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He first played on professional football teams, the San Diego Chargers, the Houston Oilers, and the Kansas City Chiefs, and then found fame and fortune in professional wrestling, a sport that landed him in the World Wrestling Federation Hall of Fame. He is Ernie “Big Cat” Ladd. And on Saturday night, he died of cancer [...]
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Hank Bauer, wounded World War II Marine and New York Yankees legacy, died on February 9 at the age of 84. The cause of death was cancer. Bauer, who managed the 1966 Baltimore Orioles to their first World Series title, was a three-time All-Star Yankees outfielder during his time with the team that won nine [...]
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Rep. Charles Norwood, a Georgia dentist who rode to office on a Republican tidal wave in 1994, died Tuesday (Feb. 13, 2007) after battling cancer. Rep. Norwood, 65, died at his home in Augusta, Ga. House members paused for a moment of silence in his honor. Rep. Norwood suffered from a chronic lung disease and [...]
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Barbara McNair, 72, started out as a nightclub singer and moved into film and TV as more opportunities for black women opened up in the 1960′s. She eventually hosted her own show in 1969 called The Barbara McNair Show. Her best known film role came as Sidney Poitier’s wife in the classic crime drama They [...]
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Bill Clinton, mourning the loss of his stepfather, joined family and friends and hundreds of others who gathered on Saturday for the funeral of a man the former president says brought his mother the best years she ever had. Richard Kelley, 91, died Wednesday at home after a long battle with cancer of the colon [...]
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Angelina Jolie, who told CNN host Larry King on December 18 that her 56-year-old mother was battling ovarian cancer, is now confirming that her mother passed away on Saturday afternoon. According to a new release, Angelina Jolie and brother James Haven were with their mom, actress Marcheline Bertrand, when she died this weekend at Cedars-Sinai [...]
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Longtime NASCAR driver Bobby Hamilton, winner of the 2001 Talladega 500 and champion of the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series, died Sunday of cancer. He was 49. Hamilton was diagnosed with head and neck cancer in February 2006 after a malignant growth was found when swelling from dental surgery did not resolve. Despite his diagnosis, Hamilton [...]
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Magnus Magnusson, former host of the BBC quiz show Mastermind, died just days ago after a four-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He died peacefully at his Glasgow home at the age of 77. Magnusson, a journalist, author, and presenter, is best known for his 25 years of work on Mastermind, a show he called an [...]
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Mike Evans was the actor who played Lionel on All in the Family and The Jeffersons. He died of throat cancer on December 14Th, he was only 57. Evans also helped create and write for the sitcom Good Times. It was one of the first TV sitcoms that featured a primarily black cast. His last [...]
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Emmy award-winning actor and curmudgeonly patriarch of Everybody Loves Raymond Peter Boyle, who recovered from a stroke almost two decades ago, passed away last night after a battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. On Everybody Loves Raymond, Boyle played the inflexible, narrow-minded, and often abrasive yet somehow lovable Frank Barone, whose [...]
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Allen Carr, who was considered as world’s best anti-smoking guru died of lung cancer yesterday. He was 72. Carr helped convince millions of people to give up smoking. He claimed to have helped 10 million people to give up smoking, including leading figures such as the Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, the actor Sir Anthony [...]
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Gerald Boyd was the first black managing editor of The New York Times. He died earlier this week of lung cancer. Boyd was diagnosed with lung cancer in February and was keeping unwell for most of the year. However he kept his condition private from his friends and colleagues. Boyd is credited for his ability [...]
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