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Whitney Houston, age 48, died on Saturday in a Beverly Hills hotel room
Feb 13th
Whitney Houston joins the other popular singers and performers who died an early death after struggles with alcohol or drugs and the list included Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones.
She released seven albums and three film soundtracks and she is a winner of six Grammys. Houston sold over 200 million albums and singles worldwide. She earned 30 Billboard Awards, 22 American Music Awards and two Emmy Awards.
The superstar singer and actress Whitney Houston’s publicist, Kristin Foster, broke the news of Houston’s passing to the Associate Press. She was found and pronounced dead at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday afternoon. No cause of death has been revealed. In recent years, she struggled with drug abuse.
The coroner’s office will not be releasing any information on the autopsy performed on Whitney Houston earlier today at the request of the police. A security hold prevents Capt. John Kades from releasing any details regarding the autopsy results. More >
Christopher Hitchens died at the age of 62
Dec 16th
Christopher Hitchens is a British born journalist who settled in United States died on Thursday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer.
Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on several causes. In his 2007 book “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” Hitchens took on major religions with his trenchant atheism.
The 2001 attacks on the United States by Islamic fundamentalists in hijacked passenger planes made Hitchens ever more critical of the role of religion in the world, and led him to appreciate the merits of American democracy. “I am More >