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Al Kaline, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame who played his entire 22-year career with the Detroit Tigers, died Monday. He was 85.
The potent British actress portrayed Pussy Galore in the James Bond film ‘Goldfinger’ and starred as Cathy Gale in ‘The Avengers.’
Bobby Mitchell, a speedy standout for the Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, died Sunday at 84.
Shirley Douglas, the Canadian activist and actress, mother to actor Kiefer Sutherland and daughter of Canada medicare founder Tommy Douglas, died Sunday. She was 86.
Former kicker Tom Dempsey has died at 73 from what his family describes as complications from COVID-19. Dempsey kicked an NFL-record 63-yard field goal in 1970.
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Actor Orson Bean, local theater mainstay who rose to fame as a 1950s TV personality, dies at 91. -
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Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the independent-minded jurist whose bright bow ties and courteous manner symbolized an old-fashioned style of integrity, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke a day earlier. He was 99.
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Patricia Bosworth, an actor who went on to chronicle lives including Jane Fonda’s, Marlon Brando’s and her own, died from coronavirus. She was 86.
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Henry Gonzalez was the first elected Latino official in South Gate and fought corruption in City Hall
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Bill Withers, known for acoustic soul hits “Lean on Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” died Monday of heart complications, his family said Friday.
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Jeff Grosso, a skateboarder from Arcadia who rose to the greatness in the 1980s before falling to the depths of despair and making a comeback, died Tuesday at 51.
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Anwar, who had leukemia, struggled to find a donor match, underscoring the frustratingly high odds that people of South Asian descent face in such an endeavor.
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Ed Farmer, a former All-Star relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox who later spent 29 seasons as a radio broadcaster for the team, died Wednesday.
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Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85.
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Adam Schlesinger, cofounder of “Stacy’s Mom” rock band Fountains of Wayne and songwriter for film and television, died from complications related to COVID-19. He was 52.
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DePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 children’s books, sold nearly 25 million copies and had his books translated into more than 20 languages.
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The Mexican immigrant, who arrived in the 1950s, was ‘possibly one of the best organizers that I have ever known, male or female,’ an activist noted.
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Alan Merrill, who co-wrote the Joan Jett hit “I Love Rock and Roll” for his own band in 1975, died Sunday in New York of coronavirus complications.
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Anne Moody, whose memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up poor in the segregated South and facing violence as a civil rights activist, has died.
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Judy Garland, who paid a tragic price for the life of the show-business superstar, died in London Sunday.
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Anwar, who had leukemia, struggled to find a donor match, underscoring the frustratingly high odds that people of South Asian descent face in such an endeavor.
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The finding by autopsy surgeons last night of evidence that monoxide gas poisoning caused the death of Thelma Todd, blonde motion-picture actress whose body was found in her automobile in a Castellammare garage yesterday morning, did not lessen the vigor of an investigation being made by police into the riddle of circumstances surrounding the finding of the film player’s body.
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A shapely blond with a beauty mark next to her lower lip, the New York native also played the title role in ‘Honey West,’ the mid-1960s TV series about a sexy female private detective with a pet ocelot.
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Jim Henson, creator of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the other Muppets who entertained and educated millions of preschoolers and their parents around the world, died early Wednesday of pneumonia.
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