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Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had been the longest-serving finance minister among the Group of Seven leading industrial economies until resigning in March to return to the private sector. (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press)
British author Sue Townsend’s “Adrian Mole” diaries sold millions of copies. (Ben McMillan / EPA/Penguin Group)
The lobby of the Ace Hotel in downtown Portland, Ore., is shown in July. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz, shown last week in Philadelphia, was among seven people killed Saturday night in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, the newspaper’s editor said Sunday. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)
Fred Kavli, at his Santa Barbara home in 2008, gave money to scientific institutions and researchers in addition to several nonprofits in the Moorpark area. He died Thursday at 86. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
George P. Mitchell, a billionaire oilman, developer and philanthropist, is shown in his Houston office in 2009. Mitchell, one of the wealthiest men in the Unted States, died at his home in Galveston at the age of 94. (Nick de la Torre / Associated Press)
This Oct. 22, 2009, photo shows Hans Riegel, the longtime marketing executive of German candy maker Haribo who took the gummi bear to international fame, in Bonn, Germany. Haribo said in a statement that Riegel, the son of the company’s founder, died of heart failure in Bonn on Tuesday. He was 90. (Rolf Vennenbernd / Associated Press)