Dwyer was the second woman ever to win a principal chair in a major U.S. orchestra.
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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon in 1971, dies at age 88
Once his crewmates were back on board and headed home after testing a lunar rover, Worden performed the first deep-space spacewalk – nearly 200,000 miles from Earth.
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Native American journalist, activist Chuck Trimble dies at 84
Trimble founded the American Indian Press Association in the 1970s, citing a lack of coverage of Native American issues.
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Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79
He chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change panel from 2002 until he resigned in 2015.
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Grandson of author James Joyce dies in France at 87
Ireland’s president says Stephen Joyce, the gatekeeper of his grandfather James’ estate and subject of the celebrated poem ‘Ecce Puer,’ or “Behold the Young Boy” has died.
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Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi dies at 95
Moi was in office from 1978 to 2002, a time that was marked by the centralization of power, corruption and allegations of human rights abuse.
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Johanna Lindsey, master of romance novels, dies at 67
She sold more than 60 million copies in at least 12 languages – a book every eight seconds, Avon calculated in 1993.
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Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98
She often spent years crafting her novels, but ‘The Light in the Piazza’ was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.
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Joseph Segel, founder of the Franklin Mint and QVC shopping network, dies at 88
By advertising in magazines and the Sunday supplements of newspapers, the Franklin Mint became a household name. More than 500,000 people subscribed to its monthly magazine.
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Felix Rohatyn, Wall Street wizard who helped save New York City from bankruptcy, dies at 91
The city had been swamped by $6 billion in short-term obligations, and creditors were balking at its attempts to borrow more.