Today’s Headlines
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.
South African musician Johnny Clegg championed human rights in music that blended African tradition and Western rock for more than 40 years
William Dannemeyer, a former Orange County congressman who spent much of his career fighting gay rights and helped cement Orange County’s reputation as a bastion of right-wing conservatism, has died at his home in Thousand Palms.
Rose Greene, a petite but mighty LGBTQ advocate who oversaw the creation and launch of one of the country’s largest HIV/AIDS fundraising events — a 545-mile bike ride along the coast of California that became a national model and a lasting symbol of unity, has died.
Jerry Lawson, who for four decades was the lead singer of the eclectic cult-favorite a cappella group the Persuasions, has died in hospice care in Phoenix.
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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More Notable deaths
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Valentina Cortese, an Italian postwar actress who was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role as a fading diva in Francois Truffaut’s “Day for Night” but lost to Ingrid Bergman, died at her home in Rome on Wednesday.
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Johnny Kitagawa, a kingpin of Japan’s entertainment industry for more than half a century who produced famous boy bands including Arashi, Tokio and SMAP, has died.
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Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died.
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Rip Torn, the maverick actor who received a late-in-life career boost — and won an Emmy Award — playing the caustic talk-show producer on Garry Shandling’s 1990s hit HBO comedy series “The Larry Sanders Show,” has died, according to the Associated Press.
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A diminutive billionaire from Texas with a salty personality and a public persona as a straight talker, H.
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John Giumarra Jr., a driving force in California’s grape industry who for years battled Cesar Chavez before relenting and signing a landmark contract with the United Farm Workers, has died of natural causes in Bakersfield.
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João Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South American nation, died Saturday, his son said.
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Actor Arte Johnson, who won an Emmy for comedy sketch work on the television show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died in Los Angeles.
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For decades, TV reporter Russ Ewing was the go-to person for gunmen, hostage-takers, lawbreakers and fugitives seeking to surrender to police.
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South African musician Johnny Clegg championed human rights in music that blended African tradition and Western rock for more than 40 years
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Horne achieved a place in the pantheon of female jazz vocalists and broke ground in Hollywood as an African American star in the ‘40s. She also won acclaim on Broadway and as a cabaret performer.
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Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died.
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In the 1960s, few American women were placed on a higher pedestal than the wives of the nation’s astronauts.
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John Wayne, the biggest box office attraction in motion picture history and a man whose unique style — both on screen and off — transformed him into one of America’s few living institutions, is dead.
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