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Bebe Moore Campbell, whose many best sellers such as “Brothers and Sisters” touched on America’s ethnic and social divides, died Monday. She was 56. … Read full obituaryl

Pat Dobson, one of four pitchers to win 20 games for the Baltimore Orioles in 1971, has died. He was 64. … Read full obituary

William Diehl, best-selling author of “Primal Fear” and other novels, has died at Emory University Hospital. He was 81. … Read full obituary

Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical “On the Town,” as well as “Singin’ in the Rain,” has died. She was 89. … Read full obituary

Anita O’Day, whose sassy renditions of “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Sweet Georgia Brown” and other song standards that made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and ’50s, has died. She was 87. … Read full obituary

Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who had been fighting for his life in recent days after an apparent poisoning, has died, the London hospital where he was being treated said today. … Read full story

Beloved French actor Philippe Noiret, whose neighbourly face was among the most familiar on the silver screen in France, died Thursday of cancer. He was 76. … Read full obituary

Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind “M-A-S-H,” “Nashville” and “The Player” who made a career out of bucking Hollywood, has died at 81. … Read full obituary

LOS ANGELES (AP) Jeremy Slate, the versatile actor who co-wrote and starred in the cult film “Hell’s Angels ‘69,” died Sunday, according to his agent. He was 80. … Read full obituary

Bo Schembechler, who became one of college football’s greatest coaches in two decades at Michigan, died Friday after taping a TV show on the eve of the important Big Ten game against the Wolverines’ perennial rival, top-ranked Ohio State. He was 77. … Read full obituary

Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley died Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of complications from leukemia. Bradley joined the staff of the venerable news magazine 26 years ago. His consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work were recognized with numerous awards, including 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment that reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till. …

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Actor Jack Palance, who won an Oscar with his comedic self-parody in 1991’s “City Slickers,” died Friday.

He was 87, said spokesman Dick Guttman, and died of natural causes in his home in Montecito, California, surrounded by his family. … Read full obituary

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Paul Mauriat, a French conductor whose arrangement of “Love is Blue” topped U.S. charts in the 1960s and who garnered a large following in Japan, has died. He was 81. … Read full obituary

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. — Johnny Sain, a three-time All-Star from Arkansas who teamed with Warren Spahn to make up one of baseball’s most fabled pitching tandems, died Tuesday. He was 89. … Read full obituary

Notes IMDB.com: “American actress Adrienne Shelly was found dead at her New York City apartment on Wednesday in what appears to be a suicide. She was 40. Shelly was discovered hanging from a bedsheet by her husband Andy Ostroy, according to the New York Daily News. Police found no evidence of foul play.”

Adrienne Shelly, an actress best known for her roles in the Hal Hartley films “Trust” and “The Unbelievable Truth,” was found dead in her office by her husband, her agent said Thursday. … Read full story

JACKSON, Miss. — Ellie Dahmer found little comfort in the death of the Ku Klux Klan leader who ordered the assassination of her husband, saying Samuel H. Bowers lived a much longer life than the man she married.

Bowers, who was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing death of Vernon Dahmer Sr., died Sunday in a state penitentiary, officials said. He was 82. … Read full obituary

Jane Hodgson, a prominent abortion rights advocate who in a highly publicized test case in 1970 became the only doctor in the United States to be convicted of illegally performing an abortion in a hospital, died on Oct. 23 at her home in Rochester, Minn. She was 91. … Read full obituary

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, whose lighthearted memoir, “Cheaper by the Dozen,” detailed the frenentic life of a family with 12 children and inspired several films, has died.

Carey died Saturday of natural causes at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, her son Charles Carey Jr. said. She was 98. … Read full obituary

His family tells Channel 3 News it appears died in his sleep, possibly of a heart attack. He was 40 years old. …

Gerald was the son of Eddie Levert, a founder and lead singer of the O’Jays. … Read full obituary

William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote “Sophie’s Choice,” died Wednesday in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

He was 81. … Read full obituary