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  • May 2008

    • Robert Rauschenberg, American Master, Dies at 82

      Associated Press  |  May 13, 08 12:10 PM CDT

      Robert Rauschenberg, American Master, Dies at 82

      (Newser) - Robert Rauschenberg, a pioneer of pop art and one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century, died yesterday at 82, the AP reports. Rauschenberg's "combine paintings" of the 1950s, which incorporated three-dimensional objects ranging from soda bottles to stuffed birds, were seen as revolutionary, but over a decades-long career he also worked in other media, including sculpture and dance. More »

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      obituary  • art  • painting  • Jasper Johns  • Robert Rauschenberg

    • Country's Eddy Arnold Dies at 89

      The Tennessean  |  May 8, 08 1:16 PM CDT

      Country's Eddy Arnold Dies at 89

      (Newser) - Eddy Arnold, the “Tennessee Plowboy,” died this morning at the age of 89, the Tennessean reports. Ranked as Billboard ’s most popular country musician of all time, Arnold sold more than 85 million records and had 37 singles on the pop charts. Besides being remembered as a caring man who “radiated gentility,” he is credited with moving country into popular music’s mainstream. More »

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    • Ice Cream Guru Robbins Dead

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 6, 08 11:45 PM CDT

      Ice Cream Guru Robbins Dead

      (Newser) - Irvine Robbins, the co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, has died at 90, the LA Times reports. Robbins grew up scooping ice cream at his family’s Tacoma, Wash., shop and opened his own store in California in 1945. As his chain expanded, he loved inventing and naming new flavors, including cherry chocolate chip “ChaChaCha” and Jamoca Almond Fudge. More »

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    • Woman Who Defied Interracial Marriage Ban Dies at 68

      Associated Press  |  May 5, 08 4:11 PM CDT

      Woman Who Defied Interracial Marriage Ban Dies at 68

      (Newser) - Mildred Loving, whose challenge to Virginia law led to the Supreme Court decision overturning bans on racially mixed marriage, has died at the age of 68. Loving, who was black, and her white husband Richard pleaded guilty to “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth” before their suit led to a landmark civil-rights ruling in 1967. More »

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      obituary  • US Supreme Court  • race relations  • civil rights  • interracial marriage

    • Would-Be Hitler Killer Dead at 90

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 3, 08 6:29 PM CDT

      Would-Be Hitler Killer Dead at 90

      (Newser) - The last surviving member of a cabal that twice tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler died this week at age 90, the Telegraph reports. Nearly all of Phillip Von Boeselager’s co-conspirators were executed after a 1944 attempt to plant a bomb under the table at Hitler’s East Prussian headquarters, but von Boeselager escaped and Hitler sustained only minor injuries in the blast. More »

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      obituary  • World War II  • Adolf Hitler  • assassin

  • April 2008

    • Soldier Laid to Rest After 4 Years

      Cincinnati Enquirer  |  Apr 28, 08 10:27 AM CDT

      Soldier Laid to Rest After 4 Years

      (Newser) - Thousands attended emotional memorial services over the weekend for an Ohio Army reservist whose remains made the journey home 4 years after he was captured in Iraq. Ten thousand filed past Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin's casket, and 3,000 attended a ceremony at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati yesterday, before a private ceremony in which he was buried next to five others killed in Iraq. More »

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      Iraq  • obituary  • veterans  • Iraq death toll  • Iraq veterans  • funeral  • military funeral  • Matt Maupin

    • Jazzman Giuffre Dead at 86

      New York Times  |  Apr 26, 08 6:26 AM CDT

      Jazzman Giuffre Dead at 86

      (Newser) - The iconoclastic clarinetist and composer Jimmy Giuffre died Thursday, two days before what would have been his 87th birthday, the New York Times reports. The Texas-born jazz legend's 50-year career took him from big-band hits with Woody Herman to minimalist trios, with a stint playing in mess halls as a GI in WWII. Giuffre's experimental, blues-infused styling made him a leading figure in the '50s "cool jazz" scene. More »

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    • E Street Rocker Danny Federici Is Dead at 58

      Associated Press  |  Apr 18, 08 7:36 AM CDT

      E Street Rocker Danny Federici Is Dead at 58

      (Newser) - Longtime Bruce Springsteen keyboardist Danny Federici died yesterday at the age of 58 in New York after a three-year battle with melanoma. As a member of the Boss’ E Street Band, he performed on hit records for decades and helped bring Springsteen into the spotlight after jamming in New Jersey in the 1960s. “We grew up together,” Springsteen said in an online statement. More »

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      music  • obituary  • rock stars  • rock music  • Bruce Springsteen  • rock bands  • E Street Band

    • Pioneering Disney Animator Dead at 95

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 16, 08 2:40 AM CDT

      Pioneering Disney Animator Dead at 95

      (Newser) - The last surviving member of Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men," who pioneered character animation, has died at the age of 95, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ollie Johnston's many creations, often in collaboration with Frank Thomas, included sequences and characters in Pinocchio, the Jungle Book, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians and many more. More »

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      obituary  • Disney  • Frank Thomas  • animation  • Walt Disney  • Bambi

    • Tragic Bond Links Heart Donor, Recipient

      Hilton Head Island Packet  |  Apr 7, 08 4:16 PM CDT

      Tragic Bond Links Heart Donor, Recipient

      (Newser) - A Georgia man who took his own life last week had lived 12 years after receiving a transplanted heart from a South Carolina man who also committed suicide, police said. And in a twist worthy of Edgar Allan Poe, the donor's widow had met and married the recipient, the Hilton Head Island Packet reports. More »

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    • Charlton Heston Dead at 84

      Associated Press  |  Apr 5, 08 11:50 PM CDT

      Charlton Heston Dead at 84

      (Newser) - Charlton Heston, the longtime Hollywood leading man who portrayed everyone from Moses to Michelangelo and won an Oscar for his chariot-driving performance in Ben Hur , has died at age 84, the AP reports. Heston, who announced in 2002 that he had Alzheimer's, became the unapologetic head of the NRA in 1998, a position that nearly overshadowed his acting career. More »

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      obituary  • Hollywood  • actor  • NRA  • Moses  • Ten Commandments  • Charlton Heston  • Ben Hur

    • Film Noir Master Dassin Dead at 96

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 1, 08 7:53 AM CDT

      Film Noir Master Dassin Dead at 96

      (Newser) - Jules Dassin, a master of film noir who left Hollywood after being blacklisted, has died in an Athens hospital at the age of 96, reports the Los Angeles Times . Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Connecticut, Dassin made such dark crime dramas as Brute Force and The Naked City in the 1940s. Hounded during the Red scare, he moved to France, where he directed his masterpiece, Rififi. More »

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      film  • obituary  • blacklist

  • March 2008

    • 'Killing Fields' Photog Dith Dead at 65

      New York Times  |  Mar 30, 08 12:39 PM CDT

      'Killing Fields' Photog Dith Dead at 65

      (Newser) - Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose saga was re-created in the film The Killing Fields, has died of pancreatic cancer at 65, the New York Times reports. The Cambodian native became the Khmer Rouge's most vocal opponent after escaping in 1979, having worked in labor camps and survived on a spoonful of rice a day. He moved to New York, where he began working for the Times and against the Cambodian genocide. "I'm a one-person crusade," he once said. More »

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      obituary  • New York Times  • genocide  • Thailand  • Cambodia  • Khmer Rouge  • Pulitzer Prize  • labor camp  • photojournalist

    • McMuffin Man Dead at 89

      Associated Press  |  Mar 27, 08 2:45 AM CDT

      McMuffin Man Dead at 89

      (Newser) - The inventor of the Egg McMuffin has died in his Southern California home at the age of 89,  AP reports. Herb Peterson began working with McDonald's in the advertising department, and later switched to the hands-on side of the business, owning six restaurants in the Santa Barbara area. Peterson, a big fan of eggs Benedict, came up with the idea for the breakfast-on-the-run Egg McMuffin in 1972, inspiring a host of imitators. More »

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      obituary  • McDonald's  • fast food  • invention  • breakfast sandwiches  • Santa Barbara  • breakfast

    • 'Fifth Beatle' Aspinall Dies at 66

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 25, 08 7:59 AM CDT

      'Fifth Beatle' Aspinall Dies at 66

      (Newser) - "Fifth Beatle" Neil Aspinall, the first road manager of the legendary band who later ran the Beatles' recording company, has died from lung cancer. Aspinall, 66, was the chief guardian of the group's musical legacy after the Beatles broke up. "He vigorously fought to protect the Beatles franchise," said Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. He reignited interest in the Fab Four for a new generation of fans in the 1990s. More »

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      obituary  • Steve Jobs  • Paul McCartney  • Beatles  • John Lennon  • George Harrison  • Ringo Starr

    • Actor Paul Scofield Dead at 86

      Reuters  |  Mar 20, 08 7:25 AM CDT

      Actor Paul Scofield Dead at 86

      (Newser) - Paul Scofield, the British actor who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons , has died at the age of 86. His agent told Reuters that the actor, who eschewed Hollywood stardom for smaller film roles and a robust theater career, had been suffering from leukemia. "Of the 10 greatest moments in the theater, eight are Scofield's," Richard Burton once said. More »

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      obituary  • actor  • theater  • leukemia  • Oscar winner  • Royal Shakespeare Company

    • Former Child Pilot Commits Suicide

      Associated Press  |  Mar 19, 08 10:06 AM CDT

      Former Child Pilot Commits Suicide

      (Newser) - Vicki Van Meter, the girl who at age 11 astounded the nation with a 5-hour cross-country flight, is dead at 26, the AP reports, of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. Van Meter’s trans-continental flight was a record at the time, and a year later she became the youngest pilot to fly across the Atlantic. “We all thought she was coping,” her brother said of her history of depression. More »

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      obituary  • suicide  • pilot  • child star

    • Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead at 90

      New York Times  |  Mar 18, 08 8:55 PM CDT

      Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead at 90

      (Newser) - Arthur C. Clarke, the sci-fi author who helped shape 20th-century scientific imagination, is dead at 90, the New York Times reports. The co-creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey faced post-polio syndrome in recent decades and died at his home in Sri Lanka due to breathing trouble. “No one can predict the future,” Clarke maintained, but he couldn’t resist trying—and often succeeded. More »

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      obituary  • book  • literature  • Sri Lanka  • author  • space travel  • science fiction  • satellites  • Stanley Kubrick  • Arthur C. Clarke  • polio  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    • Director Minghella Dead at 54

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 18, 08 11:02 AM CDT

      Director Minghella Dead at 54

      (Newser) - Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella died today at 54, the Guardian reports. Minghella won the 1997 best director Oscar for The English Patient and was nominated as a screenwriter for The Talented Mr. Ripley in 2000. "This is a shattering blow from someone who was a major figure in an important industry and had a lot to go on and contribute," fellow director Lord Puttnam told the Guardian. More »

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      movie  • obituary  • Oscar  • film director  • Oscar winner  • Anthony Minghella

    • Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creator Dead at 69

      Associated Press  |  Mar 5, 08 3:29 AM CST

      Dungeons &amp; Dragons Co-Creator Dead at 69

      (Newser) - Widely revered Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, regarded as the father of role-playing games, has died at his home in Wisconsin after years of health problems, AP reports. He was 69. Together with Dave Arneson, Gygax created the massively popular medieval fantasy Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 that struck a chord with teenage boys and young men, and spawned a host of computer game imitations. Fans say that the world of games would be very different had it not been for Gygax' imagination. More »

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      obituary  • author  • gaming  • games  • fantasy  • roleplaying games  • Dungeons & Dragons

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