Ferlinghetti was the co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore and a champion of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
Stan Williams, pitcher who helped the Dodgers win the 1959 World Series near the beginning of his 14-year career in the majors, has died at age 84.
The artist who sculpted the bronze statue near the New York Stock Exchange that became a symbol of Wall Street has died in his hometown in Sicily.
Sato and her family fled to Colorado when the government began rounding up Japanese Americans during World War II.
Dr. Bernard Lown, the cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday at 99.
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A look at the life of legendary Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, who died at the age of 93 on Thursday.
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