Obituary

To look at actress Dame Diana Rigg’s filmography is to look back at a lifetime of performances defined by a person’s …

You may not know who Frances Allen is off the top of your head, but you should. Not only was she the first female…

If you’re on a desktop right now, you’re probably using a computer mouse. In which case, you should raise a glass to…

The world lost a commanding presence over the weekend with the passing of John Saxon, a beloved cult actor whose…

Grant Imahara, cohost of the wildly popular TV show Mythbusters, died on Monday at the age of 49, according to a…

If it weren’t for Denny O’Neil, we would likely still be reading about and watching a version of Batman whose greates…

Paul Vasquez, the colorful character behind the viral “double rainbow” video, has died.

Big Archie Comics fans undoubtedly know the name Victor Gorelick. As the company’s most recent editor in chief, he…

One of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, Kirk Douglas, died this week at the age of 103. He’s survived…

Unless you’re an avid reader of the sort of books CEOs tote around, you may not have heard of Clayton Christensen.…

Science fiction would not be what it is today without the influence of Syd Mead. Mead, a futurist and industrial…

We credit much of the success of Star Trek to the vision of Gene Roddenberry, crafting a hopeful future for the…

Lawrence G. Paull, the art director and production designer behind iconic movies like Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and…

Terrance Dicks, one of the most influential writers in Doctor Who’s entire history, has died at the age of 84.

If you’ve seen, heard, or played anything with Minnie Mouse in it since the mid-1980s you’ve heard Russi Taylor’s…

It’s official. Apple announced yesterday that it would begin killing off iTunes, one of the company’s most important…

Richard Erdman, a character actor whose amazing career dates back to the 1940s and includes over 170 acting credits,…

Nancy Grace Roman, a former NASA executive who is often described as the “mother” of the Hubble Space Telescope, has…

Penny Marshall, director of Big, A League of Their Own, and Awakenings, died today due to complications with…

Jacqueline Pearce, best known to sci-fi fans as the glamorous and calculating Servalan on the cult British space…