British actor William Morgan Sheppard has died at the age of 86. The star of Star Trek, Dr Who and Mad Men died on Sunday January 6 in Los Angeles, California. He leaves behind an actor son Mark Sheppard, with who he starred in several productions, including the TV series NCIS and Doctor Who's The Impossible Astronaut, where they played different aged versions of the same character.

Anne ‘Honey’ Langtree was unique in music in the 60s. She was a drummer. Honey has died after a battle with breast cancer at the age of 75.

Judith Rich Harris once had a job writing psychology textbooks. She’d been kicked out of Harvard before earning a Ph.D. and suffered from chronic health issues, and this was something she could do from home. Then she quit that job, having decided to upend the field rather than “teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students.”

"Mean" Gene Okerlund, one of the voices synonymous with professional wrestling as a host, in-ring announcer and interviewer since the mid-1980s, has died at the age of 76.

Dr. Roberts worked with other engineers to create the underpinnings of the Arpanet, making many crucial decisions. But his work did not make him rich.

French Resistance hero Georges Loinger, who used his ingenuity and athletic prowess to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during World War II, has died at the age of 108. A talented athlete and cousin of the famous mime artist and fellow Resistance member Marcel Marceau, the Jewish Loinger would smuggle the children in small groups across the Franco-Swiss border. One ruse involved dressing children up as mourners and taking them to a cemetery whose wall abutted the French side of the border.

Frank Adonis -- best known for his roles in some of Martin Scorsese's most famous films -- died after a long battle with various health issues ... TMZ has learned. According to his wife, Denise ... the veteran actor died Wednesday night in Las Vegas. She tells us he'd been sick for a couple years, mostly kidney problems. We're told he'd been on dialysis and was on a ventilator for the past 9 days, but they waited until after Christmas to take him off it.

We’ve heard unconfirmed reports that James Calvin Wilsey, Chris Isaak’s former backing guitarist, has passed away. He was 61. The news has surfaced on several guitar forums and on social media, with fans and former bandmates offering their tributes to Wilsey. Although he’s best known for that iconic Spaghetti Western-inspired lead guitar on Isaak’s Wicked Game, Wilsey had starred in the crooner’s backing band – called Silvertone – from 1980 all the way up to 1993. His first claim to fame, however, was as the bassist of Californian punk group the Avengers; he joined way back, in 1977.

She starred for eight seasons on the ABC ratings hit, created by her late brother Garry Marshall, and directed such films as 'Big,' 'A League of Their Own' and 'Awakenings.'

The woman who created and sold what many recognise as the world's first word processor has died aged 93. Evelyn Berezin called the device the Data Secretary when, in 1971, her company Redactron launched the product. She grew Redactron from nine employees to close to 500 and was named one of the US's top leaders by BusinessWeek magazine in the year she sold it, 1976.

Evelyn Berezin put the Data Secretary on sale in 1971, creating a new industry.

Chefs, artists, and loved ones pay tribute to the late culinary icon.

Irv Gordon, the man from Long Island who broke the Guinness World Record for highest vehicle mileage on a single vehicle when the Volvo P1800 he’s owned since new passed three million miles in 2013, has died at 77. The news of Irv’s death came from his daughter, who posted about it on Facebook, and was picked up by the Facebook page dedicated to him and his Volvo P1800 adventures.

Key member of 1970s New Hollywood generation won two Oscars for his screenplays

Canadian actor Douglas Rain, who played some of Shakespeare's most intriguing characters onstage but perhaps is best known for supplying the creepily calm voice of the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has died at 90. The Stratford Festival said Rain died on Sunday of natural causes at St Marys Memorial Hospital, just outside of Stratford, Ontario. He was one of the festival's founding company members and spent 32 seasons performing there, until 1998.

Hargrove died after suffering cardiac arrest on Friday night.

Jin Yong's fantasy novels of martial arts heroes and legends sold millions around the world.

Bill Gates is paying tribute his late friend, Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with him in 1975. Allen passed away at the age of 65 on Monday from complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer that kills nearly 20,000 people a year. At the time of his death, Allen was listed by Forbes as the 44th richest person in the world with a net worth of $20.3 billion.

Paul Allen, one of the most influential businessmen and philanthropists in Seattle history, died Monday at the age of 65. Allen was the co-founder of Microsoft along with Bill Gates, as well as the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers, part-owner of the Seattle Sounders and founder of the Museum of Pop Culture.