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<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/08/19/nx-s1-4534298/phil-donahue-dead"target="_blank"   ><strong>Read Phil Donahue's obituary</strong></a>

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Pioneer talk show host Phil Donahue dies at 88

The broadcaster was hailed as the father of the modern audience-participation daytime talk show. Donahue's taste for controversial and polarizing subjects birthed a new genre of television.

August 19, 2024
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  • Eric Deggans
French actor Alain Delon in 1976.

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Alain Delon, cinematic heartthrob and one of the most beloved French actors, has died

Delon starred in more than 80 movies over six decades, including such classics as "Le Samouraï" and "The Leopard." He was 88.

August 18, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
Members of the Los Angeles hard-rock group Great White are shown in this undated photo. Standing is Jack Russell.  Seated, from left to right, are Audie Desbrow, Mark Kendall and Michael Lardie.

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Jack Russell, the former singer of the band Great White, dies at 63

The band was behind such hits as “Once Bitten Twice Shy,” “The Angel Song” and “Rock Me.”

August 16, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
 Former NPR CEO John Lansing

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John Lansing, the steady CEO who led NPR through the pandemic's crises, dies at 67

Lansing tangled with titans, kept the network’s shows on the air even as its offices closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and steered NPR through what he defined as an “existential” financial crisis.

August 16, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
Host Peter Marshall appears at the 45th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center on April 29, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. Marshall, who spent 16 years as host of “The Hollywood Squares,” has died at 98.

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Peter Marshall, 'Hollywood Squares' host and Broadway star, dies at 98

Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98.

August 15, 2024
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Wally Amos pictured in 2007 in his home office in the Lanikai section of Kailua, Hawaii.

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Wally Amos, creator of Famous Amos cookies, has died

The creator of the grocery store snack aisle staple died at 88. His family said in a statement that he had dementia.

August 15, 2024
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  • Alana Wise
Gena Rowlands in 1968.

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Gena Rowlands, a luminous leading lady of independent film, has died

Actress Gina Rowlands has died. She collaborated with husband John Cassavetes on nearly a dozen films.

August 15, 2024
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  • Neda Ulaby
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022.

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Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley visionary, dies at 56

Over the past three decades, Susan Wojcicki had a knack for seeing a startup's potential. Her intuition helped shape the growth of YouTube and Google.

August 10, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Chi Chi Rodriguez smiles while signing an autograph at the Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, Mass., on June 9, 2006.

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'Chi Chi' Rodriguez, a Hall of Fame golfer who livened up the sport, dies at 88

Juan “Chi Chi” Rodriguez, whose antics on the greens and inspiring life story made him among the sport’s most popular players during a long professional career, died Thursday.

August 09, 2024
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 Georgia Aquarium CEO Dr. Brian Davis (Courtesy Georgia Aquarium)

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Georgia Aquarium CEO Brian Davis dies

Georgia Aquarium president and CEO Dr. Brian Davis has died, according to a statement from the aquarium.

August 07, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
Bill Bean, MLB's vice president of Social Responsibility and Inclusion, throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the San Francisco Giants in 2016 in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Billy Bean, second openly gay ex-MLB player, dies at 60

Bean, who became the second former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay in 1999 before becoming the sport’s senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, has died. He was 60.

August 06, 2024
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In 1957, Tsung-Dao Lee (third from left) became one of the youngest scientists to receive a Nobel Prize.

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97

The Chinese American physicist, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died on Sunday at his home in San Francisco.

August 06, 2024
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 Ina Jaffe

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Remembering the life and work of NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe

Longtime NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe has died. She was 75 years old, and had been living with cancer for the past few years.

August 01, 2024
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  • Karen Grigsby Bates
Lt. William L. Calley, Jr., pictured during his court martial at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 23, 1971. Calley, who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history, died on April 28 at a hospice center in Gainesville, Fla., <em>The Washington Post</em> reported on July 29. He was 80.

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William Calley, who led My Lai massacre that shamed U.S. military in Vietnam, has died

Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American military history. He was 80.

July 30, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Musician Toumani Diabaté of Mali and his 21-string kora, photographed at WOMAD -- the World of Music, Arts and Dance festival held yearly in the United Kingdom. Diabaté died on July 19 at age 58.<br>

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Toumani Diabaté plucked the kora's 21 strings. The world fell in love with his music

The musician died this month at age 58. His collaborators are paying tribute to "a great artist who belongs to the world.”

July 30, 2024
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