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Dec 5, 2024
Dr. Kelly Powers (1979–2024), Fox News regular
Dr. Kelly Powers was a podiatric surgeon and a familiar face on Fox News programs when she publicly shared her brain cancer diagnosis in 2020.
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Jul 31, 2024
Francine Pascal (1932–2024), Sweet Valley High creator
Francine Pascal was an author who helped revolutionize young adult literature with her popular “Sweet Valley High” series and its spinoffs.
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Sep 11, 2023
Lisa Lyon (1953–2023), bodybuilder who inspired Marvel’s Elektra
Lisa Lyon was an early pioneer of female bodybuilding and model who inspired Frank Miller’s creation of the assassin Elektra, a sometimes lover, sometimes antagonist of Daredevil in Marvel Comics.
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Feb 28, 2023
Burny Mattinson (1935–2023), Disney animator for decades
Burny Mattinson was a Disney animator and the company’s longest serving employee, having worked there since 1953.
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Sep 7, 2022
Diane Noomin (1947–2022), pioneering underground comics artist
Diane Noomin was one of the first women working in underground comics, writing and drawing characters including DiDi Glitz.
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Jun 28, 2021
Mike Gravel (1930–2021), former U.S. Senator from Alaska
Mike Gravel was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Alaska as well as a two-time presidential candidate.
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Feb 25, 2019
Beverly Owen (1937–2019), original Marilyn in “The Munsters”
The actress left the show during the first season to get married.
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Jun 9, 2018
Danny Kirwan (1950–2018), former Fleetwood Mac guitarist
Fleetwood Mac band member from 1968 until 1972.
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Mar 6, 2018
Trevor Baylis (1937 - 2018), inventor of the wind-up radio
Trevor Baylis, the British inventor of the wind-up radio who helped foster the spread of information throughout poor and remote communities, died Monday, March 5, 2018, according to The Associated Press. He was 80.
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Jan 24, 2018
Lari White (1965 – 2018), country singer-songwriter
“Now I Know” was a top 5 hit song…
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Apr 27, 2017
Michael Mantenuto (1981 - 2017), actor in Miracle
Former actor starred in the 2004 Olympic hockey film "Miracle"...
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Apr 7, 2017
Tim Pigott-Smith (1946 - 2017), The Jewel in the Crown actor
British actor Tim Pigott-Smith, who won a British Academy Television Award in 1985 for his leading role in “The Jewel in the Crown," died Friday, April 7, 2017.
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Jan 24, 2017
Peter Overend Watts (1947 - 2017), Mott the Hoople bassist
Peter Overend Watts, the bassist for the rock band Mott the Hoople, died Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, according to multiple news sources. He was 69. The musician had throat cancer.
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Sep 2, 2016
Fred Hellerman (1927 - 2016), last surviving member of the Weavers
Fred Hellerman, a folk singer and the last surviving member of the Weavers, died Sept. 1, 2016, at his home in Connecticut, according to multiple news sources. He was 89.
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May 14, 2013
Mary Wells, First Lady of Motown
Born 70 years ago this week, Mary Wells helped shape the Motown sound. We remember some of the ways she blazed trails for the other talented women who came after her...
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May 13, 2013
The Best of Ritchie Valens
Rock and roll star Ritchie Valens , alongside and the , on a cold early morning that came to be known as "The Day the Music Died."
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Apr 25, 2012
Bea Arthur: Golden
Bea Arthur was one of our all-time favorite TV stars. We – along with much of America – loved the plain-spoken women she played.
