Obituaries
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Robert Osborne, genial face of TCM, dead at 84
Mar 06, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Robert Osborne, the genial face of Turner Classic Movies and a walking encyclopedia of classic Hollywood, has died. He was 84. Jennifer Dorian, general m...
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Liver transplant surgical pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl dies
Mar 05, 2017 6:00 am - PITTSBURGH (AP) - Dr. Thomas Starzl, who pioneered liver transplant surgery in the 1960s and was a leading researcher into anti-rejection drugs, has died. He was 90. The...
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Veteran music executive and former pop star Tommy Page dies
Mar 05, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Tommy Page, a former pop star whose song "I'll Be Your Everything" went to No. 1 in 1990 and who later became a record company executive, publisher of Bi...
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Serbian director Lazar Stojanovic dies at 73
Mar 04, 2017 6:00 am - BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Lazar Stojanovic, a Serbian film director who was jailed under communism and was an anti-war activist during the 1990s, has died. He was 73. Stoj...
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Paula Fox, prize winning author, dead at 93
Mar 04, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Paula Fox, a prize-winning author who created high art out of imagined chaos in such novels as "Poor George" and "Desperate Characters" and out of the re...
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Miriam Colon, iconic US Latina movie, theater actress, dies
Mar 03, 2017 6:00 am - Miriam Colon, a pioneering actress in U.S. Latino New York theater who starred in films alongside Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, died Friday. Her husband, Fred Valle, told...
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Rene Preval, who led Haiti amid catastrophe, dies at 74
Mar 03, 2017 6:00 am - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Rene Preval, a low-key technocrat who led Haiti as president during the devastating January 2010 earthquake and a messy and prolonged recove...
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Former Real Madrid great Raymond Kopa dies at 85
Mar 03, 2017 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Raymond Kopa, a former Real Madrid attacking midfielder known as the "Napoleon of football" who became the first French player to win the Ballon d'Or, has d...
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Campground owner who founded country concert in Ohio dies
Mar 03, 2017 6:00 am - FORT LORAMIE, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio man who each summer turned his family campground into one of the largest outdoor concerts in the nation has died. Mike Barhorst and his...
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Celtic great Tommy Gemmell dies at 73
Mar 02, 2017 6:00 am - GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - Tommy Gemmell, the Celtic great who scored one of the goals that helped the Scottish club win the European Cup in 1967, has died after a long il...