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Charles Rogers, former Detroit Lions receiver, dies at 38

Charles Rogers, a former Detroit Lions receiver whose promising NFL career was derailed by injuries and drug use, died on Monday in Fort Myers, Florida. He was 38.

Richard T. Flood Jr., a hockey coach and private school headmaster, dies at 84

Richard T. Flood Jr., 84, who died Oct. 30, was a hockey coach at Noble and Greenough School and headmaster of Salisbury School.

William Hughes, congressman and ambassador, dies at 87

William J. Hughes, who served 20 years in Congress representing the 2nd District of New Jersey and then was US ambassador to Panama during the years leading up to the transfer of control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama, died Oct. 30.

Maria Perego, Italian puppeteer who created the mouse Topo Gigio, dies at 95

Maria Perego, Italian puppeteer who created the mouse Topo Gigio, dies at 95

Robert Norris, a Marlboro Man in commercials, dies at 90
Robert C. Norris, a rancher known for his role as the Marlboro Man in television commercials for the cigarette brand, died Sunday at Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Kaiser Permanente CEO Tyson dies unexpectedly at 60
He was the first African-American to head the company as CEO when he took that position in 2013.

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James Stern, who disrupted a racist group, dies at 55

James Hart Stern, a black minister with a colorful past who made news this year by seeming to wrangle control of a Michigan neo-Nazi group away from far-right extremists in hopes of turning it to nobler ends, died Oct. 11 at his home in Moreno Valley, Calif., about 60 miles from Los Angeles.

Louis Eppolito, police officer turned mob hit man, dies at 71

Louis Eppolito was practically born into the Mafia.

A sentinel to the memories of those lost at Pearl Harbor

George Hursey, 98, who died Nov. 5, was an Army veteran who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. A Southerner by birth, after the war he settled in his wife’s hometown of Brockton.

Gillian Jagger, sculptor whose medium was nature, dies

Ms. Jagger was a fiercely independent creator who adhered to her own instincts and vision; though her work has affinities with feminist art, land art, and post-minimalism, she never aligned with any prevailing styles or movements.

Robert Freeman, Beatles album cover photographer, dies at 82

Paul McCartney said Mr. Freeman ‘‘was one of our favorite photographers during the Beatles years who came up with some of our most iconic album covers.’’

Gay Byrne, who tackled taboos as Ireland’s TV host, dies at 85

The beloved Irish radio and television personality broke codes of silence over sexual practices, abuse, and hypocrisy in Ireland’s deeply conservative Roman Catholic society.

Leading intellectual in Benin, Albert Tevoedjre, dies at 89

Albert Tevoedjre, a Benin political scientist and one of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s most trusted experts on social and economic development strategies for Africa, has died in Porto-Novo, Benin, at the age of 89.

Marya Columbia, whose music soothed on 9/11, dies at 63

Like many New Yorkers, Marya Columbia felt compelled to respond to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — to do something, to help someone. What she, a violinist, had to offer was music.


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