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document.write('December 30, 2006: Saddam Hussein, 69, former Iraqi leader, executed by hanging for war crimes. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 27, 2006: Marmaduke Hussey, 83, former chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation. A war hero who had his leg amputated, he spent 30 years in the newspaper industry before taking up the BBC appointment. Times Online story.')
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document.write('December 27, 2006: Pierre Delanoe, 88, French songwriter who composed more than 5000 tunes, including about 500 hits. He wrote for many artists, including Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Johnny Hallyday. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 25, 2006: Gerald Ford, 93, former US President. He was the longest-living president and the only one never to have been elected. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 25, 2006: Frank Stanton, 98, US television pioneer. Stanton built up the CBS television network, defended the right to free speech and fought against quiz-show corruption. LA Times story.')
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document.write('December 25, 2006: James Brown, 73, US singer known as "the Godfather of Soul", and a great influence on the popular music of the late 20th Century. His hits included (Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, I Got You (I Feel Good) and Say It Out Loud - I\'m Black and I\'m Proud. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 23, 2006: Carl Blaze, 30, American DJ, born Carlos Rivera. The Power 105 announcer died of gunshot wounds after arguing with muggers in The Bronx on December 7. NY Daily News story.')
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document.write('December 23, 2006: Charlie Drake, 81, British slapstick comedian and actor best known for his catchphrase "hello my darlings" and his songs including the hit My Boomerang Won\'t Come Back. Most recently he played Smallweed in the BBC\'s adaptation of Bleak House. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 22, 2006: Dennis Linde, 63, US songwriter, of a lung disease. His songs included Elvis Presley\'s final hit, Burning Love, the Dixie Chicks\' Goodbye Earl and Garth Brooks\'s Callin\' Baton Rouge. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 21, 2006: Sydney Wooderson, 92, British athlete who broke many world running records - inlcuding the mile record in 1938 - but missed out on Olympic gold due to injury. The Guardian story.')
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document.write('December 18, 2006: Joseph Barbera, 95, US animator, director and producer who, with partner William Hanna, was responsible for cartoon classics including Tom and Jerry, The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Wacky Races and Scooby-Doo. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 17, 2006: Denis Payton, 63, British rock musician who played saxophone, guitar and harmonica, and sang backup vocals for the Dave Clark Five. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 16, 2006: Taliep Petersen, 56, South African theatre personality, shot and killed during a home invasion. Petersen produced and directed stage musicals in his home country and abroad, including New York and London. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 14, 2006: Mike Evans, 57, US actor, of throat cancer. Evans was best knowns for his roles in sitcoms All in the Family and The Jeffersons. He also co-created the show Good Times. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 14, 2006: Ahmet Ertegun, 83, Turkish born founder of Atlantic Records, the influential US music label that launched many careers. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 12, 2006: Peter Boyle, 71, US actor who starred in Taxi Driver, The Candidate, Young Frankenstein and, mostly famously, as Frank Barone in television\'s Everybody Loves Raymond. NY Times story.')
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document.write('December 10, 2006: Augusto Pinochet, 91, former Chilean military dictator. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 9, 2006: Fred Marsden, 66, British pop drummer, of cancer. Marsden is best remembered for his membership of his brother Gerry Marsden\'s band Gerry and the Pacemakers, which had a string of hits in the early 1960s. He later set up a driving school. Billboard story.')
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document.write('December 9, 2006: Martin Nodell, 91, creator of the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 9, 2006: Georgia Gibbs, 87, US singer who rose to fame on the radio and TV show Your Hit Parade and had hits with Kiss of Fire, If I Knew You Were Coming, I\'d\'ve Baked a Cake and Hula Hoop Song. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 2, 2006: Fernando Alvarez, Spanish-born pioneer of equine theatre in Australia, of cancer. ')
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document.write('December 2, 2006: Mariska Veres, 56, singer with Dutch pop band Shocking Blue, which had its biggest hit with Venus. ABC story.')
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document.write('December 1, 2006: Sid Raymond, 95, US actor who starred in The Hustler and on television from The Ed Sullivan Show to The O.C. but was best known for his character voices, including those of cartoon characters Baby Huey and Heckle and Jeckle. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 30, 2006: Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, Malaysian \"snake king\", from the bite of a king cobra. BBC story.')
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document.write('November 30, 2006: Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican writer, director and producer who made the pop culture film The Harder They Come. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 27, 2006: Alan \"Fluff\" Freeman, 79, Australian-born DJ who became a British pop icon on BBC Radio 1 and 2. BBC story.')
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document.write('November 27, 2006: Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, bestselling US author, of brain cancer. Her books included Brothers and Sisters and What You Owe Me and the children\'s novel Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry. BBC story.')
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document.write('November 26, 2006: Dave Cockrum, 63, American artist who illustrated DC and Marvel comics, including Legion of Super-Heroes and X-Men. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 24, 2006: William Diehl, 81, US author of Primal Fear, Sharky\'s Machine and other popular novels. Washington Post story.')
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document.write('November 23, 2006: Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress who starred on film, radio, television and the stage at home and in Britain. Her TV shows included Skippy, Richmond Hill, Number 96 and The Young DOctors.')
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document.write('November 23, 2006: Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor who starred in more than 125 films including Cinema Paradiso and The Postman. BBC story.')
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document.write('November 23, 2006: Anita O\'Day, 87, US jazz and big band singer remembered for her versions of Honeysuckle Rose and Sweet Georgia Brown, and for her hard living. BBC story.')
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document.write('November 23, 2006: Nick Clarke, 58, British broadcaster, of cancer. He was the popular pressenter of the Radio 4 program The World At One. Telegraph story.')
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document.write('November 23, 2006: Betty Comden, 89, US stage producer whose hits included On the Town, Applause, Wonderful Town and The Will Rogers Follies. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 20, 2006: John R. Pepper II, 91, pioneering US broadcaster who co-founded the first national radio show to target a black audience. USA Today story.')
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document.write('November 20, 2006: Robert Altman, 81, US film director whose great ensemble works included M*A*S*H, Gosford Park and A Prairie Home Companion. He won a lifetime achievement Oscar this year. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 17, 2006: Ruth Brown, 78, US blues singer who had hits in the 1950s with Teardrops in My Eyes and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean and played a DJ in the 1988 cult film Hairspray. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 15, 2006: Paul Rigby, 82, Australian newspaper cartoonist and illustrator who worked with great success in London and New York. The Australian obit.')
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document.write('November 12, 2006: Mario Merola, 72, Italian actor and singer who gained superstar status in his homeland. Guardian obituary.')
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document.write('November 11, 2006: Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress who starred in the television shows Home and Away and All Saints, of cancer. News.com.au story.')
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document.write('November 10, 2006: Gerald Levert, 40, US singer, of a heart attack. The son of O\'Jays singer Eddie Levert, Gerald\'s hits included I Swear and I\'d Give Anything. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 10, 2006: Jack Palance, 87, American actor who starred in Shane and Sudden Fear and won an Oscar for his role as veteran cowboy Curly in the comedy City Slickers. LA Times story.')
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document.write('November 9, 2006: Ed Bradley, 65, longtime reporter for US television\'s 60 Minutes program, of leukaemia. Bradley covered every subject from politics to music and worked for CBS News for 35 years. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 4, 2006: Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, US writer whose book about living with 12 children, Cheaper By the Dozen, inspired several films. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 3, 2006: Paul Mauriat, 81, French conductor and songwriter who collaborated with Andre Pascal and singer Mireille Mathieu, and became well known for his arrangement of the hit Love is Blue. He was especially popular in Japan and South Korea, where his orchestra continued to play after his 1998 retirement. ABC story.')
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document.write('November 1, 2006: Adrienne Shelly, 40, US actress, director and screenwriter best known for her roles in Hal Hartley\'s Trust and The Unbelievable Truth. CNN story.')
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document.write('November 1, 2006: William Styron, 81, American author who wrote Sophie\'s Choice and won a Pulitzer Prize. CNN story.')
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document.write('October 31, 2006: Wally Foreman, 58, West Australian sporting commentator affectionately known as Sir Walter. ABC story.')
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document.write('October 29, 2006: Nigel Kneale, 84, British television writer who created the Quatermass series. he is also credited with predicting the reality TV fade through his 1968 TV play The Year of the Sex Olympics. BBC story.')
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document.write('October 28, 2006: Marijohn Wilkin, 86, US songwriter who helped write The Long Black Veil and One Day at a Time and is credited with discovering Kris Kristofferson. CNN story.')
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document.write('October 23, 2006: Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, in a car crash. Her style was described as a fusion of R&B, African music, dance and funk. AND story.')
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document.write('October 21, 2006: Sandy West, 47, US rock drummer, of lung cancer. Along with Joan Jett, Lita Ford and Cherie Currie, West was a member of the 1970s teen girl band The Runaways, which had hits with Cherry Bomb and Born to be Bad. CNN story.')
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document.write('October 20, 2006: Jane Wyatt, 96, US actress best known as the mother in Father Knows Best who became a prominent social activist. She also played Spock\'s mother in Star Trek. CNN story.')
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document.write('October 20, 2006: Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer whose books included A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and The Big Red Train Ride. BBC story.')
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document.write('October 19, 2006: Phyllis Kirk, 79, US actress who starred in the 1950s horror film House of Wax. Born Phyllis Kirkegaard, she also hosted a TV talk show The Young Set and played Peter Lawford\'s wife in The Thin Man. Washington Post story.')
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document.write('October 18, 2006: Spoony Singh, 83, founder of the Hollywood Wax Museum. Mercury News story.')
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document.write('October 18, 2006: Anna Russell, 94, British opera singer who became a satirist. Russell was best known for her comic rendering of Wagner\'s Ring Cycle. Opera News story.')
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document.write('October 17, 2006: Christopher Glenn, 68, US broadcaster, of liver cancer. Glenn hosted the children\'s news show In the News for 13 seasons from 1971 and anchored the CBS TV coverage of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. CNN story.')
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document.write('October 16, 2006: Ross Davidson, 57, Scottish actor, of cancer. He who was one of the original stars of Eastenders and featured in several other British soaps including Brookside and Hollyoaks. The Herald story.')
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document.write('October 16, 2006: Tommy Johnson, 71, US musician. Johnson played the tuba in the famous, frighetening theme from the film Jaws. He also played on the soundtracks to The Godfather,the Star Trek films and Titanic. CNN story.')
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document.write('October 14, 2006: Freddy Fender, 69, Mexican American recording artist, of cancer. Fender had hits with Wasted Days and Wasted Nights and Before the Next Teardrop Falls. CNN story.')
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document.write('October 11, 2006: Peter Hepple, 79, British theatre critic and champion of light entertainment. He worked for The Stage newspaper for 56 years. Guardian story.')
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document.write('October 4, 2006: R.W. "Johnny" Apple, 71, political and food writer for the New York Times, of cancer. New York Times story.')
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document.write('October 3, 2006: Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer who created, and wrote every episode of, the radio serial Blue Hills. ABC story.')
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document.write('October 2, 2006: Tamara Dobson, 59, US actress, from complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. Dobson played the title role in the two Cleopatra Jones "blaxploitation" films. CNN story.')
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document.write('September 26, 2006: Iva Toguri D\'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American woman wrongly identified as mythical World War II propagandist "Tokyo Rose". Chicago Sun-Times story.')
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document.write('September 26, 2006: Ralph Story, 86, US television host, born Ralph Bernard Snyder, who found fame in the 1950s with The $64,000 Challenge. CNN story.')
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document.write('September 23, 2006: Malcolm Arnold, 85, British composer who won an Oscar for the score of The Bridge over the River Kwai. He wrote more than 130 film scores, nine symphonies, seven ballets, two operas, a musical and over 20 concertos. He died on the day his ballet, The Three Musketeers, opened in Bradford, England. BBC story.')
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document.write('September 20, 2006: Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer whose collaborations with Ingmar Bergman included Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander. Guardian story.')
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document.write('September 19, 2006: Danny Flores, 77, US saxophone player, also known as Chuck Rio, who shouted "Tequila" in the hit late-1950s song Tequila!. He was sometimes known as the "godfather of Latin rock". USA Today story.')
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document.write('September 16, 2006: Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican-American actor, in a light plane crash in central Mexico. He was best known as the star of Greetings from Tucson. CNN story.')
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document.write('September 15, 2006: Raymond Baxter, 84, British broadcaster who commented on the first Concorde flight, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the funeral of Winston Churchill, but was best remembered as the host of science program Tomorrow\'s World. BBC story.')
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document.write('September 14, 2006: Mickey Hargitay, 80, Hungarian-born bodybuilder who was discovered by Mae West, went on to have a career in Hollywood, played the title role in The Loves of Hercules, and was once married to Jayne Mansfield. His daughter Mariska Hargitay stars in TV\'s Law and Order. LA Times story.')
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document.write('September 11, 2006: Joseph Hayes, 88, US novelist playwright and producer best known for writing 1955\'s Tony award-winning melodrama The Desperate Hours. Playbill story.')
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document.write('September 8, 2006: Peter Brock, 61, Australian motorsport champion, in a crash during the Targa West Rally in Western Australia. Brock was known as the King of the Mountain for his decades-long dominance of the Bathurst 1000 race at Mt Panorama. ABC story.')
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document.write('September 4, 2006: Astrid Varnay, 88, Swedish-American soprano who sang professionally for almost half a century, of a preicardial infection. CNN story.')
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document.write('September 4, 2006: Steve Irwin, 44, Australian wildlife expert nd television identity known globally as "the crocodile hunter", from a sting to the chest by a stingray. Irwin shared his love of nature with the world through his TV shows and movie, The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. ABC Australian Story feature. Australia Zoo website.')
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document.write('September 4, 2006: Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children\'s author of 80 books. He was best known for Storm Boy, which was made into a popular film. ABC story.')
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document.write('September 2, 2006: Charlie Williams, 76, groundbreaking black UK comic after a long battle with Parkinson\'s disease and dementia. He found fame on the 1970s program The Comedians. His cathcphrase was "me old flower". BBC story.')
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document.write('August 30, 2006: Glenn Ford, 90, US screen actor best known for films including The Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat and a series of westerns. CNN story.')
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document.write('August 30, 2006: Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian writer, the first Arab to win the Nobel Prize in literature. He was best known for his Cairo Trilogy, which looked at the life of three generations of a middle class Egyptian family. Aljazeera story.')
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document.write('August 27, 2006: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 84, veteran Bollywood filmmaker, of renal failure. His films included Anand, Abhimann, Chupke Chupke and Golmaal. Times of India story.')
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document.write('August 26, 2006: Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian-born artist who became known as the "king of kitsch". The print of his Chinese Girl outsold the Mona Lisa after appearing in the 1960s film Alfie. BBC story.')
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document.write('August 25, 2006: Ross Warneke, 54, Australian journalist, critic and broadcaster, of cancer. Warneke was a longtime columnist for Melbourne\'s The Age and fill-in announcer on radio 3AW. Age story.')
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document.write('August 24, 2006: David Plowright, 75, British broadcasting manager who headed up Granada Television when such shows as Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown were produced. Media Guardian story.')
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document.write('August 23, 2006: Maynard Ferguson, 77, US trumpeter, of kidney and liver failure due to an abdominal infection. He began his career in big bands but was best known for recording the Rocky films theme, Gonna Fly Now. CNN story.')
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document.write('August 22, 2006: Wallace Brown, 76, Australian jounalist. Brown was the longtime national political editor for Queensland daily newspaper The Courier-Mail. Courier-Mail story.')
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document.write('August 22, 2006: Bruce Gary, 55, drummer with US band The Knack, of lymphona. Gary performed on The Knack\'s hit single My Sharona and also worked with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Sheryl Crow, Bette Midler and Yoko Ono. CNN story.')
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document.write('August 21, 2006: Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian master of the wind instrument shehnai, of heart failure. The musician held India\'s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, and a national day of mourning was declared on his death.ABC story.')
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document.write('August 20, 2006: Robert K. Hoffman, 59, US journalist who co-founded Harvard Lampoon and National Lampoon, of leukaemia. CNN story.')
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document.write('August 20, 2006: Joe Rosenthal, 94, US photojournalist whose iconic images included the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of servicemen raising an American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II. NY Times story.')
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document.write('August 19, 2006: Joyce Blair, 73, British star of the West End stage who formed a song-and-dance double-act with her brother Lionel and starred in American series including Last Days of Pompeii and Lucy and Desi: Before the Laughter..')
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document.write('August 17, 2006: Shamsur Rahman, 71, Bangladeshi poet, of kidney and liver failure. Rahman was a leading literary figure in Bagladesh for more than 30 years, with 60 books of poetry to his name. BBC story.')
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document.write('August 17, 2006: Len Evans, 75, Australian writer, raconteur and wine expert, from a heart attack. He had a column in The Australian newspaper for many years and wrote The Complete Book of Australian Wine. SMH story.')
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document.write('August 16, 2006: Alex Buzo, 63, Australian playwright, of cancer. Buzo was best known for his books on the English language and plays including Norm and Ahmed, Coralie Landsdowne Says No and Rooted. ABC story.')
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document.write('August 14, 2006: Bruno Kirby, 57, US character actor, of leukaemia. Kirby starred alongside Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers. CNN story.')
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document.write('August 11, 2006: Tony Jay, London-born stage and screen actor who had roles in the TV series Beauty and the Beast, Twin Peaks and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and provided the voice for Judge Frollo in the animated Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.')
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document.write('August 11, 2006: Mike Douglas, 81, American talk and variety show host nicknamed "the Cary Grant of the coffee break". CNN story.')
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document.write('August 8, 2006: Bob Thaves, 81, US cartoonist who created Frank and Earnest, of respiratory failure. CNN story.')
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document.write('August 3, 2006: Arthur Lee, 61, singer and guitarist with influential 1960s and 70s band Love, of leukaemia. MTV story.')
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document.write('August 3, 2006: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, renowned German soprano, regarded as one of the great opera voices of the 20th Century. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 21, 2006: Mako, 72, Japanese-American actor born Makoto Iwamatsu, of cancer of the aesophagus. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles. He also appeared in Pearl Harbor, Seven Years in Tibet and Conan the Barbarian and TV series incuding MASH and Walker, Texas Ranger, and was artistic director of the East West Players. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 19, 2006: Jack Warden, 85, US actor who starred in the films Twelve Angry Men, Shampoo, Bullets Over Broadway, All the President\'s Men and Heaven Can Wait, TV series and on the stage. USA Today story.')
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document.write('July 17, 2006: Gerard Oury, 87, French director who made more than 20 films including Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob and La Grande Vadrouille. International Herald Tribune story.')
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document.write('July 17, 2006: Frank Morrison "Mickey" Spillane, 88, US author of crime novels including a dozen featuring private detective Mike Hammer. BBC story.')
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document.write('July 16, 2006: Harold Scott, 60, US Broadway actor and director. Playbill story.')
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document.write('July 13, 2006: Red Buttons, 87, US comic and actor \(born Aaron Chwatt\) who had his own TV show in the early 1950s and won an Academy Award in 1957 for Sayonara. A fixture at celebrity roasts, Buttons also starred The Longest Day, They Shoot Horses, Don\'t They\? and The Poseidon Adventure. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 11, 2006: Barnard Hughes, 90, American stage and film actor. Hughes had a long career on Brodway, and won a Tony Award in 1978 for his role in Hugh Leonard\'s Da. He also featured in the films Midnight Cowboy, Oh God!, The Lost Boys, Doc Hollywood and Cradle Will Rock. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 9?, 2006: Syd Barrrett, 60, British musician who cofounded Pink Floyd, from complications of diabetes. Regarded as a troubled genius - a "crazy diamond" - Barrett made just album with the band but he acheived icon status. BBC story.')
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document.write('July 9, 2006: Milan Williams, 58, US R&B musician, of cancer. He was a member of funk outfit The Commodores and write their first hit Machine Gun. Billboard story.')
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document.write('July 8, 2006: Peter Hawkins, 82, UK voice actor. Hawkins created voices for the Daleks and Cybermen in Doctor Who and for the children\'s characters Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men and Captain Pugwash. The Stage story.')
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document.write('July 8, 2006: June Allyson, American actor who played opposite James Stewart and Van Johnson and was oncemarried to Dick Powell. She was also a champion of research for urological and gynaecological diseases in seniors. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 5, 2006: Don Lusher, 82, British musician who led the Ted Heath Jazz Band. He received an OBE for services to music and was twice president of the British Trombone Society. BBC story.')
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document.write('July 4, 2006: John Hinde, 92, veteran Australian broadcaster. Hinde was a pioneer of the ABC radio current affairs program AM and a respected film critic. ABC story.')
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document.write('July 3, 2006: Jack Smith, 92, US TV personality. The long-time host of You Asked For It also played himself on the sitcom Happy Days. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 3, 2006: Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, star of US soap opera As the World Turns, from a self-inflicted gunshot. The Emmy Award-winnng actor also performed on Broadway. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 3, 2006: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, internationally acclaimed American mezzo-soprano, of breast cancer. CNN story.')
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document.write('July 2, 2006: Jan Murray, 89, US standup comedian, born Murray Janofsky, who became host of the early TV game show Treasure Hunt. He also appeared in movies and television series including Love, American Style, The Name of the Game and The Man From UNCLE. USA Today story.')
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document.write('July 1, 2006: Fred Trueman, 75, British cricket star, of cancer. Regarded as one of England\'s greatest bowlers, Trueman was a popular figure on and off the pitch. BBC story. Michael Parkinson tribute.')
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document.write('June 26, 2006: Johnny Jenkins, 67, US guitarist who influenced Jim Hendrix and played with Otis Redding. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 25, 2006: Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-born US record producer who worked with Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Hall and Oates, Bette Midler, the Bee Gees, Roberta Flack, Barbara Streisand, Jewel and Chaka Khan. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 23, 2006: Aaron Spelling, 83, US film and television producer known for the hits Charlie\'s Angels, Dynasty, Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 20, 2006: Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder of US funk-pop band Kool and the Gang. He wrote hits including Jungle Boogie, Joanna and Celebration. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 19, 2006: Vincent Sherman, 99, Hollywood film director, born Abram Orovitz, one month short of his 100th birthday. Sherman directed, and romanced, the likes of Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford. His career was cut short by the McCarthyist witchhunts of the 1950s. He later said he wasn\'t a communist but had stood by friends who were. San Jose Mercury story.')
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document.write('June 18, 2006: Arthur Franz, 86, US character actor from films including Sands of Iwo Jima and Hellcats of the Navy and TV shows Perry Mason, The Mod Squad and Rawhide. Philadelphia Inquirer story.')
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document.write('June 17, 2006: Claudio Besserman Vianna, 43, Bbrazilian comic best known for his impersonations of footballer Ronaldo and his president, in Munich while covering the World Cup for television. He suffered a heart attack after playing football with friends. BBC story.')
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document.write('June 17, 2006: Julian Slade, 76, British composer of long-running musical comedy Salad Days. Playbill story.')
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document.write('June 16, 2006: Arthur Malvin, 83, US composer and lyricist who worked with Frank Sinatra and Carol Burnett.')
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document.write('June 13, 2006: Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor who led the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for more than 30 years. A world-renowned musician and essayist, He died of heart failure following a series of illnesses and operations. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 12, 2006: Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, British lord and newspaper baron who sold The Times to Australian businessman Rupert Murdoch. CNN obituary.')
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document.write('June 12, 2006: Gyorgy Ligeti, 83, Hungarian composer who fled to western Europe after the 1956 revolution. His works include the opera Le Grand Macabre and his 1966 Lux Aeterna, which was used on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick\'s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 6, 2006: Robert Donner, 75, US character actor whose roles included Exidor in the comedy TV series Mork and Mindy. He also appeared in the films Cool Hand Luke, Bite the Bullet and Vanishing Point. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 6, 2006: Hilton Ruiz, 54, US pianist who worked in jazz and many other genres, from complications of a fall and a heart attack. Ruiz died in New Orleans, where he had gone to record a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims. Washington Post story.')
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document.write('June 6, 2006: Billy Preston, 69, US keyboardist who played with the Beatles \(on Get Back\) and the Rolling Stones, of kidney failure, He had his own hits including Outta Space and Nothing from Nothing, and wrote You Are So Beautiful for Joe Cocker. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 2, 2006: Vince Welnick, 51, keyboard player for US rock band The Grateful Dead. A veteran of other bands, he was the last in a long line of keyboardists for the Dead, many of whom died prematurely. CNN story.')
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document.write('June 1, 2006: Rocio Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actor, of pancreatic cancer. She was populary referred to as "la mas grande de Espana" \(Spain\'s greatest\). Washington Post story.')
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document.write('May 30, 2006: Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese "new wave" film director, whose working included Woman of the Dunes, Death By Hanging and Eros Plus Massacre. The Guardian story.')
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document.write('May 30, 2006: Maria Prerauer, 84, Australian soprano and opera critic. After a distinguished operatic careeer in Europe, she became arts editor of The Australian newspaper. ABC story.')
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document.write('May 28, 2006: Arthur Widmer, 923, Hollywood special-effects pioneer who developed the blue-screen technique. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 28, 2006: Neville Amadio, 93, world-renowned Australian flautist who played with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for 50 years from the age of 15. ABC story.')
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document.write('May 27, 2006: Paul Gleason, 67, US actor, of mesothelioma. He made more than 60 films including Trading Places, The Breakfast Club, Die Hard and Not Another Teen Movie. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 24, 2006: Henry Bumstead, 91, Hollywood production designer who worked on To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting and many Clint Eastwood films including Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. LA Times story.')
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document.write('May 23, 2006: Desmond Dekker, 64, reggae artist born Desmond Adolphus Dacres in Kingston, Jamaica. His hits included Israelites, Shanty Town, It Mek, Writing on the Wall and Unity. Times story.')
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document.write('May 23, 2006: Ian Copeland, 57, rock music agent, of melanoma. The brother of The Police\'s Miles Copeland, Ian represented acts including REM, the B52s, Adam Ant, The Police and the Go Go\'s. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 21, 2006: Katherine Dunham, 96, US dancer, choreographer and civil rights activist who gave up a Broadway career to teach poor people in East St Louis, Illinois. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 21, 2006: Billy Walker, 77, US country singer, in a car accident. A star of the Grand Ole Opry, his hits included Charlie\'s Shoes and Cross the Brazos at Waco. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 19, 2006: Freddie Garrity, 65, singer with British band Freddie and the Dreamers. Their hits included I\'m Telling You Now, You Were Made for Me and Do the Freddie. Independent story.')
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document.write('May 16, 2006: Johnnie Wilder Jr, 56, US singer who founded the band Heatwave and had hits with Always and Forever and Boogie Nights. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 14, 2006: Lew Anderson, 84, US actor who played Clarabell the Clown in the Howdy Doody Show. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 14, 2006: Stanley Kunitz, 100, former US poet laureate. The winner of a Pulitzer rize, a National Medal of the Arts and a National Book Award, he was known for his social commitment and generosity to younger writers. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 13, 2006: Rick Farley, 53, Australian journalist and actor, described as the "right-wing hippie" who became the champion of farmers in executive roles with the Cattlemen\'s Union and the National Farmers Federation. Sydney Morning Herald story.')
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document.write('May 12, 2006: Ted Berkman, 92, US author, broadcaster and scriptwriter whose screenplays included Fear Strikes Out and Bedtime for Bonzo. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 10, 2006: Soraya, 37, Colombian-American singer, of breast cancer. Her hits included Casi and Solo Por Ti and she won a Latin Grammy in 2004. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 10, 2006: Sue Smith, 60+, Australian radio and television journalist who was gthe first woman to host Channel 9\'s A Current Affair. She suffered from mitochondrial myopathy, which affected her muscles and brain, and left her housebound in her final years. Daily Telegraph story.')
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document.write('May 9, 2006: Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist. A star of the spy series Hunter, he was also a documentary maker, banana grower and gallery owner. He was also a reporter on Channel 9\'s A Current Affair, where he had a hand in discovering comedian Paul Hogan.')
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document.write('May 7, 2006: Richard Carleton, 63, Australian journalist with Channel 9\'s 60 Minutes, at a press conference at the site of the Beaconsfield mine collapse in Tasmania. Carleton had a long career in TV journalism with the ABC and Channel 9. ABC story.')
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document.write('May 6, 2006: Grant McLennan, 48, Australian singer-songwriter with band The Go-Betweens. He also formed the duo Jack Frost with The Church\'s Steve Kilbey. ABC story.')
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document.write('May 5, 2006: Naushad Ali, 86, Indian composer for many Bollywood films, including the hit Mughal-e-Azam. BBC story.')
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document.write('May 1, 2006: Jay Presson Allen, 84, US screenwriter whose hits included Cabaret. She also adapted the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for the stage and screen. CNN story.')
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document.write('May 1, 2006: Big Hawk (John Edward Hawkins), 36, US rap artist from the Screwed Up Click collective. The brother of murdered rapper Fat Pat, Hawk was shot dead when he went to meet a friend in Houston, Texas. CNN story.')
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document.write('April 30, 2006: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian novelist. A celebrated pro-democracy voice who spent 14 years in political detention, he was a Nobel prize nominee on several occasions. His books and essays have been translated into 37 languages. ABC story.')
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document.write('April 29, 2006: John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, US ecconomist, author and presidential advisor. He was at one time US ambassador to India and, as a liberal, advised every Deomocratic party president from Roosevelt to Clinton, Also known for his wit and social graces, he was said to be the only economist invited to Truman Caapote\'s faamous Black and White Ball of 1966. Washington Post story.')
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document.write('April 27, 2006: Elma Gardner "Pem" Farnsworth, 98, America\'s "Mother of Television", who helped her husband Philo develop electronic television and was the first face to appear on the medium. Indianapolis Star story.')
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document.write('April 23, 2006: Phil Walden, 66, US businessman who founded Capricorn Records and launched the careers of Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers Band. CNN story.')
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document.write('April 22, 2006: Alida Valli, 84, Italian actor who was a star at home and abroad, with roles in Alfred Hitchcock\'s The Paradine Case and Carole Reed\'s classic The Third Man, opposite Orson Welles.. BBC story.')
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document.write('April 17, 2006: Henderson Forsythe, 88, US stage and screen actor who won a Tony Award for his role as the sheriff in the Broadway production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and spent 33 years on the TV soap opera As the World Turns. Playbill story.')
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document.write('April 14, 2006: Muriel Spark, 88, Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and 23 other novels. Spark lived in Tuscany, Italy for the last 26 years of her life. ABC story. BBC obit.')
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document.write('April 11, 2006: June Pointer, 52, youngest member of the US vocal group The Pointer Sisters, of cancer. The quartet had a string of hits in the 1980s including I\'m So Excited and Slow Hand. CNN story.')
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document.write('April 11, 2006: Deshaun Holton, 32, US rapper also known as Proof. A member of Eminem\'s posse, D12, Proof was shot and killed in a nightclub on Detroit\'s Eight Mile Road. BBC story.')
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document.write('April 5, 2006: Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian politician and novelist whose works included Basima Between Tears,Hearts On Wires, The Obscure, Unknown on the Road and Land of the Lords. NY Times story.')
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document.write('April 5, 2006: Gene Pitney, 65, US country singer, who was found dead in a hotel room during a tour of Britain. The singer-songwriter, whose biggest hit was 24 Hours from Tulsa, first rose to fame in the 1960s and had a comeback in the 1990s. BBC story. Offical website.')
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document.write('March 30, 2006: Manohar Shyam Joshi, 73, Indian novelist, script writer and journalist, of a heart attack. Known as the "father of soap operas" in India, he wrote for television and film. The Hindu story.')
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document.write('March 28, 2006: Kevin "Pro" Hart, 77, Australian artist, of motor neurone disease. Hart\'s work is exhibited in galleries around the world, but he chose to live and work in the Outback mining town of Broken Hill. ABC story.')
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document.write('March 27, 2006: Pete Wells, 58, guitarist with Australian rock band Rose Tattoo, of prostate cancer. The band rose to prominence in the 1970s with the hit Bad Boy for Love. ABC story. Band website.')
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document.write('March 27, 2006: Stanislaw Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer whose works includinf the twice-filmed Solaris and Star Diaries sold 27 million copies. CNN story.')
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document.write('March 25, 2006: Alfredo Silipigni, 72, US conductor and long-time artistic director of the New Jersey State Opera Compny, unexpectedly of an acute respiratory distress syndrome. CBS story.')
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document.write('March 25, 2006: Richard Fleischer, 89, US film director whose movies included 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Fantastic Voyage, Doctor Dolittle and Conan the Destroyer. He was the son of animator Max Fleischer, who produced the Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons. BBC story.')
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document.write('March 25, 2006: Buck Owens, 76, US country music singer and host of television\'s Hee Haw. Owens had 20 No.1 hits in the US and his song Act Naturally was widely covered - including twice by Ringo Starr. CNN story. Home page.')
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document.write('March 27, 2006: Lynne Perrie, 64, British actress born Jean Dudley. A long-time star of soap opera Coronation Street, in which she played Ivy Tilsley from 1971 to 1994. Guardian story.')
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document.write('March 23, 2006: Sarah Caldwell, 82, leader of the Opera Company of Boston(US) for more than 30 years, and known as "the first lady of opera". CNN story.')
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document.write('March 21, 2006: Bernard Lacoste, 74, French fashion designer whose signature product was a polo shirt with a crocodile logo. People story.')
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document.write('March 17, 2006: Oleg Cassini, 93, US fashion designer whose celebrated clients included Jackie Kennedy, Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, Veronica Lake and Gene Tierney, who was his wife for 11 years. Washington Post story.')
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document.write('March 16, 2006: Moira Redmond, 77, British stage and screen actor who was a Windmill girl in her teens, performed with Laurence Olivier and in the film Doctor in Love, and later had parts in TV series ranging from Dixon of Dock Green to I, Claudius. Guardian story.')
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document.write('March 14, 2006: Maureen Stapleton, 80, Academy Award-winning character actress, of heart disease. Stapleton, who starred in Reds, Bye Bye Birdie, Airport and Interiors, was also a distinguished stage actor and wrote an autobiography, Hell of a Life. CNN story.')
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document.write('March 13, 2006: Peter Tomarken, 63, US television game show host. Along with his wife Kathleen he died when the plane he was piloting on a charity mission crashed into Santa Monica Bay. As well as hosting game shows including Press Your Luck, he acted in shows including The Rockford Files and Ally McBeal. Wikipeadia entry.')
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document.write('March 10, 2006: John Profumo, 91, British politician who was forced to quit after lying to parliament over his affair with call girl Christine Keeler. He later rehabilitated himself through work for charity. The Times story.')
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document.write('March 9, 2006: Harry Seidler, 82, Austrian-born Australian architect who designed many of Sydney\'s iconic modern buildings. ABC story.')
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document.write('March 7, 2006: John Junkin, 76, British comedian, writer and actor, of lung cancer. He starred in the Beatles\' film A Hard Day\'s Night, the iconic short film The Plank and the TV series The Goodies, EastEnders and Hark at Barker. BBC story.')
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document.write('March 7, 2006: Gordon Parks, 94, African American writer and photographer for Life magazine who became a film director and made the cool 1970s detective story Shaft. BBC story.')
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document.write('March 6, 2006: Ali Farka Toure, 60+, African musician. An exponent of the traditional Malian instrument the gurkel, he was a two-times winner of the Grammy Award. CNN story.')
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document.write('March 6, 2006: Dana Reeve, 44, US actor and singer, and widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve, of lung cancer - despite being a lifeling non-smoker. CNN story.')
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document.write('March 1, 2006: Jack Wild, 53, British child star, of cancer. Wild played the hero in the children\'s TV series H.R. Pufnstuff and was the Artful Dodger in the movie musical Oliver\!. He also released a series of best-selling musical albums. As an adult, he struggled with alcoholism but did feature in 1991\'s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Washington Post story.')
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document.write('February 25, 2006: Dennis Weaver, 81, US actor who starred in the TV series Gunsmoke, McCloud and Gentle Ben, and in the film. He was also a keen environmentalist. CNN story.')
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document.write('February 25, 2006: Darren McGavin, 83, US actor born William Lyle Richardson, who shot to brief fame with the TV movies and series Kolchak: The Night Stalker in the 1970s. He also appeared in the sitcom Murphy Brown and The X-Files, which was inspired by The Night Stalker. Wikipedia entry. CNN story.')
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document.write('February 24, 2006: Don Knotts, 81, American actor who starred in the TV series The Andy Griffith Show and Three\'s Company and a string of movies. In 1998, he starred alongside Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon in Pleasantville. CNN story.')
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document.write('February 18, 2006: Richard Bright, 68, US stage and screen actor best known for his role in The Godfather, after being hit by a bus. Wikipedia entry.')
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document.write('February 18, 2006: Ray Barretto, 76, US-Puerto Rican jazz percussionist. In a long career he played with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Tito Puente, and won a Grammy award in 1990 with Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz for a single called Rhythm in the Heart. Voice of America story.')
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document.write('February 17, 2006: William Cowsill, 58, lead singer with US family pop group that inspired The Partridge Family. CNN story.')
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document.write('February 11, 2006: Rickie Layne, 81, US ventriloquist, born Richard Israel Cohen, who was discovered by singer Nat "King" Cole and later became a popular act on The Ed Sullivan Show with his Yiddish-accented dummy Velvel.')
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document.write('February 11, 2006: Peter Benchley, 65, US writer whose novel Jaws made a generation afraid to go in the ocean for fear of sharks and inspired the film of the same name. The author, whose other works included The Deep and The Island, died of complications of pulmonary fibrosis. BBC story.')
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document.write('February 10, 2006: Phil Brown, 89, US actor known for playing Lars Owen, Luke Skywalker\'s uncle, in the original Star Wars film. A victim of McCarthyism in the 1950s, although not a communist himself, he lived and worked in London until 1993. Wikipedia entry.')
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document.write('February 10, 2006: James Yancey, 32, hip-hop producer, of lupus. Also known as J Dilla and Jay Dee, he worked with acts including Common and A Tribe Called Quest. Mercury News story.')
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document.write('February 5, 2006: Franklin Cover, 77, American stage and screen actor who appeared in the TV series The Jeffersons \(as the white neighbour of an African-American family\), ER, Will and Grace and Mad About You and the film The Great Gatsby. CNN story.')
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document.write('February 4, 2006: Betty Friedan, 85, pioneering American feminist, of congestive heart failure. In Friedan\'s 1963 book The Feminine Mystique she argued that women should not feel selfish if they want to achieve goals of their own. BBC story.')
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document.write('February 3, 2006: Al Lewis, 95, US actor who played Grandpa in The Munsters TV series. Lewis, who featured in Car 54, Where Are You?, was also a restaurateur and ran unsuccessfully as the Green Party candidate for Governor of New York. Until his death he hosted a weekly radio program. CNN story.')
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document.write('February 1, 2006: Moira Shearer, 80, British ballet star who made a sensational screen debut in the 1948 film The Red Shoes. She had a huge international career as a dancer and actor. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 30, 2006: Coretta Scott King, 78, US civil rights activist and widow of Martin Luther King. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 30, 2006: Wendy Wasserstein, 55, US playwright, of cancer. Her plays included the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, Third and The Sisters Rosensweig. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 27, 2006: Gene McFadden, 58, rhythm and blues singer-songwriter best known for co-writing with John Whitehead the hit Ain\'t No Stoppin\' Us Now, of cancer. The duo also wrote songs for the O\'Jays and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Hollywood Reporter story.')
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document.write('January 25, 2006: Anna Hotop-Stout, 38, retired adult film star known professionally as Anna Malle, in a car accident in Las Vegas. Over 15 years, she made about 300 films, many with her husband Hank Armstrong. Las Vegas Sun story.')
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document.write('January 24, 2006: Fayard Nicholas, 91, US entertainer who was in a popular tap-dancing double act with his brother Harold. They debuted at New York\'s Cotton Club when they were still boys and strutted their stuff in the Jumpin\' Jive sequence of the 1943 film Stormy Weather. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 24, 2006: Chris Penn, 40, US actor, star of Rumblefish, Reservoir Dogs, Footloose and Rush Hour and brother of Sean Penn. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 23, 2006: Michael Wharton, 92, British satirist who, for five decades, wrote the right-wing Peter Simple columns for The Daily Telegraph. Telegraph story.')
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document.write('January 22, 2006: Neville Jones, Brisbane, Australia, vocalist, pianist, radio announcer and theatrical producer.')
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document.write('January 22, 2006: Janette Carter, 82, matriarch of US musical group the Carter Family, of complications from a bloodstream infection. She was regarded as one of the pioneers of American country music. Bristol Herald Courier story.')
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document.write('January 19, 2006: Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor who was a Hollywood star in the 1950s and 60s, after a massive stroke. A method actor who had a reputation for being difficult to work with, he was once married to Shelley Winters, who died on January 14. His films included A Hatful of Rain, The Long Hot Summer and Wild is the Wind. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 19, 2006: Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer best known for the hits Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour, of a heart attack. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 14, 2006: Shelley Winters, 84, American stage and screen actress whose films included The Diary of Anne Frank, A Patch of Blue, A Place in the Sun and Lolita. In later life, she starred in the television sitcom Roseanne as the title character\'s grandmother. She aso wrote two autobiographies which included details of her affairs with actors including Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn and Clark Gable. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 12, 2006: Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish stage and screen actor known most recently for his work on the soap opera Fair City. RTE story.')
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document.write('January 7, 2006: Heinrich Harrer, 83, Austrian mountaineer and author whose experiences with the young Dalai Lama were recounted in the film Seven Years in Tibet. WikiPedia entry.')
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document.write('January 6, 2006: Markus Löffel, 39, German DJ and producer who recorded under the name Mark Spoon, of a suspected heart atack. WikiPedia entry.')
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document.write('January 6, 2006: Lou Rawls, 72, US singer known for You\'ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, from complications of lung and brain cancer. CNN story.')
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document.write('January 5, 2006: Sophie Heathcote, 33, US-based Australian actor and businesswoman, of an aneurism possibly linked to skin cancer. She starred in the television series Water Rats and A Country Practice and developed the Ki skincare range. The Age story.')
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document.write('January 3, 2006: Bruce Wilson, 64, UK-based Australian journalist, of cancer. Herald Sun story.')
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document.write('January 1, 2006: Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer who was married to the late Bobby Limb, with whom she often performed on stage and television. ABC story.')
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document.write('December 28, 2005: Richard De Angelis, 73, American actor and comedian whose credits included The Wire, Homicide: The Movie and Cecil B. Demented. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 26, 2005: Bud Blake, 87, US cartoonist who created the Tiger comic strip. Editor and Publisher story.')
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document.write('December 26, 2005: Kerry Packer, 68, Australian businessman. Packer owned the Nine television network, a string of magazines, casinos and rural assets. ABC obituary.')
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document.write('December 26, 2005: Vincent Schiavelli, 57, Italian-American character actor who starred in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest and Ghost. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 25, 2005: Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish opera singer who specialiaed in the Wagner repertoire. New York Times story.')
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document.write('December 25, 2005: Derek Bailey, 75, English jazz guitarist, of motor neurone disease. He was regarded as a pioneer of improvised or "free" music. LA Weekly story.')
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document.write('December 20, 2005: Hallam Tennyson , 85, former BBC executive and great-grandson of British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. He was murdered by stabbing in north London. BBC story.')
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document.write('December 20, 2005: Argentina Brunetti, 98, Argentine actress, writer and broadcaster. She made her Hollywood movie debut in the 1946 classic It\'s A Wonderful Life, and continued acting well into her 90s. Newkerala.com story.')
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document.write('December 19, 2005: Julio Iglesias, Sr, 90, Spanish gynaecologist and father of singer Julio Iglesias and grandfather of pop star Enrique Iglesias. He fathered a child at age 87. Newkerala.com story.')
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document.write('December 16, 2005: John Spencer, 57, US actor, of a heart attack. Spencer played vice presidential candidate Leo McGarry in TV drama The West Wing. CNN story.')
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document.write('December 14, 2005: Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian theatre, television and film star, of a massive heart attack. He became well known in the 1980s playing a rich miser in the TV series Bhikaji Karodpati. WebIndia story.')
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document.write('December 10, 2005: Richard Pryor, 65, American standup comic and actor, of a heart attack. Pryor, who suffered from multiple sclerosis in his later years, was one of the most popular acts in the US in the 1970s. He co-wrote the film Blazing Saddles and acted in almost 40 movies, including Superman III, The Toy and Brewster\'s Millions. CNN story.')
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