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News Articles: Obituaries

Kevin Conroy has died at age 66. He's shown above at New York Comic Con in 2019.

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Kevin Conroy, who died at 66, was maybe the greatest performer of Batman ever

Glen Weldon says actor Kevin Conroy, the voice of the Caped Crusader in Batman: The Animated Series and other projects, kept his portrayal cool, wry, and unforced.

November 11, 2022
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  • Glen Weldon
Gal Costa performs in São Paulo, Brazil in 2013.

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Gal Costa, piercing voice of Brazil's Tropicália movement, has died at 77

Costa's voice was a key part of the sound that combined Brazilian pop music, psychedelic rock and the avant-garde in the late 1960s.

November 09, 2022
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  • Lars Gotrich
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Remembering musician Mimi Parker, co-founder of the rock band Low

Mimi Parker, known for her chilling vocals and sparse drumming in the critically acclaimed rock band Low, died Saturday at age 55. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2020.

November 08, 2022
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  • Gus Contreras,
  • Patrick Jarenwattananon,
  • and 2 more
Mimi Parker performing in 2012 in Seattle, Wash.

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Mimi Parker, vocalist and drummer of the minimalist rock band Low, has died

The vocalist and drummer for the hauntingly minimalist rock band Low died on Saturday. She had been living with ovarian cancer.

November 07, 2022
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  • Hazel Cills
Singer Aaron Carter, pictured in 2012 in New York City, has died at 34.

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Singer and rapper Aaron Carter dies at 34

Carter had his first hit when he was just 9 years old. He went on to tour with his older brother's band, the Backstreet Boys, release four studio albums and appear on Dancing with the Stars.

November 06, 2022
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  • Chloe Veltman
Lois Curtis was the plaintiff in a civil rights case that gave people with disabilities and older people the right to live outside of institutions and in their own homes. Curtis died Thursday of cancer.

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Lois Curtis, who won a landmark civil rights case for people with disabilities, died

Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to live outside of institutions, has died.

November 05, 2022
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  • Joseph Shapiro
Lavender Country, led by singer and songwriter Patrick Haggerty, released what it widely considered the first openly gay country album in 1973. Haggerty died this week at age 78.

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Lavender Country's Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music's radical elder

Lavender Country's 1973 debut is considered the first openly gay country album. After the record was reissued in 2014, fans and fellow artists came to embrace Haggerty, who died Monday, as a pioneer.

November 02, 2022
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  • Jewly Hight
Author Julie Powell attends the premiere of "Julie & Julia" at The Ziegfeld Theatre, in New York, on July 30, 2009.

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Food writer Julie Powell, author of 'Julie & Julia,' dies at 49

Powell became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, leading to a book deal and a film adaptation.

November 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Takeoff of hip-hop group Migos, performing onstage during Global Citizen Live on Sept. 25, 2021 in LA.

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Takeoff, member of Atlanta rap group Migos, has died at 28

The rapper, part of Migos, the Atlanta group that was hugely commercially popular and both formally and culturally influential, was reportedly shot and killed in Houston on Tuesday.

November 01, 2022
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Jerry Lee Lewis, in a photo taken during his infamous trip to London in June 1958, when it became public that he was married to his 13-year-old cousin.

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Jerry Lee Lewis has died at age 87

The iconic rock 'n' roll pioneer and last living member of the "Million-Dollar Quartet" — whose meteoric rise collapsed almost as quickly as he ascended, thanks to scandal — has died at age 87.

October 30, 2022
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By:
  • Blake Farmer and
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of Harlem's legendary Abyssinian Baptist Church, died on Friday at home in New York City. He was 73.

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The Rev. Calvin Butts left behind a legacy of prayer and political activism

Butts died Friday at home New York of pancreatic cancer. He was 73. The pastor and powerbroker lived a life filled with prayer and political activism.

October 29, 2022
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  • Karen Grigsby Bates

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Remembering legendary UGA football coach Vince Dooley

Former University of Georgia football coach Vince Dooley, who led the University of Georgia to six SEC Championships and a national title, has died at the age of 90 at his home in Athens. 

October 28, 2022
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Jules Bass was the co-creator of the 1969 animated television Christmas special <em>Frosty The Snowman.</em>

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Jules Bass, co-creator of TV's 'Rudolph' and 'Frosty the Snowman,' dies at age 87

Bass pioneered stop-motion animation with Arthur Rankin Jr. The duo produced and directed 1960s TV classics including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman.

October 27, 2022
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  • Ashley Ahn
Scholar Mike Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book <em>City of Quartz</em> and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.

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Writer, truck driver, meat cutter and prophet of compassion Mike Davis dies at 76

Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book City of Quartz and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks during a news conference in June 2016 at the Pentagon.

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Ash Carter, the U.S. defense secretary who opened combat jobs to women, dies at 68

In December 2015, after three years of study and debate, Carter ordered the military to open all jobs to women. He also ended the Pentagon's ban on transgender people serving in the military.

October 25, 2022
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