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Rocker Ian McDonald of King Crimson and Foreigner dies at 75

The Associated Press
Feb 11, 2022 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Ian McDonald, a co-founder of pioneering progressive rock band King Crimson and stadium rock hitmaker Foreigner, has died. He was 75. A representative said...
'Jim and Marge,' Glendale Heights couple married 60 years, die a week apart

By Scott C. Morgan
Feb 11, 2022 12:00 am - James and Margaret Ryan, more casually known as "Jim and Marge," shared married life together for 60 years. The longtime Glendale Heights couple rarely spent time apart....
French discoverer of HIV virus Luc Montagnier dies at 89

The Associated Press
Feb 10, 2022 6:00 am - PARIS (AP) - French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the HIV virus and more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, h...
Skokie rabbi helped deaf people connect with their faith

Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 10, 2022 12:00 am - Rabbi Douglas Goldhamer, who founded a synagogue in Skokie for deaf people and a Hebrew seminary to train rabbis to communicate with them, was buried with the little thi...
Betty Davis, hard funk pioneer, dead at 77

The Associated Press
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Betty Davis, a bold and pioneering funk singer, model and songwriter of the 1960s and '~70s who was credited with inspiring then-husband Miles Davis' lan...
Former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi dies in California at 47

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jeremy Giambi, a former major league outfielder and first baseman, died Wednesday at his parents' home in Southern California, police and his agent sa...
Longtime Jacksonville State baseball coach Rudy Abbott dies

The Associated Press
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Longtime Jacksonville State baseball coach Rudy Abbott, has passed away. He was 81. The school said Abbott died on Wednesday morning after bein...
Pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music dies

By LISA RATHKE
Feb 09, 2022 6:00 am - A composer, professor and pioneer in electronic and electro-acoustic music, who helped develop the Synclavier, an early digital synthesizer, has died. Jon Appleton died ...
'2001,' 'Blade Runner' effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull dies

By LINDSEY BAHR
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - Douglas Trumbull, a visual effects master who showed movie audiences indelible images of the future and of space in films like 'œ2001: A Space Odyssey,'ť 'œClose Encount...
John Vinocur, Paris-based columnist and editor, dies at 81

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI
Feb 08, 2022 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - John Vinocur, a much-respected foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Associated Press and later executive editor and columnist at the Inte...

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