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Gloria Ratti, a champion for women's running, dies at 90

The Associated Press
Jul 25, 2021 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Gloria Ratti, a champion of women's running who rose from a finish line volunteer at the Boston Marathon to vice president of the race's organizing body, h...
Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88

By KEN MILLER
Jul 24, 2021 7:00 am - Physicist Steven Weinberg, who won the Nobel prize in 1979 with two other scientists for their separate contributions unlocking mysteries of tiny particles and their ele...
Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93

By MARK KENNEDY
Jul 24, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, ha...
Dane who drew controversial Muhammad caricature dies at 86

By JARI TANNER
Jul 19, 2021 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose image of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban was at the center of widespread anti-Danish anger in t...
Greek popular folk singer Tolis Voskopoulos dies at age 80

The Associated Press
Jul 19, 2021 7:00 am - ATHENS, GREECE (AP) - Tolis Voskopoulos, a popular Greek folk singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned more than six decades, has died. He was 80. Voskopoulos, ...
'Kansas' rock violinist, singer Robby Steinhardt, dies at 71

The Associated Press
Jul 19, 2021 7:00 am - TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Robert E. 'œRobby'ť Steinhardt, a violinist and vocalist with the progressive rock band Kansas, has died due to complications from pancreatitis. He w...
Opera director Graham Vick dies at 67 of COVID complications

The Associated Press
Jul 18, 2021 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Graham Vick, a British director who founded Birmingham Opera Company and worked in opera houses around the world, has died of complications from COVID-19. ...
Biz Markie, known for classic rap song 'Just a Friend,' dies

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
Jul 17, 2021 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Biz Markie, a hip-hop staple known for his beatboxing prowess, turntable mastery and the 1989 classic 'œJust a Friend,'ť has died. He was 57. Markie's...
William Regnery, who funded right-wing extremism, dies at 80

The Associated Press
Jul 17, 2021 7:00 am - BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (AP) - William H. Regnery II, the heir to a family publishing fortune who was known for his quiet but influential support of extreme right-wing causes ...
Floyd Cooper, acclaimed children's illustrator, dead at 65

By HILLEL ITALIE
Jul 17, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Floyd Cooper, an award-winning illustrator and author of children's books whose mission to offer candid and positive images of Black history included sub...

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