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David Koch, the industrialist and libertarian who used his fortune to transform American politics while also donating more than $1 billion to philanthropic causes, has died.
Celso Piña, a musical pioneer known for his fusion of cumbia and tropical sounds as a base, suffered a heart attack and died. He was 66.
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Danny Cohen helped develop a flight simulator and, in the 1970s, the first teleconference.
Jim Hardy, the oldest living football player from both USC and the Rams and the former general manager of the Coliseum, has died. He was 96.
Hall of Fame sports broadcaster Jack Whitaker, who called the play-by-play during the first 21 Super Bowls, dies at 95.
Gloria Vanderbilt: 1934-2019
Gloria Vanderbilt experienced both loss and triumph on a grand scale.
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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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Former football player Cedric Benson is ranked second on the all-time rushing list at the University of Texas with 5,540 yards.
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Williams’ work helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own. He was 86.
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Mike McGee, who played in the NFL and coached football at Duke before serving as USC’s athletic director from 1984 to 1993, has died at age 80.
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For years Marshall was virtually the only major black woman fiction writer in the U.S., a bridge between Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and others
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Peter Fonda, the counterculture icon who came from a show business family that included his father, Oscar winner Henry Fonda, and sister, Jane Fonda, has died.
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Edward Lewis, a prominent Hollywood producer, was among those credited for helping break the blacklist.
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Kary Mullis was an unconventional and often controversial Nobel laureate.
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Author Elaine Kendall was a longtime book critic for the Los Angeles Times. She died in Montecito at age 91.
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Nancy Reddin Keinholz was best known for potent installations she created with her husband, Edward Kienholz, and for preserving his work after his death.
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David Berman has died at 52. He was an accomplished poet, but it was his work with the indie-rock band Silver Jews that earned him revered cult status.
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Village People co-founder Henri Belolo, who co-wrote classic hits “YMCA,” “Macho Man” and “In the Navy,” has died at 82.
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Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city’s vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.
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Genevieve Waite, the South African actress, singer and model who became a quintessential face and voice of the 1960s when, for a brief time, she seemed as omnipresent as Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol or the other fixtures of the era, has died in Los Angeles.
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Stan Laurel, the skinny and bewildered half of the famed Laurel and Hardy comedy team, died Tuesday of a heart attack.
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Marc Christian MacGinnis dies at 56; Rock Hudson’s ex-lover
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Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, who served as South Vietnam’s unofficial first lady early on in the Vietnam War, earned the nickname “Dragon Lady” for her harsh criticism of protesting Buddhist monks and communist sympathizers.
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Kary Mullis was an unconventional and often controversial Nobel laureate.
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