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2012-05-16 00:15:40
Leonard Glassner's love for learning and volunteering led him into the military, city public schoosl and into a circle of Russian emigres.
2012-05-16 00:02:57
Frank Knight's decades-long battle to save New England's tallest elm served as an inspiring tale of devotion.
2012-05-15 01:16:16
John William Costerton was one of the most esteemed microbiologists in the world.
2012-05-15 01:15:58
Samuel Astorino worked to earn a doctorate in history from the University of Pittsburgh and become a university professor.
2012-05-15 00:08:38
Floyd D. Hall was a former airline pilot who rose to chairman and chief executive of Eastern Airlines in the mid-1960s.
2012-05-14 00:08:18
Whether with Aliquippa or Alcosan, the thrill of closing a deal with a client thrilled Mr. Fisher, his friends and family members say.
2012-05-13 00:16:17
Joyce Redman brought a mischievous sparkle to the most suggestive scene ever filmed at a dining table.
2012-05-12 00:23:13
Carroll Shelby, who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang, died Thursday.
2012-05-12 00:06:47
Charles E. Copeland, a surgeon and teacher for five decades who founded the Mercy Hospital burn center, died Tuesday of liver cancer.
2012-05-10 12:23:15
Known as "Pastor Eugene" around much of the Chartiers Valley, the ever-smiling Rev. Eugene Hrabovsky died Saturday in Bridgeville.
2012-05-10 12:21:49
Nicholas Katzenbach helped shape the political history of the 1960s, as a central player in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
2012-05-10 00:43:58
With one high-profile haircut on the Paramount Studios lot in 1967, Vidal Sassoon vaulted to fame in Hollywood.
2012-05-09 16:01:08
To go to a party at Frank Klingensmith's Forest Hills home was to be transported back in time.
2012-05-09 15:57:39
The finely tuned verse of Adrienne Rich explored her identity as feminist, lesbian and agent for political change.
2012-05-09 15:57:38
The hard-driving picking style of bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs influenced a generation of players.
2012-05-09 15:54:10
Bernard L. Cohen, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Pittsburgh, never stopped learning.
2012-05-09 15:51:17
He once won $6.4 million dollars in the lottery. But one of his players said teenagers were the lucky ones if they got to play for him.
2012-05-09 15:48:46
Sister Mary Bride O'Malley, whose faith found expression in fierce love for the school at St. Mary of the Mount on Mount Washington, died.
2012-05-09 15:47:26
Patience Abbe, who was just 11 when she wrote the memoir "Around the World in Eleven Years" with her two brothers, has died.
2012-05-09 15:43:02
Henry Ruth, who was a key figure in the federal investigation of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s and who spent a year leading the
2012-05-09 15:43:01
Kenneth J. Fisher survived the attack on Pearl Harbor while serving in the Navy during World War II and outlived his wife and two children.
2012-05-09 15:39:22
Tonino Guerra, a prolific Italian screenwriter and poet whose roster of film collaborators, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico
2012-05-09 15:37:56
He survived disease, starvation and brutal violence during the Bataan Death March and years of confinement as a Japanese prisoner of war.
2012-05-09 15:32:43
Samuel L. Glazer, co-owner of the company that revolutionized American mornings with the Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker, has died at age 89.
2012-05-09 15:32:31
Murray Lender helped turn his father's small Connecticut bakery into a national company credited for introducing bagels to many Americans.
2012-05-09 15:32:12
Mary Dee Maloney, with her husband, owned and operated a chain of Hallmark card shops in Downtown Pittsburgh for nearly 50 years.
2012-05-09 15:26:52
Born with a rare type of muscular dystrophy that confined him to a wheelchair since childhood, Marco Giovengo became an inspiration.
2012-05-09 15:23:21
Jean Giraud was an enduring figure in European comics whose fantasy and sci-fi work influenced alien-world imagery throughout pop culture.
2012-05-09 15:23:21
Peter Brown sold liquor for a living but found his true passions in pursuits as varied as dancing, hunting, skiing and karate.
2012-05-09 15:23:21
For nearly 50 years, Noble Fleming sipped and sniffed from teaspoons and fine china cups to ensure the quality of tea for millions.
2012-05-09 15:21:47
Georgiane Wilson never considered her cerebral palsy a handicap and volunteered to help those she considered less fortunate.
2012-05-09 15:16:38
Francis Krushinski spoke Polish like his father. But he became the inspiration for, and a fixture at, the Pittsburgh Irish Festival.
2012-05-09 15:15:19
Peter Bergman, a founding member of the surrealist comedy troupe Firesign Theater, died March 9.
2012-05-09 15:15:19
Rudy Ricci walked out of a cemetery as a zombie in the 1968 horror film "Night of the Living Dead."
2012-05-09 15:15:18
Lawrence Anthony was a South African who abandoned a career in insurance and real estate to play Noah to the world's endangered species.
2012-05-09 15:12:14
A former president of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a leading conservationist died Sunday.
2012-05-09 15:09:16
Jan Duchoslav, a luxury car dealer whose dapper European manner and last name earned him the name "the duke of Sewickley," died Sunday.
2012-05-09 15:06:26
F. Sherwood Rowland, the University of California, Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the
2012-05-09 15:06:25
Without ever uttering a word other than "hon" in his 38 years, Joshua Corey had been in the newspaper multiple times.
2012-05-09 15:03:51
Herb Carnegie laughed with delight when he reminisced about his youthful hockey experiences.
2012-05-09 15:03:51
"How could a farm boy boy from Butler and a city boy from Clairton become such good friends?"
2012-05-09 15:00:13
As a set illustrator for Hollywood studios, Robert Temple Ayres created his most famous work at Paramount in 1959.
2012-05-09 15:00:12
Lynn D. "Buck" Compton, an Army paratrooper whose World War II service was portrayed in the book and HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers"
2012-05-09 14:56:22
Umpire Harry Wendelstedt worked five World Series and made a call involving Don Drysdale that became one of baseball's most disputed plays
2012-05-09 14:56:15
Mary McVay was the star of myriad fundraisers and a fixture in the society pages of local magazines and newspapers
2012-05-09 14:55:19
Joe Byrd, a bassist who helped introduce bossa nova-inflected jazz to the United States, died Tuesday from injuries in a car accident.
2012-05-09 14:55:08
Army Staff Sgt. Edward Greiner Jr. died Tuesday in a motorcycle crash near his base in North Carolina.
2012-05-09 14:55:08
Tina Strobos, a psychiatry student who joined the Dutch underground during World War II, died Feb. 27.
2012-05-09 14:51:27
Donald Payne, New Jersey's first and so far only black congressman and a leading advocate for democracy in Africa during 23 years in the
2012-05-09 14:51:12
Ralph McQuarrie, an artist whose paintings of a gold-plated robot in an otherworldly desert and an intergalactic sword duel between a
2012-05-09 14:51:11
Van Barfoot, a Medal of Honor recipient in World War II whose fight to fly an American flag outside his home 65 years later drew national
2012-05-09 14:51:11
From a boy who took pleasure in reassembling transistor radios, George "Pete"
2012-05-09 14:48:30
Publicly, their gigs were separate. He played to earn a living, she chose the fun singing engagements.
2012-05-09 14:46:07
Douglas L. Root Jr., whose diplomatic and collegial style helped immensely in avoiding rancor while negotiating labor contracts as as an
2012-05-09 14:45:46
"One exposure on a roll of 36 exposures," Stan Stearns marveled decades later.
2012-05-09 14:44:39
Along with great love of people, good conversation and handsome clothes, Charles F. Lloyd Jr. most cherished family and song.
2012-05-09 14:44:38
Maybe William J. McKenna Sr.'s lifelong fascination with water stemmed from the day in the early 1930s when his father sent him
2012-05-09 14:44:26
Maurice Andre, a virtuoso credited with having transformed the trumpet from a workaday cog in the back of the orchestra into a seductive
2012-05-09 14:39:31
James Q. Wilson, a social scientist who helped launch a revolution in law enforcement as the co-inventor of the "broken windows"
2012-05-09 14:39:20
Bruce Surtees, an Oscar-nominated cinematographer known as the "Prince of Darkness" for his skill at summoning sharply etched figures
2012-05-09 14:39:19
Ulric Neisser, a psychological researcher who helped lead a postwar revolution in the study of the human mind by advancing the
2012-05-09 14:38:08
Margaret Horne Weis was as comfortable socializing and smoking with U.S.
2012-05-09 14:37:57
Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger and activist who used undercover video to bring discredit and disgrace to his liberal targets,
2012-05-09 14:32:23
L. James Huegel, a retired executive vice president of Consolidation Coal Co., now Consol Energy, died Sunday of heart failure at his home
2012-05-09 14:28:34
Jan Berenstain's personality and art merged in the wise and gentle Mama Bear of the cartoon clan she and her husband created.
2012-05-09 14:28:33
Harry C. McPherson Jr. served as special counsel and chief speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson from 1966 to '69.
2012-05-09 14:28:33
Erland Josephson, a Swedish actor notable as the star of the acclaimed 1973 film "Scenes From a Marriage," died Saturday.
2012-05-09 14:26:31
"Hard-working" is the first thing that comes to mind when friends and family are asked to describe Rose Marie , who lived most of her life
2012-05-09 14:23:07
In his 80s, long after he had retired and had lost a leg and sight in one eye, the Rev.
2012-05-09 14:20:22
Mary Jane McNulty, who became an accomplished poet while raising six children and tending to troubled souls in the wider community, died
2012-05-09 14:15:29
Retired Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Bernard J.
2012-05-09 14:15:15
Barney Rosset, the maverick publisher who chafed at puritanism and whose relentless challenges of obscenity laws helped overthrow the final
2012-05-09 14:15:14
In modern-day arcades, pinball machines are widely considered four-legged, glass-topped dinosaurs.
2012-05-09 14:13:39
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a president of Italy who held the post during the sweeping corruption scandal of the early 1990s that reshaped the
2012-05-09 14:13:27
Remembered by friends and family as a woman who "laughed and cried with reckless abandon,"
2012-05-09 14:08:40
John Turner Sargent Sr., a publisher, editor and socialite who as CEO of Doubleday worked with authors from Dwight Eisenhower to Stephen
2012-05-09 14:08:39
When Paul J. Kuszaj suffered a severe brain hemorrhage in 2001, his wife was told he likely had just hours to live.
2012-05-09 14:08:39
Philip Vannatter, who as a Los Angeles police detective helped lead the investigation of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L.
2012-05-09 14:07:35
Known as "Mr. Model T," Bruce McCalley knew more about the car that transformed the world than the company that made it.
2012-05-09 14:05:33
Pinpointing the single greatest accomplishment in the life of an acclaimed artist, athlete and educator isn't difficult for friends
2012-05-09 14:03:23
Helen J. Clark was perhaps the antithesis of the fat-cat Wall Street banker.
2012-05-09 14:03:14
Anthony Shadid, one of the most incisive and honored foreign correspondents of his generation, died Thursday in Syria, where he was
2012-05-09 13:59:50
Although she was an Oscar-nominated songwriter, Dory Previn was better known for ballads that spoke to wounded souls.
2012-05-09 13:59:49
One family paid their bills with a truckload of hogs, others with chickens, which George R.
2012-05-09 13:59:48
"I didn't bring you to Paris to make art; I brought you here to do the buttons and bows,"
2012-05-09 13:53:22
For some, a college degree simply represents what they have studied over the past four years. For Raymond E.
2012-05-09 13:53:22
Jenny Tomasin, a British actress forever known to television viewers as the clumsy, disheveled, Valentino-obsessed kitchen maid Ruby Finch
2012-05-09 13:53:21
W. Gunther Plaut, a rabbi whose vast, scholarly and ardently contemporary edition of the Torah has helped define Reform Judaism in
2012-05-09 13:50:03
Wynn Kenyon, whose ordination by Pittsburgh Presbytery was rejected by the national church in 1974 because he wouldn't ordain women, died
2012-05-09 13:49:04
Theatergoers around Pittsburgh might have seen Mary Alice Nicholas Bialock in any number of productions from the 1940s to 1980s, ranging
2012-05-09 13:46:35
Raymond L. Casper believed in second chances.
2012-05-09 13:46:35
Fred Yee was 20-something and wasn't exactly enthralled working in the business world.
2012-05-09 13:43:49
Best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow was killed Friday when he lost control of his car on a snowy road after promoting his latest book in
2012-05-09 13:41:18
Hal Sanders was the epitome of the small-town boy who makes good, except he wasn't even from a small town.
2012-05-09 13:41:17
When the Schenley High School basketball team won a state championship in 1978, Calvin Kane was one of the main catalysts for the Spartans.
2012-05-08 00:21:39
Leon Lynch, the first African-American to serve as an any union's international vice president and to the White House, has died.
2012-05-08 00:08:03
Bob Stewart, a TV producer who understood that Americans love to find bargains and win prizes, and who created such game shows, has died.
2012-05-07 17:37:15
Robert E. Whitaker didn't set out to establish a large, successful publication house of contemporary and classic Christian literature.
2012-05-07 00:13:13
George Lindsey, who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gasoline station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" died Sunday.
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