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June 18, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Maxine Stuart, 94: Actress whose stage, film and television career spanned more than six decades, including a recurring role on the soap opera “The Edge of Night" and a guest spot on a memorable episode of....MORE

Bernard Sahlins, patriarch of sketch comedy, dies at 90

June 18, 2013 4:00 am

Bernard Sahlins, a founder and former owner of the Second City, the Chicago nightclub that helped establish improvisational....MORE

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Judge Jackson called Microsoft a monopoly

June 16, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — Thomas Penfield Jackson, an outspoken federal judge who sent District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to prison for smoking crack cocaine and declared Microsoft a monopoly that needed to be broken apart, died June 15 at his home....MORE

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June 16, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Paul Soros, 87: Successful innovator in shipping, philanthropist and the older brother of billionaire financier George Soros. Died Saturday in New York City after a long battle with a host of illnesses. Joseph....MORE

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Miller Barber, golf champion with an unorthodox swing

June 15, 2013 4:00 am

Miller Barber, who wielded a famously unorthodox swing to become a leading player on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and a dominant one in the early years of senior play, died Tuesday. He was 82. His death was announced by the PGA Tour. No other details were given. In his nearly half-century in pro golf, Barber won 11 times on the PGA Tour, then flourished on the Senior (now Champions) Tour in the 1980s,....MORE

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June 15, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Arturo Vega, 65: Often called the fifth Ramone for serving as spokesman and omnipresent shepherd for the 1970s punk quartet. Died June 8 in Manhattan.....MORE

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June 14, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Harold J. Cromer: A hoofer and comedian who as Stumpy, half of the vaudevillian duo Stump and Stumpy, performed antic dance routines in clubs around the country after World War II and later on television. Stump....MORE

Walt Arfons, 96, a tinkerer who set speed records

June 14, 2013 4:00 am

Walt Arfons and his half-brother, Art, were the ultimate tinkerers. Working in garages adjoining their family’s feed mill and hardware store in Akron, Ohio, after World War II, they scooped up discarded automobile and truck parts along with....MORE

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June 13, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Jiroemon Kimura, 116: Recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest man in recorded history. Died of natural causes in the hospital in his hometown of Kyotango, Japan. Douglas Bailey, 79: A pioneering....MORE

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Nobel-winning economist Robert Fogel dies at 86

June 13, 2013 4:00 am

CHICAGO — Robert Fogel, a University of Chicago professor who in 1993 joined the school’s line of Nobel Prize winners in economics, created a body of work that challenged widely held assumptions about American history. Early in his career,....MORE

Harry Lewis, actor and restaurateur

June 12, 2013 4:00 am

LOS ANGELES — As an actor, Harry Lewis took second billing to the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson, most notably in the 1948 film noir “Key Largo."But he found his own starring role as a Los Angeles restaurateur who helped ....MORE

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June 12, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Barbara Vucanovich, 91: A Nevada Republican who at 61 won election to the U. S. House of Representatives with the slogan, “What Congress needs is a tough grandmother," and became an advocate for breast-....MORE

Scottish novelist Iain Banks dies at 59

June 11, 2013 4:00 am

LONDON — Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said. He was 59. Banks, whose writing took readers from rural Scotland to the edge of space, announced in April that he was terminally ill with cancer and that his soon-to-be released novel, “The Quarry," would be his last. A message on a....MORE

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June 11, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Edward Hotaling, 75: A television reporter whose question about racial progress ended the career of CBS sports commentator Jimmy “the Greek" Snyder in 1988, but who may have made a more lasting mark by....MORE

‘Night Stalker’ a chilling figure during mid-1980s crime spree

June 9, 2013 4:00 am

LOS ANGELES — Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Los Angeles County and was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders, died Friday morning, California corrections officials said. He was 53. Ramirez died of natural causes in Marin General Hospital, the department said in a statement. No other details were released. Sentenced to death, Ramirez, who was housed at....MORE

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June 9, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Abigail Heyman, 70: Feminist photographer known for her stark portraits of women at work and her 1974 book “Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal." Died May 28 at her home in Manhattan. Richard Doty,....MORE

Doctor who OK’d ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ hospital use dies

June 8, 2013 4:00 am

GRANTS PASS — The psychiatrist who opened the Oregon State Hospital’s doors to filming of the 1975 Academy Award-....MORE

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June 8, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Richard Ramirez, 53: The serial killer known as the Night Stalker terrorized Los Angeles County and was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders. Ramirez, who was incarcerated at San Quentin, died Friday morning of....MORE

Williams swam her way to film stardom

June 7, 2013 4:00 am

Esther Williams, a teenage swimming champion who became an enormous Hollywood star in a decade of watery MGM extravaganzas, died Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 91. Her death was announced by her publicist, Harlan Boll. From “Bathing Beauty" in 1944 to “Jupiter’s Darling" in 1955, Williams swam in Technicolor pools, lakes, lagoons and oceans, cresting onto the list of....MORE

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June 7, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Joey Covington, 67: Drummer for Jefferson Airplane from 1970-72 after playing with the Airplane offshoot Hot Tuna; he was also a songwriter. Died Tuesday in a car accident in Palm Springs, Calif. Tom Sharpe, 85:....MORE

Campbell was maverick minister, activist

June 6, 2013 4:00 am

The Rev. Will Campbell, a renegade preacher and author who joined the civil rights struggle in the 1950s, quit organized religion and fought injustice with nonviolent protests and a storyteller’s arsenal of autobiographical tales and fictional ....MORE

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June 6, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Chen Xitong, 82: Mayor of Beijing during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who served jail time for corruption and later condemned the student crackdown he was portrayed as engineering, a rare instance of a top....MORE

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June 5, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Viktor Kulikov, 91: Longtime commander of the Warsaw Pact forces in Eastern Europe who resisted efforts to slow the arms race and pressed Poland to squash the Solidarity protest movement; he also helped organize....MORE

Jones was top NFL defensive player

June 5, 2013 4:00 am

Deacon Jones, a prototype of the pass-rushing defensive end who became a master of the sack and one of the NFL’s greatest defensive players with the Los Angeles Rams’ line known as the Fearsome Foursome, died Monday in Anaheim Hills,....MORE

Lautenberg was New Jersey senator

June 4, 2013 4:00 am

TRENTON, N. J. — The next time a flight attendant reminds you there’s no smoking or you witness a teenager getting....MORE

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June 4, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Gil Henry, 88: Avocado farmer who developed a system allowing ready-to-eat avocados to be sold in grocery stores, rather than ripened for weeks at home, making them far more popular. Died May 18 in Escondido,....MORE

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June 2, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Vollis Simpson, 94: Artist who made whirligigs from recycled heating and air conditioning systems and reflective material cut into thousands of tiny pieces that made the works shine when lights hit them in the....MORE

Villanueva was chef to 5 presidents

June 2, 2013 4:00 am

Danny Villanueva, 87, a retired Navy senior chief petty officer who served five presidents at the White House and aboard the presidential yacht during his career as a military chef, died April 25 at Georgetown University Hospital. His death, from a....MORE

Actress Stapleton played better half of Archie Bunker

June 2, 2013 4:00 am

Jean Stapleton, an actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife ....MORE

Mulgrew Miller, 57, was an influential jazz pianist

June 1, 2013 4:00 am

Mulgrew Miller, a jazz pianist whose soulful erudition, clarity of touch and rhythmic aplomb made him a fixture in the postbop....MORE

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June 1, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Marvin Junior, 77: Baritone singer for the Chicago doo-wop group The Dells. Died Wednesday in Harvey, Ill.....MORE

Vance was prolific, award-winning author

May 31, 2013 4:00 am

SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96. Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland, his son John Vance II told The Associated Press. Jack....MORE

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May 31, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Andrew Greeley, 85: Roman Catholic priest and prolific writer whose outpouring of sociological research, contemporary theology, sexually frank novels and blunt-spoken newspaper columns challenged reigning....MORE

Morgentaler was vilified, heralded as abortion doctor

May 30, 2013 4:00 am

Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s most heralded and vilified abortion doctor, who was assaulted and imprisoned for defying restrictive laws but who won the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationally in 1988, died ....MORE

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May 30, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Franca Rame, 84: Italian stage and film actress and wife of Nobel laureate Dario Fo. Also served as a senator in Italian Parliament from 2006 to 2008. Died Wednesday after a long illness. Clarence Burke Jr., 64:....MORE

Errichetti, N.J. mayor convicted in corruption

May 29, 2013 4:00 am

Angelo Errichetti, a former two-term mayor of Camden, N. J., whose career as a state Democratic power broker ended in the early 1980s when he was ensnared in the congressional corruption scandal known as Abscam and served nearly three years in prison,....MORE

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May 29, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:John Bierwirth, 89: Led the Grumman Corp., one of the nation's largest aircraft makers, through challenging times in the 1970s and '80s. Died Sunday in Freeport, N. Y. Marshall Lytle, 79: A spirited bass player....MORE

Hotel magnate and philanthropist Hammons dies

May 28, 2013 4:00 am

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — John Q. Hammons’ first business went bust, saddling him with debt. Yet the son of a poor Missouri dairy farmer paid it off within two years and turned his sights to hotels, the cornerstone of what would become a national real estate empire. Along the way, he opened his wallet to his home state, donating millions to hospitals, public television and colleges in....MORE

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May 28, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Otto Muehl, 87: Austrian painter who co-founded the Vienna Actionism, a controversial art movement in the 1960s, and his works shocked audiences with their use of blood, excrement and the human body as materials. ....MORE

Journalist Johnson covered civil rights

May 26, 2013 4:00 am

WASHINGTON — When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he’d found “no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains. But he noticed something else as he traveled the South and talked to ....MORE

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May 26, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Mary Ward Brown, 95: Small-town farmer’s daughter who resumed a literary career 25 years after putting it aside to run the family farm and raise a son — producing award-winning short stories set in....MORE

Teen whose farewell song became a Web hit dies of cancer

May 25, 2013 4:00 am

LAKELAND, Minn. — When high school student Zach Sobiech learned he didn’t have much longer to live, his mother suggested he write letters to tell his loved ones goodbye. Instead, the Minnesota teenager turned to writing music — and his farewell song, “Clouds," became a YouTube sensation that has attracted more than 4 million views. Other musicians have covered the tune, and....MORE

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May 25, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Michael Burke, 89: Founder of Miami-based Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. Died Sunday. Stanley Cohen, 93: An editor of Advertising Age magazine and one of the first journalists to focus on issues affecting consumers....MORE

Henri Dutilleux, 97, was a renowned modernist composer

May 24, 2013 4:00 am

Henri Dutilleux, a French composer known for his superbly fashioned and exquisitely expressive orchestral music, died Wednesday in Paris. He was 97. His death was announced by Schott Music, his publisher. Dutilleux’s position in French music....MORE

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May 24, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Leonard Marsh, 80: Helped found Snapple, the beverage company, and was its longtime president and chief executive, Died Tuesday.....MORE

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May 23, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Wayne F. Miller, 94: Photographer who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most....MORE

Waber, 91, wrote Lyle the crocodile kids’ books

May 23, 2013 4:00 am

Bernard Waber, a children’s-book author and illustrator whose most famous creation was a rope-skipping, ice-skating Manhattanite named Lyle who happened to be a crocodile, died on Thursday at his home in Baldwin, N. Y. He was 91. The cause was....MORE

Spiegel was survivor of Warsaw ghetto uprising

May 22, 2013 1:02 am

WARSAW, Poland — Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93. Spiegel died May 9 in....MORE

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May 22, 2013 1:02 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Mack Emerman, 89: Founder of Criteria Recording Studios, where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records. Died Tuesday in Miami. J. Hyde Crawford, 82: Fashion ....MORE

Manzarek, 74, played keyboards for The Doors

May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim....MORE

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May 21, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Barbara Brenner, 61: Led the group Breast Cancer Action and shaped it in her own combative image, pillorying the medical establishment, industrial polluters and even other advocates. Died May 10. Lothar Schmid,....MORE

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May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:William Miles, 82: Self-taught filmmaker whose documentaries revealed untold stories of black America, including those of its heroic black soldiers and of life in its signature neighborhood, Harlem, where he....MORE

Farman discovered hole in ozone layer

May 19, 2013 4:00 am

Joseph Farman, a British researcher whose single-minded and at times officially derided study of atmospheric changes in the Antarctic established the existence of a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole approximately the size of the United....MORE

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May 18, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Geza Vermes, 88: Religious scholar who argued that Jesus as a historical figure could be understood only through the Jewish tradition from which he emerged, and who helped expand that understanding through his....MORE

Dictator ruled Argentina during the ‘Dirty War’

May 18, 2013 4:00 am

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former dictator who led the country’s military junta from 1976 to 1981, has died. He was 87. Videla died Friday in a Buenos Aires prison from natural causes, the government reported on the presidential website. Videla was serving life imprisonment for human rights violations, including kidnap, torture and murder, during ....MORE

Thomas Messer was longtime director of Guggenheim museum

May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Thomas Messer, whose leadership of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum over more than a quarter-century established its place among the world’s great museums of modern art, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93. His death was....MORE

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May 17, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:Bob Sickinger, 86: Director whose mostly nonprofessional productions in the 1960s seeded a Chicago theater scene that evolved into one of the country’s greatest. Died Thursday at his home in Delray Beach,....MORE

Lindgren was ballet dancer, college dean

May 16, 2013 4:00 am

Robert Lindgren, a Canadian-born dancer who appeared with major American ballet companies before becoming the founding dean of the influential dance program at the North Carolina School of the Arts, died Friday at his home in Winston-Salem, N. C. He....MORE

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May 16, 2013 4:00 am

Deaths of note from around the world:John LaMontaine, 93: A Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer whose works were performed widely and included the orchestral music for John F. Kennedy’s presidential inauguration. Died April 29.....MORE