Singer-actress Barbara McNair dies at 72
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Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles after a battle with throat cancer, her sister, Jacqueline Gaither, said.
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Frankie Laine, the full-voiced  singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the  1950s with such hits as "I Believe," "Jezebel" and the theme to  the TV Western "Rawhide," died on Tuesday at 93.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the woman who became first lady just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, has died, a family spokesman told CNN. She was 94. She married Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th U.S. president, in 1934 and proved herself to be the quintessential political wife.
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British actress Deborah Kerr, who starred in The King And I and From Here To Eternity, has died at the age of 86.
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Beverly Sills, one of the United States&#39; most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78.
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Remembering the incandescent star on the 14th anniversary of her death
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Playbill - Roy Scheider, a character actor who in the 1970s found an unlikely career as a leading man, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, AR, the New York Times reported. He was 75 and lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died today, a family spokeswoman said.
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aura Branigan, a singer whose high-volume vocals in the disco song &quot;Gloria&quot; propelled her into pop stardom, died in her sleep on Thursday night at her home in East Quogue, NY She was 47.
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Actress Betty Hutton, who found fame in the Hollywood musical Annie Get Your Gun, dies aged 86.
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Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.
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Virginia Mayo, a 1940s screen siren who co-starred opposite such greats as Danny Kaye and James Cagney, died near Los Angeles on Monday of pneumonia and heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site. She was 84.
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Frankie Laine, the full-voiced singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s with such hits as "I Believe," "Jezebel" and the theme to the TV Western "Rawhide", died on Tuesday at 93.
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Jane Wyman, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actress who was Ronald Reagan's first wife and went on to star on the popular 1980s television drama "Falcon Crest," died on Monday at age 93.
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Betty Hutton, the actress and singer who brought a brassy vitality to Hollywood musicals such as "Annie Get Your Gun," has died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 86.
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Vaughn Meader, who gained instant fame satirizing the presidency of John F. Kennedy in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Friday. He was 68.
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Spanish singer and actress Rocio Jurado dies at the age of 61 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.