Notable deaths of 2012

Images of well-known people who died in 2012.

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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a four-star Army general who led allied forces to a quick, decisive victory over Saddam Hussein's Iraqi military in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, died Dec. 27 in Tampa. He was 78. At left, Gen. Schwarzkopf during Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia.
READ: Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf obituary

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Fontella Bass

Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, died Dec. 26. She was 72.
READ: Fontella Bass obituary

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Jack Klugman

Jack Klugman, left, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy, was loved by millions as the messy one in TV’s “The Odd Couple” and the crime-fighting coroner in “Quincy, M.E.” He died Dec. 24 at age 90.
READ: Jack Klugman obituary

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Larry L. King

Longtime Washington resident and pioneering journalist Larry L. King died Dec. 20 at age 83. King, playwright of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” often wrote about his native state.
READ: Larry L. King obituary

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Robert Bork

Robert H. Bork, the conservative jurist who fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox during the “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973, failed to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987, sparking an enduring political schism over judicial nominations. He died Dec. 19 at age 85.
READ: Robert Bork obituary

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Sen. Daniel K. Inouye

Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, one of the longest-serving and most powerful Democrats in Washington, died Dec. 17 at 88 of respiratory complications. His last words were "Aloha," his staff reported.
READ: Sen. Daniel Inouye obituary

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar became an icon after introducing traditional Indian music to the West and mentored the Beatles. George Harrison called the sitar virtuoso "the godfather of world music." He died Dec. 11 at age 92.
READ: Ravi Shankar obituary
PHOTOS: World musical icon dies

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Galina Vishnevskaya

Galina Vishnevskaya, the soaringly talented Russian soprano who spent years in exile in Washington with her husband, cellist-conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, after they stood up for art in defiance of the Soviets, died Dec. 11 in Moscow. She was 86. At left, in 1976, sharing a joke with composer Benjamin Britten.
READ: Galina Vishnevskaya obituary

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Jenni Rivera

Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash in northern Mexico. She was 43.
READ: Mexican music world mourns singer Jenni Rivera; NTSB says she was killed in plane crash

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Dave Brubeck

Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, died Dec. 5. He was 91.
READ: Dave Brubeck obituary
PHOTOS: Dave Brubeck’s life

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Mickey Baker

Mickey “Guitar” Baker, who died Nov. 27 at age 87, forged a link between rhythm-and-blues and early rock music. The guitarist’s 1956 recording of “Love Is Strange” with singer Sylvia Robinson became a pop classic brimming with Latin rhythms and flirtatious banter.
READ: Mickey Baker obituary

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Marvin Miller

Marvin Miller, the union leader who created free agency for baseball players and revolutionized professional sports with multimillion dollar contracts, died Nov. 27. He was 95.
READ: Marvin Miller obituary

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Larry Hagman

Actor Larry Hagman, who thrilled and repelled millions in the 1970s and '80s as the deceitful J.R. Ewing on TV's "Dallas," died at Medical City Dallas Hospital on Nov. 24 of complications from cancer. He was 81.
PHOTOS: Larry Hagman’s life
READ: Larry Hagman obituary

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Hector "Macho" Camacho

Former boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho, front center, won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s while compiling a career record of 79-6-3. He died Nov. 24 at age 50, three days after being shot
PHOTOS: Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho’s life
READ: Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho obituary

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Warren B. Rudman

Warren B. Rudman, who died Nov. 19 at age 82, warned against soaring federal deficits as a pugnacious two-term senator from New Hampshire, He was the Reagan administration’s strongest Republican critic during the Iran-contra affair of the 1980s.
READ: Warren B. Rudman obituary

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Han Suyin

Han Suyin, a prolific Eurasian author who generated controversy with her hagiographic view of China’s Cultural Revolution and who may be most remembered for her best-selling semi-autobiographical novel that inspired the Hollywood melodrama “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," died Nov. 2 at 95.
READ: Han Suyin obituary

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Letitia Baldrige

Letitia Baldrige was the White House social secretary during the Kennedy administration who came to be regarded as an authority on etiquette. She died Oct. 29 at 86.

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Russell Means

Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Salomon says Means died Oct. 22 at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D. Means, who was 72, helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee, reveled in stirring up attention and appeared in Hollywood films including "The Last of the Mohicans."
READ: Russell Means obituary

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George S. McGovern

George S. McGovern, the three-term senator from South Dakota who ran for president, died at 90. Here, with pictures of former presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as a backdrop, McGovern introduces Sargent Shriver as his new vice presidential running mate to the Democratic National Committee in Washington.
READ: George McGovern obituary
PHOTOS: George McGovern’s life

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Arlen Specter

Former senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s most durable political figures, who during three decades in the Senate became known for his command of constitutional law, died of cancer Oct. 14 at his home in Philadelphia. He was 82.
READ: Arlen Specter obituary
PHOTOS: Arlen Specter’s life

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Alex Karras

Alex Karras, one of the National Football League’s most feared defensive tackles throughout the 1960s, died Oct. 10 at age 77. He was a player who hounded quarterbacks and bulled past opposing linemen. He also played the lovable dad from the 1980s sitcom “Webster.”
PHOTOS: Alex Karras’ life

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Andy Williams

Andy Williams, the silky-voiced, clean-cut crooner, whose hit recording "Moon River" and years of popular Christmas TV shows brought him fans the world over died Sept. 25. He was 84.
READ: Andy Williams obituary
PHOTOS: Andy Williams’ life

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Louise Johnson

Biochemist Louise Johnson helped discover the first enzyme using X-ray crystallography.

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U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens

John Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was killed in a Sept. 11 assault on an American diplomatic post in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Three other Americans also died in the attack, which sparked a political furor in Washington over conflicting accounts of how it occurred and whether security concerns were ignored.
READ: U.S. ambassador to Libya, 3 other Americans killed in Benghazi

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Michael Clarke Duncan

Michael Clarke Duncan, star of the film “The Green Mile,” died at age 54. Tom Hanks, his co-star in the 1999 film, said Duncan, who turned to acting his his 30s, “was the treasure we all discovered.”
PHOTOS: Michael Duncan’s life

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The Rev. Sun Myung Moon

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church, died at age 92.
PHOTOS: Sun Myung Moon’s life
READ: Sun Myung Moon’s obituary

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Neil Armstrong

Neil A. Armstrong, the astronaut who marked an epochal achievement in exploration with "one small step" from the Apollo 11 lunar module on July 20, 1969, becoming the first person to walk on the moon, died on Aug. 25. He was 82.
READ: Neil Armstrong obituary
PHOTOS: Neil Armstrong’s life

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Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller, the housewife-turned-humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Aug. 20 in her Los Angeles home. She was 95.
READ: Phyllis Diller obituary
PHOTOS: Phyllis Diller’s life

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Helen Gurley Brown

Helen Gurley Brown, the editor who made Cosmopolitan magazine into a single girl’s handbook of sex and glamour, died at age 90. Brown first became famous with a best-selling 1962 book called “Sex and the Single Girl.”
READ: Helen Gurley Brown obituary
PHOTOS: Helen Gurly Brown’s life

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Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch, who composed, conducted and arranged music for Broadway shows and Hollywood movies, died Aug. 6. He was 68. He composed the scores for dozens of movies, including the Academy Award-winning scores for “The Sting” and “The Way We Were,” and he won a Tony for “A Chorus Line.”
PHOTOS: Marvin Hamlisch’s life

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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, a prolific and graceful writer hailed for his brazen wit, succumbed to pneumonia July 31 in his Hollywood Hills home after a long illness. He was 86.
PHOTOS: Gore Vidal’s life
READ: Gore Vidal obituary

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Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy, the best-selling Irish author, saw several of her works, such "Circle of Friends," adapted for film. She died July 30 at age 72.
READ: Maeve Binchy obituary

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Sherman Hemsley

Sherman Hemsley, an actor best known for his overbearing sitcom roles, notably the upwardly mobile and bigoted African American George Jefferson on the long-running show “The Jeffersons” and the egotistical minister on “Amen,” died July 24 at his home in El Paso, Tex. He was 74.
PHOTOS: Sherman Hemsley’s life
READ: Sherman Hemsley obituary

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Thelma Glass

Almost a decade before the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 sparked the Montgomery bus boycott and helped catapult civil rights to the political forefront, a group of teachers at the historically black Alabama State College in Montgomery formed the Women’s Political Council to campaign against the abuses and indignities of segregation. Thelma Glass, who died July 24 at age 96, was secretary for the group.
READ: Thelma Glass obituary

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Sally Ride

Astronaut Sally Ride became America’s first woman in space when Challenger launched in 1983. She died at 61 of pancreatic cancer.
PHOTOS: Sally Ride’s career
READ: Sally Ride obituary

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Kitty Wells

Kitty Wells was the first female superstar of country music. Her recording of “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” in 1952 was the first No. 1 hit by a woman soloist on the country music charts. Other hits included “Making Believe” and a version of “I Can’t Stop Loving You.”
PHOTOS: Kitty Wells’ life
READ: Kitty Wells obituary

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Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey, the motivational speaker who was author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” as well as three other best-selling books, died July 16 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was 79.

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Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm, a Broadway musical comedy star who also showed a flair for dramatic work and won an Academy Award for her sympathetic role in “Gentleman’s Agreement,” died July 15 at her home in New York City. She was 95.

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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine, a beefy star known for villainous roles, won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type in “Marty” in 1955. Here he stars as the sadistic Army sergeant “Fatso” Judson in the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity." He was 95.
PHOTOS: Ernest Borgnine’s life

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Andy Griffith

Television icon Andy Griffith, everyone’s favorite small-town sheriff in “The Andy Griffith Show” and a wily defense attorney in “Matlock,” died July 3 at his home in Manteo, N.C. He was 86.
PHOTOS: Andy Griffith’s life

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Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron, who gained a devoted following for her perceptive, deeply personal essays and parlayed that renown into a screenwriting career of wistful romantic comedies “When Harry Met Sally” and “You’ve Got Mail,” the marital exposé “Heartburn” and the whistleblower drama “Silkwood,” died June 26 at a hospital in New York. She was 71.
PHOTOS: Nora Ephron’s life
READ: Nora Ephron obituary

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Rodney King

The videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King in 1991 by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation’s history.

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Anna Schwartz

Paul Krugman called Anna Schwartz one of the world's best monetary scholars. Schwartz is best known for "A Monetary History of the United States: 1867-1996," co-written with Milton Friedman.

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Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz

For the second time in less than a year, Saudi Arabia was thrown into the process of naming a new heir to the country’s 88-year-old king following the death of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz.

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Elinor Ostrom

Co-winner of 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her analysis of economic governance, Ostrom emphasized systems to use more efficiently forests, fisheries and grazing lands. She taught at Indiana University and Arizona State University. Ostrom was 78 when she died June 12.
READ: Elinor Ostrom obituary

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury holds a signing for his book "Quicker Than the Eye" on Jan. 29, 1997, in Cupertino, Calif. Bradbury, who wrote everything from science fiction and mystery to humor, died June 5. He was 91.
PHOTOS: Ray Bradbury’s most prescient predictions
READ: Ray Bradbury obituary

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Yvette Wilson

The actress and comedian was in "House Party 2," "Friday," and "Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam" but might be best known for her role in the TV series "Moesha." She died June 14 of cervical cancer at age 48.

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Richard Dawson

Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer, was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show “Family Feud.”

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Doc Watson

Doc Watson, the blind folk singer and guitarist, was known for his dazzling string work and homespun stage manner that transported concert audiences to his rural home in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
PHOTOS: Doc Watson’s life
READ: Doc Watson obituary

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Robin Gibb

One of the three Gibb brothers who formed the Bee Gees — one of the most successful pop groups of all time — Robin Gibb helped define the disco subculture of the 1970s. His signature song was “I Started a Joke.”
PHOTOS: Robin Gibb’s life
READ: Robin Gibb obituary

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Bob Boozer

Bob Boozer of the Chicago Bulls is seen in October 1968. A star basketball player in college who became an Olympic gold medalist and finished his playing career with an NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks, died of a brain aneurysm May 19 at a hospital in Omaha. He was 75.

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Donna Summer

Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as “Last Dance,” “Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girls” became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, died May 17. She was 63.
PHOTOS: Donna Summer’s life
READ: Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, dies at 63; singer influenced many performers

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Chuck Brown

Chuck Brown, the gravelly-voiced bandleader who capitalized on funk’s percussive pulse to create go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at the Johns Hopkins University hospital in Baltimore. He was 75.
READ: Chuck Brown dies: The ‘Godfather of Go-Go’ was 75
PHOTOS: Chuck Brown dies at 75

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Mary Kennedy

Mary Kennedy, pictured with husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a 2010 fundraiser in Salt Lake City, was found dead on May 16 at her New York home. She was 52. Reports suggested that her death was an apparent suicide.

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Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes, the politically engaged Mexican novelist and irrepressible bon vivant who stood at the forefront of Latin American letters for more than half a century, died May 15 at a hospital in Mexico City. He was 83.
PHOTOS: Mexico’s most celebrated novelist
READ: Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, dies at 83

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Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care. Sassoon died May 9 at age 84 at his home on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles.
PHOTOS: Hairstyling giant Vidal Sassoon dies

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Nicholas Katzenbach

Nicholas Katzenbach, an unflappable lawyer who served as the Kennedy brothers’ emissary to the South during the violent confrontations over racial segregation in the early 1960s, and who later was an architect of landmark civil-rights laws and Vietnam War policy under President Lyndon Johnson, died May 8 at his home in Skillman, N.J. He was 90.
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PHOTOS: Nicholas Katzenbach dies

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of “Where the Wild Things Are,” signs individual prints from "The Mother Goose Collection" in July 1990 in New York. He died May 8 at age 83.
PHOTOS: Maurice Sendak’s illustrations
READ: Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of works about children’s survival, dies

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Adam Yauch

Adam Yauch, the gravelly-voiced Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group, died at age 47. Yauch, who also went by the stage name MCA, announced in 2009 that he had been diagnosed with a tumor in his salivary gland and that he'd been using Eastern medicine and a vegan diet in hopes of slowing or reversing it.
PHOTOS: Adam Yauch’s life

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Junior Seau

Junior Seau, a legendary NFL linebacker, was found dead in his Oceanside, Calif., home on May 2. Police, who were called to Seau’s beachfront home at 10 a.m. PDT after a 911 call reported a shooting, found Seau dead of a gunshot wound, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Seau played for the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots during a 20-year NFL career.
PHOTOS: Junior Seau’s life
READ: Junior Seau dies, reportedly of gunshot wound — The Early Lead

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Charles W. Colson

Charles W. Colson, the Republican political operative who boasted he would “walk over my own grandmother” to ensure the reelection of President Richard M. Nixon and went on to found a worldwide prison fellowship ministry after his conversion to evangelical Christianity, died April 21 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He was 80.
PHOTOS: Chuck Colson dies
READ: Chuck Colson dies at 80: Watergate scandal figure became an evangelist

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Dick Clark

Dick Clark, a television host and entrepreneur who sold rock and roll to Middle America on the dance show “American Bandstand” and counted down the new year with millions of TV viewers as emcee of an annual celebration in New York's Times Square, died April 18 at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., after a heart attack. He was 82.
READ: Dick Clark, famed TV producer and longtime New Year’s Eve host, dies
PHOTOS: Dick Clark, American Bandstand legend, dies at 82

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Mike Wallace

CBS newsman Mike Wallace, the dogged, merciless reporter and interviewer who took on politicians, celebrities and other public figures in a 60-year career highlighted by the on-air confrontations that helped make “60 Minutes” the most successful prime-time television news program ever, died April 7. He was 93.
READ: Mike Wallace dies: Veteran journalist and former ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent was 93
PHOTOS: Mike Wallace’s life.

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Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Car designer Ferdinand Alexander Porsche is photographed in 1968 with a model of the Porsche 911. Porsche, the Porsche AG design chief credited with the classic 911 sports car and grandson of the automaker's founder, died April 5 in Salzburg, Austria. He was 76.

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Adrienne Rich

Poet Adrienne Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and antiwar activists, died March 27. She was 82.

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U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne

Rep. Donald M. Payne (D-N.J.) is photographed during a ceremony to honor him by naming a plaza at the Essex County court complex the “Congressman Donald M. Payne Plaza” in Newark, N.J. He died March 6 after a brief battle with colon cancer.
READ: Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J) dies at age 77 — 2chambers — The Washington Post

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Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart, an Internet entrepreneur who helped launch the Huffington Post, died unexpectedly shortly after midnight March 1 in Los Angeles.
PHOTOS: Andrew Breitbart, dies at 43

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Davy Jones

Actor and musician Davy Jones, who gained fame with the 1960s band The Monkees, died Feb. 29 in Florida. He was 66. Jones, second from left, with Mike Nesmith, left, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz rose to fame in 1965 when he joined The Monkees, a British popular rock group formed for a television show. Jones sang lead vocals on songs like “I Wanna Be Free” and “Daydream Believer.”
PHOTOS: Davy Jones’s life and career
READ: Davy Jones had died at 66

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Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid works on his laptop under the moonlight on a hotel rooftop in Najaf, south of Baghdad. Shadid, a New York Times journalist formerly with The Washington Post, died in Syria of an apparent asthma attack on Feb. 16 at age 43. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner and was regarded as one of the finest foreign correspondents of his generation.

PHOTOS: Journalist Anthony Shadid dies
READ: Anthony Shadid Obit

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Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston performs during the World Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sept. 15, 2004. Houston died Feb. 11, on the eve of the Grammy Awards she once reigned over. She was 48.
PHOTOS: Whitney Houston dies at 48
READ: Whitney Houston obit

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Don Cornelius

Don Cornelius, right, host of the legendary music show "Soul Train," was found dead at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 75.

PHOTOS: Don Cornelius dies

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Joe Paterno

Joe Paterno won 409 games (111 wins have since been vacated) in 46 years as the head football coach for Penn State University, the record for a Division I football coach. Paterno died at 85 on Sunday, Jan. 22, from his battle with lung cancer. His diagnosis was revealed shortly after he was dismissed as head coach in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Sandusky, his former assistant coach at Penn State, was convicted on 45 charges of sexually abusing young boys over a 15-year period.
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Etta James

Blues singer Etta James, 73, died at a hospital in Riverside, Calif., on Jan. 20. James, shown here, displays her star during a ceremony honoring her on the Hollywood Walk of Fame April 18, 2003.
PHOTOS: Blues singer Etta James dies
READ: Etta James Obit

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Sarah Burke

Canadian Sarah Burke, shown with her gold medal after winning the Women's Skiing Superpipe at Winter X Games 13 on Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colo., died Jan. 19. She was 29.
READ: Sarah Burke Obit
PHOTOS: Sarah Burke dies

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Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold, a world-traveling photojournalist whose subjects ranged from the poor and dispossessed to Marilyn Monroe, died Jan. 4 at age 99.

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Robert L. Carter

Robert L. Carter, second on left, joins other attorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Carter, a lawyer who was an integral member of the team led by Thurgood Marshall that turned to the courts to battle segregation, died Jan. 3 at a Manhattan hospital. He was 94.

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Gordon Hirabayashi

Gordon Hirabayashi, center, who was imprisoned for his defiance of the United States’ internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, watches the flag ceremony as the former prison camp site was renamed after him. Hirabayashi died Jan. 2. at age 93.

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