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Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman dies at 49
Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side. The guitarist had recently begun ...
Sexual revolution pioneer John Williamson dies
John Williamson, a pioneer of the 1960s sexual revolution as co-founder of Topanga Canyon's Sandstone Retreat, where nudity and free love once took place with abandon, has died at age 80. Williamson died of cancer March 24 at a hospital in Reno, Nev., said his wife, Barbara Williamson. The pair ...
Overdose suspected in death of Kris Kross rapper
The mother of rapper Chris Kelly told authorities in Atlanta her son became sick after taking cocaine and heroin on the night before he died, according to a police report. Kelly, half of the 1990s teen rap duo Kriss Kross, was found dead Wednesday of a suspected drug overdose. Kelly's ...
Early Hollywood superstar Deanna Durbin dies at 91
Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box office draws of Hollywood's Golden Age with fans that included Winston Churchill, has died. Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris where she had lived, out of public view, since 1949, ...
Oldest concentration camp survivor dead at 107
An Austrian organization that tracks the fate of Nazi concentration camp inmates says the oldest known survivor of such a camp has died aged 107. The Mauthausen Committee said Thursday that Leopold Engleitner died April 21. After refusing to renounce his faith as a Jehova's Witness, he survived three concentration ...
Early Hollywood teen star Deanna Durbin dies at 91
Deanna Durbin, the teen sensation whose sparkling soprano voice and girl-next-door looks made her a star during Hollywood's Golden Age, has died, a family friend said Wednesday. She was 91. Durbin died on about April 20 in a village outside Paris where she had lived, out of public view, since ...
Chris Kelly, of rap duo Kris Kross, dies in Ga.
Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic "Jump," died at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose at his home, authorities said. He was 34. "It appears it may have been ...
Chris Kelly, of rap duo Kris Kross, dies in US
Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic "Jump," has died, and authorities say they are investigating his death as a possible drug overdose. Investigator Betty Honey of the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office said ...
TV director, DGA president Jack Shea dies at 84
Jack Shea, who directed "The Jeffersons" and other TV hits and was a three-time president of the Directors Guild of America, has died at age 84. He died Sunday in Los Angeles from complications of Alzheimer's disease. During a four-decade career, Shea directed hundreds of episodes for shows such as ...
Grammy-winning cellist Janos Starker dead at 88
Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker has died after months of declining health. He was 88. Alain Barker, a spokesman for the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, said Starker died Sunday at his Bloomington home in the presence of family members. Barker said a family representative confirmed the death. ...
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