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Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, a nationally known Democrat famous for suggesting that George H. Bush was "born with a silver foot in his mouth," dies at the age of 73. |
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Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who tenaciously tracked down Nazi war criminals following World War II dies in Vienna Austria at the age of 96. Wiesenthal is credited with helping to bring more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice. |
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Roman Catholic Missionary Dorothy Stang, 74, is shot dead by hired gunmen near the jungle town of Anapu, Brazil. She had fought for decades to protect the rain forest and its people from illegal logging. Stang, who is from Dayton Ohio, was murdered despite constant warnings to authorities that she ... |
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Rose Mary Woods, the loyal secretary to US President Richard dies in a nursing home in Alliance, Ohio at the age of 87. During the investigation of the Watergate Hotel Break-in Scandal, she claimed to have "inadvertently erased" part of a crucial Oval Office tape. The tape segment was a 18 ˝ minu ... |
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Lifelong human rights activist and author Susan Sontag dies in a New York cancer hospital. She received much criticism when she declared that the September 11 attacks were not a "cowardly attack" on civilization but "an act undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions". |
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Actor and Activist Christopher Reeve, famous for his roll in the "Superman" movies dies of heart failure at the age of 52. |
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Paul "Red" Adair, famous for using explosives to fight oil well fires in Kuwait, the North Sea, and the Sahara, dies in Texas at the age of 89. He was the inspiration for a 1968 film called "Hellfighters," starring Hollywood movie icon John Wayne. |
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Hollywood Screen Legend Marlon Brando dies at UCLA Medical Center at the age of 80. His roles included Stanely Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire, " Terry Malone in "On the Waterfront," Colonel Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now," and Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather." |
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Music legend Ray Charles dies at the age of 73. He was appreciated for his gift of communicating the human spirit and emotion through song and for his blurring of musical genres, crossing soul, blues, country, and jazz. |
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Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, dies in his home in Bel Air California at the age of 93. In November of 1994 he informed the American public that he was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, an incurable illness t ... |
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Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor fired by U.S. President Richard Nixon for refusing to curtail his Watergate investigation dies at the age 92. |
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Over two hundred and seventy people are killed in Caribbean flooding in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. |
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Just two months after celebrating his 100th birthday, comic legend Bob Hope dies in his sleep at home in Toluca Lake, California, with his family at his bedside. |
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UN Weapon's Inspector Dr. David Kelly's body is found a few miles from his home. His wrist had been cut and a packet of painkillers was found beside him. |
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John J. Cronin, co-founder and CEO of PADI, The Professional Association of Diving Instructors, dies at his home in Temecula, California at the age of 74. |
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American Actress Katharine Hepburn dies at the age of 96. |
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Former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina dies at the age of 100. |
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A Texas jury convicts Chante Mallard of murder in the death of a man she left embedded in her car windshield after an accident. She would later be sentenced to 60 years in prison. |
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Carlo Urbani, president of the Italian chapter of Médecins Sans Frontičres and one of the individuals who accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of that organization, dies.
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Kemmons Wilson, who created the Holiday Inn chain of affordable hotels, dies at the age of 90. |
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Ron Ziegler dies of a heart attack at the age of 63. He served as President Nixon's press secretary and was noted for his original reference to the Watergate Scandal as "a third rate burglary." |
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Britian's Queen Mother dies at the age of 101. |
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George Harrison dies at 58 years old in a friend's home in Los Angeles, CA. |
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Deforrest Kelly, the actor most famous for his role as Doctor Bones McCoy in Star Trek, dies. |
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Sidney Gottlieb, the Government chemist who brought LSD to C.I.A. and dosed Americans with psychedelics in the name of national security, dies at the age of 80 in Washington, VA |
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Linda McCartney, American Photographer, vegetarian and activist dies of Breast Cancer, leaving her husband former Beatle Paul McCartney. |
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Jacques Cousteau dies in Paris, France. |
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Deng Xiaoping dies in Beijing leaving Jiang Zemin in firm control of the People's Republic of China. |
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Dr. Carl E. Sagan, Cornell Astronomer famous for the creation of the Cosmos Television series, dies in Seattle, Washington after a two-year battle with a bone marrow disease. The cause of death was pneumonia. |
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John Vincent Atanasoff, pioneer of the digital computer, dies. |
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