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Irving Burgie, songwriter of calypso hit '~Day-O,' dies at 95

By MARK KENNEDY
Dec 01, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Composer Irving Burgie, who helped popularize Caribbean music and co-wrote the enduring Harry Belafonte hit 'œDay-O (The Banana Boat Song),'ť has died at...
Japan's ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone dead at 101

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Nov 29, 2019 6:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a giant of his country's post-World War II politics who pushed for a more assertive Japan while strengthen...
Stats maven Seymour Siwoff dead at 99

By RONALD BLUM
Nov 29, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Seymour Siwoff, the statistics maven who turned the Elias Sports Bureau into the place to go for exact information on teams and athletes for more than a ...
Nation's winningest football coach McKissick dead at 93

The Associated Press
Nov 28, 2019 6:00 am - SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - John McKissick, whose 621 victories at South Carolina's Summerville High made him the nation's winningest football coach at any level, has died ...
Pim Verbeek, ex-coach of South Korea and Australia, dies

By JOHN DUERDEN
Nov 28, 2019 6:00 am - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Pim Verbeek, the Dutchman who coached South Korea and Australia, has died at the age of 63. Verbeek, who played for Sparta Rotterdam, died on T...
Civil rights activist the Rev. Clay Evans dead at age 94

The Associated Press
Nov 27, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Prominent Chicago minister and gospel music singer the Rev. Clay Evans, a civil rights activist who embraced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he expanded h...
Ruckelshaus, who defied Nixon in Watergate firing, dies

By GENE JOHNSON
Nov 27, 2019 6:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - William Doyle Ruckelshaus, who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Department rather than carry out President Richard Nixon's order to fire the spec...
Australian journalist, writer and wit Clive James dies at 80

By JILL LAWLESS
Nov 27, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Clive James, an Australian journalist, joker and intellectual who had a long career as a writer and broadcaster in the U.K., has died. He was 80. James' re...
Taiwanese-Canadian model-actor Godfrey Gao dies on set

The Associated Press
Nov 27, 2019 6:00 am - HONG KONG (AP) - Taiwanese-Canadian model-actor Godfrey Gao has died after suffering an apparent heart attack while on set in China. Gao was filming a sports reality sho...
Director, Beyond the Fringe star Jonathan Miller dies at 85

By JILL LAWLESS
Nov 27, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Jonathan Miller, the polymath British stage director, filmmaker and comedian who co-created groundbreaking comedy revue 'œBeyond the Fringe,'ť has died at ...

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