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Star of CDC Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign Dead at 53

Terrie Hall's cancer spread to her brain

(Newser) - A North Carolina woman featured prominently in a graphic government ad campaign to get people to stop smoking died yesterday of cancer. Terrie Hall died at a hospital in Winston-Salem, NC, federal officials said. She was 53. "She was a public health hero," said Dr. Tom Frieden, director...

New York's Oldest Taxi Driver Dies at 94

Johnnie 'Spider' Footman had been driving cabs about 70 years

(Newser) - Johnnie Footman has collected his last fare. Footman, the oldest cab driver in New York, died this week, age 94, reports the New York Times . "He was here Monday and he died Tuesday," says an owner of the 55 Stan cab depot in Queens where Footman worked. According...

Sound Genius Ray Dolby Dead at 80

 Sound Genius 
 Ray Dolby 
 Dead at 80 
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Sep 12, 2013 6:50 PM CDT

Sound Genius Ray Dolby Dead at 80

That's his name synonymous with 'surround sound'

(Newser) - You know the name, even if you didn't know the man behind it: Engineer and prolific inventor Ray Dolby—as in Dolby surround sound—has died at age 80, reports the Los Angeles Times . His namesake company pioneered technology still widely used in cinemas, the recording industry, and maybe...

Man Who Made Washing Our Hands Easier Dead at 77
Man Who Made Washing Our Hands Easier Dead at 77
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Sep 12, 2013 9:50 AM CDT

Man Who Made Washing Our Hands Easier Dead at 77

Give your soap pump a push for Robert Taylor, who died Aug. 29

(Newser) - The man who took a huge gamble to bring you hand soap via pump has died at 77. Robert Taylor wanted to clean up the mess bar soap left in the soap dish, and so his company, Minnetonka, introduced Softsoap in a pump-topped plastic bottle in 1978. But in order...

Latest Viral Obituary: Mom Was 'Violent, Evil'

Obit describes woman as abusive, neglectful toward kids

(Newser) - "Viral obituaries" are quite trendy these days , and they're usually heartwarming—or at least hilarious —but not so in this latest case. Gawker spotted the obituary for Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick in the Reno Gazette-Journal, and though the paper removed it, Gawker has the full text. Whoever wrote...

Woman's Obit Shares Lessons on Life, Panty Hose

Mary 'Pink' Mullaney's family pays homage

(Newser) - The AV Club loves the obituary for an 85-year-old woman in Wisconsin named Mary "Pink" Mullaney. Why? Maybe because her family filled it with lessons imparted by Mullaney in life, including, “Never throw away old pantyhose. Use the old ones to tie gutters, child-proof cabinets, tie toilet flappers,...

Car Dealer Famous for Outlandish Ads Dead at 92

Cal Worthington and his 'dog Spot' appeared in California commercials

(Newser) - Cal Worthington, famous in Southern California for the outlandish TV commercials advertising his car dealership, died Sunday at age 92. Worthington, who bought his first LA-area dealership in 1950, started making the commercials in an attempt to drum up business because his location wasn't so hot, the New York ...

Hitler's Bodyguard Dead at 96

Rochus Misch was the last surviving witness from the bunker

(Newser) - There aren't many people who reminisce fondly about their days with Adolf Hitler, and the world just lost one of the last of them. Rochus Misch, Hitler's bodyguard and the last surviving witness to his final days in the bunker, died yesterday at age 96, surrounded by his...

Rocky V Boxer Tommy Morrison Dead at 44

Former heavyweight champ had tested positive for HIV in 1996

(Newser) - Former world heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison, best known for his role in Rocky V and a very public HIV diagnosis, died last night in Nebraska of undisclosed causes, reports the Tulsa World . He was 44. "It's true," says his former promoter. "He was with his wife...

Scientist Dies After 52 Years Spent Waiting for Drop
Scientist Dies After 52 Years Spent Waiting for Drop
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Aug 31, 2013 6:28 PM CDT

Scientist Dies After 52 Years Spent Waiting for Drop

John Mainstone was 'custodian of world's longest-running science experiment'

(Newser) - Last month we wrote about the pitch-drop experiment, which is meant to demonstrate the concept that pitch (a tar derivative) is actually a high-viscosity substance, meaning it appears solid but is actually slowly flowing. An experiment to prove just that has been running in Brisbane since 1927—and now comes...

Couple, Married for 71 Years, Dies on Same Day

They eloped during World War II

(Newser) - After their first blind date, Nora Schaddel told Robert Viands that she never wanted to go out with him again. It didn't exactly work out that way. Viands persisted, a romance blossomed, and when he was drafted to go fight in World War II, they decided to get married....

Seamus Heaney, Nobelist Poet, Dead at 74

Called 'most significant Irish poet of his generation'

(Newser) - Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, has died at age 74 following a recent illness. A former teacher who lived in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Heaney was widely considered the best Irish poet since WB Yeats, the BBC notes; the Irish Times calls him...

NYSE&#39;s 1st Female Member Dies at 80
 NYSE's 1st 
 Female Member 
 Dies at 80 
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Aug 26, 2013 11:05 AM CDT

NYSE's 1st Female Member Dies at 80

Muriel 'Mickie' Siebert was also New York's 1st banking superintendent

(Newser) - Muriel "Mickie" Siebert, who started as a trainee on Wall Street and became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, died Saturday of complications of cancer at age 80. Her death was confirmed by Jane Macon, a director of Siebert Financial, which Siebert...

Renowned Base Jumper Dies After Hitting Cliff

Mario Richard, 47, killed in Italy

(Newser) - A week after a famed stuntman died jumping from a helicopter in a wingsuit, another daredevil has been killed attempting a similar feat. Mario Richard, a leading American base jumper, died while wingsuit flying in the Dolomites in Italy on Monday. He was 47. The New York Times says that...

Rizzoli & Isles Actor Commits Suicide at 29

Lee Thompson Young found dead with a gunshot wound in his LA home

(Newser) - Actor Lee Thompson Young, 29, was found dead today in an apparent suicide, his publicist confirms. Young was probably best known for his starring role in the Disney series The Famous Jett Jackson. He was currently appearing on TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, but when he didn't show up...

Blue Oyster Cult Co-Founder Dead at 67

Allen Lanier also collaborated with Patti Smith

(Newser) - Allen Lanier, who co-founded iconic 1970s rock band Blue Oyster Cult and went on to collaborate with (and romance) Patti Smith, died Wednesday at age 67. Lanier, a longtime smoker, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Rolling Stone reports. "It wasn't a big surprise," says bandmate Donald...

Seattle Author Pens Moving Obituary&mdash; for Herself


 Seattle Woman Pens 
 Moving Obituary— 
 for Herself 
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Aug 11, 2013 11:03 AM CDT

Seattle Woman Pens Moving Obituary— for Herself

Jane Catherine Lotter's obit has gone viral

(Newser) - It turns out there is at least one advantage to dying from Grade 3, Stage IIIC endometrial cancer, at least according to Jane Catherine Lotter: "you have time to write your own obituary." And so the 60-year-old Seattle author did just that, penning an obit that ran in...

Singer Eydie Gorme Dies at 84
 Singer 
 Eydie Gorme 
 Dies at 84 
OBITUARY
Aug 11, 2013 6:31 AM CDT

Singer Eydie Gorme Dies at 84

Steve and Eydie singer's career spanned half a century

(Newser) - Eydie Gorme, the fairer half of the Steve and Eydie husband-wife nightclub act whose career spanned half a century, died yesterday in Las Vegas of an undisclosed "brief illness," reports People . She was 84. Calling his loss "unimaginable," husband Steve Lawrence said in a statement that...

Five Easy Pieces Star Karen Black Dead at 74

Actress co-starred with Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Fonda

(Newser) - Karen Black, the prolific actress who appeared in more than 100 movies and was featured in such counterculture favorites as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, and Nashville, died yesterday from complications from cancer. She was 74. Known for her full lips and thick, wavy hair that seemed to change color...

Original Klingon Dead at 91
 Original Klingon 
 Dead at 91 
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Aug 3, 2013 6:03 PM CDT

Original Klingon Dead at 91

Michael Ansara lived long and prospered as Kang on 3 iterations of 'Trek'

(Newser) - Michael Ansara, who played Klingon villain Kang on three versions of Star Trek, died this week at his home in California, according to his former agent, CNN reports. He was 91. Ansara was born in Syria, and moved to the US at age 2. He appeared on the original Star ...

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