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Jeanne-Claude, 74
Jeanne-Claude, 74, the flame-haired wife and collaborator of the environmental artist Christo, who was her husband's valiant defender and handled the complex fundraising for their enormous fabric artworks, died Nov. 18 at a New York hospital after a brain aneurysm.
Dell Hymes, 82
Dell Hymes, an influential scholar of linguistics and anthropology who helped pioneer the study of how people use language in their everyday lives, died of kidney failure Nov. 13 at a nursing home in Charlottesville. The retired University of Virginia professor was 82 and had Alzheimer's disease.
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Justice Dept. lawyer Herbert J. "Jack" Miller Jr. dies at 85 (Post, November 19, 2009)
Former Maryland legislator William J. Goodman dies at 79 (Post, November 19, 2009)
Wells Stabler dies; ambassador to Spain in post-Franco era (Post, November 19, 2009)
Robert Wenthold, 61; national deaf institute science chief (Post, November 19, 2009)
Obituaries (Post, November 19, 2009)
Lewis L. Millett, 88; daring, highly decorated Army officer (Post, November 18, 2009)
Clothing retailer Sy Syms, 83 (Post, November 18, 2009)
Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle dies at 95 (Post, November 18, 2009)
Pierre Harmel, creator of key 1967 NATO policy, dies at 98 (Post, November 18, 2009)
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