Obituaries

Jessica Ghawi Died In Colorado Shooting

Written By Unknown on Saturday, 21 July 2012 | 01:57

The mother of a young woman who was killed while attending the Aurora, Colorado, the midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," said his daughter...

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Sylvia Woods dies at 86

Sylvia Woods, 86 years, founder of the famous Harlem soul food restaurant that bears his name and is a must for residents, tourists, celebrities and...

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William D. Pawley Jr. dies at 92

William D. Pawley Jr., 92, a decorated pilot in World War II is often called the first true love, actress Elizabeth Taylor, died July 10 in Florida,...

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Director of sex comedy 'The Telephone Book' Nelson Lyon dies at 73

Written By Unknown on Friday, 20 July 2012 | 02:14

Decades later, the writer and director Nelson Lyon launched the X-rated sex comedy "The phone book" in 1971, the film has been acclaimed as a work...

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Al Franken's 'SNL' Partner Tom Davis dies at 59

Tom Davis, a playwright who collaborated with Al Franken to write memorable songs in "Saturday Night Live," which begins with the opening night of...

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Former Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman dies at 76

Written By Unknown on Thursday, 19 July 2012 | 07:12

Omar Suleiman, head of Egypt's former spy and confidant of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, has died in the United States, months after his failed presidential...

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Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv dies at 102

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, considered one of the most influential religious officials of his generation, died Wednesday Shaa Zedek Medical Center...

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Bollywood Star Rajesh Khanna Dies at 69

Rajesh Khanna's success as a romantic hero in dozens of films in India in the 1960's and 70 made him one of the first superstars of Bollywood, died...

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Composer & Producer Ilhan Mimaroglu Dies at 86

Ilhan Mimaroglu, a composer best known for its music and electronic music producer best known for his work with Charles Mingus, died Tuesday in Manhattan....

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Top Syria Officials Die in Suicide Attack

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 | 11:00

An explosion of television that Syria is called a suicide bomb killed at least three advisers of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Wednesday,...

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Prize-winning columnist William Raspberry dies at 76

Gerd, who had prostate cancer, died Tuesday at home in Washington, DC, his wife, Sondra, told the Post. William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

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Justice Gustin Reichbach Dies at 65

Justice Gustin L. Reichbach, carefree life, what happened to the fraternity to guide the student protests at Columbia University in 1968 after a career...

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Bewitched director William Asher Dies at 90

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, 17 July 2012 | 11:07

William Asher, director of the Emmy Award-winning television, perhaps best known for the direction of 100 episodes of the classic 1950 comedy "I Love...

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Former chairman of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder Dies at 99

Richard B. Scudder, 99, founder and president of MediaNews Group Inc., the second largest newspaper, which has also helped to invent a process that...

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Country music trailblazer Kitty Wells dies at 92

The country singer Kitty Wells had been recording, touring, and transmission, without much success for over a decade when he accepted the offer in...

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Author Stephen R. Covey dies at 79

Stephen R. Covey, a former business professor at Brigham Young University, who has mixed personal self-help and management theory in a big bestseller,...

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British keyboardist Jon Lord dies at 71

Jon Lord, 71 years, a British keyboardist Deep Purple and Whitesnake, died in London on Monday of a pulmonary embolism after a battle with pancreatic...

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Creator of Encyclopedia Brown Donald J. Sobol Dies at 87

Donald J. Sobol, of 87 years, a popular author of "Encyclopedia Brown" mystery series for children, died of natural causes Wednesday at Miami, said...

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Actress Celeste Holm dies at 95

Written By Unknown on Monday, 16 July 2012 | 06:55

Celeste Holm, the versatile actress, who shot to fame on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein production of original musical "Oklahoma!" in 1943 and...

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Isuzu Yamada Dies at 95

Isuzu Yamada, a prominent star of screen and stage, Japan's most recognized in the West for his chilling portrayal of the role of Lady Macbeth in...

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L. Scott Bailey Dies at 87

There were a lot of magazines like Road & Track Hot Rodding and newsstands, when a quarterly magazine called automobile introduced in 1962 with...

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Wrestler & Bollywood Action Hero Dara Singh Dies at 83

Written By Unknown on Sunday, 15 July 2012 | 04:10

Dara Singh, a famous professional wrestler who has used his fame, and without fear of physical image of a thriving film career in Bollywood as an...

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