Singer-actress Barbara McNair dies at 72
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair, who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and became one of the first black women to host her own television variety show, has died at 72, her husband said on Monday.
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Lady Bird Johnson, whose helped President Lyndon B. Johnsonâs road to the White House, has died at 94.
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1980&#39;s pop star Laura Branigan, best known for her 1982 hit &quot;Gloria&quot; has died at the age of 47. Branigan suffered a brain aneurysm on Thursday while sleeping at her home in East Quogue, New York, according to reports.
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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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PASADENA, Calif. -- Olympic gold medalist Mildred McDaniel Singleton, one of the world's top female athletes of the 1950s, died Sept. 30 of cancer at a convalescent home. She was 70.
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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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Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.
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Beverly Sills, the world-renowned  soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in  modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from  inoperable lung cancer, her manager 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 former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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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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Spanish singer and actress Rocio Jurado dies at the age of 61 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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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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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.  Pleshette, whose career included roles in such films as Hitchcock's "The Birds" ...
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Country musician Porter Wagoner, who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton, dies at the age of 80.
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Actress Suzanne Pleshette, best  known as the feisty but level-headed wife of Bob Newhart on  television's 1970's hit "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age  of 70, friends said on Sunday.
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Singer Laura Branigan, best known for her 1982 hit &quot;Gloria,&quot; died Thursday at her East Quogue, NY, home of a brain aneurysm.