beaver actress Barbara Billingsley—June Cleaver herself—has died at age 94.
Gloria Stuart, oldest Oscar nominee for her role in Titanic, has died at 100.
Cammie King Conlon, who played Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With the Wind, died Wednesday.
Winnie Langley, a 102-year-old smoker from Britain, died recently and only stopped smoking cigarettes when she couldn't see the end of a match. She started smoking at age eight to relieve stress brought on by the First World War.
Actress Patricia Neal, who won an Oscar for Hud in 1963, died of cancer on Sunday.
