Trend-Setting Architect Philip Johnson Dies
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Trend-setting U.S. architect Philip Johnson, whose glass skyscrapers helped define America's urban landscape, has died at age 98, his lawyer's office said on Wednesday.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who loved Texas wildflowers almost as much as she loved her husband, the late US president Lyndon Johnson, died Wednesday in Austin, her family said. She was 94.
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Former Federal Reserve Governor Edward Gramlich, who warned early on about the need to tighten oversight of higher-risk mortgage lending, has died, the Urban Institute announced on Wednesday. He was 68.
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Dedication ceremonies are to be held on Wednesday for the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center for Parsons the New School of Design. The 32,800-square foot campus center, designed by Lyn Rice Architects and made possible in part by a $7 million gift from Sheila C. Johnson, a New School trustee and Parsons governor, combines learning and public program spaces with exhibition galleries at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 13th Street in Greenwich Village.
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Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at 77.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday, his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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An anti-smoking guru who has helped millions of smokers to kick the habit has died from lung cancer.
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Designer and architect Ettore Sottsass, the figurehead of 20th-century Italian design and founder of the influential Memphis Group, died on Monday aged 90, the ANSA news agency reported.
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Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at his home. He was 77.
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American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, whose simple designs made him a department store favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his Manhattan home.
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John Peel, a legend and favorite DJ on British Broadcasting, died Monday at 65 of a heart attack. Peel was known for ditching standard play lists and simply spinning the music he liked.
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CACI International Inc.'s president of U.S. operations, L. Kenneth Johnson, will retire Nov. 1.  The Arlington government contractor said in a statement that the 58-year-old Johnson, its second in command, is leaving "to pursue personal interests." -The Washington Post
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Lady Bird Johnson, who quietly served as one of the most trusted advisers to her husband President Lyndon Johnson, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of 94, family spokeswoman Elizabeth Christian said.
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Former industrialist Lord Hanson, one of the biggest figures in corporate history, has died from cancer, the BBC reports. He was 82.
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American fashion designer Geoffrey  Beene, whose simple fashions made him a department store  favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper  East Side of Manhattan at the age of 77.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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Former first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, has died in Texas at the age of 94, less than two weeks after leaving hospital, a family spokeswoman said on Wednesday.