Obituaries
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Costco co-founder Jeff Brotman dies
Aug 01, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jeff Brotman, who co-founded retailer Costco and was the board chairman, has died. Costco Wholesale Corp. said Brotman died early Tuesday. No other detai...
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Les Murray, Australia's "Mr. Football," dies at age 71
Jul 31, 2017 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Les Murray, long considered Australia's pre-eminent soccer commentator, has died after a battle with illness. He was 71. The SBS network, where Murray star...
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Award-winning French actress Jeanne Moreau dies at 89
Jul 31, 2017 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - French actress Jeanne Moreau, the smoky-voiced femme fatale of the French New Wave who starred in Francois Truffaut's love triangle film "Jules and Jim" and...
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McConaughey and more stars react to Sam Shepard's death
Jul 31, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Reaction to the announcement Monday that actor-playwright Sam Shepard died last week at age 73: - "He moved on today? We lost one of the great ones. Grea...
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Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright, is dead at 73
Jul 31, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of famil...
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Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright, is dead at 73Jul 31, 2017 1:00 am - NEW YORK - Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and...
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Daughter of comedian Stan Laurel dies at 89 in California
Jul 29, 2017 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lois Laurel Hawes, the daughter of famed comedian Stan Laurel, has died. She was 89. A family statement says Hawes died late Friday night at a Los Ang...
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Celebrated photo editor John Morris dies at 100 in Paris
Jul 29, 2017 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - John Morris, a celebrated American photo editor who brought some of the most iconic photographs of World War II and the Vietnam War to the world's attention...
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Pioneering researcher on the brain's 'plasticity' has died
Jul 29, 2017 7:00 am - OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Marian Diamond, a neuroscientist who studied Albert Einstein's brain and was the first to show that the brain's anatomy can change with experience...
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D.L. Menard, Cajun music ambassador, is dead at 85
Jul 28, 2017 7:00 am - NEW ORLEANS (AP) - D.L. Menard, the Cajun musician whose song "The Back Door" became an anthem for his culture and carried him to 38 countries on State Department tours,...