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September 30, 2021 at 9:03 pm

Child star of ‘Old Yeller’ and other popular Disney films dies at 79

For a few years beginning in the late 1950s, Walt Disney's busiest actor was a young man named Tommy Kirk, a clean-cut Kentucky native who...

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June 17, 2021 at 10:44 am

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding father, dies at 97

Kenneth Kaunda, a symbol of African liberation who led Zambia to freedom from British rule and served as its first president, maintaining a loose grip...

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May 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm

B.J. Thomas, who sang ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,’ dies at 78

B.J. Thomas, a handsome, curly-haired crooner who climbed the music charts in the late 1960s and '70s, recording richly orchestrated, irresistibly catchy pop songs such...

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March 26, 2021 at 2:48 pm

Beverly Cleary, beloved author who chronicled schoolyard scrapes and feisty kids, dies at 104

A giant of children's literature, with roots in the Pacific Northwest, has died at 104. Beverly Cleary was a chlidren's librarian in Yakima who became...

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March 10, 2021 at 11:42 pm

Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape and pioneered the CD, dies at 94

Lou Ottens unveiled the first compact cassette tape, built by his Philips design team, in 1963. Billions of cassettes were sold before he spearheaded a...

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February 25, 2021 at 11:50 am

Bruce Meyers, creator of the first fiberglass dune buggy, dies at 94

Bruce Meyers' two-seater inspired thousands of imitators, turned the dune buggy into an emblem of 1960s California cool and helped spur the development of off-road...

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February 6, 2021 at 12:02 pm

Robert A. Altman, who went from bank president to video game CEO, dies at 73

Robert A. Altman, a lawyer who, after the BCCI scandal of the 1990s, reinvented himself as the chief executive of ZeniMax Media, a video game...

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February 4, 2021 at 2:32 pm

Eugenio Martinez, Watergate burglar pardoned by Reagan, dies at 98

Eugenio Martínez was the last surviving Watergate burglar in the 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. The arrest of the burglars led...

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January 7, 2021 at 1:10 pm

Neil Sheehan, N.Y. Times reporter who obtained Pentagon Papers and chronicled ‘Bright Shining Lie’ of Vietnam, dies at 84

Neil Sheehan, a tireless chronicler of the Vietnam War who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times and later received the Pulitzer Prize...

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November 26, 2020 at 12:16 pm

Bruce Carver Boynton, who helped spark Freedom Rides, dies at 83

Bruce Carver Boynton just wanted a cheeseburger and cup of tea. It was past 10 p.m., one week before Christmas in 1958, and his Trailways...

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