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Former La Salle SID, AP freelancer Bob Lyons dies
Bob Lyons, who covered Philadelphia sports legends from Bob Clarke to Reggie White during 35 years as a freelancer for The Associated Press, has died. He was 73. He died Wednesday at a hospital in Meadowbrook, Pa., following a two-year battle with heart disease, his son, Rick Lyons, said. "Bob ...
French ex-prime minister Pierre Mauroy dead at 84
Pierre Mauroy, who as France's prime minister in the early 1980s implemented radical social reforms that made life easier for French workers, has died at 84. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Mauroy died Friday in a hospital in a Paris suburb. He had been suffering from cancer. Mauroy served as ...
Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams dead at 91
As a teenager, Esther Williams dreamed of Olympic glory on the U.S. swim team. She had to settle instead for becoming a movie star. The self-described "Million Dollar Mermaid," whose wholesome beauty, shapely figure and aquatic skills launched an entire genre of movies — the Technicolor "aqua musicals" — died ...
Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington dies
Former Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington has died in a Palm Springs car crash. A Riverside County coroner's report says the 67-year-old Palm Springs resident wasn't wearing a seat belt when his car hit a retaining wall at about 5 p.m. local time Tuesday. He died at the scene. The ...
Technicolor star Esther Williams dies at age 91
Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. Williams died early Thursday in her sleep, according to her longtime publicist Harlan Boll. Following in the footsteps of Sonja Henie, who went from skating ...
Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington dies
Former Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington has died in a Palm Springs car crash. A Riverside County coroner's report says the 67-year-old Palm Springs resident wasn't wearing a seat belt when his car hit a retaining wall at about 5 p.m. Tuesday. He died at the scene. The Palm Springs ...
Comic novelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85
Tom Sharpe was aptly named, a writer who turned a razor-edged eye for absurdity on everything from the racism of apartheid to the squabbles of academia. The British writer behind a string of comic novels including the campus classic "Porterhouse Blue" has died at 85. Sharpe's Spanish publisher, Anagrama, said ...
ESTHER WILLIAMS, WHO SWAM TO MOVIE FAME, DIES AT 91
c.2013 New York Times News Service Esther Williams, a teenage swimming champion who became an enormous Hollywood star in a decade of watery MGM extravaganzas, died Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 91. Her death was announced by her publicist, Harlan Boll. From “Bathing Beauty” in 1944 to “Jupiter’s ...
CHEN XITONG, 82, MAYOR IN TIANANMEN CRACKDOWN, DIES
c.2013 New York Times News Service HONG KONG — Chen Xitong, the mayor of Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, died Sunday, two days before the 24th anniversary of the armed crackdown he had championed. He was 82. The cause was cancer, China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, said ...
Private funeral Thursday for George Strait's dad
A private funeral is planned for the father of country music star George Strait. A statement on Strait's website said his 91-year-old father, John Strait, died Tuesday morning after an illness that kept him hospitalized for the past month. A funeral reserved for friends and family is scheduled for Thursday. ...
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