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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Scottish-born actress Deborah Kerr, best known for her performance as the adulterous wife alongside Burt Lancaster in the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity," has died at age 86.
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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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Bollywood actress Nirupa Roy dies after a heart attack at her home in Mumbai (Bombay) aged 73.
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Country music singer Skeeter Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday, according to a family friend.
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Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, died Sunday (Sept. 19) at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She was 73.
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Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman who became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality and mystery writer, died Tuesday. She was 83.
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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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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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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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Former first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, has died in Texas at the age of 94, less than two weeks after leaving hospital, a family spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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"She came to the conclusion that the more she spoke the truth, the more she was disbelieved"  Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.Kirkwood's career of more than 60 years included leading roles in musicals written by Noel Coward and Cole Porter. But Kirkwood was dogged her whole life by rumors of a romantic liaison with Prince Philip _ which she always denied _ after the two were spotted dancing at a London nightclub.Kirkwood died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Ilkley, northern England, author and royal biographer Michael Thornton, said in a statement. She had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and a chest infection, he said. Read more
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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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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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British actress Deborah Kerr, star of films including "From Here To Eternity" and "The King And I", has died at the age of 86, her agent said Thursday.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running ''The Bob Newhart Show,'' has died at age 70.