Obituaries
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Arpad Goncz, Hungary's 1st post-communist president, dies
Oct 06, 2015 7:00 am - BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Arpad Goncz, a much-loved Hungarian writer and translator who survived a communist-era life sentence for taking part in the 1956 anti-Soviet rev...
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Belgian director Chantal Akerman is dead at 65
Oct 06, 2015 7:00 am - BRUSSELS (AP) - The Belgian avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman, whose patient, personal reflections on the lives of women made her a leading figure of arthouse cinema...
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Best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell dead at age 67
Oct 05, 2015 7:00 am - STOCKHOLM (AP) - Henning Mankell, the internationally renowned Swedish crime writer whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed ...
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Civil rights leader, journalist Jerry Mondesire dies at 65
Oct 05, 2015 7:00 am - PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former Philadelphia NAACP president J. Whyatt "Jerry" Mondesire, a longtime civil rights activist, editor and publisher, has died. He was 65. Mondesi...
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John Wredling, former St. Charles school leader, dies at 101Oct 05, 2015 1:00 am - John Wredling's passion for the education of St. Charles District 303 students did not end when he retired in 1972. A true St. Charles icon, he would greet students on t...
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Al Abrams, Motown Records' 1st press officer, dies at 74
Oct 04, 2015 7:00 am - DETROIT (AP) - Al Abrams, the founding press officer and publicist for Motown Records, died Saturday following a battle with cancer, his wife said. He was 74. Born in De...
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Former UK Treasury secretary Denis Healey dies at 98
Oct 03, 2015 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Decorated World War II military hero and former British Treasury chief Denis Healey has died after a long career in British politics. He was 98. His family...
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Four killed in South Carolina plane crash from IndianaOct 03, 2015 1:00 am - WALHALLA, S.C. - Authorities say all four people who died in a plane crash in South Carolina were from northern Indiana. The men were flying from Warsaw, Indiana, to Cle...
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Notable death last week: Irish playwright; sprint car championOct 03, 2015 1:00 am - • A former top racecar driver was among four Indiana men who died Friday in a plane crash while traveling to the Notre Dame-Clemson football game. The wreckage of the Pi...
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Former Wood Dale Mayor 'always had a smile on his face'Oct 03, 2015 1:00 am - Wood Dale's longest serving mayor, Jerry Greer, died Friday after he and his wife Yvonne were in a car crash near their home in Cass City, Michigan. Greer, 79, served as...