Obituaries
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Tributes following the death of soccer great Johan Cruyff
Mar 24, 2016 7:00 am - Tributes to Dutch soccer great Johan Cruyff, who died Thursday at the age of 68 as a result of lung cancer: ___ "He was a genius and now we are missing this genius" - fo...
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Actor Ken Howard, TV actor and acting union leader, dies
Mar 23, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ken Howard, the strapping character actor who starred in the 1970s TV drama "The White Shadow" and was currently serving as president of SAG-AFTRA, ha...
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Rap pioneer Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest dies at 45
Mar 23, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Phife Dawg, a masterful lyricist whose witty wordplay was a linchpin of the groundbreaking hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, died Tuesday from complica...
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Infamous ex-Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies after cancer fight
Mar 22, 2016 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Knocking over a grandmother while rushing to the defense of his brother, who was insulting spectators in the City Council chamber. Threatening "murder" in...
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Veteran actress Rita Gam dies at age 88
Mar 22, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rita Gam, who had a lengthy acting career on film, television and stage, has died. Publicist Nancy Willen says the actress died in Los Angeles of resp...
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Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies after fighting cancer
Mar 22, 2016 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting can...
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Schwab: Worked as transplant advocate after basketball
Mar 21, 2016 7:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A former Marquette men's basketball assistant who later worked as an advocate for the University of Wisconsin organ donor program has died, 12 years...
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Ex-Intel CEO Andy Grove dies at age 79
Mar 21, 2016 7:00 am - SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Andy Grove, the former Intel Corp. chief executive whose youth under Nazi occupation and escape from the Iron Curtain inspired an "only the pa...
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Anker Joergensen, Danish former prime minister, dies at 93
Mar 20, 2016 7:00 am - COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Anker Joergensen, a former prime minister loved by many Danes for his down-to-earth character but criticized for his handling of economic prob...
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Czech filmmaker Jan Nemec dies at 79
Mar 19, 2016 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Film director Jan Nemec, a representative of the new wave of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960s, has died. He was 79. Czech public television, citing his wif...