Ray Parfet Jr., 84, Former Chief of Upjohn, Dies
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Mr. Parfet was the last member of the Upjohn family to lead its namesake pharmaceutical company.  He was chairman and chief executive from 1969 until 1987.
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Enron Corp. founder Ken Lay, who was   convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy for his part in the   Houston-based company's collapse into bankruptcy in 2001, has   died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Colorado, a   Houston television station reported on Wednesday.
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Lord James Hanson, a wealthy industrialist whose business prospered by acquiring poorly run, low-tech companies and turning them into money makers, died after a long battle with cancer, his spokesman said. He was 82.
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Hiram L. Fong, 97, a Hawaii Republican who served in the US Senate from 1959 to 1977 and rose from poverty to become a venerable figure in Pacific politics, died of kidney failure Aug. 18 at his home in Honolulu.
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Parren J. Mitchell, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and a champion of civil rights, has died, Greater Baltimore Medical Center said Tuesday.
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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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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - The head of the Mormon church, Gordon B. Hinckley, died on Sunday at the age of 97, church officials said.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - Gordon B. Hinckley, the world leader of Mormons who presided over a period of intensive growth for the religion, died on Sunday at the age of 97, officials said.
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Turns out Lampman, Wayman goes away CEO swaps, stagnant shares and scandal behind it, HP appears to have reached retirement age for some of its veterans. Last week, HP Labs director Dick Lampman announced that he would depart in 2007, and this week CFO Bob Wayman said that he'll vanish at year end.â¦
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By Jude Webber and Kate Kelland LIMA/LONDON  - Veteran British disc jockey JohnPeel, who championed new music trends like punk on mainstreamradio, has died of a heart attack on holiday in Peru.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 79.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Herbert H. Haft, 84, the Washington area discount retailer whose drive to sell drugs at cut-rate prices made him a multimillionaire and whose empire dissolved in a nasty and very public family feud in the 1990s, died Thursday at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Ronald Reagan, has died, the American Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on its Web site on Friday.
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Richard Notebaert, who took over as head of Qwest Communications as the telecommunications company coped with an accounting scandal, said Monday he will retire as chairman and chief executive officer.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France and is to be buried in his native United States, his wife said.
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Gordon Hinckley, the longtime head of the Mormon Church who died Sunday, had much to do with moving Mormonism closer to the mainstream