Obituaries
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Rozner: Bears' Sayers remembered as the elite of the eliteSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - Time does few a favor. It is our greatest enemy, the clock relentless, stealing precious moments and memories, undefeated as it removes from us that which we hold dear. ...
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Bears legend Gale Sayers dies at 77Sep 23, 2020 1:00 am - Chicago Bears legend Gale Sayers died early Wednesday morning at 77, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced. Sayers, a running back known as the "Kansas Comet," was dra...
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Tommy DeVito, founding member of the Four Seasons, dies
Sep 22, 2020 7:00 am - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Tommy DeVito, a founding member of the 1960s Four Seasons band, has died from the coronavirus at the age of 92, NJ.com reported. His former bandmate ...
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Sam McBratney, 'Guess How Much I Love You' author, dies
Sep 21, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sam McBratney, the Irish children's author whose picture story of ever-wider and higher devotion 'œGuess How I Much Love You" became bedtime reading for ...
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Famed French actor Michael Lonsdale dies at 89
Sep 21, 2020 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Michael Lonsdale, an enigmatic giant of the silver screen and theater in France who worked with some of the world's top directors in an acting career that s...
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Veteran Sherpa guide who set Everest record dies at age 72
Sep 21, 2020 7:00 am - KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A veteran Nepalese Sherpa guide who was the first person to climb Mount Everest 10 times has died at age 72 after a long illness, family members ...
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Langlois, 3-time Cup winner with Canadiens, dies at 85
Sep 20, 2020 7:00 am - MONTREAL (AP) - Albert Langlois, a three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens, has died. He was 85. The team announced the death Sunday. Langlois played ...
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Robert W. Gore, the inventor of Gore-Tex fabric, dead at 83
Sep 19, 2020 7:00 am - NEWARK, Del. (AP) - Robert W. Gore, whose invention of what created the breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionized outdoor wear and helped spawn u...
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'Forrest Gump' author Winston Groom dead at 77
Sep 18, 2020 7:00 am - FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) - Winston Groom, the writer whose novel 'œForrest Gump'ť was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, ...
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Lebanese soccer player dies from stray bullet head wound
Sep 18, 2020 7:00 am - BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon's leading soccer player Mohammed Atwi died on Friday, nearly a month after he was wounded in Beirut by a stray bullet that hit him in the head, the...