Steve Gerber, Creator of Howard the Duck, Dies at 60
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Mr. Gerber created Howard the Duck, the dour, dyspeptic, utterly disagreeable and therefore wildly popular comic-book hero of the 1970s.
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One half of the super-duo Hanna-Barbera passed away Monday. Joe Barbera helped create some of America's most beloved cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons and the Flintstones. Both partners met while working for the Hollywoo...
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Heart problems Al Shugart, co-founder of the hard disk maker Seagate, has died at the age of 76.â¦
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HOUSTON -- Maxime A. Faget, a pioneering NASA engineer who designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and whose work helped create every human spacecraft the agency has launched since, has died.
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Surrounded by his family and with Kermit the Frog perched on his shoulder, Charles Gibson toasted the end of his near 19-year tenure on &quot;Good Morning America&quot; on Wednesday. He&#039;s working later now on ABC&#039;s evening news.
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Roger Preuss, the first Minnesota-born artist to have a painting used for the federal duck stamp, has died at age 85.  The wildlife artist, whose work was selected for the federal stamp in 1949, had his paintings exhibited in museums nationwide.
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LOS ANGELES  - Howard Keel, star of numerous movie musicals and TV&#39;s &quot;Dallas,&quot; died on Sunday, Nov. 7 at age 85.
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"Last Laughs: Cartoons about Aging, Retirement ... and the Great Beyond" (Scribner, 208 pages, $22.95), edited by Mort Gerberg: Why would anybody seek out and publish a bunch of cartoons about aging, retirement and death? Mort Gerberg was inspired by the sight of an elderly man at a ski resort who was as exuberant as a school kid in claiming a new perk.
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Movie animator Dan Lee, who worked on films including Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc, dies aged 35.
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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Legendary Hollywood animator Joseph Barbera, whose characters Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Scooby-Doo made generations of people laugh, died on Monday at age 95, the Warner Bros. film studio said in a statement.
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Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who recently turned his incisive wit toward a budding career as novelist, died Tuesday in an auto accident in Mississippi. He was 57.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The Grand Forks County Wildlife Federation lost a good friend last week with the passing of Ken Bohlman.   Just as importantly, club members say, so did wood ducks.   Bohlman, of Thompson, N.D., died Feb.
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The designer of the Mercury space capsules that took the first Americans into orbit has died at age 83, NASA announced Sunday. Maxime Faget led the space agency&#39;s engineering and development branch
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Veteran TV executive Ed Friendly,  co-creator of the 1960s comic sensation &quot;Rowan & Martin&#39;s  Laugh-In&quot; and producer of the frontier family drama &quot;Little  House on the Prairie,&quot; has died, his publicist said on Tuesday.
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Sid Raymond, an actor who landed roles alongside A-list stars and was the voice of beloved cartoon characters but went largely nameless himself, has died. He was 97.
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Howard Keel, the tireless song-and-dance man who took a late career encore as a patriarch on the prime-time TV soap opera &quot;Dallas,&quot; died yesterday, hours before the nationally televised reunion of the show&#39;s cast.