Obituaries
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'Sound of Music' actress Charmian Carr dies at 73
Sep 18, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Charmian Carr, the actress best known for sweetly portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," has died. ...
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Novelist W.P. Kinsella, author of 'Shoeless Joe,' dies at 81
Sep 17, 2016 7:00 am - VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film "Field of Dreams,...
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Famed Turkish actor Tarik Akan dies after cancer battle
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - ISTANBUL (AP) - Tarik Akan, an acclaimed Turkish actor who earned accolades for the controversial 1982 film "Yol," has died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 66. ...
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John Buzbee, a US diplomat who served in Mideast, dies at 50
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - John Buzbee, a veteran Foreign Service officer who served across the Middle East, including two stints in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, has died f...
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'Virginia Woolf' playwright Edward Albee dies at age 88
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, who challenged theatrical convention in masterworks such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" ...
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Former Italian president and premier Ciampi dies at 95
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Former Italian Prime Minister and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, a highly respected economist who helped usher in the euro as treasury minister, died on Fr...
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Arizona's 1st female governor, Rose Mofford, dies at 94
Sep 16, 2016 7:00 am - PHOENIX (AP) - When Rose Mofford was thrown into the role of Arizona's governor, she was also plunged into a political hailstorm. With her predecessor impeached, a budge...
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Tony-winning stage, screen director Jack Hofsiss dies at 65
Sep 15, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Stage and screen director Jack Hofsiss, who won a Tony Award in his first outing on Broadway while helming "The Elephant Man" and kept working despite an...
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'Cry-Baby' actress Kim McGuire dead at age 60
Sep 15, 2016 7:00 am - NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - Kim McGuire, who played the character known as "Hatchet-Face" in the John Waters film "Cry-Baby," has died. She was 60. Her husband, Gene Piotrowsky,...
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Veteran US diplomat John Buzbee dies at 50
Sep 15, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - John Buzbee, a veteran Foreign Service officer who served across the Middle East, including two stints in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion, died Thurs...