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As a photographer he shot defining images of Southern California; as an editor he looked for images that told stories about the world.
Noel Ignatiev, a historian who wrote “How the Irish Became White” and co-edited the journal Race Traitor, dies at 78.
The soft-spoken former NBC entertainment executive Rick Ludwin wasn’t a household name. But he gave a big boost to a little gem that became “Seinfeld.”
Charles Rogers, a former star wide receiver at Michigan State who was selected No. 2 overall in the 2003 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, has died at 38.
Gregory A. Adams, an executive vice president at Kaiser Permanente, was named interim chairman and CEO by the board.
Gloria Vanderbilt: 1934-2019
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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He shot the black-and-white cover for the 1963 album “With the Beatles,” picturing the Fab Four’s faces in part-shadow and several others.
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Gebre helped end nearly all cases of female genital mutilation in areas where her organization worked.
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In a world of keyboards and touch screens, Krinke’s Fountain Pen Shop was a throwback to more elegant times.
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Wrote “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and other classics
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Cerutti made one of the most contentious discoveries in North American archaeology when he found in a highway project the tusk of a mastodon.
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A black activist who took control of one of the nation’s largest neo-Nazi groups — and vowed to dismantle it — has died.
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Rudy Boesch was a retired Navy SEAL who became the oldest contestant on the CBS reality show ‘Survivor.’
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Walter Mercado’s daily TV appearances entertained many across Latin America for years.
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Don Fraser, a longtime L.A. boxing promoter who earned a reputation for a colorful wardrobe and off-beat promotional gimmicks, died Wednesday at home in Toluca Lake.
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Bernard Slade, the actor-turned-writer who crafted the enduring romantic comedy “Same Time, Next Year” about a lovable pair of adulterers and wrote the script for the pop music sitcom “The Partridge Family,” has died at his home in Beverly Hills.
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Ron Fairly helped the Dodgers to three World Series titles after leading USC to the 1958 national championship. He finished his career with the Angels.
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Noel Ignatiev, a historian who wrote “How the Irish Became White” and co-edited the journal Race Traitor, dies at 78.
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As a photographer he shot defining images of Southern California; as an editor he looked for images that told stories about the world.
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The soft-spoken former NBC entertainment executive Rick Ludwin wasn’t a household name. But he gave a big boost to a little gem that became “Seinfeld.”
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George Kennedy, the veteran actor who built his early career playing heavies and won an Academy Award in 1968 for his supporting role as the tough Southern prison-camp convict who grew to hero-worship Paul Newman’s defiant title character in “Cool Hand Luke,” died Sunday in Boise, Idaho, of natural causes, said his grandson Cory Schenkel.
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Pat Hingle, the veteran actor with more than half a century of impressive work in theater, film and television who was perhaps best known to a generation of movie fans as Commissioner James Gordon in the first four “Batman” films, has died.
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A shapely blond with a beauty mark next to her lower lip, the New York native also played the title role in ‘Honey West,’ the mid-1960s TV series about a sexy female private detective with a pet ocelot.
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Ron Meyer, the football coach behind Southern Methodist University’s powerhouse “Pony Express” teams who later called for a snowplow to clear a spot so the New England Patriots could kick a winning field goal in one of the NFL’s memorable moments, has died.
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