Obituaries
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Youth Olympics athlete dies after training accident in Cuba
Jul 29, 2021 7:00 am - HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Youth Olympics hammer thrower Alegna Osorio has died from head injuries sustained in a training accident, the Cuban national sports institute said on...
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Janice Mirikitani, poet, San Francisco church leader, dies
Jul 29, 2021 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Janice Mirikitani, a beloved San Francisco poet laureate who together with her husband ran the city's Glide Memorial Church, which caters to the poo...
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Jean-Pierre Hocke, ex-head of UN refugee agency, dies at 83
Jul 29, 2021 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Jean-Pierre Hocke, a Swiss humanitarian official who headed the United Nations' refugee agency in the late 1980s, has died, the agency said Thursday. He wa...
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Ron Popeil was the sizzle of American ingenuity, personified
Jul 28, 2021 11:00 pm - Come, young ones: Gather around the glow of the smartphone's screen for a tale of a distant time when we watched TV on big boxy machines, and switched channels when we w...
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Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86
Jul 28, 2021 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ron Popeil, the quintessential TV pitchman and inventor known to generations of viewers for hawking products including the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fis...
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ZZ Top: Bearded bassist Dusty Hill dies in his sleep at 72
Jul 28, 2021 7:00 am - HOUSTON (AP) - ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, one of the Texas blues trio's bearded figures, died at his Houston home, the band announced Wednesday on Facebook. He was 72. I...
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Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86
Jul 28, 2021 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ron Popeil, the quintessential TV pitchman and inventor known to generations of viewers for hawking products including the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fis...
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ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies in his sleep at 72Jul 28, 2021 1:00 am - HOUSTON - ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, one of the Texas blues rock trio's bearded figures, died at his Houston home, the band announced Wednesday. He was 72. In their Fac...
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Obituary: Juliana D. Bolsinger, 101, of NorthbrookJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - Juliana D. Bolsinger, nee Albracht, 101, of Northbrook, passed away surrounded by her family on July 22, 2021. Beloved wife of the late Joseph L. Bolsinger; loving moth...
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Former Hoffman Estates trustee Bill Palmer diesJul 27, 2021 11:00 pm - Former Hoffman Estates trustee Bill Palmer, who served during a significant period of village growth in the 1980s, has died. Palmer, who was 88 when he passed July 19, s...