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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.

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?”

Julian Bussgang, entrepreneur who wrote about escaping Poland as a boy during Holocaust, dies at 98
“I have been one of the lucky ones. I survived,” Dr. Bussgang wrote in a memoir, in which he included a list of relatives who were killed in the Holocaust.

Charles Gayle, saxophonist of fire and brimstone, dies at 84
The uncompromising saxophonist spent years living and performing on the streets of New York before beginning a recording career when he was nearly 50.

Bobby Schiffman, guiding force of the Apollo Theater, dies at 94
Bobby Schiffman guided the Apollo Theater in Harlem through the seismic cultural and musical changes of the 1960s and early ’70s, cementing its place as a world-renowned showcase for Black music and entertainment.

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Lisa Lyon, bodybuilding pioneer and Mapplethorpe muse, dies at 70

A bodybuilding pioneer, Lisa Lyon stood at 5-foot-3 and weighed barely more than 100 pounds in her heyday but could lift more than twice her weight.

Lauch Faircloth dies at 95; GOP senator targeted D.C. home rule in crisis

A North Carolina hog farmer, Lauch Faircloth was a one-term Republican US senator instrumental in stripping the District of Columbia and Mayor Marion Barry of all authority to deal with an overwhelming financial crisis in 1997.

Hugo Blanco, environmental activist in Peru and beyond, dies at 88

For more than 30 years Hugo Blanco led marches against mines, rallied international support for the Amazon and organized efforts to expand autonomy for Indigenous people.

Fernando Botero, artist of whimsical rotundity, is dead at 91

A Colombian artist, Fernando Botero's voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives, and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists.

Tony Award-winner Michael McGrath, mourned as ‘adorable, mischievous, brilliant,’ dies at 65

Michael McGrath, a Broadway character actor who shined in zany, feel-good musicals and won a Tony Award for “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” has died.

Curtis Fowlkes, avant-jazz pioneer of the 1980s, dies at 73

With a fan base largely consisting of cognoscenti and fellow musicians, his Jazz Passengers' reputation far outweighed its sales.

Robert S. Bennett, Washington lawyer at home in a crisis, dies at 84

Mr. Bennett was one of Washington's most sought-after defense lawyers, known for steering companies, executives and political figures of both parties through moments of legal peril.

Eugene Peltola, husband of US Representative Mary Peltola of Alaska, dies in plane crash

US Representative Mary Peltola’s office announced Wednesday that the congresswoman’s husband died in an airplane crash in Alaska.