Obituaries
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Longtime KU broadcaster Max Falkenstien dies at 95
Jul 29, 2019 7:00 am - LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Max Falkenstien, the affable and silver-tongued "Voice of the Jayhawks" who brought Kansas football and basketball into the homes of fans for six d...
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Former Chargers fullback Keith Lincoln dies at age 80
Jul 29, 2019 7:00 am - PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Keith Lincoln, a star on the San Diego Chargers' 1963 AFL championship team, has died. He was 80. Lincoln's death on Saturday was announced by Wash...
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Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan pioneer of kinetic art, dies in Paris
Jul 28, 2019 7:00 am - CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Carlos Cruz-Diez, a leading Venezuelan artist who won international acclaim for his work with color and the style known as kinetic art, has die...
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Palatine man killed in California hit-and-runJul 28, 2019 1:00 am - A 25-year-old Palatine man was killed last week when struck by a hit-and-run driver as he walked along a road in central California, the Modesto Bee is reporting. Brian ...
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Schrieffer dies in Florida
Jul 27, 2019 7:00 am - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - John Robert Schrieffer, a physicist who shared in the 1972 Nobel Prize in physics for developing a pioneering theory of superconductivity, has d...
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Russi Taylor, longtime voice of Minnie Mouse, dies at 75
Jul 27, 2019 7:00 am - GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) - Russi Taylor, an actress who gave voice to Minnie Mouse for more than three decades, has died. Walt Disney Co. chairman Bob Iger announced Taylor...
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Cardinal Ortega, former archbishop of Havana, dies at 82
Jul 26, 2019 7:00 am - HAVANA (AP) - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, a sugar worker's son who oversaw the first papal visit to Cuba, helped lower barriers to believers in the communist ...
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Former longtime Hanover Park Park District director dies at 74Jul 25, 2019 1:00 am - Larry Wheeler, who served as director of the Hanover Park Park District for 20 years and remained a financial adviser to it for several more, died Monday at his house in...
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Last Polish inmate from 1940 transport to Auschwitz dies
Jul 24, 2019 7:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Officials at the Auschwitz Memorial say Kazimierz Albin, the last surviving inmate from the initial transport of Poles to the German Nazi camp, has...
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Actor Rutger Hauer, of 'Blade Runner' fame, has died at 75
Jul 24, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in "Blade Runner" opposite Harrison F...