The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer strangeness of people’s lives.

Bobbye Pratt, who spent 16 years as a news researcher on The Washington Post’s Metro Desk ... correction A previous version of this obituary incorrectly said that Mrs. Pratt's stepfather ...

The Grammy winner for best rap album shouted out hometown talent during her acceptance speech, leaving artists in the Florida ...

correction A previous version of this obituary gave an incorrect name of an organization of nurse practitioners. It is the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, not the American Academy of ...

Marianne Faithfull, a British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star who reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and smoky-voiced chanteuse, channeling her struggles with drug abuse and personal ...

Mauro Morandi was born in Modena on Feb. 12, 1939, the New York Times reported in an obituary. He described himself to CNN as a “rebellious child” and said that he ran away from home for the ...

I was 13,” Mr. Phan recalled in a 2017 interview with The Washington Post. “My childhood ended that day.” The family lived in a refugee camp before coming to San Francisco in 1977 ...

Louis Schittly, a French physician whose experiences in an African war zone in the late 1960s led him to help start Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, an aid group that ...

David Lynch, the surrealist filmmaker who bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences ...

David Lodge, a British novelist and literary critic known for his warm, irreverent satires of academic life, died Jan. 1 in Birmingham, England. He was 89. An assistant to Jonny Geller, his ...

The petition was supported by a number of prominent politicians. Learning of the pardon, the victim told The Washington Post decades later, was “like you got sucker-punched in the gut.