Weather Report pianist dies at 75
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Austrian jazz pianist Joe Zawinul, who founded influential 1970s jazz-rock group Weather Report, dies.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland aged 64.
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Playbill - Cy Coleman, the Tony Award-winning Broadway composer who rose from child classical pianist to jazz player to master of the catchy show tune, died Nov. 18 of a heart attack, according to friends and colleagues in the theatre community.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64, Icelandic media reports
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Legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created the sprawling big-sky theme for &#39;The Magnificent Seven,&#39; and childlike notes for &#39;To Kill a Mockingbird,&#39; died Wednesday in his Ojai, CA home. He was 82.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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Cold weather was forecast Saturday for the Northeast. Temperatures in New England were to reach only into the 30s and 40s and lake effect snow was possible in western New England.
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Two-time Olympic decathlon gold   medalist Bob Mathias has passed away at the age of 75, the U.S.   Olympic Committee (USOC) said in a statement.
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Czech composer Petr Eben, whose wide variety of music has been performed around the globe, has died. He was 78.
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Opera singer Robert Merrill, famed for his appearances at the New York Yankees' stadium, has died.
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Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, died on Sunday of kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported. He was 82.
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Michael Schumacher led the wet Friday practice for the Japanese Grand Prix as teams worried about an approaching typhoon. A tropical storm with winds possibly up to 180 kilometers per hour (110 mile per hour) is expected to hit the area on Saturday.
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Oscar Peterson, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, has died. He was 82.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 11 -- Snow and ice storms battering the Midwest since the weekend have caused at least 23 deaths, snarled air travel, closed schools, left thousands without electricity and temporarily halted presidential campaigning in Iowa.
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George Melly, a flamboyant, gravel-voiced jazz singer, critic and raconteur, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 80 years old.
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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George Melly, the larger-than-life jazz star, has died at his home in London at the age of 80, his wife said Thursday.