Obituaries in the News

Booth Gardner, a two-term Democratic governor who spearheaded a campaign that made Washington the second state in the country to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill, has died.

• Jack Greene, Country music's Jack Greene dies in Nashville

  

  Jack Greene, a longtime Grand Ole Opry star who earned fame with the hit "There Goes My Everything," has died in Nashville at 83.




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• Clive Burr, Former Iron Maiden drummer dies at 56

  

  Clive Burr, former drummer with heavy metal icons Iron Maiden, has died. He was 56 and had been suffering from multiple sclerosis.




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• Hugo Chavez, Fiery Venezuelan leader dies at 58

  

  President Hugo Chavez, the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer.




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• Claude King, Country singer dies at 90

  

  Country singer-songwriter Claude King, an original member of the Louisiana Hayride who was best known for the 1962 hit "Wolverton Mountain," has died. He was...




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• Robert E. Relyea, 'Bullitt' producer dies

  

  The film producer and director whose credits included "The Magnificent Seven" and "West Side Story" has died. Robert E. Relyea was 82.




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• Jack Curran, High school coaching great dies at 82

  

  Jack Curran, The 82-year-old coaching great from Archbishop Molloy High School died Thursday, the school said.




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• Princess Lilian, Swedish Princess dies at 97

  

  Lilian died in her Stockholm home on Sunday at age 97. The Royal Palace didn't give a cause of death, but Lilian suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had been...




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• Bonnie Franklin, "One Day At a Time" star dies at 69

  

  Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress who won fame as a divorced mom on the long-running sitcom "One Day at a Time," has died.




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• Ruth Ann Steinhagen
  Obsessed fan who shot player, inspired movie...

• Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz
  Argentine ex-economy minister dies

• Ieng Sary
  Khmer Rouge insider while on trial

• Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist
  Anti-Hitler conspirator dies at 90

• George Saimes
  Former Buffalo Bills star dies at 71

• Mariam Farhat
  Palestinian lawmaker, mother of militants,...

• Dr. Jacquelin Perry
  Pioneering polio surgeon dies

• Sybil Christopher
  Richard Burton's ex, theater producer, dies...

• Willy Switkes
  'Taxi Driver' character actor Switkes dies

• Dirk Coetzee
  SAfrica: apartheid hit squad leader dies