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Jonathan Frid, actor in "Dark Shadows", dies at 87

Jonathan Frid, a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera "Dark Shadows", has died. He was 87.

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Levon Helm, drummer and singer with The Band, dies at 71

Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs he sang that found their way onto the pop charts during his long tenure as drummer and singer for the Band: "Up On Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove...

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Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dead at age 71

Much of the Band's innovative sound was born in the "Big Pink."

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Men at Work musician Greg Ham found dead

Greg Ham, a member of the Australian band Men at Work whose saxophone and flute punctuated its smash 1980s hits, was found dead in his Melbourne home on Thursday.

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Jeffrey Chandler, part of family that built the L.A. Times, dies at 70

Jeffrey Chandler, an influential member of the family that built the Los Angeles Times and the last person with the Chandler name to play a significant role in the newspaper's ownership, has died. He...

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Manhattan Project scientist Cowan dies at 92

Devoted to finding a way for science to help society, not much escaped the influence of chemist George Cowan. From the Manhattan Project and the hunt for evidence of the Soviet Union's first nuclear...

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Jonathan Frid, actor who played key role on 'Dark Shadows,' dies at 87

Jonathan Frid, whose portrayal of charismatic vampire Barnabas Collins in the supernatural soap opera "Dark Shadows" turned the classically trained actor into a pop-culture star in the late 1960s, has...

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Charles Colson, Watergate felon and prison reformer, dies at 80

Watergate felon and prison reformer Charles W. Colson, who died Saturday at age 80 in Northern Virginia, was two people.

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Watergate figure Charles Colson has died at 80

He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction. His proclamations following his release that he was...

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NC author Doris Betts dies at 79 of lung cancer

Doris Betts, who wrote novels set in her native South and taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has died, her son said Sunday. She was 79.

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Nicholas King, actor who helped preserve the Watts Towers, dies at 79

Nicholas King was an actor and an assistant to renowned Hollywood photographer Bob Willoughby in the late 1950s when a close friend of Willoughby stopped by his home with intriguing news.

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John S. Ballard, mayor of Akron from 1966 to 1980, dies at 89

John S. Ballard, who led Akron as mayor during turbulent times from the mid-1960s through the 1970s, always "tried to do the right thing," his son said.

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George B. Rathmann, co-founder of biotech giant Amgen, dies at 84

George B. Rathmann, a far-sighted entrepreneur whose small team of talented scientists created two blockbuster drugs that helped turn his upstart Thousand Oaks, Calif., company, Amgen Inc., into the...

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George Rathmann, first CEO of Amgen, dies in Ca.

George Rathmann, who as founding CEO took Amgen Inc. from a small company with an unclear mission in a strange new field and helped turn it into the world's largest biotech drugmaker, has died at age 84.

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Flying Burrito Brothers member Ethridge dies at 65

John Christopher "Chris" Ethridge II, a Mississippi-born musician, bassist and songwriter who was a founding member of the 1960s country-rock band "The Flying Burrito Brothers," has died. He was 65.

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Irish artist Louis le Brocquy dies in Dublin at 95

Irish expressionist painter Louis le Brocquy, who was best known for abstract portraits of Ireland's literary and artistic stars, died Wednesday. He was 95.

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Ernest Callenbach, author of environmental novel 'Ecotopia,' dies at 83

Ernest "Chick" Callenbach, a film scholar and environmentalist who created a cult favorite in "Ecotopia," a 1975 novel that predicted with uncanny accuracy a world where recycling is commonplace, food...

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Chris Ethridge, bassist in Flying Burrito Brothers, dies at 65

Members of the International Submarine Band chose a name for their new group that practically ensured it would never rise above cult status, and sure enough, that band disappeared with barely a trace...

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Randall Presley, one of California's top home builders, dies at 93

Soon after developer Randall E. Presley took his company public in 1969, he announced plans to build homes in Capistrano Beach, Calif., that would "break the price barrier" for ocean-view residences...

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Titleholder of longest with bullet in head dies

The man who holds the Guinness World Record for living the longest with a bullet in his head has died in Central California at age 103.

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