Obituaries
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Notable deaths last weekSep 21, 2013 4:44 pm - One point on one card, a couple of points on some others. Ken Norton fought the greats, but the decisions he needed to be great never seemed to go his way. He busted Muh...
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Nintendo’s Yamauchi dies at 85Sep 19, 2013 6:59 pm - TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran Nintendo for more than 50 years and led the Japanese company’s transition from traditional playing-card maker to video game giant,...
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Former Bears RB Rick Casares diesSep 15, 2013 3:17 pm - Rick Casares, a star running back for the Bears who was once their all-time leading rusher, has died. He was 82. The Bears reported on their website that he died at his ...
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World’s oldest man dies in N.Y. at age 112Sep 14, 2013 9:12 pm - GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. — Guinness World Records says the former musician and coal miner certified as the world’s oldest man has died. Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez was 112. Gu...
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Notable deaths last weekSep 14, 2013 6:58 pm - Ray Dolby, an American inventor and audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80. Dolby founded his namesake company in 1965 and grew it into...
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Notable deaths last weekSep 07, 2013 7:32 pm - David Frost had sparred with Richard Nixon for hours, recording a series of interviews with the former president three years after he stepped down in disgrace over Water...
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Ex-Vernon Hills trustee had ‘heart a mile wide’Sep 06, 2013 4:35 pm - The Vernon Hills community this past week remembered longtime resident and former village trustee James T. Heier, who died Sept. 1 at 87. Heier, a Navy veteran served th...
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Science fiction legend, Palatine resident Frederik Pohl diesSep 03, 2013 2:40 pm - Prolific award-winning science-fiction author and Palatine resident Frederik Pohl died Monday at the age of 93, his agent has confirmed. Pohl had more than 60 novels and...
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‘Don’t be afraid’: Final words from Seamus HeaneySep 02, 2013 9:59 am - DUBLIN — Ireland mourned the loss of its Nobel laureate poet, Seamus Heaney, with equal measures of poetry and pain Monday in a funeral full of grace notes and a final m...
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David Frost, known for Nixon interview, dies at 74Sep 01, 2013 3:57 pm - LONDON — David Frost had sparred with Richard Nixon for hours, recording a series of interviews with the former president three years after he stepped down in disgrace o...