Obituaries
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Jan Longone, Influential Scholar of Food History, Dies at 89
Jan Longone, a curious, cordial and diligent food scholar who started a mail-order cookbook business from her Michigan basement that…
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Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102
Bill Pitman, a guitarist who accompanied Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and others from the late 1950s to the…
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Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89
Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist known in America for children’s book illustrations and for covers for The New Yorker portraying…
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Paul Coker, Cartoonist at Mad for Almost Six Decades, Dies at 93
Paul Coker, a cartoonist who was best known for using monsters to parody clichés in Mad magazine over many decades…
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Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting ‘Legend’ in East Africa, Is Dead
Kamoya Kimeu, the son of a goat herder whose preternatural gift for spotting and identifying petrified tibias, skull fragments and…
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Gary Schroen, Who Led the C.I.A. Into Afghanistan, Dies at 80
Gary C. Schroen, a veteran C.I.A. operative who, just weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led the first…
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Chase Mishkin, Tony-Winning Producer of ‘Dame Edna,’ Dies at 85
Chase Mishkin, a prolific theatrical producer who received two Tony Awards, one for bringing the uninhibited Australian character Dame Edna…
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Judith Durham, Singer of ‘Georgy Girl’ and Other Hits, Dies at 79
Judith Durham, the lead vocalist of the 1960s Australian folk-pop band the Seekers, whose shimmering soprano voice and wholesome image…
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Lamont Dozier, Writer of Numerous Motown Hits, Dies at 81
Lamont Dozier, the prolific songwriter and producer who was crucial to the success of Motown Records as one-third of the…
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Olivia Newton-John, Pop Singer and ‘Grease’ Star, Dies at 73
Olivia Newton-John, who sang some of the biggest hits of the 1970s and ’80s while recasting her image as the…