Deaths from around the world

Deaths from around the world

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D.C. Fontana, 80: A writer and story editor for the original “Star Trek” television series, wrote the “Star Trek” novel “Vulcan’s Glory” and later a contributor to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and other related projects

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Lorelee Kendall Boone Galvez

On September 13, 2019, Lorelee Kendall Boone Galvez of Redmond, Oregon, passed away peacefully at home. She was born on July 18, 1929, in Barrington, New Jersey, to James and Irene Boone. This past July she celebrated her 90th birthday with family and friends.

Featured obituary: Premier who guided Japan through Cold War dies at 101
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Featured obituary: Premier who guided Japan through Cold War dies at 101

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Yasuhiro Nakasone, the outspoken Japanese prime minister who raised his nation’s profile on the world stage in the 1980s and worked to soothe relations with the U.S. during trade disputes, has died at the age of 101, public broadcaster NHK reported Friday.

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William Doyle Ruckelshaus, 87: A lifelong Republican and first administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Department rather than carry out President Richard Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate s…

Gahan Wilson, darkly funny cartoonist, dies at 89
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Gahan Wilson, darkly funny cartoonist, dies at 89

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Gahan Wilson, whose humorous and often macabre cartoons were a mainstay in magazines including Playboy, the New Yorker and National Lampoon, died last week. He was 89.

Theodore Toluba

Theodore Toluba, 79, of Honokaa, Hawaii and formerly of Redmond, Oregon died November 4, 2019, at his residence.

Featured obituary: Pollard acted in ‘Bonnie and Clyde’

Featured obituary: Pollard acted in ‘Bonnie and Clyde’

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Michael J. Pollard, a scene-stealing character actor who earned an Oscar nomination for the landmark 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde,” playing a getaway driver even though off-screen he never learned how to drive, died Nov. 20 at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 80.

Featured obituary: Minton published ‘Lolita,’ other books

Featured obituary: Minton published ‘Lolita,’ other books

  • BY HILLEL ITALIE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK — Walter J. Minton, a publishing scion and risk taker with a self-described “nasty streak” who as head of G.P. Putnam’s Sons released works by Norman Mailer and Terry Southern among others and signed up Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous “Lolita,” has died at age 96.