Veteran US actor Robert Guillaume, best known for Benson and Soap in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has died aged 89.
Rock ānā roll pioneer āFatsā Domino has died aged 89. He sold more than 110 million records during his career, with hits including Blueberry Hill and Aināt It a Shame.
Music manager, agent and promoter Rob Potts died in a motorbike accident in Tasmania yesterday, aged 65. Potts and colleague Kerry Roberts brought the then unknown country singer Taylor Swift to Australia when she played to just a few hundred people at the Factory Theatre in 2009.
Who? If you think that makes him notableā¦ 
Former governor-general Sir Ninian Stephen has died in Melbourne. He was 94.
Matt Callander, son of racing media personality Ken Callander and former producer of Channel Nineās NRL coverage and NRL Footy Show, has died at 46 from brain cancer. Matt helped raise $2 million for cancer research earlier this year through the NRLās Beanie for Brain Cancer round.
Itās sad how many people this disease is taking at such a young age.
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Malcolm Colless has died suddenly of a heart attack at 73. Colless spent more than 40 years at News Limited/Corp as a journalist, foreign correspondent, executive and director. He was appointed chief executive of The Herald and Weekly Times in 1988 and launched the Herald Sun in 1990 and the Sunday Herald Sun in 1991, before returning to Sydney to steer News Limitedās entry into pay TV, now known as Foxtel.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/print/malcolm-colless-a-determined-man-of-news-corp/news-story/994d129ce430f9a0efc4f6336c44e615
Nice touch at the end of Rugby League World Cup telecast on Seven tonight, with Jim Wilson paying tribute to Matt Callander and expressing condolences on behalf of Seven to Callanderās family.
Australian composer Dudley Simpson, who wrote music for around 290 episodes of Doctor Who in the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 95.
Italian chef Antonio Carluccio has died aged 80. Known as āgodfather of Italian cookingā, he was Jamie Oliverās first boss, owned a restaurant chain that still bears his name, wrote several cookbooks, appeared on TV show Two Greedy Italians alongside chef Gennaro Contaldo, and even appeared on MasterChef Australia during a Lygon Street Italian cooking challenge.
Former sports broadcaster Rob Astbury died on Thursday aged 69. He worked for Ten and Nine, and hit the headlines in 2007 when celebrity agent Anthony Zammit published King and I: My Life with Graham Kennedy. The biography detailed Astburyās relationship with the late king of comedy. That same year Astbury revealed he was HIV positive. After retiring from media, he worked as a real estate agent for Ray White Broadbeach, first from 1994 to 2000, then again from 2010 until his death.
Journalist Philip Chubb, who won the Gold Walkley in 1993 for his Labor in Power documentary for ABC, died last week from cancer.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/gold-walkley-winner-philip-chubb-dies/news-story/6024e5b34fd532b9883d463145836151
Serena Williams married her boyfriend Alexis Ohanian in a lavish ceremony in New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center on Thursday. The event had a Beauty and the Beast theme and included 200 people on the guestlist, including Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, Caroline Wozniacki, Kelly Rowland, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Eva Longoria, according to media reports.
Actually, she married her fiancƩ Alexis Ohanian.
Barcelona Olympic medallist Gillian Rolton has died.
I was listening to Grandstand on ABC Radio this afternoon, and Dr Felicity-Ann Lewis (chair of the Australian Three-Day international equestrian event) told reporter Neil Cross that Gillian was gravely ill with endometrial cancer and asked us to send our thoughts. Hours later it was announced that Gillian had passed away. Really sad.
Alberts and AC/DC reporting that Malcolm Young has died tonight