Obituaries
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Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80
Mar 19, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Elsa Peretti, who went from Halston model and Studio 54 regular in the 1960s and '70s to one of the world's most famous jewelry designers with timeless, ...
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Dick Hoyt, who pushed son in multiple Boston Marathons, dies
Mar 17, 2021 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Dick Hoyt, who inspired thousands of runners, fathers and disabled athletes by pushing his son, Rick, in a wheelchair in dozens of Boston Marathons and hun...
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James Levine, who ruled over Met Opera, dead at age 77
Mar 17, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then was f...
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Sabine Schmitz, pioneering German race driver, dies at 51
Mar 17, 2021 7:00 am - NÜRBURG, Germany (AP) - Sabine Schmitz, the first and only female race car driver to win the annual 24-hour race on the famed Nürburgring circuit and a renowned TV per...
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Tanzania's populist President John Magufuli has died at 61
Mar 17, 2021 7:00 am - NAKURU, Kenya (AP) - President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh inter...
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GEORGE GOLDSTONE KLEIN, 99, OF GLENVIEWMar 17, 2021 1:00 am - George Goldstone Klein 4/19/21 ~ 2/23/21 Husband (Barbara Blitzer Klein), Daddio (Leslie Irene), Father (Steven Lewis), Grandpa (Henry, Sally) Grandpère (Alice), World W...
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MILAN (MIKE) DORNIK, 88, FORMERLY OF GLENVIEWMar 17, 2021 1:00 am - Milan (Mike) G. Dornik, age 88 of Hancock, Wisconsin, passed away peacefully surrounded by family Thursday morning, March 11, 2021, at his home. He was born January 13, ...
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McLaughlin, nun who exposed abuses in Rhodesia, dies at 79
Mar 16, 2021 7:00 am - JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Sister Janice McLaughlin, a Maryknoll Sisters nun who was jailed and later deported by white minority-ruled Rhodesia for exposing human rights abuses...
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Yaphet Kotto of 'Live and Let Die,' 'Alien,' dies at 81
Mar 16, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Yaphet Kotto, the commanding actor who brought tough magnetism and stately gravitas to films including the James Bond movie 'œLive and Let Die'ť and 'œAl...
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DeFeo, convicted killer in 'Amityville Horror' case, dies
Mar 15, 2021 7:00 am - ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The man convicted of slaughtering his parents and four siblings in a home that later inspired the 'œThe Amityville Horror'ť book and movies has died,...