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The opening line of Ivan Wilson's last letter home to his mother had a poignant resonance at his memorial service.
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Tony Daly, a doctor for sports stars who became one in his own right because of this work, died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills after a six-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 74. >>
Joey Giardello, a former middleweight boxing champion who won a decision over Rubin Carter in 1964 and then sued over how the fight was depicted in the 1999 film "The Hurricane," has died. He was 78. >>
After the L.A. riots in 1992, she and others worked with the university to launch a course on revitalizing minority communities. >>
Her designs were timeless expressions of quiet elegance, and led to her being dubbed the "Signora of elegance." >>
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq: >>
Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. >>
The Arkansas native married a Civil War infantryman when he was 86 and she was 19. A Civil War historian says a few other such widows are still alive but do not want to be named. >>
Riitta ImmonenFinnish fabric, fashion designer >>Keller was on the celebrated writing team on Sid Caesar's variety TV shows in the 1950s and was a founding member of the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band. >>
Australian actor Michael Pate, who appeared in dozens of films and was a regular guest star on U.S. television shows in the 1950s and '60s, died Monday in Australia of respiratory failure. He was 88. >>
In the annals of California municipal history, Lakewood of the early 1950s was David fighting the Goliath of Long Beach, a city intent on gobbling up its unincorporated neighbor parcel by parcel. The legal turf battles were exhausting Lakewood's defenders, most of whom were transplants drawn to the promise of this sleepy village-turned-postwar boomtown >>
In his nearly 70-year career, the animator worked on Disney films including 'Fantasia' and 'Bambi,' and Warner Bros. characters such as Bugs Bunny. He's best known for the 'Charlie Brown' specials. >>
Golfer Tommy Bolt, known as well for his legendary temper tantrums as for winning the 1958 U.S. Open, died Saturday in Batesville, Ark., the PGA Tour announced. He was 92. >>
He started the Duarte-based company with brothers Zeke and Gus. The firm was a major sponsor on various auto racing circuits. >>
Don LaFontaine, the highly sought-after voice-over artist whose sonorous-voiced narration on several thousand movie trailers earned him the title of "The Trailer King," has died. He was 68. >>
Jerry Reed, whose roles in three "Smokey and the Bandit" Southern comedy films opposite Burt Reynolds often overshadowed his gifts as a prolific country singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, died Monday at his home outside Nashville of complications from emphysema. He was 71. >>
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Guthman was national editor of the L.A. Times during the paper's rise to prominence. His pursuit of Watergate stories earned him the No. 3 spot on Nixon's enemies list. He later taught at USC. >>
V. Orville Wright, president and chief executive of MCI Communications during its transformation from a start-up into the leading challenger of AT&T; in the 1970s and 1980s, has died. He was 87. >>
Sullivan's Dublin, Ireland-based company, founded with three former Disney animators, also produced 'The Secret of NIMH,' 'An American Tail,' and 'All Dogs Go to Heaven.' >>
Allard Frank RoenCo-founder of La Costa Resort >>After fleeing the Soviet Union in 1964, Nosenko underwent a harsh three-year interrogation by CIA officials. He also provided the first information that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a Soviet spy. >>
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Barry PriceMagician known for his close-up tricks >>Do Van Ly, a founder of the first Cao Dai Center in Los Angeles and one of the religion's senior leaders in the United States, has died. He was 98. >>
Tad Mosel, a leading writer of live television dramas in the 1950s who won a Pulitzer Prize for "All the Way Home," his 1960 Broadway dramatization of James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family," has died. He was 86. >>
Richard Landon Kassebaum, a filmmaker who documented his Republican family's political experiences, which included his grandfather Alf Landon's 1936 presidential bid, died Wednesday. He was 47. >>
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq: >>
Dr. Hugh R. Butt, the Mayo Clinic physician who discovered the role of vitamin K in clotting and developed anti-clotting techniques that paved the way for open-heart surgery and transplants, died Aug. 16 in Rochester, Minn. >>
Dr. Robert F. Maronde, a professor emeritus at the USC School of Medicine whose accomplishments included co-creating an artificial kidney in the late 1940s and developing an early computerized prescription drug system in the 1960s, has died. He was 88. >>
Henri Cartan, one of the world's foremost mathematicians in the last half of the 20th century, died Aug. 13 in Paris. He was 104. The cause of death was not reported. >>
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The racer, who was raised in Santa Monica, won the F1 championship for Ferrari in 1961 and was a three-time winner at both Le Mans and Sebring. He never suffered a serious injury. >>
Dr. Ralph D. Feigin, the pediatrician who built the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital into major teaching and research institutions and who wrote the book on children's infectious diseases, died Aug. 14 at The Methodist Hospital in Houston. He was 70. >>
Abie Nathan, the Israeli peace activist who made a dramatic solo flight to Egypt and later founded the groundbreaking "Voice of Peace" radio station, died Wednesday. He was 81. >>
Lavonne Edwin Cox, the first employee of UC Irvine, died Tuesday at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange of complications from a fall. He was 94. >>
She asked to be taken off life support. 'No athlete would like to have a life with only their eyes talking,' said her twin sister, also a triathlete. >>
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Del Martin, a pioneer lesbian rights activist who, with her partner of more than 50 years, Phyllis Lyon, became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in San Francisco in June, died Wednesday. She was 87. >>
David M. Scholer, a popular Fuller Theological Seminary professor and articulate advocate for women in the ministry who inspired others by showing them how to live with incurable cancer, died Friday at his Pasadena home. He was 70. >>
Dr. Thomas H. Weller, the Harvard virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in medicine for developing techniques to grow the polio virus in the laboratory, a feat that laid the groundwork for the development of the polio vaccine and the feared virus' near-eradication from the world, died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Needham, Mass. He was 93. >>
Kevin DuckworthNBA All-Star in Portland >>Jabir Herbert Muhammad ran a bakery, a dry cleaner and other small businesses for the Nation of Islam before taking on his biggest project of all, boxer Muhammad Ali. >>
William "Bill" Frederick Hertz, a longtime theater executive and former chairman of the Hollywood Walk of Fame who is one of the few non-celebrities whose handprints and footprints are in the forecourt of Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, has died. He was 84. >>
He was born in New York and joined Les Brown's Band of Renown in 1940. He teamed with Tony Sandler in 1965. They made more than 20 albums. >>
Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die," an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life, has died. He was 47. >>
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Dorival Caymmi, a revered composer and singer of Brazilian popular song who influenced generations of bossa nova performers and whose first major hit helped launch the Hollywood career of entertainer Carmen Miranda, has died. He was 94. >>
Collins was instrumental in building the women's league exhibit for the Baseball Hall of Fame and was one of the inspirations for Geena Davis' character in the film 'A League of Their Own.' >>
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan, Bahrain and Iraq: >>
In 1961, he was elected chairman of the county Republican Central Committee. Gov. Reagan appointed him to the bench in 1969. He retired in 1988. >>
He played Brent Tarleton in the 1939 film. Crane later became an announcer on L.A. classical music station KFAC. >>
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The former Hall of Fame offensive guard guided the players union through times of turbulence and prosperous stability. >>
Philip Geoffrey Saffman, the former Theodore von Karman Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics at Caltech and a leading expert on vortex dynamics -- the study of how liquids and gases of varying densities and viscosities interact -- died Sunday in Pasadena after a long illness. He was 77. >>
Manny Farber, an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence in two careers -- as a painter of abstract canvases and still-lifes and as a film critic admired for his canny, muscular writing and advocacy of such directors as Sam Fuller, Howard Hawks and R.W. Fassbinder -- has died. He was 91. >>
Hua Guofeng, one of the last of the early generation of Communist revolutionaries who was named briefly to succeed Chairman Mao Tse-tung, died Wednesday, Chinese state media reported. Hua, who is credited with putting China on the path to reform by removing the Gang of Four, was 87. >>
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said. She was 58. >>
He is discovered in his home in the Silver Lake-Echo Park area, possibly dead from natural causes, authorities say. >>
Alexander Valley Vineyards founder headed jet engine manufacturer Garrett Corp. >>
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who broke the African tradition of silence and solidarity among leaders to denounce neighboring Zimbabwe's economic ruin, died in a French military hospital Tuesday. He was 59. >>
Pervis JacksonBass singer for The Spinners >>LeRoi Moore, a saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band, died Tuesday of injuries suffered in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle in June. He was 46. >>
Robert P. BenoitHollywood Park publicity director >>Jack A. Weil, a celebrated entrepreneur of the American West who added snaps and snappiness to cowboy shirts and then sold the garments to thousands who never saw the sagebrush, died Wednesday at his home in Denver. He was 107. >>
James E. Ludlam, one of the founders of healthcare law who helped shape California's healthcare environment during the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 93. >>
Leroy Sievers, a broadcast journalist who candidly and poignantly commented on the disease that would take his life in My Cancer, a popular National Public Radio blog, has died. He was 53. >>
Estrada, a former boxer himself, survived heart and kidney problems long enough to watch his son's first-round bout on TV. He missed the second one, in which Shawn Estrada lost and was put out of the running for a medal, and died Sunday. >>
Dr. Joan Hodgman, an influential pediatrician at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center who helped define the field of neonatology and guidelines that improved the standards for newborn care, died Aug. 10 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. She was 84. >>
Du Hai Tran of Chatsworth could not stop smiling the day his daughter was born. He gingerly cradled baby Michelle in his arms, afraid of squeezing her too hard. He joked to his wife about wanting a boy. He hoped that she would not grow up to have his bowlegged walk. >>
USC, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Huntington Library were among the beneficiaries of the former orthodontist and developer's largess. >>
As a boy growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Jair De Jesus Garcia was drawn to the fine arts, tastes his mother took every opportunity to nurture. >>
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The Atlantic Records producer helped Aretha Franklin to stardom and worked with Bob Dylan and other leading artists. >>
James E. Ludlam, one of the founders of healthcare law who helped shape California's healthcare environment during the last half of the 20th century, has died. He was 93. >>
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Notable: 2007
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. A roll call of newsworthy figures who died in 2007. PHOTOS
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