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Today's
Obituaries (Text format)
 Review: Arsenault's latest novel a fast-paced romp
(AP)
(19 hours ago)
AP - "Loot the Moon" (Minotaur), 276 pages, $24.99, by Mark Arsenault: Billy Povich, former investigative reporter, has been reassigned to write obituaries — his newspaper's way of encouraging him to quit.
 Anthropology giant Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100
(AP)
(4 days ago)
AP - After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology.
- French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies
(AP)
(4 days ago)
AP - Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
 Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala dies aged 103
(AP)
(4 days ago)
AP - Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, who went into exile during the country's decades of dictatorship, died Tuesday. He was 103.
 Photographer who recorded everyday Harlem life dies
(AP)
(9 days ago)
AP - Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89.
 Former umpire Shepherd dies aged 68
(Reuters)
(10 days ago)
Reuters - Former international cricket umpire David Shepherd has died aged 68 following a long battle with cancer, Gloucestershire County Cricket club said on Wednesday.
 AP bureau chief Mike McQueen dies at 52
(AP)
(12 days ago)
AP - Mike McQueen, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Louisiana and Mississippi, has died. He was 52.
 Pie-splattered comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83
(AP)
(15 days ago)
AP - Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.
 NJ mass murderer who killed 13 in 1949 dies at 88
(AP)
(19 days ago)
AP - Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation's worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88.
 Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein dies at 61
(AP)
(23 days ago)
AP - Bruce Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard Ltd. and a prominent Wall Street dealmaker who helped negotiate some of the largest corporate takeovers in history, died Wednesday. He was 61. The death of the driving force behind Lazard raises questions about the future of one of Wall Street's top mergers and acquisitions advisory firms.
 Russian crime boss Ivankov dies in hospital
(AP)
(29 days ago)
AP - Vyacheslav Ivankov, a Russian crime boss who spent nearly 10 years in a U.S. prison, died Friday in a Moscow hospital, two months after being shot several times coming out of a restaurant. He was 69.
 Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies
(AP)
(31 days ago)
AP - Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.
 Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa dies aged 74
(AP)
(34 days ago)
AP - Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the "voice of Latin America" whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday, her family said. She was 74.
 Former Panamanian president Endara dies
(AFP)
(39 days ago)
AFP - Former Panamanian president Guillermo Endara, who led the country's transition to democracy after the ousting of military strongman Manuel Noriega, has died at the age of 73.
 William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies
(AP)
(41 days ago)
AP - William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79.
- William Safire, speechwriter and columnist, dies
(AP)
(41 days ago)
AP - Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said. He was 79.
 Renowned Spanish pianist de Larrocha dies at 86
(AP)
(42 days ago)
AP - Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha, who thrilled music listeners for decades with polished and enthralling interpretations of great classical works and Spanish masters, has died aged 86.
 Manson follower Susan Atkins dies
(AP)
(43 days ago)
AP - Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, who admitted killing actress Sharon Tate 40 years ago, has died. She was 61.
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