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Notable deaths of 2013 A look at those who have died this year.
Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.)
Ike Skelton, a Missouri Democrat, served 17 terms in Congress, rising to chairman of the Armed Services Committee before his defeat in the GOP wave of 2010. He died Oct. 28 at age 81.
READ: Former congressman Ike Skelton dead at 81
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Lou Reed
Punk-poet and rock legend Lou Reed, who led the Velvet Underground in the 1960s and ‘70s before launching a decades-long solo career, died Oct. 27 at age 71 of an illness related to a recent liver transplant.
READ: Lou Reed dies at 71
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Bum Phillips
Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the Houston Oilers during their Luv Ya Blue heyday and later led the New Orleans Saints, died Oct. 18. He was 90. Born Oail Andrew Phillips Jr. in 1923 in Orange, Phillips was a Texas original in his blue jeans, boots and trademark white Stetson — except at the Astrodome or any other dome stadium because he was taught it was disrespectful to wear a hat indoors.
READ: Bum Phillips, folksy Texas football icon who coached Oilers and Saints, dies at 90
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Bill Young
C.W. Bill Young, a Florida congressman who grew up in a one-room shack and later became chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the longest-serving current Republican member of the House, died Oct. 18 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. He was 82.
READ: C.W. Bill Young, longtime Fla. congressman, dies at 82
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Thomas S. Foley
Thomas S. Foley, a former congressman who served as speaker of the House from 1989 to 1995, died Oct. 18, according to House Democratic aides. Foley was a Washington state lawmaker who became the first speaker since the Civil War who failed to win reelection in his home district. He later served as ambassador to Japan under President Bill Clinton. He was 84.
READ: Thomas S. Foley, former House speaker, dies at 84
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Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos, a Cuban American novelist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” and whose work often captured the loss and triumphs of the Cuban immigrant experience, died Oct. 13 in New York. He was 62.
READ: Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos dies
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Maria de Villota
Maria de Villota, the Formula One test driver who lost an eye in a near-fatal accident in July 2012, was found dead in a Seville, Spain, hotel room on Oct. 11. She was 33. Her death came three days before the publication of her memoir on racing and her recovery, “Life Is A Gift.’’
READ: Maria de Villota, former F1 test driver, dies
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Scott Carpenter
Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts, died at 88. As an astronaut and aquanaut who lived underwater for the U.S. Navy, Carpenter was the first man to explore both the depths of the ocean and the heights of space. Carpenter gave the famous send-off — “Godspeed, John Glenn” — when Glenn became the first American in orbit in February 1962.
READ: Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 astronaut and second American to orbit Earth, dies at 88
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Edward ‘Butch’ Warren
Edward “Butch” Warren, a Washington-born bassist who performed on celebrated albums of the modern jazz era, vanished almost completely from the music scene because of drug addiction and deteriorating mental health. He died Oct. 5 in Silver Spring at age 74.
READ: Edward ‘Butch’ Warren dies at 74
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Vo Nguyen Giap
Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese military commander and national folk hero who organized the army that defeated the French and then the Americans in 30 years of Southeast Asian warfare, died Oct. 4 in a hospital in Hanoi, a government official told the Associated Press. He was 102.
READ: Vo Nguyen Giap, renowned Vietnamese general, dies in Hanoi
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Tom Clancy
The best-selling novelist, whose dashing CIA protagonist Jack Ryan saved leaders and the world in books such as “Patriot Games” and “The Hunt for Red October,” died Oct. 1 at a hospital in Baltimore, his publisher said. He was 66.
READ: Clancy dreamed of being in the Library of Congress catalogue
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Marcella Hazan
Marcella Hazan, the Italian-born cookbook author who taught generations of Americans how to create simple, fresh Italian food, died at her home in Florida, according to an e-mail from her son, Giuliano Hazan. She was 89.
READ: The influential cookbook author
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Hiroshi Yamauchi
Hiroshi Yamauchi, who transformed Nintendo into a world leader in gaming over more than five decades at the head of the company, died of pneumonia at a Japanese hospital today. He was 85. Yamauchi was also the owner of the Seattle Mariners until 2004.
READ: Nintendo visionary, Mariners owner Hiroshi Yamauchi dies
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Ken Norton
In this Sept. 10, 1973, photo, Muhammad Ali, right, winces as Ken Norton hits him with a left to the head during their rematch at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Norton, a former heavyweight champion, died Sept. 18 at age 70.
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Josh Burdette
The longtime head of security at the 9:30 Club died Sept. 1 at age 36. The 6-foot-4, 340-pound Burdette was widely regarded in the District as a gentleman and a gentle man in the role of gatekeeper. “What keeps me doing this after getting kicked in the head, fought, spit on, is seeing people leave the club with a smile on their face,” he told The Post in 2006. “I know that’s a trite thing to say, but my job is to make sure people have fun.”
READ: Josh Burdette, 9:30 Club security head, dies at 36
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Tommy Morrison
Tommy Morrison, the former heavyweight boxing champion who perhaps was more famous for playing Tommy “The Machine” Gunn in “Rocky V,” died Sept. 1 in Omaha. Morrison, 44, who had tested positive for HIV when he was 27, was in declining health.
READ: Tommy Morrison, boxer and “Rocky V” star, dies at 44
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David Frost
British journalist and broadcaster David Frost, famous for his interviews with Richard Nixon, died Aug. 31 at age 74. He is shown here in 1977 with the former president.
PHOTOS: David Frost dies
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Seamus Heaney
Irish poet and essayist Seamus Heaney, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, died Aug. 30 at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74. The Northern Ireland-born Heaney was widely considered Ireland’s greatest poet since William Butler Yeats.
READ: Irish poet Seamus Heaney dies at 74
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Muriel Siebert
Starting as a trainee, Muriel Siebert opened her own brokerage house and became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. She died Aug. 24 of complications of cancer.
READ: Muriel Siebert, NYSE pioneer, dies at 84
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Julie Harris
Julie Harris, a star of film and stage who had won an unprecedented five Tony Awards for best actress, died Aug. 24 at her home in West Chatham, Mass.
READ: Actress Julie Harris dies at 87
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Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland, a renowned jazz pianist and host of the National Public Radio show “Piano Jazz,” died Aug. 20. She was 95. Over a career that spanned more than six decades, McPartland became a fixture in the jazz world as a talented musician and well-loved radio personality.
READ: Jazz legend Marian McPartland dies
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Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard, the plain-spoken crime novelist, died Aug. 20 at his Michigan home of complications of a stroke. He was 87. “I've got the ideal job situation,” he once said. “I write what pleases me and I get paid.”
READ: Elmore Leonard dies: ‘Get Shorty’ author was 87
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Eydie Gorme
Eydie Gorme, the bouncy, bantering, big-voiced entertainment legend who — as a solo act and with her husband, Steve Lawrence, left — appeared on the air, in clubs, on stage and on records for more than 50 years, died Aug. 10 in Las Vegas. She was 84.
READ: Eydie Gorme, known for ballads and big-band numbers, dies at 84
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Dennis Farina
Actor Dennis Farina died July 22 in Scottsdale, Ariz., after suffering a blood clot in his lung. He was 69.
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Cory Monteith
Actor Cory Monteith, who shot to fame in the TV series “Glee” but was beset by addiction struggles, was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room July 13. He was 31.
READ: “Glee” star Cory Monteith found dead at 31
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Toshi Seeger
Toshi Seeger, right, folk singer Pete Seeger’s wife of 70 years and a close partner in his social and environmental activism, died July 9 at the couple’s home in Beacon in New York’s Hudson Valley, about 65 miles north of New York City. She was 91.
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Douglas C. Engelbart
Douglas C. Engelbart, a computer science visionary who was credited with inventing the mouse, the now-ubiquitous device that first allowed consumers to navigate virtual desktops with clicks and taps, died July 2 at his home in Atherton, Calif. He was 88.
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Jim Kelly
Actor Jim Kelly, who played a glib American martial artist in “Enter the Dragon” with Bruce Lee, died of cancer June 30 at his home in San Diego. He was 67.
READ: Martial artist Jim Kelly dies
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Michael Hastings
Michael Hastings, an award-winning journalist and war correspondent, died in a car crash June 18 in Los Angeles. He was 33. Hastings won a 2010 George Polk Award for magazine reporting for his Rolling Stone story, “The Runaway General,” about U.S. General Stanley McChrystal.
READ: Michael Hastings, iconoclastic war correspondent, dies at 33
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Jason Leffler
The 37-year-old Jason Leffler, a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series who had the nickname “LefTurn” above the driver’s side window on his race cars, died after an accident in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway.
READ: Leffler killed at Bridgeport Speedway
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Esther Williams
Esther Williams, the championship swimmer who became one of the world’s most popular movie stars in the 1940s and ’50s by appearing in aquatic musicals, died June 6. She was 91. A California-born model who held a national record for the 100-meter freestyle, she was 19 when she was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941.
READ: Esther Williams, champion swimmer and movie star, dies at 91
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Deacon Jones
Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones, who played for the National Football League’s Washington Redskins, Los Angeles Rams and San Diego Chargers, died June 3 at age 74. Nicknamed the “Secretary of Defense” because of his specialty for sacking quarterbacks, Jones was considered by many as one of the greatest defensive players in NFL history.
READ: Hall of Fame pass rusher Deacon Jones dies at 74
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Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg
Frank R. Lautenberg, a five-term New Jersey Democrat and reliably liberal voter who campaigned to toughen anti-smoking laws and environmental regulations, died June 3 at a hospital in New York. He was 89. The senator had initially retired in 2000, after three terms, but returned to the chamber two years later as a 78-year-old freshman lawmaker who quickly became one of the George W. Bush administration’s sharpest critics.
READ: Sen. Frank Lautenberg, five-term New Jersey Democrat, dies at 89
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Ray Manzarek
Ray Manzarek, second from right, co-founded the Doors after meeting then-poet Jim Morrison in California. The band went on to become one of the most successful rock-and-roll acts to emerge from the 1960s and continues to resonate with fans decades after Morrison’s death brought an effective end to the band. Manzarek died May 20 at age 74.
PHOTOS: Manzarek’s career
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Joyce Brothers
Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers is seen with boxers Sugar Ray Robinson, left, and Carl "Bobo" Olson in 1955. The pop psychologist, who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist, author and television and film personality, died May 13 in New York. She was 85.
READ: Dr. Joyce Brothers, 85; TV psychologist and columnist
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Jeanne Cooper
Jeanne Cooper, the actress who played Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless” and the mother of actor Corbin Bernsen, died May 8. She was 84.
READ: Jeanne Cooper was soap opera grande dame .
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Frederic Franklin
Frederic Franklin, an exuberant, British-born ballet dancer who was an early inspiration for choreographers George Balanchine and Agnes de Mille and a frequent stage partner of the renowned ballerina Alexandra Danilova, died May 4 at a New York hospital. He was 98.
READ: Frederic Franklin danced with many leading ballerinas
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Otis Bowen
Otis R. Bowen, a small-town family doctor who overhauled Indiana’s tax system as governor before helping promote safe sex practices in the early years of AIDS as the top federal health official under President Ronald Reagan, died May 4. He was 95.
READ: Otis R. Bowen was a wildly popular Republican governor
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George Jones
George Jones, a hard-living honky-tonk singer whose piercing, emotive voice spawned countless imitators and whose marriage to Tammy Wynette was one of the most turbulent in country music, died April 26 at a hospital in Nashville. He was 81.
READ: George Jones, legend in country music, dies at 81
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Richie Havens
U.S. folk musician Richie Havens reprises his 1969 performance of "Freedom" at the site of the original Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 14, 2009. Havens died April 22 at the age of 72, his talent agency.
VIDEO: ‘Here Comes The Sun’ (1974)
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Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall, left, the NFL player-turned-broadcaster whose deep, resonant voice called games for more than 40 years, died April 16 at the age of 82. Summerall was part of network television broadcasts for 16 Super Bowls. His last championship game was for Fox on Feb. 3, 2002, also his last game with longtime partner John Madden, right. The popular duo worked together for 21 years, moving to Fox in 1994 after years as the lead team for CBS. Summerall played 10 NFL seasons (1952-61) with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants.
READ: Former football player, broadcaster Pat Summerall dies at 82
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Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief, a ballet dancer of electrifying passion and technical ability who forged a pathbreaking career that took her from an Oklahoma Indian reservation to world acclaim and who was a crucial artistic inspiration for choreographer George Balanchine, her first husband, died April 11 at a hospital in Chicago. She was 88.
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Anne Smedinghoff
American diplomat Anne Smedinghoff was killed April 6 in a bomb attack by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. She was traveling in a heavily armored convoy on her way to distribute textbooks to schoolchildren. Smedinghoff, 25, was a graduate of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
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Robert G. Edwards
British physiologist Robert G. Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize in 2010 for helping develop the in-vitro fertilization techniques that led to the birth of the first “test tube” baby in 1978, died April 10. He was 87. As early as the 1950s, Edwards had the idea that fertilization outside the body could represent a possible treatment for infertility.
READ: Robert G. Edwards. ‘test-tube’ baby pioneer, dies at 87
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Margaret Thatcher
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to lead a major Western power, died Monday after a stroke, her spokesman said in a statement. She was 87. 1
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2 uninterrupted years in office before stepping down Nov. 28, 1990, making her the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.
READ: Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister, dead at 87
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Lilly Pulitzer
Fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer was known for her line of garments with colorful tropical prints. She started the line by accident when she was asked to create clothes that would disguise fruit juice stains. She died in Florida at age 81.
READ: Fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer became a fashion classic
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the British novelist and lead screenwriter of films such as “A Room With a View,” “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day,” died April 3 at her home in New York. She was 85. In 1939, she and her Polish-Jewish family fled her native Germany for England to escape the Nazi tyranny. A graduate of London University, she married a young Indian architect and lived for 24 years in Delhi. India was frequently a setting for her books.
READ: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter, dies at 85
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Jane Henson
Jane Henson, who with husband Jim Henson developed the Muppets, died April 2 at her home in Connecticut after a long battle with cancer. She was 78. The Hensons met in a University of Maryland puppetry class in the mid- 1950s. They married in 1959 and had five children. They separated in 1986. Jim Henson died in 1990.
READ: Jane Henson, Jim Henson’s partner in Muppets and marriage, dies at 78
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Shain Gandee
Shain Gandee, a star of the MTV reality series ‘’Buckwild,’’ was among three men found dead in a vehicle April 1 in the Sissonville area of West Virginia. MTV noted in its Web site report on Gandee’s death that he was one of the most popular cast members on “Buckwild,” earning the nickname “Gandee Candy” “for his wild stunts and sunny disposition.” He was 21.
READ: MTV’s ‘Buckwild’ star Shain Gandee, 21, found dead after being reported missing
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Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone, the masterful Grammy Award-winning engineer, arranger and producer whose platinum touch included recordings with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, died March 30 at 72, his family said.
READ: Phil Ramone dies at 72.
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern Africa with “Things Fall Apart” and continued for decades to rewrite and reclaim the history of his native country, died March 21 at age 82.
READ: Chinua Achebe, groundbreaking Nigerian novelist, dies at 82
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Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Franklin, second from right, the spunky, ginger-haired stage performer who became best remembered as the independent-minded divorcee with two teenage daughters on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” died March 1 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69.
PHOTOS: Bonnie Franklin
READ: Bonnie Franklin dies at 69
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Magic Slim
Magic Slim, a contemporary of blues greats Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf who helped shape the sound of Chicago’s electric blues, died Feb. 20 at age 75.
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Anna B. Tate
Anna B. Tate, who ran one of the first Tupperware distributorships in the Washington area, died Feb. 18 at age 97. From 1961 and on, her business helped stock thousands of homes with plastic containers that kept the cookies fresh and the lettuce crisp — and gave saleswomen greater independence than many of them had ever thought possible.
READ: Anna B. Tate, D.C. area Tupperware maven, helped boost women’s independence
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Mindy McCready
The troubled singer hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career. The 37-year-old mother of two sons died Feb. 17 from what investigators said appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her chart-topping hits included “Guys Do It All the Time” and “Ten Thousand Angels.”
PHOTOS: McCready had a stormy life
READ: Mindy McCready dies at 37
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Reeva Steenkamp
The 30-year-old model and TV reality star, who had spoken out about violence against women, was fatally shot four times Feb. 14 at the home of South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius. Steenkamp was to appear in a celebrity TV reality show and had been named one of the “100 sexiest women in the world'' by FHM magazine. She also had a law degree.
READ: Who was Reeva Steenkamp?
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Ann Rabson
Ann Rabson, whose barrelhouse piano propelled the rollicking, often bawdy music of Saffire — the Uppity Blues Women, a group she co-founded and led for more than 20 years, died Jan. 30 at her home in Hartwood, Va., in Stafford County. She was 67.READ: Ann Rabson dies at 67
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Caleb Moore
Caleb Moore, the innovative freestyle snowmobile rider, who was hurt in a crash at the Winter X Games in Colorado, died Jan. 31. He was 25. Moore was a Texas kid drawn to the snow, rehearsing complicated tricks on a snowmobile into a foam pit back home until they became second nature and ready for the mountains.
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Patty Andrews
Patty Andrews, the youngest and last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters, a vocal trio whose music was a defining sound of the home front during World War II, died Jan. 30 at her home in Northridge, Calif. She was 94. Andrews was lead singer in the sister act, which included the eldest, LaVerne, and second-born Maxene.
READ: Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the Andrews Sisters, dies at 94
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Earl Weaver
Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver, left, who won 1,480 games with the Baltimore Orioles and took the team to the World Series four times in 17 seasons, died Jan. 19. He was 82.
READ: Former Orioles manager Earl Weaver dead at 82
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Pauline Friedman Phillips
Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, died Jan. 16. She was 94. Phillips’s column competed for decades with the advice column of Ann Landers, written by her twin sister, Esther Friedman Lederer. Their relationship was stormy in their early adult years, but later they regained the close relationship they had growing up in Sioux City, Iowa.
READ: ‘Dear Abby’ advice columnist Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at age 94
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Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African American brothers in the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” died Jan. 14. He was 89. The show that debuted on NBC in 1978 was most noticed for its child actors, especially Gary Coleman, right, who played the younger brother. Bain often was straight man to Coleman’s comic. Before “Diff’rent Strokes,” Bain played conservative neighbor Dr. Arthur Harmon on the feminist sitcom “Maude.” He also was a journeyman actor on stage, screen and television.
Conrad Bain, who starred as doting dad of TV’s ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ dead at 89
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Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, an online activist who fought to make online content free to the public, died Jan. 11, prompting an outpouring of grief from prominent voices on the intersection of free speech and the Web. Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to make them freely available. If convicted, he faced decades in prison and a fortune in fines.
READ: Aaron Swartz, American hero
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Patti Page
Patti Page, the “Singing Rage” who became one of the most successful female singers of all time with dozens of pop hits, including the forlorn “Tennessee Waltz” and the yappy but irresistibly likable “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window,” died Jan. 1 in Encinitas, Calif. She was 85. Page got her start on a radio program sponsored by the Page Milk Co., hence her surname. She was later the host of her own television show.
READ: Patti Page obituary
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Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable, an architecture writer who received the first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism and was one of the most trenchant, biting and influential voices in her profession for more than half a century, died Jan. 7 at a hospital in New York. She was 91. Huxtable is pictured at her desk in New York in March 1974.
READ: Ada Louise Huxtable obituary
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Richard Ben Cramer
Journalist Richard Ben Cramer, whose narrative nonfiction spanned presidential politics and baseball, died Jan. 7 at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. He was 62. Cramer celebrates his 1979 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting with his colleagues at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
READ: Richard Ben Cramer obituary
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Jeanne Manford
A shy, traditional mother, Jeanne Manford founded the nation’s most prominent family support group for gays and lesbians. Her reason for organizing what is now known as Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG: She “wasn’t going to let anybody walk over’’ her son because he was gay. She died Jan. 8 of undisclosed causes. She was 92.
READ: Jeanne Manford obituary
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