LA billionaire Marvin Davis dead at 79
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LOS ANGELES Billionaire Marvin Davis, former owner of 20th Century Fox studios, the Pebble Beach Company and the Beverly Hills Hotel, died today at his home in Beverly Hills.
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The King of Cool, Miles Davis, was posthumously inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk on Thursday. The event was attended by musicians and members of the Davis family, including his son, Erin, and daughter, Cheryl.
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Actor Ossie Davis, whose career included credits as a producer, director, actor and writer, dies aged 87.
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Sir John Harvey-Jones, the outspoken former boss of the chemical giant ICI and TV business guru, died yesterday aged 83.
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Lamar Hunt , the pro sports visionary who owned the Kansas City Chiefs and came up with the term "Super Bowl," died last night in Dallas. He was 74.
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Austria's supposed richest man, retired industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, dies at 79, say Austrian media.
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Skeeter Davis, who hit the top of the pop charts with "The End of the World" in 1963 and sang on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for more than 40 years, died Sunday of cancer. She was 72.
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William B. Ziff Jr., the former head of the Ziff-Davis publishing empire, has died at his Pawling, N.Y., home of prostate cancer.  Ziff, who died Saturday, was 76 years old, CNET News.com reported.  He inherited the Ziff-Davis publishing company from his father, William B. Ziff Sr.
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Comedian Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of the super-hip team of entertainers known as the Rat Pack and led Frank Sinatra, has died at age 89, his longtime friend and publicist, Warren Cowan, said on Thursday.
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Ossie Davis, the actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life, has died, an aide said Friday. He was 87.
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Hotel magnate Hervey Feldman, who was  known as the father of the Embassy Suites hotels, died at his  home in Dallas, his company said on Thursday.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Lord James Hanson, a wealthy industrialist whose business prospered by acquiring poorly run, low-tech companies and turning them into money makers, died after a long battle with cancer, his spokesman said. He was 82.
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Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop cosmetics chain, died on Monday evening after suffering a major brain haemorrhage, her family said.
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Herbert H. Haft, 84, the Washington area discount retailer whose drive to sell drugs at cut-rate prices made him a multimillionaire and whose empire dissolved in a nasty and very public family feud in the 1990s, died Thursday at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
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Tony Thompson, who sang with &#39;90s  R&B group Hi-Five, has died of an apparent drug overdose at the  age of 31.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Country music singer Skeeter  Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday,  according to a family friend.