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PublishedMarch 13, 2024
Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who challenged neo-Nazis, dies at 102
He helped rally opposition to a planned neo-Nazi gathering in Skokie, Ill., in the 1970s that produced one of the most explosive cases in First Amendment law.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2024
Roy Calne, a surgeon who led Europe’s first liver transplant, has died aged 93
He is considered one of the fathers of organ transplantation, alongside American scientist Dr. Thomas Starzl.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2024
Cindy Morgan, star of ‘Tron’ and ‘Caddyshack,’ dies at 69
She made her feature film debut in the 1980 raunchy hit comedy 'Caddyshack ' starring opposite Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2024
David Soul, actor who portrayed the blond half of TV’s ‘Starsky and Hutch,’ dies at 80
Soul portrayed detective Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson alongside dark-haired Paul Michael Glaser as detective David Starsky in 'Starsky & Hutch,' which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1979.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2024
Les McCann, jazz musician with politically charged hit, dies at 88
The pianist and singer’s 1969 antiwar song 'Compared to What' sold more than 1 million copies.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2023
Shecky Greene, legendary standup comic, improv master and lord of Las Vegas, dies at 97
Those who saw Greene in his decades of comedy dominance on the Vegas Strip in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s said that with a mic in his hand, he could roam a room and work a crowd like no other.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2023
Gaston Glock, creator of handgun that flooded the world, dies at 94
The Glock handgun, designed in the early 1980s, has been embraced by police and military but decried by gun-control advocates.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2023
William P. Murphy, innovator behind advances in battlefield medicine, dies at 100
He developed the vinyl blood bag to replace bulky and breakable bottles that presented major challenges for military medics.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2023
Peter Tarnoff, U.S. envoy behind ‘Argo’ escape in Iran, dies at 86
He never publicly disclosed the full details of his role in the operation, which was the basis for the 2012 Oscar-winning film.
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PublishedNovember 14, 2023
Gary Winnick, 76, telecom tycoon at center of Global Crossing’s epic rise and fall
At its peak, the stock price of the company he founded was valued at $47 billion – more than McDonald’s or PepsiCo. It later filed for bankruptcy protection.
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