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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist and conductor who was renowned not only as one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th century but also as an outspoken champion of artistic freedom in the Soviet Union during the last decades of the cold war, died on Friday April 27,2007 in Moscow. He was 80 and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 27, 2007

Jack Valenti

Jack Valenti, who became a confidant of President Lyndon B. Johnson and then a Hollywood institution, leading the Motion Picture Association of America and devising a voluntary film-rating system that gave new meaning to letters like G, R and X, died Thursday April 26,2007 at his home in Washington.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Bobby Pickett

Bobby (Boris) Pickett, whose Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween novelty song “Monster Mash” to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music’s most enduring one-hit wonders, died Wednesday April 25,2007 in Los Angeles. He was 69. His longtime manager, Stuart Hersh, said... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Warren E Avis

Warren E. Avis, a Michigan car dealership owner who, frustrated at waiting for taxis outside airports, founded a chain of car rental agencies and turned it into the nation’s second biggest, died Tuesday April 24,2007 at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 92. Avis’s death was confirmed by his wife,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

David Halberstam

David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist and tireless author of books on topics as varied as America’s military failings in Vietnam, the deaths of firefighters at the World Trade Center and the high-pressure world of professional basketball, was killed on Monday April 23,2007 in a car... Sign in to see full entry.

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Boris Yeltsin

Soviet-era reformer and later a towering figure of his time as the first freely elected leader of Russia, presiding over the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Communist Party, died Monday April 23,2007 in Moscow,Russia. His death, at a hospital, came at 3:45 p.m., the Kremlin... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Jean-Pierre Cassel

The French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, who shot to fame as the star of film comedies by the director Philippe de Broca in the 1960s, died in Paris on Thursday April 19,2007. He was 74.He died after a long illness, a statement from his entourage said. Born Jean-Pierre Crochon, he was discovered by Gene... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Donald E. Stephens

Donald E. Stephens, whose half-century as mayor of Rosemont saw the village rise from a humble sliver of swampland near O'Hare International Airport to a nationally known convention center and hotel haven, died Wednesday April 18,2007 evening. He was 79. Stephens, the only mayor the suburb ever had,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Helen Walton

Helen Robson Walton, whose husband, Sam Walton, founded Wal-Mart Stores and relied on her for advice, died on Thursday at her home in Bentonville, Ark. She was 87.She died of natural causes, said Mona Williams, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart. Sam Walton is said to have considered his wife one of his... Sign in to see full entry.

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A Tribute to the Victims of Virginia Tech-Part 4

This is the final part in my look at the victims of Monday's Virginia Tech shootings. I give you my apologies that I have not listed everyone. All of them deserve to be remembered and I hope that you will do over the next few weeks. Liviu Librescu, 75, a senior researcher and lecturer in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Originally published on Epinions.com, this is my tribute to Fr. Mychal Judge of the Fire Department of New York. I have since added tributes to others who have gone on before.

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