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Monday, July 30, 2007

Ingmar Bergman

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died on Monday July 30,2007, local media reported. He was 89 years old.Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden, Swedish news agency TT said, citing his daughter Eva Bergman. A... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Laszlo Kovacs

Laszlo Kovacs, a Hungarian cinematographer who fell in love with the American landscape on a cross-country bus ride and then used light, shadow and imagination to give visual shape to seminal films like “Easy Rider,” died on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 74. His... Sign in to see full entry.

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Bill Flemming

Bill Flemming, one of the original announcers on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports,” who was also known for his Olympics, college football and golf broadcasts, died on Friday July 20,2007 in Petoskey, Mich. He was 80.The cause was prostate cancer, his son, W. Mason Flemming, said. For over 60 years,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Tammy Faye Bakker

Tammy Faye Bakker, the diminutive and elaborately coiffed gospel singer who, with her first husband, Jim Bakker, built a commercial empire around television evangelism only to see it collapse in sex and money scandals, died Friday July 20,2007 at her home near Kansas City, Mo. She was 65.Her death... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 20, 2007

Jack Odell

Jack Odell, a self-trained engineer whose daughter’s mischievous habit of taking spiders to school in a matchbox prompted him to make her a tiny steamroller as a substitute — an invention that led to Matchbox Toys, maker of 3 billion Lilliputian vehicles in 12,000 models — died on Saturday July... Sign in to see full entry.

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Jerry Hadley

Jerry Hadley,a tenor who was noted for his bright lyric voice, lively acting and adventurous choice of repertory and whose career in the 1980s seemed one of the most promising in American opera, died on Wendesday July 18,2007 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 55. His death was announced by Celia P. Novo,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Lady Bird Johnson

Mrs. Johnson developed her own public projects. She was an early supporter of the environment and, in championing highway beautification, worked to banish billboards and plant flowers and trees. Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was once described by her husband as... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Doug Marlette

Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist who also created “Kudzu,” the popular syndicated strip, died yesterday in a car accident in Mississippi. He was 57.Marlette was the passenger in a vehicle that struck a tree after skidding off a rain-slicked highway, Dr. John Garrison,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Charles Lane

Charles Lane, a veteran character actor whose lean frame and stern features were familiar to millions of movie and television fans, most of whom, it is safe to say, never knew his name, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 102.His death was announced by his son, Tom, The Associated Press reported.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 7, 2007

Bill Pinkney

Bill Pinkney, the last surviving original member of the musical group the Drifters, died here on Wednesday. He was 81.Pinkney was found dead at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, said Jimmie Flynt, a spokesman for the Daytona Beach Police. The death was not considered suspicious, he said.He... 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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