Born legally blind, he co-founded the company that revolutionized stock trading – “a broker in a box,” as one newspaper put it.
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Alicia Shepard, media writer and Watergate biographer, dies at 69
She examined the lives of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in a book about the legacy of the Watergate investigation.
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Leon Levine, retail contrarian who founded Family Dollar, dies at 85
He competed with malls and big-box discounters by focusing on lower-income neighborhoods in cities and rural areas.
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Craig Breedlove, once the fastest man on wheels, dies at 86
He was the first person to set land-speed records above 400, 500 and 600 mph, using a jet-powered car to race across Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats.
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Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103
The Transylvanian-born Jew presented to a U.S. tribunal the massive case against 22 authorities of the mobile Nazi killing units that operated World War II.
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Catan board game creator, Klaus Teuber, dies at 70
The board game, originally called The Settlers of Catan when introduced in 1995 and based on a set of hexagonal tiles, has sold tens of millions of copies and is available in more than 40 languages.
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Ronald Sarasin, former congressman from Connecticut, dies at 88
Sarasin, a three-term Republican, went on to lead the U.S. Capitol Historical Society.
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Seymour Stein, music industry executive who signed Madonna, dies at 80
He and his label, Sire Records, also championed punk and new-wave bands including the Ramones, Pretenders and Talking Heads.
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William Wulf, computer pioneer who opened way for internet, dies at 83
He had already spent nearly two decades as a tech pioneer while the industry advanced from giant mainframes fed by index cards to desktop PCs. Now came this radical idea: anybody with a modem connecting to everybody else with a modem.
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British comedian, TV star Paul O’Grady dies at 67
He was first known for performing as Lily Savage, a tart-tongued Liverpudlian drag queen who became a fixture as a standup and talent-show host at London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern.