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Conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests, and relationships during lives that defied medical expectations, died this month aged 62. The twins, listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest living conjoined twins, died April 7 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, according to obituaries posted by Leibensperger Funeral Homes of Hamburg. The cause of death was not detailed. 'Space-age stuff': Conjoined twins separated with help of virtual reality in Brazil"When we were born, the doctors didn’t think we’d make 30, but we...
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O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted in a criminal trial for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died at 76. A message posted Thursday on Simpson's official X account said he died after battling cancer. Simpson earned fame, fortune and adulation through football and show business, but his legacy was forever changed by the June 1994 knife slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. Live TV coverage of his arrest after an infamous slow-spee...
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Writer Lynne Reid Banks, known for her children’s book "The Indian in the Cupboard" has died at the age of 94 from cancer, “peacefully with her family around her,” her agent James Wils has said. Born in London on 31 July 1929, Banks was evacuated to Saskatoon in Canada during the Second World War. Upon her return to England, she trained as an actor before becoming one of the first female television journalists in Britain as a news reporter at ITN. Goodbye Cronut, hello Crookie: The new cross-bred croissant everyone's obsessed with Markus Hinterhäuser to be artistic director of Salzburg Festiva...
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Jean-Paul Vignon, the crooning French vocalist and actor who made an eight-decade career on both sides of the Atlantic, has died aged 89. His family announced that Vignon died on 22 March after a battle with liver cancer. Born on 30 January, 1935, in the port city of Dire-Daoua in Somaliland (later known as Djibouti), Vignon was raised in Avignon, France. He briefly studied medicine in Marseille and law at the Sorbonne in Paris but decided to pursue music full time. He began his artistic career as a musician, performing as part of a cabaret in Paris. He was signed as a vocalist to the French i...
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Chris Cross, the bassist and founding member of British new wave band Ultravox has died, his bandmate Midge Ure has announced. Cross, whose real name was Chris Allen, died on 25 March, with the news only shared on the evening of 1 April. J.K. Rowling 'looks forward to being arrested' following Scottish hate crime law changesSaxophonist Casey Benjamin, who played with Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé, dies aged 46 Born in Tottenham, London in 1952, Cross joined the band Tiger Lily in 1974 with singer-songwriter Dennis Leigh, who’d later be known as John Foxx. The band was signed in 1976 and they shor...
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Renowned artist Casey Benjamin has died at the age of 46. He was known for his talents on the saxophone and vocoder with The Robert Glasper Experiment. He was also known for touring and working with US music heavyweights like Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Q-Tip, Beyoncé, Busta Rhymes, Wyclef Jean, DJ Logic, Mary J. Blige, Kanye ‘Ye’ West, and many more. No cause of death has been specified yet. Born in Queens, New York, in 1978, Benjamin began playing saxophone aged eight and studied at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts before enrolling at the New School. While th...
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Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries Roots, has died aged 87. A statement from the family said Gossett died Friday morning. No cause of death was revealed. In 2010, Gossett announced he had prostate cancer, which he said was caught in the early stages. In 2020, he was hospitalized with COVID-19. Louis Cameron Gossett was born on 27 May 1936 in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, to Louis Sr., a porter, and Hellen, a nurse. He later added Jr. to his name to honor his father. Gossett broke ...
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Considered one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, with his work presented in the world’s best museums and collections, Richard Serra has died aged 85. His lawyer, John Silberman, confirmed his death on Tuesday, stating that the cause was pneumonia. Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his large-scale steel structures, such as monumental arcs, spirals and ellipses. He was closely identified with the minimalist movement of the 1970s. Picasso sculptures take centre stage in must-see exhibition at Bilbao's GuggenheimMicroscopic masterpiec...
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M. Emmet Walsh, a US character actor whose filmography includes classics like Blood Simple and Blade Runner, has died at age 88, his manager confirmed on Wednesday (20 March). His longtime manager Sandy Joseph said Walsh died from cardiac arrest on Tuesday at a hospital in St. Albans, Vermont, his home state. Widely beloved by critics and filmgoers alike, M. Emmet Walsh received high praise from famed critic Roger Ebert, who once said that “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.” Walsh was often the most memorable part of any ...
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David Seidler, best known for his Oscar and BAFTA-winning screenplay for the 2010 historical drama The King’s Speech, has died aged 86. According to his manager, Jeff Aghassi, Seidler died on Saturday (16 March) during a fly-fishing trip in New Zealand, Aghassi said: “David was in the place he loved most in the world – New Zealand – doing what gave him the greatest peace, which was fly fishing. If given the chance, it is exactly as he would have scripted it.” The London-born screenwriter, who grew up with a stammer, was inspired to write about the true story of how King George VI overcame his ...
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