Obituaries

LOS ANGELES - Always dapper, Gene Barry overcame his reluctance to take the starring role in the TV series "Bat Masterson" when he found out the Western lawman had worn a derby and carried a gold-handled cane in real life. Full Story »

NEW YORK - Thomas Hoving, whose charismatic but controversial leadership of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is summed up in his autobiography, "Making the Mummies Dance," has died. He was 78. Full Story »

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Former Costa Rican President Rodrigo Carazo Odio has died of complications from open-heart surgery. Full Story »

DALLAS - Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II, who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 80. Full Story »

LONDON - John Crofton, a researcher renowned for his groundbreaking work on the treatment of the tuberculosis, has died at his home in Scotland. He was 97. Full Story »

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died. He was 95. Full Story »

VIENNA - Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka, whose controversial works in metal, paint and pencil alienated as much as attracted the public died Saturday, Austrian media reported. He was 81. Full Story »

DUBLIN - Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital. He was 74. Full Story »

ORLANDO, Fla. - Paula Hawkins, who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died Friday. She was 82. Full Story »

MOSCOW - Russian news reports say iconic film actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov has died in Moscow at age 81. Full Story »

LONDON - Richard Todd, who re-enacted his wartime exploits in the 1962 film "The Longest Day" and was Ian Fleming's choice to play James Bond, has died of cancer at age 90, his family said Friday. Full Story »

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. - The songwriter behind the Elvis Presley hit "It's Now or Never" has died. Full Story »

JACKSON, Miss. - Retired Air Force Col. Jack Pitchford, a fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the notorious Vietnamese prison camp known as the "Hanoi Hilton," has died. He was 82. Full Story »

BERLIN - An agent says Eric Woolfson, co-founder of the 1970s British progressive rock group Alan Parsons Project, known for the hits "Eye in the Sky" and "Don't Answer Me," has died of cancer. He was 64. Full Story »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A longtime bluegrass bass player and singer with Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys has died. Jack Cooke was 72. Full Story »

ZAGREB, Croatia - Croatian conductor Vjekoslav Sutej, who led orchestras in the United States, Italy and Spain and worked with Placido Domingo and Montserrat Caballe, died on Wednesday. He was 58. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - He was raw, only played a few songs and had just a couple interesting guitar riffs, but Bob Keane would say later there was just something special about the teenager he would rename Ritchie Valens and turn into one of the biggest stars in rock 'n' roll history. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday. Full Story »