Obituaries
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Notable deaths last weekMar 21, 2015 1:00 am - • Chuck Bednarik, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and one of the last great two-way NFL players, has died at 89. Known as "Concrete Charlie," Bednarik epitomized the tough-...
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TV's Gene Gene the Dancing Machine diesMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Eugene Patton, the stagehand who became "Gene Gene the Dancing Machine" on television's "The Gong Show" in the late 1970s, has died. Patton died ...
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Anne Frank's cousin Buddy Elias dies at 89Mar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - BERLIN (AP) - Bernhard "Buddy" Elias, the first cousin and last close relative of teenage Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, has died at age 89. The Anne Frank Fonds said Wed...
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Former Bulls, Lakers player Jack Haley dead at 51Mar 16, 2015 11:00 pm - Jack Haley, who played nine seasons in the NBA including a reserve role on the Chicago Bulls' 1996 championship team, has died. He was 51. Haley's family confirmed his d...
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Revered Russian writer Valentin Rasputin dies at age 77Mar 16, 2015 11:00 pm - MOSCOW (AP) - Valentin Rasputin, a revered Russian writer who was a prominent member of a literary movement in the 1960s and 1970s known as Village Prose that focused on...
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Free bassist Andy Fraser, 'All Right Now' co-writer, diesMar 16, 2015 11:00 pm - TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) - Andy Fraser, who co-wrote the rousing rock anthem "All Right Now" when he was the teenage bassist for the British rock band Free, has died in Cal...
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Former Toto bass player Mike Porcaro dies at 59Mar 15, 2015 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mike Porcaro, who was the son and brother of prominent musicians and carved out a long, successful career as the bass player for the Grammy-winning po...
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Al Rosen, AL MVP with Indians, former exec, dies at 91Mar 13, 2015 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND (AP) - Al Rosen's success in baseball didn't end after he left the diamond for the final time. A muscular third baseman for the Cleveland Indians who won the 1...
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Rev. Willie Barrow, front-line civil rights fighter, diesMar 11, 2015 11:00 pm - CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Willie Barrow, a front-line civil rights fighter for decades and a mentor to younger generations of activists, died Thursday in Chicago. She was ...
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Postmodern architect Graves, who had Target goods line, diesMar 11, 2015 11:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Celebrated architect Michael Graves, who created whimsical postmodern structures and later became well known to the masses for designing products fo...