Obituaries
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French discoverer of HIV virus Luc Montagnier dies at 89
Feb 10, 2022 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the HIV virus and more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, h...
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Skokie rabbi helped deaf people connect with their faith
Feb 10, 2022 12:00 am - Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, who founded a synagogue in Skokie for deaf people and a Hebrew seminary to train rabbis to communicate with them, was buried with the little thi...
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Betty Davis, hard funk pioneer, dead at 77
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and '~70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis' lan...
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Former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi dies in California at 47
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeremy Giambi, a former major league outfielder and first baseman, died Wednesday at his parents' home in Southern California, police and his agent sa...
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Longtime Jacksonville State baseball coach Rudy Abbott dies
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Longtime Jacksonville State baseball coach Rudy Abbott, has passed away. He was 81. The school said Abbott died on Wednesday morning after bein...
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Pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music dies
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - A composer, professor and pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music, who helped develop the Synclavier, an early digital synthesizer, has died. Jon Appleton died ...
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'2001,' 'Blade Runner' effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull dies
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like 'œ2001: A Space Odyssey,'ť 'œClose Encount...
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John Vinocur, Paris-based columnist and editor, dies at 81
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - John Vinocur, a much-respected foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Associated Press and later executive editor and columnist at the Inte...
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Former Rutgers AD, NJSEA president Robert Mulcahy dies at 85
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) - Robert E. Mulcahy, a longtime New Jersey official who served as athletics director for the state's flagship university and held many high-ranking...
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Shirley Cuban, mother of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, dies
Feb 07, 2022 6:00 am - DALLAS (AP) - Shirley Cuban, the mother of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, has died, her son Brian Cuban said. She was 84. Cuban died Friday in the suburban Pittsburg...