Obituaries
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San Francisco's first Chinese-American police officer dies
Nov 11, 2017 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Herb Lee, San Francisco's first Chinese-American police officer, has died. He was 84. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Lee died Nov. 1 of co...
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Lou Gehrig biographer Ray Robinson dead at 96
Nov 10, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Ray Robinson, an author and magazine editor best known for a well-regarded biography of his childhood hero Lou Gehrig, has died. Robinson's friend Marty ...
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Karin Dor, would-be assassin in 'You Only Live Twice,' dies
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - German actress Karin Dor, who played an assassin sent by James Bond's nemesis Blofeld to kill the British agent in 1967's "You Only Live Twice," has died. ...
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Former AP Hawaii bureau chief Gordon Sakamoto dies at age 82
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - HONOLULU (AP) - Gordon Sakamoto, one of the first Asian-Americans hired to work in a U.S. bureau of an international news service, died Wednesday at 82. Sakamoto, a form...
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'Magnum, P.I.' actor John Hillerman dies at 84
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - John Hillerman, who played stuffed-shirt Higgins to Tom Selleck's freewheeling detective Thomas Magnum in the 1980s TV series "Magnum, P.I." has died,...
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Pebble Beach golf director RJ Harper dies of cancer at 61
Nov 08, 2017 6:00 am - PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) - R.J. Harper, who rose from a golf course marshal at Pebble Beach to head of golf operations at America's iconic golf resort, has died of panc...
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Celebrity chef and author Antonio Carluccio dies at age 80
Nov 08, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Celebrity chef Antonio Carluccio, who helped popularize inexpensive Italian fare as the founder of an eponymous restaurant chain and a prolific cookbook wr...
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Former Belgium striker Josip Weber dies at 52
Nov 08, 2017 6:00 am - BRUSSELS (AP) - Josip Weber, a former Belgium striker who played at the 1994 World Cup, has died. He was 52. Cercle Bruges, Weber's former club, said he died after a lon...
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Hans Schaefer, who won '54 World Cup with West Germany, dies
Nov 07, 2017 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Hans Schaefer, who won the 1954 World Cup with West Germany, has died. He was 90. Schaefer's former team, Cologne, said the winger died Tuesday, calling hi...
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Nancy Friday, author of 'My Secret Garden,' dead at 84
Nov 06, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Nancy Friday, a journalist and author whose best-selling "My Secret Garden" was a landmark compilation of women's sexual fantasies, has died at age 84. L...