Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based scholar and songwriter with a knack for political satire, died Saturday, July 26 at 97. But his zany songs live on. Lehrer got his comedic start at Harvard University, ...

Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The Pirates of Penzance, Tom Lehrer's cheery musical trip through the periodic ...

Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist and onetime mathematical prodigy whose lampooning lyrics skewered racism, the Catholic Church, marriage and the Cold War, has died. He was 97. Friends told Variety ...

Tom Lehrer, a musical satirist and mathematical genius, passed away at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on July 26, 2025, at age 97, leaving behind a legacy of razor-sharp wit and academic ...

It would perhaps behoove us, from an interest-drawing perspective, to begin this piece upon the death of intellectual satirist Tom Lehrer to note that Daniel Radcliffe is a fan. Granted, that's parody ...

Tom Lehrer, the renowned Cold War-era musical satirist whose jaunty and grim show tunes inspired generations, has died. Per Variety, Lehrer was found dead at his Cambridge, MA, home on July 26. He was ...

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer died on Saturday at the age of 97. Lehrer was famously a Harvard man — admitted at age 15 in 1943 — and began to write and sing songs while an undergraduate there. He ...