Obituaries
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Images: David Bowie through the yearsJan 11, 2016 12:00 am - ...
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Maria De Filippis, 1st woman to race in F1, dies at 89
Jan 10, 2016 6:00 am - ROME (AP) - Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to race in Formula One, has died at the age of 89. Formula One made the announcement on its website Saturday withou...
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Billionaire sailor Bob Oatley dead at 87
Jan 10, 2016 6:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Bob Oatley, an America's Cup Challenger of Record aspirant in 2014 and owner of eight-time Sydney to Hobart-winning yacht Wild Oats XI, has died. He was 87...
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Singer Troy Shondell, singer of 'This Time,' dies at age 76
Jan 08, 2016 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Rock n' roll singer Troy Shondell, who had a hit song in 1961 with "This Time (We're Really Breaking Up)," has died. He was 76. Shondell, whose r...
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Pat Harrington Jr., a hit sitcom's cocky handyman, dies
Jan 08, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Pat Harrington Jr., an actor and comedian who in the 1950s got attention as a member of Steve Allen's fabled TV comic troupe but secured lasting fame dec...
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Correction: Obit-Caldwell story
Jan 08, 2016 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - In a story Jan. 6 about the death of Nicholas Caldwell, co-founder and singer of the R&B group The Whispers, The Associated Press reported errone...
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Fashion designer, miniskirt pioneer Courreges dies aged 92
Jan 08, 2016 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - Fashion officials say French designer Andre Courreges, who laid claim to the invention of the 1960s miniskirt, has died at the age of 92. His fashion house ...
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Iranian Princess Ashraf, shah's twin sister, dies at age 96
Jan 08, 2016 6:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of the country's deposed shah whose glamorous life epitomized the excesses of her bro...
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Prospect Heights minister remembered for interfaith unity effortsJan 08, 2016 12:00 am - Rev. Paul Flesner led the faith community at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Prospect Heights for two decades and was instrumental in bringing leaders of dif...
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Cuban trumpeter Alfredo 'Chocolate' Armenteros dead at 87
Jan 07, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, the talented Cuban trumpeter, died Wednesday from complications of prostate cancer. He was 87. Armenteros died at the Nor...