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Yothu Yindi frontman Mandawuy Yunupingu dies at 56
Mandawuy Yunupingu, the former lead singer of Australian indigenous band Yothu Yindi and one of the country's most famous Aborigines, has died, Australia's prime minister said Monday. He was 56. Yunupingu, who gained worldwide fame in the 1980s and 1990s with his hits "Treaty" and "Tribal Voice," died Sunday night ...
AP source: Bruno Mars' mother dies at age 55
The mother of Grammy-winning pop star Bruno Mars has died in Hawaii. Bernadette Hernandez died Saturday of a brain aneurysm, according to a publicist for Mars' label, Atlantic Records, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on the record. ...
Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, dies at 90
Jean Stapleton's Edith Bunker was such a dithery charmer that we had to love her. And because she loved her bombastic husband Archie, we made room for him and TV's daring "All in the Family." It took an actress as smart and deft as Stapleton to create the character that ...
Whirligig art creator Vollis Simpson dies at 94
Where others saw trash, Vollis Simpson saw whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, creations with hundreds of moving parts that turned and twirled. The whirligigs were made from recycled heating and air conditioning systems and reflector material Simpson patiently cut into thousands of tiny pieces that made the works shine when lights hit ...
Acclaimed Indian film director Ghosh dies at 49
Rituparno Ghosh, who directed award-winning films mostly dealing with the dilemmas of India's urban middle class, has died of cardiac arrest at age 49. Ghosh shot to fame with his first film, "Hirer Angti" or "The Diamond Ring," in 1994. Then followed a string of Bengali-language movies that earned him ...
Best-selling author, outspoken Rev. Greeley dies
The Rev. Andrew Greeley was, it seems, always writing. At home on a typewriter, later on a computer, then on a plane with a laptop and even in his car dictating into a tape recorder as he drove. By the time he finished, the outspoken Roman Catholic priest and Chicago ...
Author Jack Vance dies at home in Calif.
Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96. Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland, his son John Vance II told The Associated Press. Jack Vance, whose legal name was John Holbrook, published most of ...
Italian actress Franca Rame dies
Franca Rame, an Italian actress and wife of Nobel laureate Dario Fo, died Wednesday at the age of 84 after a long illness. Rame's death was marked with a moment of silence in Parliament, where she served as a senator from 2006 to 2008, and President Giorgio Napolitano praised her ...
Five Stairsteps singer Clarence Burke Jr. dies
Clarence Burke Jr., lead singer of the group the Five Stairsteps that sang the 1970 hit "O-o-h Child," has died. He was 64. Burke died on Sunday — a day after his birthday — in Marietta, Ga., where he lived, said Joe Marno, his friend and manager. The cause of ...
Andre 3000's mother dies 1 day after his birthday
Andre 3000's mother died in her sleep early Tuesday at her Georgia home, a representative for the rapper at the firm Sunshine Sachs said Wednesday. Sharon Benjamin-Hodo was 58. She died in Rex, Ga. No other details were provided. Benjamin-Hodo was the founder of The Starlight Camp, a program that ...
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