Dick Kramlich, founder of New Enterprise Associates, discusses on “Sexism in the valley” during the third day of Web Summit in Altice Arena on Nov. 8, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis News | Getty Images Dick Kramlich, the venture capital pioneer who co-founded New Enterprise Associates almost 50 years ago and built […]
A man who was reported missing from his pizza delivery job in Apple Valley last week died by suicide on Tuesday in St. Paul, police said. St. Paul officers responded to the 1100 block of Rice Street after a relative of Shuefuab “Shue” Xiong, 42, called 911 about 12:10 p.m. and asked for help with […]
Nathanial George/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Jack Hoffman, who helped inspire millions of dollars of donations to aid pediatric brain cancer research as a seven-year-old Nebraska fan who ran for a touchdown in the 2013 spring game, died Wednesday at the age of 19. ESPN’s Elizabeth Merrill reported he was first diagnosed with a cancerous […]
Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer who used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates to break the boundaries of fashion imagery as the creative mastermind of Benetton’s advertising campaigns, died on Monday. He was 82. His death was announced by his family on Instagram. They did not say where he died or cite […]
Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena, Italy. He was 85. The cause was a brain hemorrhage, said Antonio Rinaldis, who wrote a 2023 book with Mr. Morandi about his life on the island. Unlike Daniel Defoe’s […]
Pippa Garner, a conceptual art provocateur whose radically modified consumer goods — like a midriff-baring men’s “Half Suit” and a ’59 Chevy with its chassis reversed — offered witty commentary on gender, body modification, American car culture and the boundaries of fine art, died on Dec. 30 in Los Angeles. She was 82. Her death, […]
All reigns, no matter how historic, ultimately come to an end. And according to officials, Yellowstone National Park’s “Queen of the Wolves” finally passed away at 11-years-old after succumbing to wounds from a fight. The recognizable, one-eyed gray wolf (officially known as Wolf 907F) had long been a staple for conservationists in the 22.2-million-acre park, […]
Costas Simitis, a former prime minister of Greece who oversaw his country’s entry into the euro single currency and its uneven preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games, died on Sunday. He was 88. Grigoris Karpouzis, the director of the Corinth hospital in Greece, confirmed his death in a statement but did not give a cause. […]
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman born before the start of World War I and the sinking of the Titanic who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, died at a nursing home in Ashiya, Japan. She was 116. In a statement released on Saturday, the mayor of Ashiya said Ms. Itooka passed […]
Amit Yoran, CEO and chairman of Tenable H/O Tenable Amit Yoran, who ushered cybersecurity company Tenable into the public market as chief executive, died on Friday. He was 54. Yoran’s passing was confirmed by Tenable in a Saturday press release. While the company said his death was unexpected, Yoran went on medical leave early last […]
