Negro Leagues star Buck O'Neil dead at 94
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John "Buck" O'Neil, a key figure in Negro Leagues baseball and a ground-breaking coach in the major leagues, has died at the age of 94.
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ohnny Ramone, the stone-faced guitarist of the punk band the Ramones, whose fast, buzzsaw blasts of noise laid the foundation for a school of rock guitar, died on Wednesday afternoon at his home in Los Angeles.
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Buck O'Neil has been hospitalized because of extreme fatigue, and friends are becoming increasingly worried about the 94-year-old former Negro Leagues player.
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Legendary television entertainer Johnny Carson has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC television network reported on its Web site on Sunday.
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Johnny Lane Oates, who spent parts of 11 seasons in major-league baseball as a player and parts of another 11 as a manager, died Friday after a long fight with glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive brain tumor.
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Legendary television entertainer  Johnny Carson has died of emphysema at age 79, the NBC  television network reported on its Web site on Sunday.
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Former Dodgers star Clem Labine, whose  relief pitching helped Brooklyn win the 1955 World Series over  crosstown rival Yankees, died Friday at age 80, the National  League club announced from their Vero Beach, Florida, training  camp.
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Russell Jones aka ODB aka Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard aka Dirt McGirt aka Big Baby Jesus sadly passed away outside his Manhattan studio on Saturday after collapsing complaining of chest pains.
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Bennie Smith, a guitarist and St. Louis blues legend who played with stars like Chuck Berry and Ike and Tina Turner, died Sunday following a heart attack. He was 72.
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Former National Football League star Reggie White died Sunday in North Carolina at the age of 43. White, who was an ordained minister, died at his home.
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Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard collapsed and died in his Manhattan studio on Saturday. He was 35. His mother Cherry Jones released the following statement.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon takes a musical moment to note the death of Louisiana bluesman Raful Neal. Too easy and a bluesman Rachel Neil died this week at the age of sixty-eight the singer and harmonica
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Steve Barber, the first 20-game winner in modern Baltimore Orioles history and the losing pitcher in one of baseball's wildest no-hitters, has died. He was 67.
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Pat Dobson, one of four pitchers to win 20 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1971, has died. He was 64.
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Former University of Louisville basketball player Larry Williams has died. He was 48.
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Artie Shaw, the famed bandleader of the 1930s swing era, has died at home today at the age of 94. His attorney says Shaw died of natural causes, and had been ill for some time.
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair,  who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and  became one of the first black women to host her own television  variety show, has died at 72, her husband said on Monday.