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Josef Alliluyev (2008)
Moscow - Russian news media say Josef Alliluyev, a grandson of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has died. The reports say he died in Moscow but give no cause of death or other details. The death was reported on state television channels and independent Ekho Moskvy radio. The 63-year-old cardiologist was the first child of Stalin's daughter, Svetlana. He is said to have been the...
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Evelyn Ay Sempier, 75 (1933 - 2008)
EPHRATA, Pa. - Evelyn Ay Sempier, crowned Miss America in 1954, the last year before the pageant was televised, died Saturday. She was 75. Sempier died of colorectal cancer, said her daughter, Stacy. Sempier was a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania when she won the state and national pageants. She was the last Miss America to be crowned before the pageant was televised,...
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Sandy Allen (2008)
INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman who grew to be 7 feet, 7 inches tall and was recognized as the world's tallest female died Wednesday, a friend said. She was 53. Sandy Allen, who used her height to inspire schoolchildren to accept those who are different, died at a nursing home in her hometown of Shelbyville, family friend Rita Rose said. The cause of death was not yet known. Allen had been...
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Nona Beamer
Nona Beamer, a noted authority on Hawaiian culture and matriarch of the musical Beamer family, died Thursday. She was 84. Beamer, a songwriter, performer, hula teacher and author, died in her sleep at her home on Maui, said Mark Nelson, administrator of Aloha Music Camp, which Beamer founded and operated with her son, Keola, a Grammy-nominated slack-key guitar artist. Ailing in recent years,...
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Aime Cesaire
Esteemed Martinique poet and politician Aime Cesaire, a leading figure in the movement for black consciousness, died Thursday, the French president's office and a hospital said. He was 94. Cesaire died in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, the hospital that was treating him said. Cesaire was involved in the fight for French West Indian rights, and he also served as...
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Merlin German
A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department...
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S.C. Madison
Bishop S.C. Madison, who led the United House of Prayer for All People, an affluent black denomination with several churches in North Carolina, died Saturday. He was 86. Madison died at his...
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Nellie Jones
Nellie Jones, one of the world's oldest people, died Wednesday. She was 111. She died in her sleep at Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Community, a retirement home. Administrator Sandy Boersen...
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Ernesto Corripio
Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, who helped establish renewed Vatican relations with Mexico's government, died early Thursday at his Mexico City home. He was 88. Corripio died from...
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Robert W. Greene
Robert W. Greene, the investigative journalist who led reporters from across the country in an effort to uncover corruption in Arizona and who twice helped Newsday win the Pulitzer Prize for...
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Gopal Raju
Gopal Raju, a publishing pioneer in the Indian ethnic press who founded the India Abroad newspaper and the Indo-Asian News Service, has died. He was 80. Raju, the publisher of the weekly...
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Jacob Rubenstein
Rabbi Jacob Rubenstein, known as a leading voice for modern Orthodox Judaism, died in a house fire. He was 58. Authorities said a lightning strike early Saturday might have started the fire at...
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Valda Cooper
Valda "Val" Cooper, a former Associated Press writer who was one of the few women of her generation reporting on hard news, died Saturday in Farmington. She was 92. Cooper, who once proclaimed, ...
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Joan Jackson
Joan Jackson, whose youthful beauty inspired John Betjeman to write a classic poem of love and longing, has died in a London nursing home. She was 92. Jackson had a lifelong friendship with...
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Helen Johnson
Helen Johnson, Oregon's oldest resident and the 24th-oldest in the world, has died at her southwest Portland residence. She was 111. She was alert and had never been seriously ill until her...
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Germaine Tillion
French Resistance fighter and celebrated anthropologist Germaine Tillion died on Saturday, her association said. She was 100. Tillion died at her home in Saint-Mande, in the Paris region, the...
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Werner Groebli
Werner Groebli, a Swiss-born ice skating comedian popular for years in the U.S., has died, his family announced Monday. He was 92. Groebli died April 14 after a brief hospitalization, a week...
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Joe Feeney
Joe Feeney, a tenor who crooned "Danny Boy" and other standards for 25 years on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died Wednesday. He was 76. Feeney died of emphysema at a hospice in Carlsbad, Calif., son...
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Don Gillis
Don Gillis, a broadcaster who helped pioneer the evening television sportscast in Boston and was the longtime TV host of Candlepin Bowling, has died. He was 85. Gillis died Wednesday at his home...
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Bill E. Burk
Bill E. Burk, author and former Memphis newsman who covered the last 20 years of Elvis Presley's life, has died. He was 75. He died Thursday in Memphis after a heart attack, said his wife, Connie...
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Yossi Harel
Yossi Harel, the ship commander whose attempt to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947 built support for Israel's founding, died on Saturday. He was 90. Harel's daughter...
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Tristram Cary
British electronic music pioneer Tristram Cary has died in the south Australian city of Adelaide, a colleague said Monday. He was 82. Cary will be remembered as a co-designer of the VCS3 (Putney)...
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Dick Rossi
Dick Rossi, a Flying Tigers pilot who gained acclaim for downing six Japanese Zeros during the early days of World War II, died April 17 of pneumonia. He was 92. Rossi, who earned two...
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Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious "problem child," died Tuesday. He was 102. Hofmann died of a heart attack at his home in...
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Bob Dunnavant, Sr.
Bob Dunnavant Sr., a pioneer in Alabama broadcasting who made his name among the Grand Ole Opry crowd, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 85. His death was announced by his son, Keith...
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Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo
Former Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, who presided during Spain's rocky transition from the fascist dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco to liberal democracy, has died. He was 82. Calvo...
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Lynne Harvey
Lynne Harvey, wife of longtime broadcaster Paul Harvey, died Saturday. She died at the couple's home in the Chicago suburb of River Forest after a yearlong battle with leukemia, according to a...
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Lew Williams, Jr.
Lew Williams Jr., columnist and retired publisher of the Ketchikan Daily News, whose editorial voice commanded respect across the state, has died. He was 83. Williams died Saturday died while...
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Witold Woyda
Witold Woyda, a fencer who won medals in three consecutive Olympics for Poland, has died. He was 68. Woyda had lung cancer for two years and died Monday at his suburban Bronxville home, his wife...
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Myanmar cyclone
Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday and the U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2...
