`General Hospital' actress Kepler dies
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Actress Shell Kepler, who for years played the gossipy nurse Amy Vining on the TV soap opera "General Hospital," has died. She was 49.
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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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Teji Bachchan, wife of the late Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan, died on Friday after a prolonged illness. She was 93.
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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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The mother of a U.S. astronaut who has been in space since October was killed when a freight train hit her car at a railroad crossing near Chicago, police said on Thursday.
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A 69-year-old woman who was accidentally injected with a toxic cleaning fluid as she was prepared for surgery at a Seattle area medical center has died as a result, hospital officials said on Wednesday.
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The actress Janet Leigh, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s classic thriller Psycho, has died at her home in Beverly Hills, her family has announced.
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Anna  Nicole Smith, a postmodern pinup for a tabloid age, died of unknown causes yesterday in a Florida hotel room, her sudden death at 39 delivering the same shock and uproar as the celebrity life she cultivated from the hardscrabble dust of small-town Texas.
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LOS ANGELES - Janet Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho" was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a motel room shower, has died at her Beverly Hills home, her daughter's publicist confirmed Monday. She was 77...
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Robert Altman, the acclaimed director of MASH, Nashville and Gosford Park, dies in a Los Angeles hospital.
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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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Jerry Orbach, acclaimed as a quintessential New York actor for his work on Broadway, in films and as the star of television&#39;s &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; has died from cancer.
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Actress Betty Hutton, the exuberant  blonde who starred as sharpshooter Annie Oakley in the 1950  film musical &quot;Annie Get Your Gun,&quot; has died at age 86, her  former studio, Paramount Pictures, said on Tuesday.
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Joel Siegel, the upbeat and often  joyous film critic for ABC television&#39;s &quot;Good Morning America&quot;  for 26 years, died on Friday at age 63 after a long battle  against colon cancer, the network said.
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Syndicated astrologer Joyce  Jillson, who claims to have provided advice for Ronald and  Nancy Reagan, has died at age 58, associates said on Wednesday.
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Actress Janet Leigh, best known for her role in classic thriller Psycho, dies at the age of 77.
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&quot;Superman&quot; actor Christopher Reeve, paralyzed when he fell from a horse nine years ago, has died in a New York hospital of heart failure, his publicist said on Monday.