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OJ's Sister Dies of Mystery Illness

(Newser) - OJ Simpson’s younger sister died of a mysterious illness yesterday in Sacramento, the Bee reports. Carmelita Durio had been ill since she collapsed in court following her brother’s robbery conviction in October, and none of six specialists she consulted were able to diagnose what plagued the 60-year-old. “...

Doctor Zhivago Composer Dies
 Doctor Zhivago Composer Dies 
Mar 30, 2009 1:59 AM CDT

Doctor Zhivago Composer Dies

Maurice Jarre worked with Hollywood legends

(Newser) - Maurice Jarre, the composer who wrote the Oscar-winning scores of Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India, has died of cancer at the age of 84. The Frenchman—who rose to fame after moving to Los Angeles in the '60s—worked with such film director legends as...

Scholar Who Lived Black History Dead at 94

John Hope Franklin embodied black history

(Newser) - Influential historian John Hope Franklin died yesterday at 94. The author of a seminal book on race, Franklin was born and raised in an all-black community in Oklahoma, marched in Selma, and assisted on a Brown v. Board of Education brief. "He managed to embody this history and yet...

Hall of Famer George Kell Dead at 86
 Hall of Famer 
 George Kell 
 Dead at 86 
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Mar 24, 2009 12:41 PM CDT

Hall of Famer George Kell Dead at 86

.306 career hitter won AL batting title in 1949

(Newser) - Baseball Hall of Famer and broadcaster George Kell died in his sleep this morning in Arkansas, MLB.com reports; he was 86. He batted .306 during 15 seasons in the 1940s and ‘50s, winning the American League batting crown in 1949. The 10-time All-Star, whose stops included Detroit, Boston,...

West Wing's Ron Silver Dead at 62
 West Wing's 
 Ron Silver Dead at 62 
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Mar 16, 2009 5:32 AM CDT

West Wing's Ron Silver Dead at 62

West Wing star became staunch Bush supporter

(Newser) - Ron Silver, the award-winning actor who became an outspoken supporter of George W. Bush late in his career, died yesterday of esophageal cancer at age 62. As the Los Angeles Times writes, Silver won a Tony for his role in David Mamet's play Speed-the-Plow and won acclaim as campaign strategist...

'One Shining Moment' Genius Dead on Eve of Big Dance

Creative Director Towey had hand in nearly every major sporting event

(Newser) - The eagerly awaited coda of the NCAA men's basketball tournament—a montage of highlights set to the song "One Shining Moment"—will be even more poignant this year. Doug Towey, the reporter-turned-CBS Sports creative director who introduced David Barrett's tune to the network's coverage in 1987, has died...

Playwright, Screenwriter Horton Foote Dead at 92

(Newser) - Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in The Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies, and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, died today in Connecticut at age 92. Foote's writing career spanned more than half a century and earned him...

T-Ball Pioneer Dies at 93
 T-Ball Pioneer Dies at 93 
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Mar 3, 2009 2:26 PM CST

T-Ball Pioneer Dies at 93

Jerome Sacharski developed system to teach youngsters baseball fundamentals

(Newser) - Baseball lost a compassionate innovator last week with the passing of Jerome “Jerry” Sacharski, 93, the inventor of the baseball tee, the Battle Creek Enquirer reports. Sacharski introduced the tee in 1956 as part of his Pee Wee Baseball program, and is credited with popularizing the game.

Radio's Paul Harvey Dead at 90
 Radio's Paul Harvey Dead at 90 
Feb 28, 2009 9:29 PM CST

Radio's Paul Harvey Dead at 90

(Newser) - Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died today in Arizona at age 90. Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951,...

Jazz Great Dearie Dead at 82
 Jazz Great
 Dearie Dead at 82 
Feb 9, 2009 6:39 AM CST

Jazz Great Dearie Dead at 82

Blossom Dearie dead at 82

(Newser) - Blossom Dearie, whose career as a jazz and cabaret singer spanned six decades, died peacefully in her sleep at her Greenwich village apartment over the weekend. She was 82. Dearie continued performing until 2006, and her last public appearance was at the now-defunct Danny's Skylight Room, reports the New York ...

Veteran Actor Whitmore Dead at 87

(Newser) - Down-to-earth stage and screen actor James Whitmore died of lung cancer in Malibu today, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 87. Known for his supporting roles and leads in films such as Battleground, Planet of the Apes, and The Shawshank Redeption, the Emmy and Tony Award winner preferred theater....

Co-Founder of Habitat for Humanity Dies
Co-Founder
of Habitat for Humanity Dies
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Feb 3, 2009 11:28 AM CST

Co-Founder of Habitat for Humanity Dies

Fuller and his wife dumped riches to live out Christian values

(Newser) - Millard Fuller, the millionaire entrepreneur who gave it all away to help found the Christian house-building charity Habitat for Humanity, has died at 74. His wife Linda says her husband was complaining of chest pains, headache, and difficulty swallowing before his death early today. A global 100-house "blitz build"...

Updike Mused on Own 'Overdue Demise'

3-stanza poem to be published this year

(Newser) - John Updike considered his own mortality, and did so with his usual wry wit. The evidence is in one of his last poems called "Requiem," writes the New York Post. It begins: "It came to me the other day: Were I to die, no one would...

Publishing Vet James Brady Dead at 80
Publishing Vet James Brady Dead at 80
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Jan 28, 2009 1:20 PM CST

Publishing Vet James Brady Dead at 80

Storied career included helming New York , Harper's Bazaar

(Newser) - James Brady, a veteran of numerous publications who rose from business reporting to become the editor of New York and Harper’s Bazaar, has died. He was 80. Brady is credited with founding two long-lived New York gossip standbys, the New York Post’s Page Six and New York magazine’...

Updike: An Author 'Hoping to Talk to America'
 Updike: An Author 
 'Hoping to Talk to America' 
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Jan 27, 2009 3:44 PM CST

Updike: An Author 'Hoping to Talk to America'

Superlatives hardly lacking in wake of writer's death at 76

(Newser) - John Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe, calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times, the first line of his story A&P displays a “...

John Updike Dies at 76
 John Updike 
 Dies at 76 
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Jan 27, 2009 12:39 PM CST

John Updike Dies at 76

Pulitzer winner suffered from lung cancer, publisher says

(Newser) - John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters, and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce, and other adventures in postwar America, died today of lung cancer at age 76. A literary force who frequently appeared on best-seller lists, Updike penned novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir Self-Consciousness, and...

Bob May, Lost in Space Robot, Dies
 Bob May, 
 Lost in Space 
 Robot, Dies 
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Jan 19, 2009 2:37 PM CST

Bob May, Lost in Space Robot, Dies

Actor moved the suit, but never said "Danger, Will Robinson"

(Newser) - Bob May, famous for inhabiting the robot suit on 1960s sci-fi hit Lost in Space, has died at 69 of heart failure, the AP reports. “He always said he got the job because he fit in the robot suit,” a co-star said. May did not voice the robot—...

Real-Estate Pioneer Crow Dead at 94
Real-Estate Pioneer Crow Dead at 94
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Jan 16, 2009 5:41 PM CST

Real-Estate Pioneer Crow Dead at 94

Turned single Dallas warehouse into international empire

(Newser) - Visionary real-estate developer Trammell Crow, who pioneered strategies that helped him become one of the world’s largest landlords, has died, the Dallas Morning News reports. He was 94 and suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Crow, who helped popularize the concept of building on spec—erecting structures before they were...

Painter Andrew Wyeth Dead at 91
 Painter Andrew 
 Wyeth Dead at 91 
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Jan 16, 2009 9:56 AM CST

Painter Andrew Wyeth Dead at 91

'Polarizing' Pennsylvanian known for 'Christina's World'

(Newser) - Andrew Wyeth, a painter both celebrated and scorned in the art community, has died at 91 at his home outside Philadelphia. In his paintings, the “polarizing” figure depicted a rural America of fallow fields, faded colors, and weather-beaten people, writes Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times. He was...

Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88
 Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88 
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Jan 14, 2009 4:08 PM CST

Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88

Mexican-born actor was best known for role on Fantasy Island

(Newser) - Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV's Fantasy Island, died today at his California home at age 88. A generation of TV watchers knew Montalban as the faintly mysterious, white-suited Roarke, who presided over a...

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