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News Articles: Obituaries

Andy Rourke, who played bass for British rock band The Smiths, has died. He's seen here in 2013 in New York City.

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  • Music News

The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has died

On seminal Smiths recordings in the 1980s, guitarist Johnny Marr said, "Andy reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player." Rourke had been ill with pancreatic cancer. He was 59.

May 19, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
GPB  NPR

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  • Obituaries

Brazil's Queen of Rock, Rita Lee, has died

Rita Lee, the Brazilian singer, musician and composer, has died at 75.

May 12, 2023
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Hodding Carter III, then-president, CEO and trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, answers a question during a news conference in Washington, on  Nov. 24, 2003. Carter has died at age 88.

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  • Obituaries

Hodding Carter III, State Department spokesman during Iran hostage crisis, dies at 88

Carter was a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries.

May 12, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Agence France-Presse journalist Arman Soldin smiles as a cat stands on his shoulders in November in Ukraine. Colleagues of Soldin, who was killed in Ukraine on Tuesday, gathered solemnly at the press agency's Paris headquarters the day after his death to remember the 32-year-old.

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  • Europe

Tributes pour in for an AFP journalist killed in Ukraine

Arman Soldin was with a team of AFP journalists traveling with Ukrainian soldiers near the city of Bakhmut when the group came under fire. He was 32. The rest of the team escaped uninjured.

May 10, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A fan of the late Rita Lee pays his respects at the public wake in São Paulo, Brazil. His sign makes reference to "Ovelha Negra" (or black sheep in Portuguese), a song from 1975's <em>Fruto Proibido</em>.

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  • Music

Rita Lee, Os Mutantes singer and Brazilian rock pioneer, is dead at 75

The singer and co-founder of the psychedelic group died at home in São Paulo.

May 10, 2023
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  • Lars Gotrich
Grace Bumbry, in a 1963 portrait.

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  • Obituaries

Trailblazing opera star Grace Bumbry dies at age 86

The celebrated singer, who led an illustrious, jet-setting career, broke the color barrier as the first Black artist to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival.

May 09, 2023
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  • Brandon Gates
This 1976 file photo shows Oakland A's Vida Blue, the hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball's biggest draws in the early 1970's and helped lead brash Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series titles. Blue has died. He was 73. The A's said Blue died Saturday, May 6, 2023 but did not give a cause of death.

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  • Obituaries

Vida Blue, who won 3 World Series in a row with the Oakland Athletics, dies at 73

Blue was drafted in the second round of the 1967 MLB Draft to the Athletics. He spent nine seasons with the team, and was ultimately selected to six All-Star teams throughout his 17-year career.

May 08, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Newton Minow, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, appears before the House Antitrust Subcommittee which was probing newspaper competition, in 1963, in Washington, D.C. Minow died on Saturday.

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  • Obituaries

Newton Minow, former FCC chief and public TV advocate, has died at 97

Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a "vast wasteland," died on Saturday.

May 06, 2023
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  • Scott Neuman
Gordon Lightfoot, seen here performing at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards in 2012 in New York City, has died at the age of 84.

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  • Obituaries

Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84

The Canadian singer-songwriter wrote classics like "If You Could Read My Mind," "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

May 02, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby
Rabbi Harold Kushner, seen here on July 10, 2008, had a way with words that resonated with readers across the world and across religions.

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  • Obituaries

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People,' dies at 88

Kushner, whose words provided solace to millions of readers about life's most difficult questions, died on Friday while in hospice care in Canton, Mass.

April 29, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
GPB  NPR

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  • Obituaries

LeRoy Carhart, a doctor well known for performing late-term abortions, has died

The outspoken and controversial doctor, who specialized in providing second- and third-trimester abortion care, died on Friday at age 81.

April 28, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
GPB  NPR

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  • Obituaries

Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusations led to the killing of Emmett Till, has died

The white woman, whose accusations led to the killing of Emmett Till in 1955, has died. Carolyn Bryant Donham, had always insisted on her innocence in Till's murder.

April 28, 2023
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  • Michael Guidry
Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, has died in hospice care in Louisiana. She was 88.

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  • National

Carolyn Bryant Donham, who accused Emmett Till before he was lynched, dies at age 88

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows.

April 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Talk show host and former Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer died Thursday. He's pictured above in New York in 2010.

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  • Obituaries

Jerry Springer, talk show host and former Cincinnati mayor, dies at 79

He was best known for The Jerry Springer Show, which featured guests — real people from around the country — revealing shocking, often sordid details of their lives.

April 27, 2023
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  • Eric Deggans
A 1976 portrait of the singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte. He died Tuesday at age 96.

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  • Obituaries

Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and activist, has died at age 96

The iconic and barrier-breaking performer died Tuesday of congestive heart failure.

April 27, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
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