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Jakucho Setouchi, a Buddhist nun and one of Japan’s best-known authors best known for novels depicting passionate women and her translation of “The Tale of Genji,” a 1,000-year-old classic, into modern language, died Tuesday, Nov. 9 of heart failure. The…
Lester Bird was born in New York City on 21 February 1938. Lester and his elder brother Vere Bird Jr., also a British-educated lawyer, were considered sometime rivals, with The New York Times writing in 1990 that Lester had always overshadowed his brother, according to…
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won,…
According to his former label mate, Mark Curry, Black Rob, the New York City rapper formerly part of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy label, has died. Curry announced Rob’s death in two videos posted to Instagram on Saturday, and Variety has confirmed…
Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later, he was so disgusted after losing a decision to Sugar Ray…
Born Neville O’Riley Livingston, but known professionally as Bunny Wailer, was born on 10 April 1947, and he died on 2 March 2021. He was one of the original members of the Jamaican Reggae group “The Wailers.” Bunny was a…
Canadian actor Jahmil French of “Degrassi: The Next Generation” fame has died. His agent, Gabrielle Kachman, confirmed the news to The Canadian Press through a statement. Kachman did not provide details on his death but noted French “will be remembered…
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator whose fiery rhetoric forged a new landscape for talk radio and inflamed the partisan divide that came to characterize political discourse in the United States, has died, according to an announcement on his radio show…
Former NASA astronaut William Thornton, who used his inventions to measure and combat the ill-effects of microgravity while onboard two space shuttle missions. NASA reported Thornton’s death on Thursday (January 14). “NASA is saddened to learn of the loss of former…
