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Hall of Fame football player, actor Merlin Olsen dead at 69Hall of Fame football player and actor Merlin Olsen, a giant man who friends say had an even larger heart, died Thursday after a long battle with cancer, football and university officials said. Read more » 
Mike Penner, transsexual L.A. Times sportswriter, dies at 52
 Longtime Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike Penner, who drew international attention when he announced he was transsexual, has died, the paper announced Saturday. The 52-year-old Penner was pronounced... Read more » 
Howard Jacobs, activist and former official, dies at 45Longtime HIV/AIDS activist, former West Hollywood employee, volunteer and resident Howard Jacobs died on Nov. 11 after having been diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer. He was 45. City Councilman... Read more » 
Patrick Swayze, star of 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Ghost', dies at 57
"Dirty Dancing" star Patrick Swayze, whose professional dancing background helped him land the role that rocketed him to superstardom in 1987, lost his battle Monday with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. Swayze... Read more » 
Disc jockey DJ AM found dead at 36Nearly a year after surviving a plane crash in South Carolina, disc jockey Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein was found dead in his New York apartment Friday afternoon, his publicist said. He was 36. Read more » 
Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77. Read more » 
Michael Jackson, legendary pop singer, dies at 50
Singer Michael Jackson, who rose to fame with his brothers as a child and became an international superstar whose personal life became constant fodder for the tabloid media, died Thursday... Read more » 
E. Lynn Harris’ death shocks literary community
E. Lynn Harris, the author of best-selling novels about the African-American gay community, has died at age 54. Publicist Laura Gilmore told Associated Press that Harris died July 23, after being stricken... Read more » 
Ed McMahon, longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson, dies at 86Ed McMahon, the television host and pitchman known to millions as the longtime sidekick to the late Johnny Carson on the “Tonight Show,’’ died Tuesday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center at age 86. Read more » 
Sal Guarriello, longtime West Hollywood city councilman, dies at 90West Hollywood City Councilman Sal Guarriello died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from a sudden illness, West Hollywood officials said. He was 90 years old. Guarriello had served on the... Read more » 
Marilyn Chambers, porn star, dies at 56Chambers broke into the porn industry by appearing in the 1972 film "Behind the Green Door,'' which was the first widely released pornographic film in the United States. Her appearance in the film cost the then-aspiring model and actress her job as Procter & Gamble's Ivory Snow girl, appearing on the soap box with a baby and the caption "99 & 44/100% pure.'' Read more » Alan W. Livingson, former Capitol Records executive, dies at 91BEVERLY HILLS — Alan W. Livingston, who created Bozo the Clown as part of Capitol Records read-along series for children and later signed the Beatles to the label when he became its president, died Friday... Read more » |
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