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Brooks Robinson, Orioles third baseman with 16 Gold Gloves, has died

The Baltimore star participated in 18 All-Star Games and earned the 1964 AL Most Valuable Player award, but he will be forever remembered for the skill he displayed at the hot corner, where he established himself as one of the finest fielding third baseman in baseball history.

Marvin Newman, sports and street photographer, dies at 95
A renowned photographer, Marvin Newman brought a quirky, artistic eye to capturing shadows on a Chicago main street, people in front of shuttered storefronts on Coney Island in New York City, and athletes in competition, including Pittsburgh Pirate Bill Mazeroski smashing the 1960 World Series-winning home run.

Barbara Mullen, who rose to the heights of the modeling world, dies at 96
Barbara Mullen vaulted from a job at a New York beauty parlor to the pinnacle of the genteel modeling world of the 1950s.

William Pounds, MIT Sloan School dean who chaired a key Vietnam War-era panel, dies at 95

“The thing that everybody would say was he never met a stranger,” said Dr. Pounds’s sister, Dr. Lois Pounds Oliver of Durham, N.C. “He would talk to anyone.”

Erwin Olaf, photographer with an eye for the theatrical, dies at 64
A contemporary Dutch photographer, Erwin Olaf was known for the precision of his staged photographs of both countercultural figures and Dutch royalty.

Gita Mehta, literary chronicler of modern India, dies at 80
Gita Mehta's incisive novels and nonfiction books subverted Western stereotypes while exploring the history, culture and contradictions of modern India.

Stephen Gould, tenor best known for tackling Wagner, dies at 61
Stephen Gould, a tenor who after a detour into musical theater established himself as a leading interpreter of the operas of Richard Wagner in performances at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany and elsewhere, died Tuesday in Chesapeake, Virginia. He was 61.

Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, has died at 98
Not only was Giorgio Napolitano the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s presidency, he was also the first person to be elected twice to the mostly ceremonial post.

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Jango Edwards, clown who challenged his art form, dies at 73

He helped lead a back-to-basics revival of clowning, embracing a thread of transgressive traditions running from medieval court jesters to Weimar burlesque to Jerry Lewis.

Robert Klane, writer of ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ Dies at 81

A comic novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker, Robert Klane, had a taste for gleeful vulgarity and wrote the screenplay for “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the 1989 cult film about two young insurance company employees who create the illusion that their murdered boss is still alive.

Victor Fuchs, a pioneer of health-care economics, dies at 99

A Stanford University economist, Victor Fuchs sought to explain why Americans don't live longer, healthier lives despite spending a fortune on health care.

James Hoge, who led NYC, Chicago tabloids, dies at 87

A blue-blooded editor and publisher of blue-collar newspapers in Chicago and New York for a quarter-century, James Hoge then long guided a leading journal on international relations.

Buddy Teevens, gridiron innovator and iconic Dartmouth football coach, dies at 66 after bicycle accident

He won five Ivy League championships with the Big Green but more importantly was responsible for advances in player safety.

Roger Whittaker, balladeer with an international following, dies at 87

The British singer's ballads and folk songs caught the sentiments of perfect summer days and last farewells.

Jules Melancon, oyster farmer who tried something new, dies at 65

Mr. Melancon spent most of his life farming oysters the old-fashioned way, working a dredge across the bottom of the shallow waters of the lower Mississippi River Delta. Then he became one of the first in a new way of oystering: farming the bivalves.

Irish Grinstead of R&B group 702 dies at 43

The trio was known for its 1999 hit “Where My Girls At?”