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Bernadine Healy, NIH and Red Cross leader, dies at 67 Bernadine Healy, the first woman to lead the National Institutes of Health and past president of the American Heart Association and American Red Cross, died Aug. 6 at her home in Ohio. She was 67.

"Dr. Healy, a cardiologist, helped turn around a fractured, underfunded and under-fire NIH in the early 1990s."

#BernadineHealy
1944-2011
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Murder most intricate Phyllis Dorothy (P.D.) James, Baroness James of Holland Park, crime writer, died on November 27th, aged 94

"These were eyes that could look unflinchingly on the corrugated pipes in a slit throat, on the gooseflesh of rigor mortis and on the strangely colourful coils and pouches pulled from the human abdomen..."

#PDJames
1920-2014
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Coolio obituary US hip-hop and TV personality whose hit Gangsta’s Paradise was one of the most successful rap songs of all time

"After rehab he emerged determined to refocus, finding new discipline by working first as a volunteer firefighter in the forests of northern California..."

#Coolio
1963-2022
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AHMET ERTEGUN: 1923-2006 / Music industry icon began Atlantic Records

"The ultrahip, suave music business executive from Turkey became one of the greatest single contributors in his lifetime to modern American culture by bringing African American music to broader audiences."

#AhmetErtegun
1923-2006
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Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95 ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocating for justice and equality, die...

"... an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocating for justice and equality..."

#CTVivian
1924-2020
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"Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and others were drawn to the rough, loud sound produced by the English-made amps."

#JimMarshall
1923-2012
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Natalie Babbitt obituary Award-winning children’s author and illustrator best known for Tuck Everlasting

"Babbitt’s inspiration for 'Tuck Everlasting' came from her four-year-old daughter waking up crying from a nap because she was afraid of dying."

#NatalieBabbitt
1932-2016
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Hans Rosling: Data visionary and educator dies aged 68 Mr Rosling was known for lively, data-driven presentations debunking myths about global development.

"... he used animated bubble charts to show how developing countries were catching up in development indicators with the West, presenting in the style of a sports commentator."

#HansRosling
1948-2017
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Dean Brooks, ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ Doctor, Dies at 96 (Published 2013)

"His approach, unusual for its day, included letting patients wear their own clothes rather than hospital uniforms and taking them on therapeutic trips into the wilderness."

#DeanBrooks
1922-2013
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John Goodenough, The Scientist Who Helped Revolutionize Lithium-Ion Batteries, Dies at 100 His inventions helped develop modern computers and commercialize lithium-ion batteries.

"His inventions that helped develop modern computers and commercialize lithium-ion batteries touched every person’s life on the planet."

#JohnGoodenough
1922-2023
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"... radical liberal, civil rights campaigner, feminist and the first Jewish woman ever to sit in the House of Representatives."

#BellaAbzug
1920-1998
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Clela Rorex, ‘unsung hero’ of marriage equality movement, dies at 78 As Boulder County clerk, she granted six same-sex marriage licenses in 1975 — four decades before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage.

"Ms. Rorex granted the license on March 26, 1975."

#ClelaRorex
1943-2022
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H. Boyd Woodruff, Microbiologist Who Paved Way for Antibiotics, Dies at 99 (Published 2017)

"... a farmer’s son whose groundbreaking research enabled fellow scientists to harvest an arsenal of lifesaving antibiotics from ordinary dirt..."

#HBoydWoodruff
1917-2017
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Buchi Emecheta obituary Novelist who overcame barriers to education and whose writings epitomised female independence

"... a pioneer among female African writers, championing the rights of girls and women in novels that often drew on her own extraordinary life..."

#BuchiEmecheta
1944-2017
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Russ Kick, writer, editor and ‘rogue transparency activist,’ dies at 52 He used FOIA requests to pry loose government records. He also edited “The Graphic Canon,” a book series that reinterpreted literary works as comics and visual art.

"Working largely on his own, without institutional support, Mr. Kick filed FOIA requests to obtain documents related to U.S. biological and chemical warfare programs, U.S. Border Patrol facilities, animal experimentation..."

#RussKick
1969-2021
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Stuart Scott, ESPN’s Voice of Exuberance, Dies at 49 (Published 2015)

“'Booyah!' was Scott’s signature expression, and it spread well beyond sports and into mainstream culture."

#StuartScott
1965-2015
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Dr. Aaron T. Beck, Developer of Cognitive Therapy, Dies at 100 (Published 2021)

"The influence of C.B.T. on the treatment of mental disorders is hard to exaggerate."

#AaronBeck
1921-2021
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Phyllis Diller dies at 95; outlandish comedian Phyllis Diller dies at 95; outlandish comedian

"As a professional comedian, Diller was a... mother of five when she made her nightclub debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco in 1955 — at age 37."

#PhyllisDiller
1917-2012
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Remembering Bess Myerson Remembering Bess Myerson 1924-2014

"... she became a vigorous and highly vocal advocate in the job, successfully pressing for regulations to require unit pricing... and forcing merchants to stamp sell-by dates on perishable goods."

Bess Myerson
1924-2014
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Obituary: Vivian Malone Jones Obituary: Black student whose enrolment marked the beginning of the end of segregation in the US south.

"One of her strongest memories was of how white students refused to make eye contact with her or return her smile."

#VivianMaloneJones
1942-2005
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Piper Bill Millin: The 'Mad piper' who piped the allied troops ashore Bill Millin was the "Mad Piper" who played allied commandos ashore under heavy German fire at Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day, on the extreme eastern flank of Operation Overlord.

"The piper recalled the tremor of mortars in the sand as he walked up and down Sword Beach three times amid thick smoke and dead and wounded comrades yelling for medics."

#BillMillin
1922-2010
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Simone Veil, French Holocaust survivor who championed women’s rights A life in pictures: Simone Veil, the revered French politician who survived deportation to Auschwitz and defied institutional sexism to push through a law legalising abortion in France

"She first battled to ease access to contraception, then took on a hostile parliament to argue in favour of a woman’s right to have a legal abortion."

#SimoneVeil
1927-2017
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The little girl who named Pluto First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on May 9, 2009 VENETIA KATHARINE DOUGLAS PHAIR TEACHER 11-7-1918 — 30-4-2009

"... the young girl suggested that Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld who could render himself invisible, would make a good name for the dark and remote world."

#VenetiaPhair
1918-2009
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Ronnie James Dio dies at 67; legendary heavy metal singer He replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath and was also lead singer for the bands Rainbow and Dio. Many of his songs revolved around the struggle between good and evil.

"He once said he would have preferred playing for the Yankees to a life in rock music."

#RonnieJamesDio
1942-2010
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Mathilde Krim, Inspirational Founding Chairman of AmfAR, Dies at 91 The widow of a Jean Hersholt Award winner, she was the "heart and soul" of the organization that hosts a glamorous Cannes benefit each year.

"Krim was among the first to recognize that this grave new disease could sow the seeds of a deadly epidemic. She dedicated herself to increasing the public’s awareness of AIDS..."

#MathildeKrim
1926-2018
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, explorer of death, died on August 24th, aged 78

"... she began to bring dying patients to her seminars... the dying, full of passion and anger, spoke of the weddings and children they would never have."

#ElizabethKublerRoss
1926-2004
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Robert McNeill Alexander, zoologist - obituary ROBERT MCNEILL ALEXANDER, who has died aged 81, was an expert on the biomechanics of animals ranging from jellyfish to elephants;

"Among other things, his discovery that most running shoes return less than 70% of the energy they absorb in each stride, compared with a 93% return of energy of the naked foot..."

#RobertMcNeillAlexander
1934-2016
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Larry Colburn, Who Helped Stop My Lai Massacre, Dies at 67 (Published 2016)

"... became an 18-year-old American hero when he intervened with two comrades to halt the massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by United States soldiers..."

#LawrenceColburn
1949-2016
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John Woodruff, 92; Won A Gold in Hitler's Berlin

"In all, 10 African American athletes... were awarded medals at the so-called Nazi Olympics."

#JohnWoodruff
1915-2007
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Obituary Ann Landers, Advice Columnist and Jewish Mother, Dies at 83 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Ann Landers, who died Saturday at the age of 83, was a Jewish mother who “really wanted to make things better,” her daughter said. Ann Landers, whose real name was Esther “Eppie” Lederer, wrote the mo...

"Lederer reportedly spent as many as 14 hours a day reading the thousands of letters asking her advice..."

#AnnLanders
1918-2002
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