Obituaries
The latest Obituaries coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our News section.
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Bud Cort, who starred in 1971’s ‘Harold and Maude,’ dies
Bud Cort, a veteran stage and screen actor whose best-known role was one of his first, playing a death-obsessed, 19-year-old recluse named Harold opposite Ruth Gordon’s 79-year-old, happy-go-lucky Holocaust survivor named Maude in the 1971 off-kilter romantic comedy “Harold and Maude,” died Wednesday in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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James Van Der Beek, the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star who later mocked his own hunky persona, dies
ames Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in "Dawson's Creek" and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died.
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Catherine O’Hara, Emmy-winning comic actor of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘Home Alone’ fame, dies at 71
Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian-born comic actor and “SCTV” alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two “Home Alone” movies and won an Emmy as the dramatically ditzy wealthy matriarch Moira Rose in “Schitt’s Creek,” died Friday.
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Scott Adams, whose comic strip ‘Dilbert’ ridiculed white-collar office life, dies
Scott Adams, whose popular comic strip "Dilbert" captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern office culture until he was abruptly dropped from syndication in 2023 for racist remarks, has died.
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Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir dies
Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through decades of endless tours and marathon jams, has died.
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From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, many deaths in 2025 had a wide impact
The world lost influential people in 2025, and some of their deaths had significant impacts.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, a grandchild of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died
Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died after she was diagnosed with leukemia last year.
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Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of a previous premier, dies
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former premier defined the country’s politics for a generation, has died, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party said in a statement Tuesday.
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Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for The Cure, dies
Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died.
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‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies
Anthony Geary, who rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s as half the daytime TV super couple Luke and Laura on "General Hospital," has died.
