Heart pioneer dies aged 88
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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Veteran British broadcaster John Peel, who championed all types of cutting edge pop and rock acts over the past 35 years on his radio show, has died after a heart attack, the BBC announced yesterday.
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Auckland beekeeper who became the first man to reach Mount Everest's summit has died
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The veteran presenter, who discovered dozens of major bands during 40 years of broadcasting, suffered a heart attack last night while on holiday in Cuzco, Peru, with his wife Sheila.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, a Nobel Prize winner whose role in discovering the double helix structure of DNA has been overshadowed by more-celebrated colleagues for the past half-century, died Oct. 5 in a London hospital.
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Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world's most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by her husband and all their five children, said a statement released by Larry Ross, Billy Graham's spokesman.
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Former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who launched socialist India on the path of free-market reforms in the 1990s, died two weeks after suffering a heart attack.
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Bob Evans, 77, a computer scientist who helped popularize personal computing and served as a scientific adviser to the Taiwanese government, died of a heart ailment Sept.
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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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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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Veteran British broadcaster John Peel, who championed pretty much every new cutting edge pop and rock act over the past 35 years on his radio shows, has died after a heart attack, the BBC announced on Tuesday.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died. He was 88.
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New Albany -- An Indiana man who lived with an artificial heart for 147 days has died, the heart manufacturer said Monday. Abiomed Inc.
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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday at age 88.
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VENTURA, Calif. - Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died.
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A 92-year-old man died of a heart attack after a junior doctor gave him a drugs overdose, an inquest hears.
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The 13th patient to receive the world&#39;s first fully implantable artificial heart died Sunday night after an unexpected malfunction in the device made by Abiomed Inc.