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Groundbreaking Cardiac Surgeon

Cardiac surgeon, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, dies at 90.

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In this May 23, 1966 file photo, American heart specialist Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz displays a mechanical auxillary heart, like the one he implanted in Mrs. Louise Ceraso, in a New York hospital, six days previous, during a news conference in New York.

Comedy writer dies at 94

Screenwriter who wrote vaudeville one-liners for Milton Berle and scripted Marx Brothers movies

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Screewriter Irving Brecher smiles as he arrives for the 60th Anniversary screening of one of Judy Garland's favorite films "Meet Me in St. Louis" DVD release screening at Directors Guild of America, Sunday, April 4, 2004, in Los Angeles.

American physicist and leader in...

By bringing astrophysical research to Antarctica, Martin A. Pomerantz fostered what he called "astronomy on ice." Pomerantz died October 25 at 91.

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Martin A. Pomerantz (right) with John Lynch, a former NSF official, at the dedication of the Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory in the South Pole.

Drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix...

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group's last surviving member, dies at 61

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This Aug. 21, 1967 photo shows Noel Redding, left, Jimi Hendrix, center, and Mitch Mitchell, of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, at Heathrow airport in London. Authorities say Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s, has been found dead in his Portland, Ore. hotel.

Leader in US hospice care

Florence Wald, a former Yale nursing dean who launched the first U.S. hospice program, dies at 91

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In this Saturday, July 11, 1998, file photo, Florence Wald is seen at the 1998 induction ceremony of the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Wald, a leader in the U.S. hospice movement, has died. She was 91. Wald was dean of the Yale University School of Nursing in the 1960s

Cleveland Indians pitcher and broadcaster...

Herb Score, the Cleveland Indians pitcher and former broadcaster whose promise on the mound was shattered by a line drive, died Tuesday.

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In this Sept. 7, 1997 file photo, longtime Cleveland Indians broadcaster Herb Score waves to the crowd as he is honored before the game between the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians in Cleveland.

One of the Brooklyn Dodgers' "Boys of...

Preacher Roe, who began pitching in the Ozarks and became a four-time All-Star as a revered member of "The Boys of Summer" in Brooklyn, died Sunday, November 9th

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