Obituaries
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Five-time British Open champion Peter Thomson dies aged 88
Jun 20, 2018 7:00 am - Hailed as a hero to some and as golf royalty to others, Peter Thomson, a five-time winner of the British Open and the only player in the 20th century to win the tourname...
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Lake County loses a humble Korean War heroJun 20, 2018 1:00 am - Lake County has lost a humble hero with the death last Saturday of Gurnee resident Francis E. Normoyle. Those close to him eventually would learn the truth about the med...
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Former National League umpire Dutch Rennert dies at 88
Jun 19, 2018 7:00 am - ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - Dutch Rennert, a National League umpire from 1973 to 1992 who was known for his animated, booming strike calls, has died. He was 88. St. John'...
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Bahr, last living member of team that upset England, is dead
Jun 18, 2018 7:00 am - When Walter Bahr walked off the field in Brazil after the famous United States victory over England at the 1950 World Cup, he didn't expect to become a soccer celebrity....
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Veteran Chicago TV journalist Brackett dies after bicycle accident
Jun 17, 2018 1:00 am - TV journalist Elizabeth Brackett, critically injured Wednesday in an apparent lakeshore bicycle accident, died Sunday at Stroger Hospital surrounded by family, WTTW anno...
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Russian conductor Rozhdestvensky dies at 87
Jun 16, 2018 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Noted Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, who directed orchestras in Moscow, Stockholm, Vienna and London, has died at age 87. Moscow's Tchaikovsky C...
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Hall of Fame coach and administrator C.M. Newton, 88, dies
Jun 16, 2018 7:00 am - Officials at Alabama and Kentucky say that Hall of Fame former administrator and basketball coach C.M. Newton has died. He was 88. The schools announced his death Monday...
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Leslie Grantham, Dirty Den in 'EastEnders,' dies at 71
Jun 15, 2018 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Actor Leslie Grantham, who became a British TV icon during the 1980s as arch-villain "Dirty" Den Watts on the soap opera "EastEnders," has died. He was 71....
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Longtime Elvis Presley drummer D.J. Fontana has died
Jun 14, 2018 7:00 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - D.J. Fontana, a rock 'n' roll pioneer who rose from strip joints in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, to the heights of musical history as Elvis Pr...
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Russian film director Stanislav Govorukhin dies at 82
Jun 14, 2018 7:00 am - MOSCOW (AP) - Stanislav Govorukhin, a prominent Russian film director who made some of the nation's most iconic movies, has died. He was 82. President Vladimir Putin sen...