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Joseph Jo Jo Bennett Reggae artist of the Sattalites dead at 81
Herbert Schlosser, NBC Exec Who Came Up With Idea for ‘SNL,’ Dead at 95
Soap Opera Actor Jay Pickett Is Dead At 60
Comedian Tom Patrick O’Connor, and the Veteran Game Show Host, Dead at 81
Van Heflin Vanderbilt’s first black quarterback dead at 62
Van Heflin, the first Black quarterback to consistently start for Vanderbilt, died Friday after suffering a heart attack. Vanderbilt athletic director Candice Lee made the announced Heflin’s death on Twitter. “Van was Vanderbilt’s first Black quarterback to start, breaking the…
Donald Rumsfeld, former US secretary of defense, dead at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. The pugnacious businessman, bureaucrat, and former lawmaker helped…
John Langley, the creator and executive producer of Cops, died today at 78
John Langley died on Saturday of an apparent heart attack in Baja, Mexico; his representatives told Variety. According to the outlet, Langley was competing in the Coast to Coast Ensenada-San Felipe 250 off-road race. TMZ adds that his son Zak was…
Ganga Stone, the lady who gave sustenance to AIDS patients, dead at 79
At the height of the AIDS epidemic, she started God’s Love We Deliver, a charity that brought hot meals to people who were too ill to cook. Ganga Stone, who survived on odd jobs in Manhattan until she discovered that…
Dead at 85 is Mudcat Grant, the 1st Black 20-game winner in AL
MINNEAPOLIS (AP news): Mudcat Grant (Jim “Mudcat” Grant), the first Black 20-game winner in the American League and a key part of Minnesota’s first World Series team in 1965, has died. He was 85. The Twins announced Grant’s death Saturday…
Charles Grodin ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ Actor, Unrivaled Talk Show Curmudgeon Dead at 86
Charles Grodin, the comic, scene-stealing actor of such films as The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run, and Beethoven, who later established himself as a curmudgeonly talk show guest without rival, died today at his home in Wilton, Conn. His son, Nicholas, told The New…
Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale, under President Jimmy Carter dead 93
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won,…