Notable deaths in 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a heroine to the American left after overcoming entrenched sexism in the legal profmore
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2017年 6月 2日 Friday
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a heroine to the American left after overcoming entrenched sexism in the legal profession to ascend to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she championed gender equality and other liberal causes during 27 years on the bench. Ginsburg, who died September 18 at age 87, was a fierce advocate for women's rights - winning major gender-discrimination cases before the Supreme Court - before being appointed to the top U.S. judicial body by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1993. Ginsburg overcame hostility toward women in the male-dominated worlds of law school and the legal profession to become just the second woman ever to serve on the nine-member Supreme Court. "I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks," Ginsburg said in a 2018 documentary, summing up her lifelong work toward gender equality. Ginsburg was a reliable vote in favor of liberal causes on the court on other issues as well including defending abortion rights, expanding gay rights, preserving the Obamacare healthcare law, and advancing the rights of racial minorities the poor and disenfranchised. When asked how many women there should be on the court, Ginsburg, with an impish smile, always gave the same answer: "Nine."
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World soccer great Diego Armando Maradona, who died on November 25 less than a month after his 60th birthday, more
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2009年 2月 11日 Wednesday
World soccer great Diego Armando Maradona, who died on November 25 less than a month after his 60th birthday, was worshipped like a god for his genius with the ball, but his demons almost destroyed him. Rising to stardom from a grimy Buenos Aires slum to lead Argentina to World Cup victory, Maradona was a rags-to-riches story in his soccer-mad homeland. Maradona's pinnacle of glory came when he captained Argentina to win the World Cup in 1986 before plunging to misery when he was kicked out the 1994 World Cup for doping. Years of drug use, overeating and alcoholism truncated a stellar career and altered his appearance from the lithe athlete who could slalom effortlessly through teams to a bloated addict who nearly died of cocaine-induced heart failure in 2000. But he reinvented himself in a stunning comeback in 2008 as coach of the Argentina team, persuading managers that with sheer charisma he could inspire the team to victory, despite a lack of coaching experience. A magician with the ball - deceptively quick and a visionary passer - Maradona is considered by some as the greatest soccer player ever, edging out that other great, Brazil's Pele. In Argentina, he was worshipped as 'El Dios' - The God - partly a play on words on his number 10 shirt, 'El Diez.'
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John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, more
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2019年 6月 26日 Wednesday
John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, died July 17. A Democratic member of Congress from Atlanta since 1987, Lewis had announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic cancer. He was 80. Lewis was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom he met after writing to him when Lewis was just 18. He was the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, having stood beside King when he made his "I Have a Dream" speech. Lewis endured numerous beatings and arrests in his lifelong fight against segregation and for racial justice, including in Alabama, where he was savagely beaten during the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. He kept up the fight for civil rights and human rights until the end of his life. In 2016, Lewis led a "sit-in" by House Democrats to demand a vote on gun regulations. He made his last public appearance last month, as protests for racial justice swept the United States and the world. Using a cane, Lewis walked with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on a street by the White House that Bowser had just renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza. It had just been dedicated with a large yellow mural - large enough to be seen from space - reading "Black Lives Matter."
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Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA's all-time greatest players, was killed at age 41 on January 26 in a helicopter crmore
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2019年 7月 28日 Sunday
Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA's all-time greatest players, was killed at age 41 on January 26 in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others. Bryant rocketed to fame as an 18-year-old rookie drafted straight out of high school, at the time an unusual career path and spent his entire 20-year career with the Lakers before retiring in 2016. Apart from the five championship rings, he made 18 All-Star teams and in 2008 was named league MVP. Bryant called his daughter Gianna "Mambacita" after his own court nickname, "Black Mamba," confident she would follow in his footsteps and become a professional basketball player. He had been coaching her middle-school team since his retirement.
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Herman Cain, a television host and former Republican presidential candidate, died July 30 after contracting COmore
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2013年 6月 16日 Sunday
Herman Cain, a television host and former Republican presidential candidate, died July 30 after contracting COVID-19. Cain, 74, was diagnosed in late June and later hospitalized after attending a Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally for President Donald Trump, where many attendees crowded close together without wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Cain, who called himself an ABC man - "American Black Conservative" - had just started hosting a new show on Newsmax TV and hoped to play a role in the 2020 presidential election campaign, the statement said. Cain started his career as a civilian employee for the U.S. Navy and worked for Pillsbury and Burger King before becoming chief executive of Godfather's Pizza. He made national headlines in 1994 when he sparred with then-President Bill Clinton about healthcare costs facing small business owners during a televised town hall meeting.
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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who held power for 30 years until he was ousted in 2011 in a popular more
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2011年 2月 8日 Tuesday
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who held power for 30 years until he was ousted in 2011 in a popular uprising against corruption and autocratic rule, died February 25 at the age of 91. A partner of the West in fighting Islamists, Mubarak presided over an era of stagnation and oppression at home and was an early victim of the "Arab Spring" revolutions that swept the region. Egypt's presidency and armed forces mourned him as a hero for his role in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and the former air force officer will be given a military funeral. He was arrested two months after being forced out by the protesters who crammed into Cairo's Tahrir Square, and then spent several years in jail and military hospitals. Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators during the 18-day revolt, but was freed in 2017 after being cleared of the charges. He was however convicted in 2015 along with his two sons of diverting public funds to upgrade family properties. They were sentenced to three years in jail.
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Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated Brimore
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2010年 6月 17日 Thursday
Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to grace the silver screen for four decades, died on October 31 at the age of 90. Connery was raised in near poverty in the slums of Edinburgh and worked as a coffin polisher, milkman and lifeguard before his bodybuilding hobby helped launch an acting career that made him one of the world's biggest stars. Connery will be remembered first as British agent 007, the character created by novelist Ian Fleming and immortalized by Connery in films starting with "Dr. No" in 1962. As Bond, his debonair manner and wry humour in foiling flamboyant villains and cavorting with beautiful women belied a darker, violent edge, and he crafted a depth of character that set the standard for those who followed him in the role. He would introduce himself in the movies with the signature line, "Bond - James Bond." But Connery was unhappy being defined by the role and once said he "hated that damned James Bond". Tall and handsome, with a throaty voice to match a sometimes crusty personality, Connery played a series of noteworthy roles besides Bond and won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a tough Chicago cop in "The Untouchables" (1987). He was 59 when People magazine declared him the "sexiest man alive" in 1989. Connery was an ardent supporter of Scotland's independence and had the words "Scotland Forever" tattooed on his arm while serving in the Royal Navy. When he was knighted at the age of 69 by Britain's Queen Elizabeth in 2000 at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, he wore full Scottish dress including the green-and-black plaid kilt of his mother's MacLeod clan. REUTERS/David Moir
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Actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for his star turn in the blockbuster Marvel superhero film "Black Panther,"more
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2018年 4月 24日 Tuesday
Actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for his star turn in the blockbuster Marvel superhero film "Black Panther," died at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. During his screen career, Boseman played a number of real-life characters famed for breaking America's racial barriers, including soul singer James Brown in "Get on Up," Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in "Marshall," and baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson in "42." But the actor's most memorable role was his 2018 performance as T'Challa, king of the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda and the crime fighter known as Black Panther, in the first major studio superhero movie featuring a predominantly African-American cast. "Black Panther" went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of the year and was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture. It won three Academy Awards - in the best original score, best costume design and best production design categories.
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Game show host Alex Trebek, who as the brainy quizmaster of "Jeopardy!" became one of the most recognizable pemore
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2013年 6月 17日 Monday
Game show host Alex Trebek, who as the brainy quizmaster of "Jeopardy!" became one of the most recognizable personalities on American television, died on November 8 at the age of 80. After hosting a number of television shows in Canada during the 1960s, the Canadian-born Trebek was encouraged to move to California in 1973 by the late actor Alan Thicke, a fellow Canadian, to host a short-lived NBC game show called "The Wizard of Odds." In the following years, Trebek hosted a few other shows with equally quirky names, such as "High Rollers" and "Battlestars." None of them became an enduring success but they bolstered Trebek's reputation in Hollywood and eventually paved the way for his joining "Jeopardy!" The show, which requires contestants to display their knowledge of a broad range of trivia topics by providing their answers in the form of a question, has consistently drawn more than 20 million viewers a week in the United States and Canada, making it the most-watched quiz show in those markets. Trebek, who was known for engaging contestants with straight-faced but witty banter and for his scholarly demeanor and scrupulous pronunciation, hosted more than 7,000 episodes of "Jeopardy!" Trebek won six Emmy Awards for outstanding game-show host, most recently in 2019, and also received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2011. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
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Kirk Douglas, the cleft-chinned movie star who fought gladiators, cowboys and boxers on the screen and the Holmore
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2007年 5月 8日 Tuesday
Kirk Douglas, the cleft-chinned movie star who fought gladiators, cowboys and boxers on the screen and the Hollywood establishment, died February 5 at the age of 103, his son Michael Douglas said. "To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to," Michael said. Douglas made more than 90 movies in a career that stretched across seven decades and films such as "Spartacus" and "The Vikings" made him one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1950s and '60s. He also played a major role in breaking the Hollywood blacklist - actors, directors and writers who were shunned professionally because of links to the communist movement in the 1950s. Douglas said he was more proud of that than any film he made. Douglas had a distinctive chin, razor-sharp cheekbones and a jutting jaw - looks that he passed along to Michael - and that made him a natural for playing all manner of rugged characters. He also had a demanding nature that earned him a reputation in his prime as the actor who directed directors.
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Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emergemore
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2019年 2月 11日 Monday
Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emerged from Chicago's folk revival scene in the 1970s to become one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died April 7. He was 73. Prine was hospitalized on March 26 suffering from symptoms of COVID-19, according to his wife, Fiona Whelan Prine, who was also his manager. Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson fatefully saw Prine performing at the Earl of Old Town club, leading to Prine's signing with Atlantic Records and self-titled debut album, released in 1971. That album, widely praised by critics, contained several songs that would become staples of Prine's catalog. They included "Angel from Montgomery," about a woman wishing for deliverance from her unfulfilling life, "Paradise," about a Kentucky town devastated by strip mining, and "Sam Stone," chronicling the downward spiral of a drug-addicted Vietnam War veteran and containing the oft-quoted refrain: "There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose." The songs have since each been covered dozens of times by other artists. His early songwriting style earned comparisons with no less than folk great Bob Dylan, who later called Prine one of his favorites.
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Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregmore
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2019年 7月 11日 Thursday
Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died February 24 at the age of 101. She and her black colleagues were known as "computers" when that term was used not for a programmed electronic device but for a person who did computations. Johnson had a groundbreaking career of 33 years with the space agency, working on the Mercury and Apollo missions, including the first moon landing in 1969, and the early years of the space shuttle program. During the space race that began in the late 1950s, Johnson and her co-workers ran the numbers for unmanned rocket launches, test flights and airplane safety studies using pencils, slide rules and mechanical calculating machines. But they did their work in facilities separate from white workers and were required to use separate restrooms and dining facilities. Johnson was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama in 2015 and in 2016 he cited her in his State of the Union Address as an example of America's spirit of discovery.
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African-American country singer Charley Pride, whose No. 1 country hits included "All I Have to Offer You (Is more
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2013年 6月 1日 Saturday
African-American country singer Charley Pride, whose No. 1 country hits included "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)" and "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin,'" died on December 12 at age 86 of complications from COVID-19. Pride was not the first Black artist to make important contributions to country music, but he was a trailblazer who emerged during a time of division and rancor. Between 1967 and 1987, Pride delivered 52 Top 10 country hits, won Grammy awards and became RCA Records' top-selling country artist, according to the website. "We're not color blind yet, but we've advanced a few paces along the path and I like to think I've contributed something to that process," Pride wrote in his memoir. The Mississippi native picked cotton, served in the U.S. Army and played baseball in the Negro league before moving to Nashville, becoming the first Black country star. He joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000, Rolling Stone magazine said.
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Jerry Stiller, who played two of American television's most cantankerous fathers on the sitcoms "Seinfeld" andmore
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2006年 12月 18日 Monday
Jerry Stiller, who played two of American television's most cantankerous fathers on the sitcoms "Seinfeld" and "The King of Queens," died May 11 aged 92. In 1993, Stiller had thought his entertainment career was nearing an end when he got a phone call from Larry David, co-creator of "Seinfeld," about joining the cast led by comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The show, one of the most highly regarded in U.S. TV history, was in its fourth season at the time but Stiller said he had never watched a minute of it and had to ask, "Who's Seinfeld?" The show ended its nine-year run in 1998 and that same year Stiller moved into another sitcom dad role on "The King of Queens."
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"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" author John le Carre, who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold Warmore
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2020年 1月 31日 Friday
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" author John le Carre, who cast flawed spies on to the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry, died December 12 aged 89. David Cornwell, known to the world by his pen name of John le Carre, explored treachery at the heart of British intelligence in spy novels. He challenged Western assumptions about the Cold War by defining for millions the moral ambiguities of the battle between the Soviet Union and the West. Unlike the glamour of Ian Fleming's unquestioning James Bond, le Carre's heroes were trapped in the wilderness of mirrors inside British intelligence which was reeling from the betrayal of Kim Philby, who fled to Moscow in 1963. His bleak portrayal of the Cold War shaped popular Western perceptions of the rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States that dominated the second half of the 20th century until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Betrayal of family, lovers, ideology and country run through le Carre's novels which use the deceit of spies as a way to tell the story of nations, particularly Britain's sentimental failure to see its own post-imperial decline.
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"Glee" star Naya Rivera died of accidental drowning on July 8, marking the third tragic passing of a cast membmore
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2014年 1月 9日 Thursday
"Glee" star Naya Rivera died of accidental drowning on July 8, marking the third tragic passing of a cast member from the popular television musical series. Rivera, 33, played cheerleader Santana Lopez on the 2009-2015 TV series about a high-school choir. She was found in Lake Piru, near Los Angeles, five days after going missing on a boating trip with her young son. Rivera's 4-year-old son, Josey, who was discovered alone and sleeping on the boat, told authorities he and his mother had both gone swimming in the lake. Sheriff's officials said it was not clear what happened, but that Rivera's son had told investigators his mother pushed him back into the boat but did not get back in herself.
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Chuck Yeager, the steely test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person tomore
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2009年 5月 15日 Friday
Chuck Yeager, the steely test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier in 1947, died December 7 at the age of 97. Yeager, an unlikely candidate to become one of the most famous aviators in history, joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941 just to work on the engines of airplanes, not to fly them. His first plane ride made him throw up. Yeager was passed over for the burgeoning U.S. space program because he never went to college but he was hardly heartbroken not to become an astronaut. He considered them mere passengers "throwing the right switches on instructions from the ground." Author Tom Wolfe made Yeager a prominent character in "The Right Stuff," his 1979 book about the early days of the space program. Wolfe said Yeager was blessed with "the right stuff" that made him a legendary test pilot but Yeager said it was more a matter of luck, better-than-average vision and a thorough knowledge of his planes. Those attributes served Yeager well in World War Two. Flying a P-51 Mustang named Glamorous Glennis in tribute to his girlfriend, Glennis Dickhouse, he was credited with 12 "kills" of German planes - including five in a single dogfight. After the war he became a test pilot and was assigned to Muroc Air Force Base in California as part of the secret XS-1 project, which had a goal of hitting Mach 1, the speed of sound. Yeager was a 24-year-old captain, testing out a dozen planes a week, when he first outraced sound on Oct. 14, 1947, in the bright orange Bell X-1 craft.
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Viacom and CBS Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who took his father's movie theater chain anmore
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2012年 5月 3日 Thursday
Viacom and CBS Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who took his father's movie theater chain and built it into an empire that included Paramount Pictures, CBS and MTV, died August 11 at 97. Redstone, as executive chairman of both Viacom Inc and CBS Corp, had controlled the two companies through privately held National Amusements. But in his early 90s, the state of Redstone's physical and mental health set off an avalanche of corporate maneuvering over his media holdings that resulted in him stepping down in 2016 as executive chairman of both companies. CBS and Viacom were combined from 2000 to 2006, when Redstone separated them in an attempt to unleash the value of Viacom's cable channels. His position as one of the world's leading media moguls had begun fading in 2015 as those close to him began questioning his mental capacity. The long-running legal battle that ensued put him at odds with a former girlfriend and long-time confidante Philippe Dauman but reunited him with his daughter Shari, from whom he had been estranged. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
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Regis Philbin, a familiar face to TV viewers as an energetic and funny talk and game show host who logged moremore
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2011年 11月 19日 Saturday
Regis Philbin, a familiar face to TV viewers as an energetic and funny talk and game show host who logged more hours in front of the camera than anyone else in the history of U.S. television, died July 24 at the age of 88. He was known for his rough edges, funny anecdotes, self-deprecating humor and a Bronx accent that was once described as sounding "like a racetrack announcer with a head cold." American comedian and late-night host David Letterman, a long-time friend, called Philbin the funniest man on television. Philbin - known to fans as "Reeg" - was a fixture on various local and national shows for a half century with co-hosts including Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa, winning millions of fans as well as honors as the top U.S. talk and game show host. He hosted the successful "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" program when it debuted in the United States in 1999 as well as other game shows. Philbin signed a deal in 2000 making his salary for "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" $20 million a year, the most ever for a game show host. Guinness World Records listed him as having put in more time on camera than anyone else in the history of U.S. television - about 17,000 hours.
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French designer Pierre Cardin, who upended fashion styles in the 1960s and 70s with futuristic looks, died at more
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2020年 12月 29日 Tuesday
French designer Pierre Cardin, who upended fashion styles in the 1960s and 70s with futuristic looks, died at the age of 98. Cardin was also known for overhauling the fashion industry by successfully licensing his brand name and making savvy business moves.
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Neil Peart, the drummer of Rush, died January 7 at the age of 67. Among the most admired drummers in rock musimore
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2006年 2月 6日 Monday
Neil Peart, the drummer of Rush, died January 7 at the age of 67. Among the most admired drummers in rock music, Peart was famous for his massive drum kits -- more than 40 different drums were not out of the norm -- precise playing style and onstage showmanship. He joined Rush in 1974 alongside frontman and bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson. The Canadian band played a final tour in 2015 culminating in a final show at the Forum in Los Angeles. Often used as a punchline in movies and pop culture, Rush was among the biggest bands of the last 50 years, selling millions of albums in a career that spanned 19 studio albums and multiple live collections as well as elaborate box sets.
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Author Larry Kramer, whose early advocacy for a national response to AIDS as the disease first emerged in the more
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2019年 6月 27日 Thursday
Author Larry Kramer, whose early advocacy for a national response to AIDS as the disease first emerged in the 1980s helped raise awareness and shape healthcare policy into the 1990s, died May 27 at age 84. Kramer, who co-founded the ACT UP movement that made AIDS a national issue, died of pneumonia after enduring illness for much of his life, including his own battle with AIDS, said his close friend Will Schwalbe. Kramer, whose works include the award-winning 1985 play, "The Normal Heart," established himself as a fierce advocate for LGBTQ rights as the gay community, including many of his friends, became afflicted with AIDS, a newly emergent disease in the 1980s. He co-founded the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) organization in 1981 to help AIDS victims before co-founding the more militant ACT UP in 1987.
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Aimee Stephens, a transgender woman at the center of a major LGBT rights battle, died May 12 at age 59, just amore
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2019年 10月 9日 Wednesday
Aimee Stephens, a transgender woman at the center of a major LGBT rights battle, died May 12 at age 59, just as a ruling is anticipated in her workplace discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Her case before the nation's highest court involves whether or not a Detroit funeral home violated federal law by firing Stephens after she revealed plans to transition to female from male. The court is considering whether gay and trans workers are covered under the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion. The administration of President Donald Trump has argued that sexual orientation or gender identity are not covered by the law, and the ruling is expected to have implications for workplace discrimination protections for transgender workers. "Aimee did not set out to be a hero and a trailblazer, but she is one, and our country owes her a debt of gratitude for her commitment to justice," said Chase Strangio, one of the ACLU attorneys representing her. "When Aimee decided to fight back after she was fired for being transgender, she just wanted it to be acknowledged that what happened to her was wrong."
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Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" who built his ground-breaking sound with a bomore
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2006年 2月 5日 Sunday
Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" who built his ground-breaking sound with a boiling blend of boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues and gospel, died on May 9 at the age of 87. Richard, a Grammy Award winner and inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame whose electrifying 1950s hits such as "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" and flamboyant stage presence influenced legions of performers, succumbed to cancer. At his peak in the late 1950s and early '60s, Richard shouted, moaned, screamed and trilled hits while pounding the piano like a mad man and punctuating lyrics with an occasional shrill "whoooo!" The music drew in both young black and white fans at a time when parts of the United States still were strictly segregated. Many white artists, such as Pat Boone, had their own hit versions of Richard's songs, albeit considerably toned down and "safer" for the pop audience. "I've always thought that rock 'n' roll brought the races together," Richard once told an interviewer. "Although I was black, the fans didn't care. I used to feel good about that."
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Magician Roy Horn, who alongside Siegfried Fischbacher starred in a popular, long-running Las Vegas act built more
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2008年 6月 13日 Friday
Magician Roy Horn, who alongside Siegfried Fischbacher starred in a popular, long-running Las Vegas act built around rare tigers, died on May 8 from of complications of COVID-19, the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper reported. He was 75. Fischbacher and Horn, who were both born in Germany, co-founded their stage act after meeting on a cruise ship in the late 1950s before bringing the show to Las Vegas in 1967 and performing for the next four decades. "Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend," Fischbacher said in a statement to the Review-Journal. "From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried." Horn was seriously injured in 2003 when he was mauled by a white tiger during a performance at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas on his 59th birthday. The attack ended their show on the Las Vegas strip but the pair continued to make public appearances.
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Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor who brought versatility and style to recent hit films and had roles in Hollywood more
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2013年 9月 9日 Monday
Irrfan Khan, an Indian actor who brought versatility and style to recent hit films and had roles in Hollywood movies such as "Life of Pi" and "The Namesake," died on April 29 aged 54. He was among the first Indian actors to make a consistent mark in Western cinema. Khan worked in serials for Indian television for close to a decade and sought bit parts in films. In 2001, as he was close to giving up, British filmmaker Asif Kapadia offered him the lead role in "The Warrior." The film won a BAFTA for Best British Film and was Britain's entry to the Oscars. It also opened the doors to Hollywood, which appreciated Khan long before Bollywood claimed him. He went on to act in indie hits such as Mira Nair's "The Namesake," winning praise for his sensitive portrayal of a man who moves to the United States and grapples with the crises of identity that first-generation immigrants can face.
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Bill Withers, a soulful singer best known for the 1970s hits "Lean on Me," "Lovely Day" and "Ain't No Sunshinemore
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2006年 6月 27日 Tuesday
Bill Withers, a soulful singer best known for the 1970s hits "Lean on Me," "Lovely Day" and "Ain't No Sunshine," died March 30 at age 81 from heart complications, Rolling Stone magazine reported, citing a statement from his family. "A solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world at large, with his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other," the statement said. "As private a life as he lived close to intimate family and friends, his music forever belongs to the world. In this difficult time, we pray his music offers comfort and entertainment as fans hold tight to loved ones." Withers produced nine albums, most of them written and recorded in the 1970s, starting with the album "Just As I Am," which included "Ain't No Sunshine," which won him the first of three Grammy Awards, according to his official website. His musical career ebbed in the 1980s as he left "the hype and the hoopla" of the musical spotlight for a more private life, it said.
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Rocker Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and founding member of the hugely successful rock band named after him and hmore
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2012年 1月 6日 Friday
Rocker Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and founding member of the hugely successful rock band named after him and his drummer brother, died October 6 at the age of 65. He was born in Amsterdam in 1955 and studied classical piano after moving with his family to the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena in the early 1960s. After switching to guitar, Eddie and his older brother Alex, who had taken up the drums, formed the early bands that would eventually become Van Halen in the 1970s, with lead singer David Lee Roth and bass player Michael Anthony. The hard rock band, featuring Eddie Van Halen's explosive guitar solos, quickly became a staple of the famed Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles before releasing their eponymous debut album in 1978. That album shot to No. 19 on the Billboard charts, becoming one of the most successful debuts of the decade. It was the first in a string of top-selling albums that would make Van Halen one of the biggest rock acts of the late 1970s and early 1980s with hits like "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," "Jump," "Panama" and "Hot for Teacher." Eddie Van Halen's pioneering, virtuoso technique earned him a place along with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin as one of rock's top guitarists. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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David Dinkins, who served as New York City's first and only African-American mayor during the 1990s, died Novemore
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2017年 1月 10日 Tuesday
David Dinkins, who served as New York City's first and only African-American mayor during the 1990s, died November 23 at the age of 93. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Dinkins attended Howard University and Brooklyn Law School. He eventually came to Harlem, the historically Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan, where he rose in the ranks of local politics. In Harlem, Dinkins formed part of a group of Black power brokers, known as the "Gang of Four," that included congressman Charles Rangel, Percy Sutton and Basil Paterson, the father of future New York Governor David Paterson. Dinkins defeated the three-term incumbent Democrat Mayor Ed Koch in the primary and then Republican prosecutor Rudy Giuliani in the 1989 mayoral race. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recognized the former mayor's achievements in a statement: "Winning his election against all odds, he showed us what was possible at a time when opportunities were limited." New York, during Dinkins' term, was battling high crime, a fierce economic recession and the AIDS epidemic.
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British travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris, who as a journalist broke the 1953 news of Edmund Himore
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2008年 3月 1日 Saturday
British travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris, who as a journalist broke the 1953 news of Edmund Hillary's conquest of Everest, died November 20 at the age of 94. Morris, who first published under the name James, switched to Jan after undergoing gender reassignment in 1972 and was the author of more than three dozen books. She ranked highly among travel writers, with Publishers Weekly once calling her "one of the most admired and imitated travel writers alive." Her books include "Manhattan '45," about New York in 1945, "Venice," the "Pax Britannica" trilogy about the decline of the British Empire, and "Conundrum" about her transition. In a BBC "Artsnight" interview with writer and broadcaster Michael Palin, himself a renowned traveler, Morris said her life had been "one self-centered exercise in self-satisfaction." "I've enjoyed this life very much and I admire it," she said. "I think it's been a very good and interesting life and I've made a whole of it quite deliberately."
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Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, who created his label in Paris in the 1970s, dimore
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2009年 3月 24日 Tuesday
Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, who created his label in Paris in the 1970s, died on October 4. Takada died of complications linked to COVID-19 at the age of 81. Known for his colorful motifs and original silhouettes, which mixed inspirations from Japan, such as the kimono, with other cuts, Takada also branched into perfumes and skincare lines, helping his business boom. He had retired from his eponymous label several decades ago, however, after selling it to LVMH, the world's biggest luxury group, in the early 1990s. Kenzo has since had several other creative directors, while Takada maintained close links to the world of fashion but explored other areas of design, including opera costumes and furniture. A New York Times review of one of Takada's early fashion shows in 1973 hailed an "ethnic mishmash that was joyous and full of fun," describing him as "one of the most imaginative designers in the world."
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Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, died December 22, just five days after her 50th birthday. Tennantmore
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2016年 12月 6日 Tuesday
Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, died December 22, just five days after her 50th birthday. Tennant was born into the Scottish aristocracy. Her unconventional, androgynous looks helped her break into the world of fashion in the 1990s. She went on to become the new face of Chanel and graced the covers of fashion magazines around the world. Away from the catwalk, Tennant campaigned to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry. "It's going to take us a long time to change our habits, but I think that this is so obviously a step in the right direction," she told the Guardian newspaper last year. Tennant retired from the fashion industry in 1998, returning on a part-time basis to shoot clothing campaigns and appear on the runway.
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Former National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern, who oversaw explosive growth in the popularitmore
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2010年 10月 27日 Wednesday
Former National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern, who oversaw explosive growth in the popularity of the game during his 30-year tenure, died January 1 at the age of 77. Under Stern, the NBA experienced extraordinary growth, with seven new franchises - including expansion to Canada in 1995 - a more than 30-fold increase in revenue, a dramatic gain in national TV exposure and the launch of the Women's National Basketball Association and NBA Development League. He also had a role in many other initiatives that helped shape the league, including a drug policy, salary-cap system and dress code. Stern's greatest accomplishment as commissioner is widely considered to be the way he transformed the NBA, once largely an unknown commodity outside the United States, into a globally televised powerhouse. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
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Roberta McCain, whose irrepressible spirit and energy helped shape the maverick tendencies of her older son, tmore
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2008年 10月 17日 Friday
Roberta McCain, whose irrepressible spirit and energy helped shape the maverick tendencies of her older son, the late Senator John McCain, died October 12 at the age of 108. McCain, who lived in Washington, was cherished by her late son, who represented Arizona as a Republican U.S. representative and senator for 35 years. She called him "Johnny" until his death from cancer at age 81 on Aug. 25, 2018. Roberta McCain's vibrance, charm and penchant for speaking her mind made her a popular attraction during her son's unsuccessful 2008 campaign for the presidency. "I want to correct you when you start telling all those big lies," she told him during a joint interview. McCain had taken his mother on the trail as a living response to those who thought that at age 71 he was too old to be president. She was 95 at the time, proving that longevity was a family trait, he said.
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Saeb Erekat, one of the most experienced and high-profile advocates for the Palestinian cause over decades of more
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2019年 7月 4日 Thursday
Saeb Erekat, one of the most experienced and high-profile advocates for the Palestinian cause over decades of dispute with Israel, died on November 10 after contracting COVID-19. He was 65. Having sat down with Israeli and U.S. leaders in the 1990s and 2000s, in recent years Erekat was the principal face of a war of words with President Donald Trump's administration over a Middle East plan that envisaged leaving Israel in control of Jewish settlements and large parts of the occupied West Bank. But after peace talks collapsed in 2014 he remained a firm backer of the negotiated creation of a future Palestinian state co-existing alongside Israel even if, in his own words, it took 50 years. Erekat, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said on Oct. 8 he had contracted the coronavirus. Three years earlier he had undergone a lung transplant in the United States that left his immune system compromised.
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"Gone With the Wind" star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollmore
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2006年 2月 7日 Tuesday
"Gone With the Wind" star Olivia de Havilland, considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died July 26 at the age of 104. De Havilland's acting career included two Academy Awards, a victory over Hollywood's studio system and a long-running feud with sister Joan Fontaine that was worthy of a screenplay. She first drew attention by playing opposite swashbuckling Errol Flynn in a series of films starting in the 1930s and made an enduring impression as the demure Southern belle Melanie in "Gone With the Wind" in 1939. Later she would have to fight to get more challenging roles - a battle that ended up in court but paid off with Oscars for "To Each His Own" in 1946 and "The Heiress" in 1949.
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Grammy-winning country singer Kenny Rogers died March 20 at the age of 81. Rogers, a three-time Grammy winner more
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2013年 11月 7日 Thursday
Grammy-winning country singer Kenny Rogers died March 20 at the age of 81. Rogers, a three-time Grammy winner and a Country Music Hall of Famer, was best known for songs like "The Gambler" and his 1983 duet with Dolly Parton "Islands in the Stream." After beginning his career in the 1950s with a jazz group, Rogers went solo in the 1970s and released his break-through single "Lucille" in 1977.
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American actress Kelly Preston, who has appeared in films including "Jerry Maguire" and "Twins," died July 12 more
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2018年 5月 14日 Monday
American actress Kelly Preston, who has appeared in films including "Jerry Maguire" and "Twins," died July 12 aged 57 after battling breast cancer for nearly two years, her husband John Travolta announced Sunday. Preston secured her first film role in the 1985 romcom "Mischief," then appeared in another teen comedy, "Secret Admirer." In the next few years Preston starred in films such as "SpaceCamp" and then "Twins" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. In "Jerry Maguire," she played Tom Cruise's fiancee Avery Bishop, then co-starred opposite Kevin Costner in "For Love of the Game." Preston last starred in the 2018 film "Gotti" in which she played Victoria Gotti, the wife of Mafia boss John Gotti, who was portrayed on screen by Travolta. Preston and Travolta met in 1988 when they appeared together in a film called "The Experts." They married in 1991. Preston is survived by her husband and their children - daughter Ella, 20, and 9-year-old son Benjamin. Their son Jett died at age 16 in January 2009 during a family vacation in the Bahamas.
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Fred Willard, the comic actor known for his genial but dunderheaded characters, died May 15 at age 86. He was more
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2011年 4月 27日 Wednesday
Fred Willard, the comic actor known for his genial but dunderheaded characters, died May 15 at age 86. He was an astonishingly ubiquitous presence especially on TV but also in movies for decades, though almost always in small but memorable roles. Willard was nominated four times for Emmy Awards, three of them for his role as Hank on "Everybody Loves Raymond." In 2015 he won a Daytime Emmy for a story arc as John Forrester on "The Bold and the Beautiful." The actor was long associated with improvisational comedy, going back to his days at Chicago's Second City in the 1960s and continuing with his small role in Rob Reiner's documentary-style "This Is Spinal Tap" and the Christopher Guest-directed comedic mockumentaries such as "Best in Show," "A Mighty Wind" and "Mascots."
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Terry Jones, one of the Monty Python comedy team and director of religious satire "Life of Brian," as well as more
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2012年 12月 1日 Saturday
Terry Jones, one of the Monty Python comedy team and director of religious satire "Life of Brian," as well as an author, historian and poet, died January 21 at the age of 77. Jones was one of the creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British TV show that rewrote the rules of comedy with surreal sketches, characters and catchphrases, in 1969. He co-directed the team's first film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" with fellow Python Terry Gilliam, and directed the subsequent Life of Brian and "The Meaning of Life." One of Jones' best-known roles was that of Brian's mother in Life of Brian released in 1979, who screeches at worshippers from an open window: "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy." Another was the hugely obese Mr Creosote who explodes in a restaurant at the end of an enormous meal after eating a "wafer-thin mint." As well as his comedy work, Jones wrote about medieval and ancient history, including a critique of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale."
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Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "The Mission" and "Cinema Pmore
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2019年 1月 22日 Tuesday
Ennio Morricone, whose scores for movies such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "The Mission" and "Cinema Paradiso" made him one of the world's most famous screen composers, died July 6 at age 91. Morricone won two Oscars and dozens of others awards including Golden Globes, Grammys and BAFTAs. He wrote for hundreds of films, television programs, popular songs and orchestras, but it was his friendship with Italian director Sergio Leone that brought him fame, with scores for Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood in the 1960s. They include the so-called "Dollars Trilogy" - "A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Morricone used unconventional instruments such as the Jew's harp, amplified harmonica, mariachi trumpets, cor anglais and the ocarina - an ancient Chinese instrument shaped like an egg. The music was accompanied by real sounds such as whistling, cracking of whips, gunshots and sounds inspired by wild animals including coyotes. He always tried to shake off the association with the Spaghetti Westerns, reminding people, particularly outside Italy, that he had a very creative and productive life before and after the films he made with Leone. "It's a strait-jacket. I just don't understand how, after all the films I have done, people keep thinking about 'A Fistful of Dollars'. People are stuck back in time, 30 years ago," the Maestro, as he was known in Italy, told Reuters in 2007. One of Morricone's most evocative soundtracks was for the 1986 film "The Mission," by Roland Joffe, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe.
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David Prowse, the English actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films, died November 28 aged more
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2007年 5月 25日 Friday
David Prowse, the English actor who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars films, died November 28 aged 85. The champion weightlifter-turned-actor starred as the body, but not the voice, of one of cinema's best-known villains. Director George Lucas opted to dub another voice onto Prowse's portrayal of the towering, masked antagonist Darth Vader in "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi." Prowse was honored by Queen Elizabeth in 2000 for services to charity and road safety after starring in a long running public campaign as a character called the Green Cross Code Man who encouraged pedestrian road safety.
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Legendary New York Yankees pitcher and six-time World Series champion Whitey Ford died October 8 at the age ofmore
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2007年 7月 8日 Sunday
Legendary New York Yankees pitcher and six-time World Series champion Whitey Ford died October 8 at the age of 91. Considered one of the greatest ever to put on the pinstripes, the born-and-raised New Yorker was a 10-time All-Star, earning the nickname "The Chairman of the Board" during his 16-season career, all of which he spent with the Yankees. Alongside fellow icons of the sport Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle, Ford helped usher in one of the Yankees' most successful eras in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in 11 World Series and winning the Cy Young award and the World Series MVP title in 1961. "I was a Yankee fan I guess since I was five or six years old," Ford said in his Hall of Fame induction speech. "To think when I was 21 years old I'd be playing with (Joe) DiMaggio and Berra ... it's just something I can't fathom."
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Kuwait's ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, regarded by many Gulf Arabs as a savvy diplomatic operatomore
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2017年 3月 29日 Wednesday
Kuwait's ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, regarded by many Gulf Arabs as a savvy diplomatic operator and a humanitarian champion, died September 29 at age 91. Kuwait's emir, an unwavering champion of Arab detente amid wars and regional tumult, helped lead his country out of the ruin of Iraq's 1990 invasion to renewed riches and a Gulf mediator role, first as its top diplomat and later as ruler. Keenly aware of Kuwait's small size and huge oil wealth, Sheikh Sabah saw astute diplomacy as crucial to its recovery from Iraq's seven-month occupation, navigating frequent tensions between much larger neighbors Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran. But he saw his dream of Gulf unity implode after a new generation of hawkish leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led a boycott of Qatar in mid-2017, shattering the 39-year-old Gulf Cooperation Council bloc he helped build and defend from external threats. Sabah kept strong ties with the United States, which led a coalition that ended Iraq's 1990-91 occupation and used Kuwait as a launchpad for the 2003 Iraq invasion.
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Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for hismore
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2010年 3月 21日 Sunday
Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), died October 7 at the age of 77. One of Mexico's most eminent scientists, Molina conducted some of his first experiments at a tender age in his childhood home before becoming a global authority on climate change. In 1995, Molina, Frank Sherwood Rowland and Paul Crutzen were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work showing how CFCs used in spray cans were destroying the ozone layer. In 2008, he was appointed a scientific adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama and also advised authorities in the Mexican capital on their efforts to reduce smog and air pollution, a chronic problem in the metropolis.
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Argentina's beloved cartoonist "Quino," whose comic character Mafalda with shock black hair and strong politicmore
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2014年 6月 15日 Sunday
Argentina's beloved cartoonist "Quino," whose comic character Mafalda with shock black hair and strong political views drew admirers around the world, died September 30 at the age of 88. Quino, the pen name of Joaquin Salvador Lavado, was able to use Mafalda's seeming innocence to spread scathing criticism, including of the dictatorships that plagued Latin America from the 1960s. He himself lived through military rule in Argentina. The comic strip, which narrated the daily life and reflections of the daughter from a typical Argentine middle-class marriage, was first published in 1964 but transcended generations due to the universality of Quino's ideas and was translated into 27 languages.
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Toots Hibbert, an influential and veteran Jamaican ska and reggae singer and founder of the band the Maytals, more
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2006年 2月 6日 Monday
Toots Hibbert, an influential and veteran Jamaican ska and reggae singer and founder of the band the Maytals, died September 11 at age 77. Hibbert was one of the early proponents of reggae in the late 1960s and is often credited with giving the genre its name with his 1968 hit song "Do the Reggay." Hibbert appeared in the groundbreaking 1972 film "The Harder They Come," which starred Jimmy Cliff. His 1969 song "Pressure Drop" was featured on the film's soundtrack and was covered by the Clash in 1978, introducing Hibbert to thousands of new listeners.
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Sir Harold Evans, a British-American editor whose 70-year career as a hard-driving investigative journalist, mmore
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2019年 9月 10日 Tuesday
Sir Harold Evans, a British-American editor whose 70-year career as a hard-driving investigative journalist, magazine founder, book publisher and author made him one of the most influential media figures of his generation, died September 23 at the age of 92. A former editor of Britain's Sunday Times and, at his death, Reuters editor-at-large, Evans put a unique stamp on investigative journalism. Championing causes either overlooked or denied, he and his team uncovered human rights abuses and political scandals, and advocated for clean air policies. One of his most famous investigations exposed the plight of hundreds of British thalidomide children who had never received any compensation for their birth defects. Evans organized a campaign to take on the drug companies responsible for manufacturing the drug, an effort that eventually won compensation for the families after more than a decade. "All I tried to do - all I hoped to do - was to shed a little light," Evans said in an interview with the Independent in 2014. "And if that light grew weeds, we'd have to try and pull them up."
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Tom Seaver, the Hall-of-Fame pitcher who won more than 300 games during his Major League Baseball career and lmore
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2009年 8月 23日 Sunday
Tom Seaver, the Hall-of-Fame pitcher who won more than 300 games during his Major League Baseball career and led the New York Mets to their unlikely 1969 World Series championship, died August 31 at the age of 75. Seaver, who was nicknamed "The Franchise" and "Tom Terrific" because of how valuable he was to the Mets, died from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19. Seaver captured the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1967 and then blossomed into greatness in 1969 when he won the National League Cy Young Award as the top pitcher after leading the major leagues in victories with 25. That was also the season the Mets, who had been among MLB's worst teams from their inception in 1962 and were known as the lovable losers, captured their first World Series title behind the powerful right arm of Seaver. Seaver, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, also played for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox during a major league career that spanned 1967-1986. He won 311 games and earned 12 All-Star selections. "It is an honor to play this game, to be blessed with talent," Seaver once said. "It was an art form, a physical and mental art form."
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Singer Helen Reddy, whose 1972 song "I Am Woman" became a global feminist anthem, died aged 78 on September 29more
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2015年 2月 1日 Sunday
Singer Helen Reddy, whose 1972 song "I Am Woman" became a global feminist anthem, died aged 78 on September 29. Born in Australia, Reddy moved to the United States in her early 20s after winning a talent contest. She initially found success with the song "I Don't Know How To Love Him" in 1971. But her song "I Am Woman" went to No. 1 in 1972 and launched her global stardom and she followed it up with a string of hits, such as "Delta Dawn," "Angie Baby" and "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady." She hosted her own TV variety show "The Helen Reddy Show" and starred in Hollywood films. Reddy was the world's top-selling female vocalist in 1973 and 1974. Her career tapered in the 1980s before she officially retired 2002.
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John Hume, the Roman Catholic architect of Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace agreement who won the Nobmore
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2006年 2月 8日 Wednesday
John Hume, the Roman Catholic architect of Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace agreement who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending 30 years of sectarian violence, died August 3 at the age of 83. A veteran civil rights campaigner credited with kick-starting peace negotiations in a British region convulsed by bloodshed in the early 1990s, Hume shared the Peace Prize with Northern Ireland's then-first minister, David Trimble of the Protestant Ulster Unionist Party. Hume in 1968 joined a movement to protect the civil rights of the province's pro-Irish Catholic minority, fighting against discrimination by the pro-British Protestant majority in everything from housing to education. As leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Hume was an important advocate of non-violence as fighting erupted between Irish nationalists who wanted a united Ireland and pro-British forces, including the British Army, who wanted to maintain the region's British status. In a pivotal breakthrough, Hume in 1993 took part in pioneering talks with Gerry Adams, who was at the time the leader of the Sinn Fein party that was then the political wing of the guerrilla Irish Republican Army (IRA). The talks helped pave the way for a joint initiative by the British and Irish governments in 1993 that spawned a peace process and an IRA truce in 1994 - and ultimately paved the way for the watershed Good Friday accord four years later.
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Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, who died on July 30 aged 97, was dubbed "Mr. Democracy" for burying automore
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2006年 4月 2日 Sunday
Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, who died on July 30 aged 97, was dubbed "Mr. Democracy" for burying autocratic rule in favor of freewheeling pluralism, and thrived on defying China's drive to absorb an island it regards as a wayward province. Lee hoped for Taiwan to be "a country of democracy, freedom, human rights and dignity, where one does not have to be ruled by others and where everyone can say out loud 'I'm Taiwanese'," he told a 2012 election rally. Lee's greatest act of defiance was becoming Taiwan's first democratically elected president in March 1996, achieved with a landslide following eight months of intimidating war games and missile tests by China in waters around the island. The government of Taiwan, formally the Republic of China, was established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek, after his Nationalist forces lost control of the mainland to Mao Zedong's Communists and fled to the island, which lies some 112 miles across the Taiwan Strait off China's southeast coast. Lee became the Nationalist party chairman and Taiwan's president upon the 1988 death of Chiang's son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Eight years after assuming the role, Lee's push for full democracy culminated with the island's first direct presidential vote. The first president born on the island, Lee's tough language towards mainland China resonated with Taiwan's 23 million people. He once described Taiwan-China ties as a "special state-to-state relationship," infuriating Beijing. He also sought to snap cultural links in favor of a distinct Taiwanese identity.
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South African anti-apartheid campaigner Andrew Mlangeni, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela in 1964 aftermore
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2013年 7月 19日 Friday
South African anti-apartheid campaigner Andrew Mlangeni, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela in 1964 after a treason trial, died July 21 at the age of 95. Mlangeni spent 26 years in jail and was the last of the eight defendants in the trial to die. President Cyril Ramaphosa, who fought with Mlangeni for racial equality and an end to white minority rule, described him as a "beacon of ethical leadership and care for humanity" whose death marked the end of a generation of history and left the future in the hands of those who remained. In 1951, Mlangeni joined the youth wing of the African National Congress (ANC), and was later sent abroad for military training. On his return in 1963, he was arrested and stood trial alongside seven others including Mandela in what became known as the Rivonia trial. Mlangeni was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent with Mandela to Robben Island prison, the main jail used at the time for Black male anti-apartheid prisoners. After his release, he served as a member of parliament and lived in the township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, until his death.
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Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in the former Portuguese colony and bmore
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2006年 11月 20日 Monday
Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in the former Portuguese colony and became one of Asia's richest men, died May 26 at the age of 98. The flamboyant tycoon, who loved to dance and advised his nearest and dearest to shun gambling, headed one of the world's most lucrative gaming businesses through his flagship firm, SJM Holdings, valued at about $6 billion. Shielded from challengers by a four-decade monopoly on gambling, Ho helped transform Macau from a sleepy peninsula dotted with seedy, windowless gambling dens into the world's biggest casino center. But Ho's interests in Macau, on the coast of southeast China across the mouth of the Pearl River opposite Hong Kong, were not limited to the roulette wheels and baccarat tables. His privately held company, Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau, or STDM, has stakes in everything from luxury hotels to helicopters and horse racing.
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Tanzania's former president Benjamin Mkapa, who worked to end conflict in East Africa during and after his decmore
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2008年 12月 8日 Monday
Tanzania's former president Benjamin Mkapa, who worked to end conflict in East Africa during and after his decade in power from 1995, died July 24 at the age of 81. Mkapa won the country's first multi-party elections in 1995 and was re-elected for a second five-year term in 2000. He led several regional peace mediation initiatives and afterwards continued to seek reconciliation in Burundi, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes region. Mkapa, a former journalist, also served as an ambassador, foreign minister and leading official of the ruling CCM party. Tanzania's third president following independence, he oversaw macroeconomic reforms that helped stabilize a struggling economy and secured debt relief from foreign donors.
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Christo, the Bulgarian-born artist best known for his temporary installations based on wrapping the exteriors more
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2018年 6月 18日 Monday
Christo, the Bulgarian-born artist best known for his temporary installations based on wrapping the exteriors of landmark buildings, bridges and outdoor spaces, died May 31 at age 84 of natural causes at his home in New York City. Christo escaped from then-Communist Bulgaria in 1957, first to Prague and then to Vienna and Geneva. A year later, he moved to Paris, where he met his wife and art partner, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon. He lived in New York for 56 years. In 2018, he presented "The London Mastaba" - a 66-foot-high (20-meter) sculpture of an ancient Egyptian tomb, made from 7,506 red, white and mauve barrels put on a platform in a lake in London's Hyde Park. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, are also known for such works as "The Gates," a 2005 installation in New York's Central Park, and the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995 in a vast silvery curtain. His latest project envisioned wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 269,100 square feet (25,000 square meters) of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue and 23,000 feet (7,000 meters) of red rope.
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Florian Schneider, co-founder of pioneering German electronic band Kraftwerk (R, performing in Montreux in Julmore
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2006年 2月 7日 Tuesday
Florian Schneider, co-founder of pioneering German electronic band Kraftwerk (R, performing in Montreux in July 2005), died May 6 of cancer aged 73, longtime bandmate Ralf Huetter said. Kraftwerk have been a major influence for musicians ranging from Detroit techno star Juan Atkins to pop act the Pet Shop Boys and David Bowie, and is widely seen as among the first to popularize electronic music, with eventual commercial success. Schneider and Huetter founded Kraftwerk in 1970 after meeting at a music academy in Duesseldorf, the German industrial city that they made their base, and they rapidly dispensed entirely with acoustic instruments. The son of prominent modern architect Paul Schneider-Esleben, Schneider started out playing the flute, later customizing it with original electronic effects and applying the same techniques to violins and electric guitars. Subsequent artists like the Pet Shop Boys credit Kraftwerk's brand of rhythmic, minimalist noise, often generated on home-made electronic instruments at "Kling-Klang," their studio-cum-laboratory in Duesseldorf, with transforming the sound of popular music, starting out less than a year after the Woodstock rock festival. Autobahn (1974) was a surprise international hit and the band's most memorable, a tone poem evoking the sonic monotony of cruising down Germany's sleek motorways with the sounds of doppler-shifted car horns and badly-tuned radios.
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Country music band leader Charlie Daniels, singer and fiddler player on the Grammy-winning hit "The Devil Wentmore
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2016年 11月 3日 Thursday
Country music band leader Charlie Daniels, singer and fiddler player on the Grammy-winning hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," died July 6 at age 83. Daniels, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry, died from a stroke. A fiddler, guitarist, singer and songwriter, Daniels founded The Charlie Daniels Band in 1972 and maintained a busy tour schedule for decades with more than 100 dates each year. The band's hits included "Uneasy Rider," "Long Haired Country Boy" and "In America." The 1979 song "Devil Went Down to Georgia," which featured Daniels on vocals and fiddle, has been called one of the best country songs of all time. The song, the story of a young man who challenges the devil to a fiddle-playing contest, won a Grammy for best country vocal by a group. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daniels began his career playing in a bluegrass band before moving to Nashville to work as a session musician for artists including Bob Dylan. He also recorded gospel albums and won a Dove Award in 1995.
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Carl Reiner, a driving force in American comedy as a writer for television pioneer Sid Caesar, partner of Mel more
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2010年 1月 31日 Sunday
Carl Reiner, a driving force in American comedy as a writer for television pioneer Sid Caesar, partner of Mel Brooks and creator and co-star of the classic sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show," died June 30 at age 98. His career spanned seven decades and every medium from theater and recordings to television and movies, including directing "Oh, God!," three collaborations with Steve Martin and a role as an elderly con man in the revived "Ocean's Eleven" series. Reiner is survived by three children, including Rob Reiner, director of several hit movies and known for playing Archie Bunker's son-in-law "Meathead" in the hit TV comedy "All in the Family." Reiner's wife of 64 years, Estelle, died in 2008. Reiner expressed his approach to his work in his book "My Anecdotal Life," when he said, "Inviting people to laugh at you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be the fool but you are the fool in charge."
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Indian actor Rishi Kapoor, who starred in celebrated Bollywood movies such as "Bobby" and "Mera Naam Joker," dmore
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2009年 8月 27日 Thursday
Indian actor Rishi Kapoor, who starred in celebrated Bollywood movies such as "Bobby" and "Mera Naam Joker," died on April 30 at age 67 after a two-year battle with leukemia, his family said. Kapoor came from a family of actors. His grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor, father Raj Kapoor, brothers Randhir and Rajeev, and his son, nieces and nephews have all played roles in films. He made his debut at the age of 16, playing a younger version of his father's character in the 1970 film "Mera Naam Joker" (My Name is Joker), and later made a name for himself as a fresh-faced romantic hero.
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Linda Tripp, the former U.S. civil servant whose secretly taped telephone conversations with former White Housmore
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2006年 2月 7日 Tuesday
Linda Tripp, the former U.S. civil servant whose secretly taped telephone conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky documented the sex scandal that led to then-President Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment, died on April 8 at age 70. Tripp was a secretary in the White House counsel's office in the early years of Clinton's presidency before she was transferred to the Pentagon's public affairs office and befriended Lewinsky, 24 years her junior. As the two became close, Tripp began clandestinely recording their private telephone conversations in which Lewinsky documented her affair with the president in graphic detail. Tripp ultimately turned over hours of those tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who was investigating potential wrongdoing by Clinton, the former Arkansas governor, stemming from the failed Whitewater real estate venture in the Ozarks. Tripp was granted immunity from illegal wiretapping charges in exchange for the recordings. On the basis of the tapes, Starr obtained permission to expand his probe into the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.
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The Reverend Joseph Lowery, a key ally of Martin Luther King in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s, dmore
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2009年 1月 21日 Wednesday
The Reverend Joseph Lowery, a key ally of Martin Luther King in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s, died March 27 at the age of 98. Lowery was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama in 2009, a few months after he had given the benediction at Obama's inauguration (pictured). Lowery co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King and other black ministers in 1957, to fight segregation across the U.S. South. He served for 20 years as its president before stepping down in 1998. He continued working for racial equality into his 90s. He spoke against South African apartheid, sought better conditions in U.S. jails, pushed for more economic opportunities for minorities, promoted AIDS education and railed against what he saw as government indifference toward the lower classes.
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Manolis Glezos, a prominent Greek whose act of defiance against Nazi occupation during World War Two was a ralmore
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2012年 5月 4日 Friday
Manolis Glezos, a prominent Greek whose act of defiance against Nazi occupation during World War Two was a rallying cry for the country's resistance movement, died March 30 at the age of 97. Revered across Greece's political spectrum, Glezos was most famous for scaling the steep walls of the Acropolis with a friend in 1941 to take down the swastika and replace it with the Greek flag. It was the first visible act of resistance against the Nazis, who occupied Greece between 1941 and 1944. He was sentenced to death in absentia. With his white mane of hair and thick mustache, Glezos was a recognizable fixture in leftist politics. In his late eighties, he braved police teargas at protest rallies against tough cuts imposed in exchange for international bailouts that kept the Greek economy afloat between 2010 and 2015. At the age of 91, in 2014, he became a member of the European Parliament representing Syriza, the left-wing party which came to power in 2015. He resigned a year later. Asked what had kept him at the forefront of politics for so long, Glezos told Reuters in 2012 that it was the memories of dead comrades. "Before every battle, every protest, we told each other: 'If you live, don't forget me'. I am paying a debt to those I lost during those difficult years. My only regret is that I haven't done more."
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Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally died March 24 of complications related to the coronavirus at agmore
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2015年 4月 30日 Thursday
Tony award-winning playwright Terrence McNally died March 24 of complications related to the coronavirus at age 81. The Broadway theater veteran was a lung cancer survivor and had lived with a chronic respiratory condition. McNally's career spanned six decades, encompassing plays, musicals and operas. It ranged from AIDS dramas "Lips Together, Teeth Apart," to domestic drama "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," and the stage musical adaptation of movie "The Full Monty." He was given a lifetime achievement award at the 2019 Tony Awards ceremony in New York, adding to the four he received for "Love! Valour! Compassion," "Master Class" and the books of the musical versions of "Ragtime" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman." REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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World-famous singer and saxophonist Manu Dibango died March 24 from a coronavirus infection at the age of 86 imore
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2020年 3月 24日 Tuesday
World-famous singer and saxophonist Manu Dibango died March 24 from a coronavirus infection at the age of 86 in France. Cameroon-born Dibango arrived in France in the early 1950s and studied jazz and saxophone in Reims, where he started playing in clubs, according to a biography on his Facebook page. In the early 1960s, his style of playing took on more African rhythms as he collaborated with Brussels-based musicians from Congo and he began touring in Africa, developing his trademark pumping saxophone rhythms. In the late 1960s, Dibango started his own band, played with a string of French musicians and in 1972 he had a major hit with "Soul Makossa," a song that brought him international success and was reinterpreted by many other artists.
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James Lipton, the creator and host of the long-running U.S. television show "Inside the Actors Studio" died Mamore
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2016年 1月 18日 Monday
James Lipton, the creator and host of the long-running U.S. television show "Inside the Actors Studio" died March 2 at the age of 93. Lipton hosted in-depth interviews with hundreds of Hollywood stars for more than 20 years, including Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Robin Williams, Paul Newman, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Lauren Bacall, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise and many more. His interviews ended with a list of rapid-fire questions, including "If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?" and "What is your favorite curse word?"
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Albert Uderzo, illustrator and co-creator of famous comic series "Asterix and Obelix ," died March 24 at age 9more
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2009年 10月 8日 Thursday
Albert Uderzo, illustrator and co-creator of famous comic series "Asterix and Obelix ," died March 24 at age 92. Uderzo and author Rene Goscinny are known as the "fathers" of the French comic series about a small village of Gauls who stand up to Roman occupiers. Uderzo was initially the illustrator of the comic strip written by Goscinny, who died in 1977. After Goscinny's death, Uderzo wrote and illustrated the series until he retired in 2009. Asterix, the mustachioed hero, who has been entertaining readers with his magic-potion exploits alongside Obelix since 1959, has become a mainstay in the publishing industry, with more than 370 million albums sold worldwide.
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Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who died February 4 aged 95, held power for longer than any other leamore
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2006年 2月 6日 Monday
Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who died February 4 aged 95, held power for longer than any other leader since independence and left a legacy of corruption that still haunts the East African nation today. Moi was usually pictured carrying an ivory baton and described by critics as a virtual dictator. But, for all its poverty, he left Kenya more stable than many other countries in the region emerging from colonial rule. The then vice-president came to power in 1978 when President Jomo Kenyatta died. Diplomats said an attempted coup four years later transformed him from a cautious, insecure leader into a tough autocrat. His government set up torture chambers in the basement of Nyayo House, a building in Nairobi's city center that now houses the immigration department. Thousands of activists, students and academics were held without charge in the underground cells, some of them partly filled with water. Prisoners say they were sometimes denied food and water. He won elections in 1992 and 1997 amid divided opposition. But he was booed and heckled into retirement when term limits forced him to step down in 2002 and he lived quietly for years on his sprawling estate in the Rift Valley.
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Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who died January 10 at age 79, transformed Oman during his 49-year reign from a povertmore
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2019年 1月 15日 Tuesday
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who died January 10 at age 79, transformed Oman during his 49-year reign from a poverty-stricken country torn by dissent into a prosperous state and an internationally trusted mediator for some of the region's thorniest issues. He became sultan in July 1970 after deposing his father in a palace coup with the aim of ending the country's isolation and using its oil revenue for modernization and development. Qaboos healed old rifts in a country long divided between a conservative tribal interior and seafaring coastal region. He became known to his countrymen as "the renaissance," investing billions of dollars of oil revenues in infrastructure and building one of the best-trained armed forces in the region. While brooking no dissent at home, Qaboos charted an independent foreign policy, not taking sides in a power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or in a Gulf dispute with Qatar. Muscat kept ties with both Tehran and Baghdad during the 1980--88 Iran--Iraq War, and with Iran and the United States after their diplomatic falling out in 1979. Oman helped to mediate secret U.S.-Iran talks in 2013 that led to an historic international nuclear pact two years later.
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Legendary journalist Jim Lehrer died January 23 at the age of 85. Lehrer, who co-founded "PBS NewsHour," anchomore
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2008年 9月 27日 Saturday
Legendary journalist Jim Lehrer died January 23 at the age of 85. Lehrer, who co-founded "PBS NewsHour," anchored the show for almost four decades before retiring in 2011. He moderated 12 president debates -- including all of the debates in 1996 and 2000 -- more than any other journalist in U.S. history.
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Former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, one of the architects of the 1998 Good Friday peamore
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2009年 5月 21日 Thursday
Former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, one of the architects of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, died January 24 aged 83, drawing tributes from across a political divide he helped to bridge. Mallon was a major political figure in Northern Ireland during the three decades of violence between Catholic nationalists seeking union with Ireland and Protestant unionists wanting Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. He went on to jointly head the devolved power-sharing administration that followed the peace deal and was remembered as a peacemaker who recognized, in his words, that Northern Ireland's divided communities could "live together in generosity and compassion or we can continue to die in bitter disharmony."
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