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TV's "Mr. Clean" dies at age 92

posted 2008-10-02 14:57:22 by stevemay

LOS ANGELES - The actor who played muscular "Mr. Clean" in hundreds of dirt-busting television commercials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 92, his family said.









Hurricanes co-owner Thewes dies at 76

posted 2008-09-29 15:27:47 by stevemay

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Carolina Hurricanes co-owner Thomas Thewes has died.









Hollywood Legend Paul Newman: dead at 83

posted 2008-09-27 09:01:39 by pinenut

The Associated Press
Saturday, September 27, 2008; 9:52 AM

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Spokeswoman for Paul Newman says the screen legend has died at age 83 after battling cancer.









Henry Z. Steinway, Piano Maker, Dies at 93

posted 2008-09-20 19:58:31 by DaveM

Henry Z. Steinway, the last Steinway to run the piano-making company his family started in 1853, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.









Sherrill Headrick

posted 2008-09-19 12:19:32 by MIKE

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Sherrill Headrick, a former Dallas Texans and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, died Wednesday. He was 71.









Floyd founder Wright dies at 65

posted 2008-09-15 11:42:57 by dmcnelis

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.









David Foster Wallace, Writer, Is Dead at 46

posted 2008-09-13 20:51:22 by beth

CLAREMONT, Calif. (AP) -- A police spokeswoman says writer David Foster Wallace has been found dead in his Southern California home. He was 46.










Ralph M. Kovel

posted 2008-09-10 23:01:38 by MIKE

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ralph M. Kovel, who with his wife co-wrote the popular Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guides that became a bible for antique shop and flea market treasure hunters, has died. He was 88.









North Pole explorer Ralph Plaisted dies at 80

posted 2008-09-10 22:55:22 by MIKE

WYOMING, Minn. - Ralph S. Plaisted, an insurance salesman turned explorer who in 1968 led the first expedition that indisputably reached the North Pole over the ice, has died. He was 80.









Baritone Peter Glossop has died

posted 2008-09-09 15:04:52 by grendel

The Sheffield-born baritone, who has died aged 80, was one of the first British singers of the post-war period to appear at most of the world’s leading opera houses in the 1960s and 1970s. Remarkably, Glossop achieved this feat primarily in the major Verdi roles – Rigoletto, Iago, Macbeth, Posa, Falstaff, di Luna – often considered to be (and cast as) exclusively the preserve of Italian-born singers.









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