Terry Melcher, a Shaper of Calif. Surf Sound, Dies
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Terry Melcher, a producer, composer and songwriter who worked with the Beach Boys and helped shape the '60s era California surf music sound, has died, according to his publicist. He was 62.
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Record producer Terry Melcher, who was behind hits by the Byrds and the Beach Boys, dies in Los Angeles.
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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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Sad news arrived over the  weekend: the death on Saturday of Donfeld, one of Hollywood's  best costume designers of the recent past and one of the  industry's best friends as well.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun.
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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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MARGARET RIVER, Australia  - The waves have been   nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new   life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who   ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building.
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Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family. On his Web site, the 52-year-old experimental musician who'd fought with depression even penned his obituary.
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Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist who won acclaim in Hollywood and built an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died. He was 79.
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Steve Irwin, the TV host known as the "Crocodile Hunter," has died after being stung by a stingray off Australia's north coast. Irwin, 44 was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest, according to police sources. Irwin was filming an underwater documentary at the time.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 20--BILOXI -- An autopsy of remains found floating near the shoreline of the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi showed the cause of death was drowning.
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NEW YORK  &#151; Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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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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Brazilian music producer Tom Capone, who was nominated for five Latin Grammy awards this year, was killed in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles early today (Sept.
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LOS ANGELES  - Scott Muni, one of the  legendary voices of New York radio, died Tuesday. He was 74.
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Pete Cutino, who coached the University of California to eight water polo national championships, has died. He was 71.
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A well-known diver has been killed off the Mendocino coast -- apparently by a great white shark. The headless body of Randall Fry, 50, was recovered Monday in the water near Westport, a day after he was reported missing.