Steve Shickles

AP - Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.

AP - Jeanne Carmen, the “little country girl” who became a 1950s pinup and actress and hobnobbed with Frank Sinatra and other stars, has died. She was 77.

AP - Choreographer Michael Kidd, whose joyously athletic dances for ballet, Broadway and Hollywood delighted audiences for half a century and won him five Tonys and an Oscar, has died.

AP - Oscar Peterson, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world’s best known jazz pianists, has died. He was 82.

AP - Former Mississippi Lt. Gov. Evelyn Gandy, the only woman elected to three statewide offices in Mississippi, has died after a lengthy illness. She was 87.

AP - Aloisio Lorscheider, one of Latin America’s most influential cardinals, died Sunday after a lengthy hospital stay. He was 83.

AP - Julien Gracq, a celebrated French writer known for surrealism and solitude and for having turned down France’s top literary prize, has died, hospital officials said Sunday. He was 97.

AP - In Dec. 21 stories about the death of roofing company executive Ken Hendricks, The Associated Press reported that Hendricks fell through his garage roof to his death. Hendricks fell off the top of a subfloor under construction over the garage.

AP - J. Russell Coffey, the oldest known surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. The retired teacher, one of only three U.S. veterans from the “war to end all wars,” was 109.

AP - Arabella Spencer-Churchill, the unconventional granddaughter of Britain’s wartime prime minister and a founder of the Glastonbury rock festival, has died at age 58, her husband said.