Vinnie Paul, hard-hitting drummer for heavy metal band Pantera, dies at 54 June 24, 2018 Mr. Paul formed the group in the 1980s with his guitarist brother, who was later killed onstage. View Full Obituary
James S. Denton, journal editor who led programs to advance democracy, dies at 66 June 23, 2018 Mr. Denton was the son of Vietnam POW and U.S. Sen. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. View Full Obituary
Dick Leitsch, whose ‘Sip-In’ was a milestone for the gay rights movement, dies at 83 June 23, 2018 “His actions,” one historian said, “helped make it easier for a generation of gay people to come out and be openly gay.” View Full Obituary
Hubert Green, golfer who won U.S. Open despite death threat, dies at 71 June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 Ignoring a threat that he would be shot, Mr. Green won the 1977 U.S. Open championship. View Full Obituary
Stanley Cavell, philosopher who drew insights from Shakespeare and cinema, dies at 91 June 22, 2018June 22, 2018 Scorning disciplinary boundaries, he wrote about screwball comedies and the tragedy “King Lear.” View Full Obituary
Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68 June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 His syndicated Washington Post column championed neoconservative thought and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. View Full Obituary
Robert M. Higdon, fundraiser and longtime Reagan family associate, dies at 58 June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 He was on the first family’s personal staff and led foundations connected to Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles. View Full Obituary
Peter Thomson, Australian golfer who won the British Open five times, dies at 88 June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 Mr. Thomson was named to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1988. View Full Obituary
Walter Bahr, last member of U.S. soccer team that upset England in 1950, dies at 91 June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 Mr. Bahr had a long coaching career after the surprise U.S. victory in the 1950 World Cup. View Full Obituary
Kazuo Kashio, co-founder of Casio electronics company, dies at 89 June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 He founded the Japanese company with three brothers. View Full Obituary
Richard Valeriani, NBC News correspondent bludgeoned for civil rights coverage, dies at 85 June 20, 2018June 20, 2018 He was clubbed by an ax-wielding counterprotester in Alabama and later wrote a book on Henry Kissinger. View Full Obituary
Reinhard Hardegen, U-boat commander who menaced American shores, dies at 105 June 19, 2018June 19, 2018 He described himself as a naval officer, not a Nazi, and later met with the families of his wartime victims. View Full Obituary
Frank Harden, longtime D.C. morning radio host, dies at 95 June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 With Jackson Weaver, Mr. Harden formed a six-days-a-week radio team full of humor and “dynamic inaction.” View Full Obituary
Anne Donovan, Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, dies at 56 June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 She won Olympic gold medals as both player and coach and was the first female coach to win a WNBA title. View Full Obituary
Leslie Grantham, ‘lovable rogue’ on British TV’s ‘EastEnders,’ dies at 71 June 16, 2018June 16, 2018 Mr. Grantham began to act while serving a prison sentence. View Full Obituary
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, one of the Last Poets and earliest rappers, dies at 74 June 15, 2018June 15, 2018 He channeled the militant social criticism of the Black Power movement into music. View Full Obituary
D.J. Fontana, drummer on Elvis Presley’s early hits, dies at 87 June 14, 2018June 14, 2018 Mr. Fontana played on such classic Elvis tunes as “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock.” View Full Obituary
Gena Turgel, Holocaust survivor who cared for Anne Frank, dies at 95 June 14, 2018June 14, 2018 She was a witness to concentration camp horrors at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. View Full Obituary
Douglas Bennet, administrator who guided NPR out of fiscal turmoil, dies at 79 June 14, 2018June 14, 2018 He was credited with leading NPR “to a position of undisputed leadership in American radio news.” His career took him from the academy to the State Department to the presidency of Wesleyan University. View Full Obituary
Dorothy Cotton, civil rights leader and confidante to Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 88 June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 The education programs she led helped teach thousands of African Americans about basic rights of citizenship. View Full Obituary
C.M. Newton, Hall of Fame basketball administrator and coach, dies at 88 June 12, 2018June 12, 2018 He coached at Kentucky, Transylvania, Alabama and Vanderbilt and also influenced selection of the original U.S. Olympic “Dream Team” in 1992. View Full Obituary
