Topic: obituary

'Quit!' Leftist solons tell Aguirre

'Quit!' Leftist solons tell Aguirre

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 14 04:23 PM

MANILA - The Makabayan bloc on Wednesday urged Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II to step down after a panel of prosecutors cleared self-confessed narcotics trafficker Kerwin Espinosa and his alleged cohorts of drug charges.  Read more »

Fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy dies at 91

Fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy dies at 91

Brian Love, Reuters
Posted at Mar 12 10:42 PM

PARIS - French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy, an aristocrat who founded the house of Givenchy in the 1950s, becoming famous for dressing the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Grace Kelly, has died at the age of 91, the Givenchy label said on Monday. Read more »

U.S. evangelist Billy Graham dies at 99

U.S. evangelist Billy Graham dies at 99

Reuters
Posted at Feb 21 10:05 PM

U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who counseled presidents and preached to millions across the world from his native North Carolina to communist North Korea during his 70 years on the pulpit, died on Wednesday at the age of 99, a spokesman said.   Read more »

Golden Age crooner Vic Damone dead at 89

Golden Age crooner Vic Damone dead at 89

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 13 05:28 PM

Vic Damone, whose silky baritone voice made him a 1950s heartthrob and who Frank Sinatra said had the "best pipes in the business," has died, his family announced Monday. He was 89. Read more »

IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dead at 91

IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad dead at 91

Simon Johnson, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 29 07:24 AM

Billionaire IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, who turned a business he launched as a teenager into one of the world's best known furniture brands, has died at the age of 91, the Swedish company said on Sunday. Read more »

READ: Ka Louie Tabing's last Facebook post to only grandson

READ: Ka Louie Tabing's last Facebook post to only grandson

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 18 06:29 PM

"I did not have a son to share some of the life’s hacks that Kuya Itong taught me. Yet here are my updated advice to my only grandson Nico and to all the young boys out there," wrote DZMM's Ka Louie Tabing in a Facebook post hours before he died last night.  Read more »

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