Motown legend, 3-time Grammy winner Joe Hunter dies
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Three-time Grammy winning pianist Joe  Hunter of the Funk Brothers studio band behind numerous Motown  hits has been found dead in his Detroit apartment, the Detroit  Police said.
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World-renowned &quot;crocodile hunter&quot; and television environmentalist Steve Irwin has been killed after being stung in the chest by a stingray off northeastern Australia, police said.
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Steve Irwin, the Australian TV presenter known as the "Crocodile Hunter," has died after being stung in a marine accident off Australia's north coast.
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Jerry Scoggins, who sang the theme tune to US TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 93.
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Frankie Laine, 93, whose robust vocals on such hits as "That Lucky Old Sun" and "Mule Train" made him one of the most popular singers of the 1950s and whose voice was long identified with the theme song of the TV western "Rawhide," died Feb. 6 at Mercy Hospital in San Diego. He had cardiovascular...
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Jimmy Griffin, an Academy Award-winning songwriter and former guitarist for the 1970s pop group Bread, died Tuesday in Nashville of complications from cancer. He was 61.
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Jazz legend Joe Zawinul, who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz fusion and performed and recorded with Miles Davis, died early Tuesday, a hospital official said. He was 75.
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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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Laura Branigan, the Grammy-nominated singer who shot to fame with   her 1982 anthem "Gloria," died of a brain aneurysm Thursday at her home   in East Quogue, New York. She was 47.
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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.
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John W. Peterson, who authored more than 1,000 gospel hymns in a musical career that began before World War II, has died. He was 84. Peterson died Sept. 20 of cancer at his home in Scottsdale.
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Bennie Smith, a guitarist and St. Louis blues legend who played with stars like Chuck Berry and Ike and Tina Turner, died Sunday following a heart attack. He was 72.
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The well-known Irish singer and entertainer Joe Dolan, who was in his late 60s, dies in hospital in Dublin.
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Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80.
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The Feb. 6 death of legendary singer/songwriter and artist manager Merle Kilgore draws the curtain on one of Music Row's most popular figures.
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Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, an NFL visionary who helped foster the NFL-AFL merger, dies Thursday at age 74.
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Former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, who took her fight to inherit from her aged billionaire husband to the U.S. Supreme Court, has died at the age of 39 after collapsing in a Florida hotel room, her lawyer said on Thursday.