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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in the film ‘Hidden Figures,’ has died.
The painting of a Parisian street scene by Impressionist master Camille Pissarro hangs in a Madrid museum and is the focus of an ongoing legal battle.
Former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler made computers more user-friendly for generations of people with editing commands also including ‘find and replace.’
Rita Walters advocated fiercely for equality through school integration and hiring practices, first as a member of the L.A. school board and then on the L.A. City Council
The actress played the legendary Maria Callas at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. before moving on to Broadway and winning her final Tony for the role.
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Actor Orson Bean, local theater mainstay who rose to fame as a 1950s TV personality, dies at 91. -
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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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Hair Club for Men founder Sy Sperling has died in Florida after a lengthy illness.
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Chance the Rapper, Nicki Minaj, 50 Cent and other rappers took to social media to honor Pop Smoke, a rising New York artist who was fatally shot Wednesday.
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Ja’Net DuBois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on “Good Times” and composed and sang the theme song for “The Jeffersons,” has died.
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Mickey Wright was named greatest female golfer in history in a poll of experts
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Owen Bieber, who shepherded the UAW through a recession, the Reagan era, industry downsizing and rapidly expanding global competition, dies at 90.
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Called “the original laconic cutup,” “True Grit” author Charles Portis was one of the country’s most revered novelists. He has died at 86.
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Tony Fernandez, a five-time All-Star at shortstop who played 17 seasons in the majors and won a World Series title with the Blue Jays in 1993, died Sunday.
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Author and playwright A.E. Hotchner, known for his friendships with Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman, died Saturday at age 102.
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Lynn Cohen, who had a long career as a stage, film and television performer including a memorable turn in “Sex and the City,” dies at 86.
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Nominated for an Emmy for “Night Court” and co-starred with Shirley MacLain in “Sweet Charity”
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The jazz musician’s work won nearly a dozen Grammy Awards.
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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in the film ‘Hidden Figures,’ has died.
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Unclad Body of Star Found on Bed Near Empty Capsule Bottle
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Anne Moody, whose memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up poor in the segregated South and facing violence as a civil rights activist, has died.
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Jim Henson, creator of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the other Muppets who entertained and educated millions of preschoolers and their parents around the world, died early Wednesday of pneumonia.
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PASSINGS: Betty Sarah Wouk, Hazel Rowley
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Bess Myerson, the former beauty queen, television personality and New York politician who spent four decades in the public eye before her glamorous image was tarnished by scandal, has died.
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Bonnke founded the Christ for All Nations ministry and presided over mass revivals around the globe.
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