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Acclaimed British director Howard Davies has died at age 71

By SOPHIE BERMAN
Oct 26, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Olivier Award-winning British theater director Howard Davies, who had hits in London and Broadway directing Kathleen Turner in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Lin...
Top pilot who stole plane to escape WWII prison camp dies

By JOHN ANTCZAK
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert A. "Bob" Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot who became an aviation legend for his flying skills in testing aircraft and demonstrating their c...
Singer Pete Burns dies of heart attack at age 57

The Associated Press
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Pete Burns, singer with the British band Dead or Alive that had success in the 1980s, has died after suffering a heart attack. He was 57. The singer's mana...
Correction: Obit-Lucia Perillo story

The Associated Press
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - In the headline of an Oct. 23 story about the death of poet Lucia Perillo, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Perillo was a novelist. S...
2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos dies at 18

By GARY B. GRAVES
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - MIDWAY, Ky. (AP) - Monarchos, whose Kentucky Derby-winning time in 2001 was second only to Secretariat, has died. He was 18. Nuckols Farm owner Charles Nuckols III confi...
Top pilot who stole plane to escape WWII prison camp dies

By JOHN ANTCZAK
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Robert A. "Bob" Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot who became an aviation legend for his flying skills in testing aircraft and demonstrating their c...
Award-winning poet and essayist Lucia Perillo dies at 58

The Associated Press
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Lucia Perillo, an award-winning author and Pulitzer Prize finalist, has died at the age of 58. The publishing company Copper Canyon Press reported ...
Kevin Curran, longtime writer for 'The Simpsons,' dies at 59

By The Associated Press
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - A comedy writer and producer who spent 15 years on "The Simpsons" has died in Los Angeles after a long illness. Kevin Curran was 59. Spokeswoman Antonia Coffman says Cur...
Oscar-nominated costume designer Janet Patterson has died

By LINDSEY BAHR
Oct 25, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Costume designer Janet Patterson, a four-time Oscar nominee for period films like "Bright Star," ''The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Piano," has died. ...
Tom Hayden, '60s activist and liberal statesman, dead at 76

By JOHN ROGERS and LINDA DEUTSCH
Oct 24, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - In one of the most dramatic personal transformations in American political history, Tom Hayden went from being a famed 1960s and 1970s student radical...

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