CBGB founder Hilly Kristal dies
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Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75.
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Popular Marathi film superstar and Hindi film comedian Laxmikant Berde passed away at 2.45 am on the 16th of December following kidney failure.
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Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, a spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shiite opposition who was jailed after riots against the country's Sunni leadership, died Monday of heart and kidney failure. He was 67.
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Hilly Kristal founded CBGB, the Bowery bar that became the cradle of New York punk and art-rock in the 1970s and was the inspiration for musician-friendly rock dives around the world.
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Joseph Dorsey Jr., a boxer who won a 1957 legal fight against a Louisiana law that banned interracial bouts, has died at the age of 69.
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Renowned music director Datta Davjekar, the man who introduced melody queen Lata Mangeshkar to Hindi playback singing, died in Mumbai on Wednesday evening of a massive heart attack.
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Shail Chaturvedi, eminent Hindi poet, humorist, lyricist and Bollywood character actor, passed away here early Monday morning.
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Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard, a founding member of the WuâTang Clan and one of the most eccentric personalities in hipâhop, died of unknown causes on Saturday in New York.
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NEW YORK  &#151; 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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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky. Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would. He died.
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The chief financial officer of China's dominant Internet search engine Baidu.com has died after an accident while on vacation in China, the company said.
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Heart problems Al Shugart, co-founder of the hard disk maker Seagate, has died at the age of 76.â¦
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Blog: Rodney Smith, the chipmaker's former chairman, dies at age 67 after a bicycle accident.
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Hilly Kristal, the founder of the punk rock club CBGB which discovered The Ramones and Patti Smith, dies.
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Talksport radio phone-in host Mike Dickin, known to listeners as "The King", dies after a road accident in Cornwall.
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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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James LeVoy Sorenson, the 86-year-old founder of Sorenson Squeeze digital video compression and encoding technology, dies of cancer.