Obituaries
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Former Netherlands defender Fernando Ricksen dies at 43
Sep 18, 2019 7:00 am - GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - Fernando Ricksen, a former Netherlands national team defender, has died after a six-year battle with motor neurone disease. He was 43. Rangers, ...
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Humana co-founder David Jones Sr. dies
Sep 18, 2019 7:00 am - David A. Jones Sr., who borrowed $1,000 to launch a nursing home company that grew into the $37 billion health insurance and health care giant Humana Inc., died Wednesda...
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Author Graeme Gibson, longtime partner of Atwood, dead at 85
Sep 18, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Graeme Gibson, a Canadian novelist and conservationist and the longtime partner of Margaret Atwood, died Wednesday at age 85. Gibson's death was announce...
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Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, ...
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Veteran television newsman Sander Vanocur dies at 91
Sep 17, 2019 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil...
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Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75
Sep 17, 2019 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians who grew up to cover the family business in Washington for ABC News and NPR over several decades, died Tuesday in W...
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Despite challenges, Mike Lattof 'lived a fuller life'Sep 17, 2019 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct that his father was Warren Lattof, who was president of Lattof Chevrolet, a business started by his dad Nichola...
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German industrial designer Luigi Colani dies at 91
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - Luigi Colani, a renowned German industrial designer, has died. He was 91. German news agency dpa reported that his partner, Yazhen Zha, confirmed that Cola...
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Correction: US-Obit-Ocasek story
Sep 16, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - In a story Sept. 16 about the death of Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, The Associated Press reported erroneously the number of studio albums the band released....
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Tony-winner and women's health advocate Phyllis Newman dies
Sep 15, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Phyllis Newman, a Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran who became the first woman to host "The Tonight Show" before turning her attention to fight for wom...