Obituaries
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Tom Hayden, '60s activist and liberal statesman, dead at 76
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - In one of the most dramatic personal transformations in American political history, Tom Hayden went from being a famed 1960s and 1970s student radical...
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Christian cartoon tract creator Jack Chick dies at 92
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jack T. Chick, whose cartoon tracts preached fundamentalist Christianity while vilifying secular society, evolution, homosexuality, and the beliefs of...
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Former Uruguayan President Jorge Batlle dies at 88
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Former President Jorge Batlle, an extroverted and irreverent politician who was a force in Uruguayan politics for half a century and led it du...
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1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 pl...
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Through his life, Tom Hayden dedicated to changing the world
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - During more than 50 years in the public eye, Tom Hayden went from firebrand college liberal to mainstream politician to elder political state...
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Chicago DJ Herb Kent dies after 7-decade career in radio
Oct 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - One of Chicago's earliest African-American disc jockeys, Herb Kent, has died at age 88 after a seven-decade career. The radio station where Kent worked, i...
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Sheikh Khalifa, deposed former ruler of Qatar, dies at 84
Oct 23, 2016 7:00 am - Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the former emir of the tiny Gulf nation of Qatar who was deposed by his son in a bloodless palace coup, died on Sunday. The emiri diwa...
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Simone Schaller, Olympic hurdler in '32 and '36, dies at 104
Oct 22, 2016 7:00 am - ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - Simone Schaller, an American hurdler who competed at the 1932 and 1936 Summer Games and was believed to be the oldest living Olympian, has died. S...
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Junko Tabei, 1st woman to climb Everest, dies at 77
Oct 22, 2016 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - The first woman to climb Mount Everest didn't stop there. Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, who died Thursday at 77, devoted her adult life to scaling peaks...
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Comic's comic Kevin Meaney has died at age 60
Oct 22, 2016 7:00 am - FORESTBURGH, New York (AP) - Kevin Meaney, a comic's comic who worked the standup circuit, was a staple on late-night TV and starred in the short-lived 1990s CBS series ...