Obituaries
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Playboy's Hefner, who revved up sexual revolution, dies
Sep 28, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, the pipe-smoking hedonist who revved up the sexual revolution in the 1950s and built a multimedia empire of clubs, man...
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Hugh Hefner, leader of the sexual revolution, dies at 91
Sep 28, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hugh Hefner turned silk pajamas into a work uniform, women into centerfolds and sexual desire into a worldwide multimedia empire that spanned several ...
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Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova dies at age 90
Sep 27, 2017 7:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Zuzana Ruzickova, a Czech musician who survived Nazi death camps and communist persecution before winning world acclaim as a harpsichordist, has died at ag...
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Lady Lucan, widow of killer Lord Lucan, dies at 80
Sep 27, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Lady Lucan, a British aristocrat who survived a vicious 1974 attack by her husband that sparked a decades-long mystery, has died. She was 80. London's Metr...
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Swiss-American mountaineer Norman Dyhrenfurth dead at 99
Sep 27, 2017 7:00 am - VIENNA (AP) - Norman Dyhrenfurth, a Swiss-American mountaineer and filmmaker who organized the successful American expedition in 1963 to Mount Everest that put six climb...
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Actor Tony Booth, father-in-law of Tony Blair, dies at 85
Sep 26, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Tony Booth, a British actor and the father-in-law of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has died. He was 85. Booth's family says he died late Monday. He had...
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Liz Dawn, former 'Coronation Street' actress, dies aged 77
Sep 26, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Liz Dawn, the actress who played tart-tongued Vera Duckworth in the British soap opera "Coronation Street" for more than 30 years, has died, her family sai...
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Longtime Batavia school trustee Rosalie Jones Link diesSep 26, 2017 1:00 am - Rosalie Jones Link was passionate about educating the children of Batavia. So she spent many an evening sitting at the Batavia school board table, figuring out how to pr...
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Jean Bowen a guiding light for students, staff in U-46Sep 26, 2017 1:00 am - "We are in the business of learning" - that served as the guiding principle of Jean Bowen's life. A tireless proponent for Elgin Area School District U-46, Bowen, 75, of...
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Barbara Blaine, founder of abuse victims group SNAP, dies
Sep 25, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Barbara Blaine, the founder and former president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, has died. She was 61. The organization known as SNAP...