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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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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Bob King, Larry Bird's first coach at Indiana State and the architect of New Mexico basketball who never had a losing record in 10 seasons with the Lobos, died Friday at 81.
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KIRKLAND, Wash. - George Swift Schairer, a scientist whose discovery of Nazi wind tunnel research played a crucial role in development of swept-wing jets, died Thursday of complications from Alzheimerâs disease, his son said.
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Harry Lampert, the illustrator who created the DC Comics superhero 'The Flash' and later became known for his instructional books on bridge, died Saturday. He was 88.
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Bob Howsam, who assembled the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati, helped put the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series and co-founded the Denver Broncos, died Tuesday in Sun City, Ariz. He was 89.
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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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LOS ANGELES The Disney animator who helped bring life to the dancing penguins in &quot;Mary Poppins&quot; has died. Frank Thomas was 92 when he passed away at his California home yesterday.
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Will Eisner, a master of American  comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to  the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at age  87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
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DJ Howard Stern is to get his own cartoon series. Plus news in brief on Sandra Bullock, Patty Duke and Franz Ferdinand.
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Robert (Buck) Brown created Playboy magazineâs famously naughty Granny cartoon character.
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"As The World Turns" star Benjamin Hendrickson, who played Hal Munson on the soap for 21 years, passed away in his home over the weekend. He died of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Family members say Henrickson had become deeply dep...
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Costume designer Bill Belew, who created Elvis Presley's jumpsuits and the tight black leather outfit he wore on his 1968 television special, has died. He was 76.
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Veteran TV executive Ed Friendly, co-creator of the 1960s comic sensation "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and producer of the frontier family drama "Little House on the Prairie," has died, his publicist said on Tuesday.
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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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Doug Marlette, the North Carolina-born cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize and created the popular strip "Kudzu," was killed in a car accident Tuesday morning in Mississippi, authorities said. He was 57.
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Hollywood cartoon legend Joseph Barbera, half of the famed Hanna-Barbera team, died on Monday at age 95, the Warner Bros. film studio said in a statement.