LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. said late Wednesday that the company's founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs has died. Jobs was 56. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance...
William Safire was born at New York City on 17 December 1929 and died from pancreatic cancer last Sunday. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science, then attended Syracuse University for two years. Despite dropping out, he delivered the commencement...
Walter Cronkite, born at St. Joseph, Missouri on 4 November 1916, died last evening at New York City. While in high school at Houston, Texas he was a cub reporter at the Houston Post, and had a paper route, possibly the only journalist to deliver his...