Nigel Parry/AP Accomplished actor Peter O’Toole in 2006. He died at the age of 81. Peter O’Toole, the legendary actor who starred in the classic film “Lawrence of Arabia,” has died at age 81. The charismatic, Irish-born star of the stage and silver screen got his big break when he won the role of British adventurer T.E. Lawrence in the ...
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Dad who campaigned for experimental cancer drugs dies of melanoma
savelockys dadnick/via YouTube Nick Auden, the 41-year-old Denver man who campaigned for access to experimental cancer drugs outside of clinical trials, has died of melanoma, his family announced. A Colorado father of three with cancer who campaigned for access to the experimental drugs he hoped would cure him has died, his family announced. Nick Auden, 41, passed away last Friday ...
Read More »Brooklyn man, 32, dies in freedive contest
Facebook Nicholas Mevoli was killed during a freedive competition in Nassau, Bahamas while going for $ 20,000 prize. A 32-year-old New York City man who broke the U.S. constant weight record for freediving soon after beginning his competitive career last year died Sunday while participating in a tournament in the Bahamas, police said. Nicholas Mevoli, who lived in the city’s ...
Read More »Doris Lessing dies at 94
JUAN MARTIN/EPA British writer and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing died at the age of 94 on Sunday. Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarizing author of “The Golden Notebook” and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey across the former British empire, has died. She was 94. Her publisher, HarperCollins says that the author ...
Read More »Founder of Ace Hotel dies at 47
Alexandra Wyman/WireImage Born in Denver and raised in Seattle, Calderwood (L) became a party promoter after high school. The founder of the trendy Ace Hotel has died in London, the chain announced. Alex Calderwood, 47, died Thursday. No details were given on Calderwood’s cause of death. RELATED: AGENT PULLED FROM PRESIDENTIAL DETAIL OVER MAY HOTEL CASE NVESTIGATED COLOMBIAN HANKY-PANKY: SENATOR ...
Read More »Last person to be born in 19th century dies at the age of 113
Grace Jones has died at the age of 113 [ENTERPRISE] Grace Jones, of Bermondsey, south London, was born on December 7, 1899 and was the last living person in the UK to have been born in the 1800s. Unmarried Grace, whose fiance died in the First World War, was also the sixth oldest person in the world. She had a ...
Read More »HS football player dies from head injury
TC Warriors via Facebook Charles Youvella died Friday night after sustaining head injuries during Hopi High School’s playoff football game against Arizona Lutheran on Saturday. PHOENIX (AP) — A high school football player in Arizona died from an injury suffered in the fourth quarter of a blowout playoff game loss, serving as another tragic reminder of the dangers of head ...
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