Chef Benoît Violier, whose acclaimed Le Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Lausanne, Switzerland, was ranked recently atop a list of the world’s best high-end dining establishments, was found dead …
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Andre Courreges, a French fashion designer who claimed to have invented the miniskirt during the 1960s, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 92. The death was announced …
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How much do you know about the man who invented the 20th century?
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At least 34 people died Tuesday by drowning off the coast of Turkey. They were refugees attempting to leave Turkey and travel to Greece. Their two boats capsized in the …
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News Obituaries
Tibor Rubin (1929 – 2015), Holocaust survivor and decorated U.S. soldier
by Legacy StaffTibor Rubin, a Holocaust survivor who went on to become a highly decorated U.S. infantry soldier decades after the Korean War, has died in California, according to multiple news sources. …
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129 people have died in shootings and explosions in and around Paris, France. ISIS has claimed responsibilityfor the terror attacks, which the French President called “an act of war.”
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Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs, whose works combined a love of color and texture with clear lines, mysticism and religious themes, died Monday, according to The Associated Press. He was 85. …
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Henning Mankell, the hesitant figurehead of Scandinavian crime fiction whose books about the gloomy, soul-searching police inspector Kurt Wallander enticed readers around the world, has died, according to The Associated …
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To his fans, he was simply Andre the Giant.
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On March 24, 2015, Germanwings Flight 4U9525 crashed in the Alps of France, killing all 144 passengers and all six crew members…