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May 5, 2022 at 11:26 am

Alfred Baldwin, chief Watergate eavesdropper and lookout, dies at 83

The former FBI agent was best known as a supporting player in the cast of petty crooks, dirty tricksters and former spies involved in the...

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November 24, 2021 at 4:04 pm

Sylvia Weinstock, master of the luxury wedding cake, dies at 91

She came out of retirement last month to design one last wedding cake: a white, six-tiered showstopper for the wedding of Jennifer Gates, the oldest...

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November 9, 2021 at 6:26 am

Max Cleland, Vietnam War veteran who led VA and served in Senate, dies at 79

Max Cleland, a moderate Democrat from Georgia, was elected to the Senate in 1996 after heading the VA under President Jimmy Carter and serving as...

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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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