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Jerry Bradley, a towering Nashville music executive who helped guide the genre into the modern era and bring about its first ever platinum-selling album — Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser’s Wanted! The Outlaws — has died, The Tennessean reports. He was 83. Bradley’s family confirmed his …

Jane Birkin, the iconic British-born actress, singer and model who became a chart-topping artist in France with her collaborations with then-partner Serge Gainsbourg, has died at the age of 76. Birkin’s death was announced Sunday by the French culture ministry, which said Birkin was found dead at her Paris home. …

Drena De Niro mourned the death of her son (and Robert De Niro’s grandson), Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, in an emotional post on Instagram, writing, “You were kindness, acceptance, and love, and I can’t believe any of this is real.” Rodriguez died on Monday, July 3, at the age of …

CoCo Lee, the singer who performed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s “A Love Before Time” at the 2001 Oscars and who voiced Fa Mulan in the Mandarin version of Mulan, died by suicide Wednesday. Her sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, confirmed the news in an Instagram post. She was 48. “Although …

Rick Froberg, the singer and guitarist in post-hardcore bands Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes, has died at the age of 55. Longtime collaborator John Reis, who played with Froberg since the mid-Eighties when they were members of the San Diego band Pitchfork, confirmed Froberg’s death Saturday on Instagram. “Rick …

Alan Arkin, the Oscar-winning actor who starred in films like Little Miss Sunshine, Argo, and Glengarry Glen Rose during a career that spanned over 60 years, has died at the age of 89. Arkin’s sons Adam, Matthew, and Anthony confirmed their father’s death in a statement toPeople. “Our father was …

Big Pokey, a local legend on the Houston hip-hop scene and a member of the city’s influential Screwed Up Click, has died at the age of 45. The rapper born Milton Powell reportedly collapsed at his show Saturday in Beaumont, Texas, with the Jefferson County Justice of the Peace confirming …

Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst-turned-whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers and helped reveal the political deceptions underpinning the brutal expansion of the Vietnam War, died Friday in his California home. He was 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to a statement by Ellsberg’s family. In early March, Ellsberg …

Cormac McCarthy, the celebrated novelist known for his stunning, apocalyptic visions of the American West, died Tuesday, June 13. He was 89. McCarthy’s publisher, Penguin Random House, confirmed his death in a statement, according to The Washington Post. A cause of death was not given. McCarthy’s work was often bleak …

Ted Kaczynski, the domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber who killed three people and injured dozens in a series of mail bombings that spanned decades and long baffled authorities, has died at the age of 81. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Kaczynski’s death Saturday, adding he was found dead …