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Belgian Nobel Prize winner de Duve dies at 95
A Belgian university says that biochemist Christian de Duve, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1974, has died in an act of euthanasia. He was 95. His university, UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve, confirmed it was a case of euthanasia but did not disclose the method. De Duve ...
Ex-Ind. governor, HHS head Otis Bowen dies at 95
Otis R. Bowen, who overhauled Indiana's tax system as governor before helping oversee the federal response to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic during President Ronald Reagan's second term, has died. He was 95. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said in a statement Sunday that Bowen died Saturday at a nursing home in ...
Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98
Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States and performed until his mid-90s, has died. He was 98. Franklin succumbed to complications from pneumonia on Saturday at a Manhattan hospital, according to his lifelong partner, William Ausman. Franklin last appeared with the American Ballet ...
Spider called pivotal in Slayer guitarist death
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection. He'd been writing songs with the band in anticipation of recording a new album later this year. But in an unusual chain of events, a representative for the band said the bite ...
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman dies at 49
Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side. The guitarist had recently begun ...
Sexual revolution pioneer John Williamson dies
John Williamson, a pioneer of the 1960s sexual revolution as co-founder of Topanga Canyon's Sandstone Retreat, where nudity and free love once took place with abandon, has died at age 80. Williamson died of cancer March 24 at a hospital in Reno, Nev., said his wife, Barbara Williamson. The pair ...
Overdose suspected in death of Kris Kross rapper
The mother of rapper Chris Kelly told authorities in Atlanta her son became sick after taking cocaine and heroin on the night before he died, according to a police report. Kelly, half of the 1990s teen rap duo Kriss Kross, was found dead Wednesday of a suspected drug overdose. Kelly's ...
Native American activist Horse Capture dies
Native American activist, curator and professor George Horse Capture has died in Great Falls. He was 75. Horse Capture, a member of the Gros Ventre tribe, died April 16 of kidney failure, his family said. Horse Capture was an author, archivist and curator at the Plains Indian Museum at the ...
Early Hollywood superstar Deanna Durbin dies at 91
Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box office draws of Hollywood's Golden Age with fans that included Winston Churchill, has died. Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris where she had lived, out of public view, since 1949, ...
Oldest concentration camp survivor dead at 107
An Austrian organization that tracks the fate of Nazi concentration camp inmates says the oldest known survivor of such a camp has died aged 107. The Mauthausen Committee said Thursday that Leopold Engleitner died April 21. After refusing to renounce his faith as a Jehova's Witness, he survived three concentration ...
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