Chuck Norris dies at 86, martial-arts icon and Walker, Texas Ranger star
Chuck Norris, the martial-arts champion turned action-film star and TV icon of Walker, Texas Ranger, has died at 86 after a brief hospitalization in Hawaii, his family said, noting that he died peacefully surrounded by loved ones. Norris’s rugged persona made him a global star in films from Missing in Action to The Delta Force and on the long-running series, and he became a pop-culture meme long after.