Do you know of someone who died recently who might be a candidate for a Times obituary? Tell us. By William McDonald Every day, editors on The New York Times Obituaries team scan news reports and ...

And yet if you perused many of the obituaries over the last year, particularly about the more towering figures who left us, you might be forgiven for thinking that people, on the whole, must be ...

As 2024 winds to a close, we recall some of those who will not be with us as the new year begins, people — some famous, some less so — who died in the last 12 months after forging ...

The byline of Robert D. McFadden, who retired on Sunday, has been one of the most distinguished in the history of The Times. Here is a sampler of his artful obituaries.

Ida B. Wells was a pioneering investigative journalist who took on racism in the Deep South with powerful reporting on lynchings, but when she died she did not get an obituary in The New York ...