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Kim built Daewoo Corp. in 1967 and it grew into South Korea’s second-largest business empire. Later he was sentenced to prison on fraud allegations.
Marie Fredriksson, who formed Roxette with Per Gessle in 1986 and recorded hits including “The Look” and “It Must Have Been Love,” has died at 61.
Laurer was an electrical engineer with IBM in the early 1970s when he spearheaded the development of the UPC, or bar code, which helped retailers reduce pricing errors and keep track of inventory.
The Ice Bucket Challenge began in 2014, but when Pete Frates and his family got involved, the phenomenon exploded on social media.
Paul A. Volcker was a powerful Fed chairman whose grit and determination helped break the back of inflation in the early 1980s.
Gloria Vanderbilt: 1934-2019
Gloria Vanderbilt experienced both loss and triumph on a grand scale.
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Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt died Monday morning at age 95 of stomach cancer.
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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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Bill Buckner played 22 major league seasons, including eight with the Dodgers and two with the California Angels.
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‘Benson,’ ‘Star Trek’ actor René Auberjonois has died at 79
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Caroll Spinney voiced and operated Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch from their inception in 1969 and performed them almost exclusively into his 80s.
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Juice Wrld, who was born and raised in the Chicago area, achieved a career high in 2018 when “Lucid Dreams” made it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Joe Smith’s career as a record executive spanned decades. As leader of Capitol, Elektra/Asylum and Warner Bros., he signed Jimi Hendrix, James Taylor and countless other musicians.
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Stephen Garrett, who helped J. Paul Getty transform his dream of a Roman-style villa in Malibu into a world famous cultural attraction, dies at 96.
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Leonard Goldberg’s TV credits ranged from “Starsky and Hutch” to “Blue Bloods” and his independent movies included “WarGames” and “Sleeping with the Enemy.”
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Dorothy Catherine Fontana, who used the initials D.C. after struggling to find work in a male-dominated industry, also worked on “Bonanza” and “Dallas.”
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Pulitzer Prize-winner specialized in bestselling and critically praised biographies of the Russian czars
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Shelley Morrison, an actress with a 50-year career who played Rosario on “Will & Grace” and Sister Sixto on “The Flyning Nun,” has died.
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Composer Irving Burgie helped popularize Caribbean music and co-wrote the enduring Harry Belafonte hit “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song).”
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Yasuhiro Nakasone, who as prime minister in the 1980s advocated for a more assertive Japan while strengthening ties with the U.S., dies at 101.
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Paul A. Volcker was a powerful Fed chairman whose grit and determination helped break the back of inflation in the early 1980s.
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Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist whose mixture of banter, barbs, and bon mots about the glitterati helped her climb the A-list as high as many of the celebrities she covered, died Sunday at the age of 94.
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Geraldine A. Ferraro ran with Walter Mondale as the Democratic nominee for vice president, becoming a symbol for women’s equality. The candidacy of the former housewife, prosecutor and congresswoman was an attempt to turn the ‘gender gap’ of the 1980s to the Democrats’ advantage.
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Hughes, whose films showed an understanding and respect for adolescents, directed such films as ‘Sixteen Candles,’ ‘The Breakfast Club’ and ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ and wrote ‘Home Alone.’
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Wrote “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and other classics
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