Obit
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PublishedJuly 19, 2023
Marga Minco, Holocaust writer of understated power, dies at 103
Her debut novel 'Bitter Herbs' has been required reading in schools in the Netherlands for generations. Readers around the world have come to know the book in translation.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2023
Melvin Wulf, legal crusader for ACLU, dies at 95
He helped transform the ACLU from an organization that mostly wrote briefs on major cases to one that represented individual clients before the high court.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2023
The Rev. Stephen Pieters, who helped shift views on AIDS, dies at 70
He emerged as an eloquent and nationally renowned spokesman for those facing AIDS, which came to be considered a likely death sentence.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2023
Mary Ann Hoberman, award-winning poet for children, dies at 92
She received a National Book Award for 'A House Is a House for Me' – first printed in 1978, an enduring classic.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2023
Peter Nero, pianist who bridged pop and classical, dies at 89
Nero among the country's most beloved pops conductors, known for applying a classical framework to popular music or, working in the opposite direction, for incorporating popular melodies and jazz techniques into classical works.
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PublishedJuly 6, 2023
David Gilmour, entrepreneur who created Fiji water, dies at 91
Gilmour was inspired by a tiny island that became his refuge after the killing of his only child.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2023
Hong Kong-born singer Coco Lee dies at age 48
Lee became a singer after winning first runner up in an annual competition held by broadcaster TVB in Hong Kong, and released her first album at age 19.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2023
Yan Mingfu, Communist Party envoy to protesters in Tiananmen Square, dies at 91
In 1989, Yan visited student-led protesters who were on a hunger strike and told them they were hurting chances for reform, urging them to go home.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2023
Susan Love, surgeon who crusaded against breast cancer, dies at 75
Love was among the country's most prominent advocates for breast cancer research and treatment, and she co-founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition.
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PublishedJune 29, 2023
Harry Markowitz, Nobel economist who changed investing, dies at 95
His ideas about risk and diversification became the basis for modern investment strategies.
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