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  • LeRoi Moore, 46 (1961 - 2008)

    LeRoi  Moore

    LOS ANGELES - LeRoi Moore, the versatile saxophonist whose signature staccato fused jazz and funk overtones onto the eclectic sound of the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of complications from injuries he suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the band said. He was 46. Moore died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was admitted with complications that arose weeks after the...

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  • Ilona Elek, 81 (1907 - 1988)

    Ilona  Elek

    Ilona Elek was a Hungarian Olympic fencing (foil) champion who won more international titles than any other woman. Born in Budapest in 1907, she is still considered one of the greatest female fencers in the sport's history. Elek was 29 years old when she competed in fencing (foil) in her first Olympics. She became the first Hungarian woman to win gold at the 1936 Berlin Games. In the final ...

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  • Levy Mwanawasa, 59 (1948 - 2008)

    Levy  Mwanawasa

    LUSAKA, Zambia - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who broke the African tradition of silence and solidarity among leaders to denounce neighboring Zimbabwe's economic ruin, has died in a French military hospital. He was 59. Mwanawasa had suffered a stroke and collapsed at an African Union summit in Egypt in June, costing Zimbabweans the voice of one of their few champions on the continent. U...

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  • John Brandl, 70 (1937 - 2008)

    John  Brandl

    MINNEAPOLIS - John Brandl, a former federal health official and state legislator and a public policy expert, has died. He was 70. Brandl died Monday at his son's home in Minnetrista after battling gastric cancer, his wife said. Brandl joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1968. He was still a professor at the university's Humphrey Institute and a distinguished professor of pub...

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  • Maudie White Hopkins (2008)

    Maudie White Hopkins

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Maudie White Hopkins, who grew up during the Depression in the hardscrabble Ozarks and married a Confederate army veteran 67 years her senior, has died. She was 93. Hopkins, the mother of three children from a second marriage who loved to make fried peach pies and applesauce cakes, died Sunday at a hospital in Helena-West Helena, said Rodger Hooker of the Roller-Citizens Fun...

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