Sep 8 Queen Elizabeth II, the Longest-Reigning British Monarch, Has Died at 96 Queen Elizabeth, who celebrated her Platinum Jubilee this year, has died at the age of 96, surrounded by her family at Balmoral. By Morgan Halberg
Jan 24 Thierry Mugler, Fashion’s King of Alien Couture, Is Dead at 73 The boundary-pushing French designer's influence is all over the runway to this day. By Helen Holmes
Dec 23 Joan Didion, One of the Greatest American Writers of All Time, Has Passed Away Didion's journalism, essays, novels and cultural criticism are peerless in their chilly disassembling of all mistruths. By Helen Holmes