Obituaries
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'Chariots of Fire' screenwriter Colin Welland dies at 81
Nov 03, 2015 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Actor and writer Colin Welland, who famously told Hollywood "the British are coming" when he won an Academy Award for "Chariots of Fire," has died. He was ...
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Former British tennis player Mike Davies dies at 79
Nov 03, 2015 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Mike Davies, a former British Davis Cup player and Wimbledon doubles finalist, has died. He was 79. The International Tennis Federation says Davies died Mo...
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European fencing confederation head Frantisek Janda dies
Nov 03, 2015 6:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Frantisek Janda, the president of the European Fencing Confederation, died Tuesday. He was 48. The Czech Olympic Committee and the country's fencing federa...
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Iraq's Ahmad Chalabi, leading voice behind 2003 war, dies
Nov 03, 2015 6:00 am - BAGHDAD (AP) - Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician who became a Pentagon favorite when he helped convince the Bush administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein in ...
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Barrington educator Herbert Price left legacy of innovationNov 03, 2015 12:00 am - A longtime educator who presided over four different schools as principal during his career with Barrington Area Unit District 220 has died. Herbert Price, Jr. led Hough...
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Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dies at 73
Nov 02, 2015 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Bouncing from politics to the big screen and back, Fred Thompson played many roles well and those who knew him say the folksy former U.S. senator...
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Thomas Blatt, survivor of escape from Sobibor, dies at 88
Nov 02, 2015 6:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Thomas Toivi Blatt, who was among a small number of Jews to survive a mass escape from the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in 1943 and who decades later...
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Gateway Inc. co-founder Mike Hammond dies at age 53
Nov 02, 2015 6:00 am - SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Mike Hammond, who co-founded computer maker Gateway in an Iowa farmhouse in 1985 and helped turn it into an American success story by shipping PC...
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Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dead at 73
Nov 01, 2015 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson, a folksy Tennessee lawyer whose career led him from politics to Hollywood and back again, died Sunday. He was ...
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East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86
Nov 01, 2015 6:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the...