Obituaries

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D’Wayne Wiggins, One Third of the R&B Group Tony! Toni! Toné!, Dies at 64

D’Wayne Wiggins, One Third of the R&B Group Tony! Toni!...

As a paragon of the New Jack Swing sound, the band recorded three platinum album...

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Betty Bonney, 100, Dies; Her Paean to Joe DiMaggio Was a Big-Band Hit

Betty Bonney, 100, Dies; Her Paean to Joe DiMaggio Was ...

Singing with the Les Brown band, she celebrated the Yankee star’s 56-game hittin...

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Ricardo Scofidio, Boldly Imaginative Architect, Is Dead at 89

Ricardo Scofidio, Boldly Imaginative Architect, Is Dead...

With Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he brought a conceptual-art sensibility to cultur...

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L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100

L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Scho...

As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school ...

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Juan Hamilton, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Companion and Contested Heir, Dies at 79

Juan Hamilton, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Companion and Contest...

As a young potter, he turned up on the doorstep of an octogenarian master of mod...

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Sylvester Turner, Congressman and Former Houston Mayor, Dies at 70

Sylvester Turner, Congressman and Former Houston Mayor,...

A former mayor of Houston, he was in attendance at the president’s speech on Tue...

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Chris Jasper, Who Helped Revitalize the Isley Brothers, Dies at 73

Chris Jasper, Who Helped Revitalize the Isley Brothers,...

A classically trained pianist turned songwriter, he was a cornerstone of the sou...

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Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s Husband of Nearly 60 Years, Dies at 82

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s Husband of Nearly 60 Years, D...

Mr. Dean, who inspired songs including “Jolene” and “From Here to the Moon and B...

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Lincoln Díaz-Balart, a ‘Free Cuba’ Republican in Congress, Dies at 70

Lincoln Díaz-Balart, a ‘Free Cuba’ Republican in Congre...

The Florida scion of an anti-communist political family, he served in the House ...

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Selwyn Raab, Tenacious Reporter Who Covered the Mob, Dies at 90

Selwyn Raab, Tenacious Reporter Who Covered the Mob, Di...

At The Times and elsewhere, he wrote about wrongful convictions, fake methadone ...

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James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies at 88

James Harrison, Whose Antibodies Helped Millions, Dies ...

James Harrison earned the nickname “The Man With the Golden Arm” because his blo...

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Hal Hirshorn, Artist of Otherworldly Photos and Paintings, Dies at 60

Hal Hirshorn, Artist of Otherworldly Photos and Paintin...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using...

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Jack Vettriano, ‘Singing Butler’ Painter, Dies at 73

Jack Vettriano, ‘Singing Butler’ Painter, Dies at 73

Critics largely rejected his work, but when it was last sold in 2004, “The Singi...

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Laura Sessions Stepp, Who Reported on Teenage Sex, Dies at 73

Laura Sessions Stepp, Who Reported on Teenage Sex, Dies...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she went on to write about “hookup culture”...

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Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89

Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, D...

His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an ex...

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Rose Girone, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 113

Rose Girone, Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 113

She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a...

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