Howard the Duck creater Gerber dies
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Steve Gerber, the comic book writer and creator whose signature character was the alienated, cigar-chomping Howard the Duck, has died. He was 60. Gerber, who also co-created Marvel's "Omega the Unknown" and created the 1980s animated series "Thundarr the Barbarian," suffered from pulmonary fibrosis.
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German ex-heavyweight champ Max Schmeling dies at the age of 99.
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Gemina, a giraffe with a distinctive crooked neck and one of the most beloved animals at the Santa Barbara Zoo, has died. She was 21. The zoo euthanized the animal on Wednesday, it was announced Thursday.
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Angelo Giuliani, who was behind the plate for Joe DiMaggio's first at-bat in the majors and went on to sign Kent Hrbek as a Minnesota Twins scout, died at 91.
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Angelo Giuliani, who was behind the plate for Joe DiMaggio&#39;s first at-bat in the majors and went on to sign Kent Hrbek as a Minnesota Twins scout, died at 91.
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Howard Keel, star of post-war US musicals, and later in the hit television series Dallas, dies of cancer.
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BALTIMORE Sept. 16, 2004 - One of the year-old conjoined twin girls who underwent surgery to separate their heads died shortly after the procedure was completed, a spokeswoman for the Johns Hopkins Children&#39;s Center said early Thursday.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday, saying his family had informed it of his death.
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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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A Japanese man died after a bite from his pet hamster caused anaphylactic shock, Mainichi Shimbun reports. Ther nameless forty-something succumbed after repeated bites from the animal sensitised his immune
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Scott Muni, one of the legendary voices of New York radio, died Tuesday. He was 74.
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Actor Glyn Owen, who was best known for his role as Jack Rolfe in Howard's Way, dies after a short illness.
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Sid Raymond, an actor who landed roles alongside A-list stars and was the voice of beloved cartoon characters but went largely nameless himself, has died. He was 97.
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CHICAGO  - Howard Keel, who sang and  danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of  colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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Howard Keel, the barrel-chested baritone who starred in musicals from MGM&#39;s golden age, including Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate, and who revived his career on TV&#39;s Dallas, died Sunday at 85.
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Playbill - Marcel Marceau, the Frenchman whose name was synonymous with the art of mime, has died, according to Reuters. He was 84.
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Singapore Zoo's most famous icon, an orangutan who once hobnobbed with Britain's Prince Philip, popstar Michael Jackson and actress Elizabeth Taylor, has died, zoo staff said Saturday.