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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Rush Limbaugh had huge influence in the political sphere, setting the stage for the rise of conservative talk radio with ‘The Rush Limbaugh Show.’
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The Fania Records founder and salsa legend died on Monday in New Jersey.
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Vincent Jackson, a standout wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers and a three-time Pro Bowl selection, was found dead in a Florida hotel room Monday.
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Former Los Angeles City Council President Pat Russell, a community activist who became the first woman elected to the powerful post, died Thursday. She was 97.
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The Rev. Frederick K.C. Price, a televangelist who founded the Crenshaw Christian Center, a South L.A. megachurch, died Friday at age 89.
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Lynn Stalmaster became the first casting director to receive an honorary Oscar. He cast some 400 films and TV shows and helped launch many stars.
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Charles Boyer signed on as a portrait sketch artist in 1960 and was made a Disney Legend in 2005, with a window on Main Street in his name.
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Burns also wrote the TV comedy-drama “Room 222,” the story of a fictional urban high school in L.A.
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Working out of a church basement in Santa Ana, he taught Nahuatl to a new generation
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Eugenio Martínez, a former longtime CIA agent who participated in the Watergate burglary that led to President Nixon’s downfall, dies at 98.
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Chick Corea’s work with fusion group Return to Forever and with collaborators such as Miles Davis and Stanley Clarke spliced jazz with funk, rock and more.
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Clark Gable died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital Wednesday at 11 p.m.
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‘I’d Really Love to See You Tonight’ was among their 1970s soft-rock hits. The singer-guitarist later became a country music star.
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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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Singer-Actor Suffers Heart Attack in Spain After 45 Years of Stardom
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Ferlinghetti was the co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore and a champion of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
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Dorr, a surgeon who led early developments in joint replacement surgery and founded a charity to provide medical services pro bono, has died at 79.
