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Les Grobstein, Chicago’s sports encyclopedia and longtime radio host, dies at age 69

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Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and sustained a career otherwise upended by personal scandal, died Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, at 87.

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Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his "Bat Out of Hell" album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" and "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," died Jan. 20, 2022. He was 74.

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Bob Lanier, the left-handed big man who muscled up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as one of the NBA's top players of the 1970s, died May 10, 2022. He was 73.

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John Aniston, a longtime star of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" and the father of actress Jennifer Aniston, died Nov. 11, 2022, at age 89, his daughter announced Monday.

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Dwight Smith (right, standing), who as a rookie in 1989 helped the Chicago Cubs win the National League East title and was runner-up in Rookie of the Year voting, died July 22, 2022. He was 58. The Atlanta Braves, with whom Smith earned a World Series ring in 1995, said he died of congestive heart and lung failure, according to the Associated Press.

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William Hurt, the Oscar-winning actor of "Broadcast News," "Body Heat" and "The Big Chill," has died. He was 71. Hurt's son, Will, said in a statement that Hurt died Sunday, March 13, 2022 of natural causes.

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Los Angeles Dodgers television play-by-play announcer Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Aug. 2, 2022, the Dodgers said. He was 94.

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Tony Dow, who as Wally Cleaver on the sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" helped create the popular and lasting image of the American teenager of the 1950s and 60s, died July 27, 2022. He was 77.

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Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State died of cancer at the age of 84, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022.

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Gary Moeller, who coached football at Michigan, Illinois and for the Detroit Lions died July 11, 2022. He was 81. The University of Michigan announced his death, and no cause was provided.

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Bob Chinn, who owned the iconic Bob Chinn's Crab House on Milwaukee Avenue in Wheeling, died April 15, 2022 at the age of 99. Bob Chinn's Crab House was once ranked among the nation's top restaurants in terms of sales.

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Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando's 1973 Academy Award for "The Godfather" on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans, died Oct. 2, 2022. She was 75.

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Gilbert Gottfried, a comedian who had one of the most iconic voices in Hollywood, died at the age of 67 after battling a long illness. His family announced his death on April 12, 2022.

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Mark Lanegan, whose band Screaming Trees was an essential part of the Seattle grunge scene in the early 1990s, has died at age 57. Lanegan's twitter account says he died Feb. 22, 2022 at his home in Ireland.

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Traci Braxton, one of the sisters featured in the reality series "Braxton Family Values" on WeTV, died Saturday, March 12, 2022. She had been fighting esophageal cancer.

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Sam Lay, one of the most influential and esteemed drummers in the history of popular and blues music, died Jan. 29, 2022 at age 86.

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Russian news agencies are reporting on Aug. 30, 2022 that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital.

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Howard Hesseman, who played the radio disc jockey Johnny Fever on the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" and the actor-turned-history teacher Charlie Moore on "Head of the Class," died Jan. 29, 2022 at the age of 81.

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Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals "Mame" and "Gypsy" and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series "Murder, She Wrote," died in her sleep Oct. 11, 2022. She was 96.

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The death of Bernard Cribbins, a beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade career ranged from the bawdy "Carry On" comedies to children's television and "Doctor Who," was announced on July 28, 2022. He was 93.

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Author Roger Angell, a longtime New Yorker writer and editor, died May 20, 2022 at the age of 101. Angell, the son of founding New Yorker editor Katharine White and stepson of E.B. White, contributed hundreds of essays and stories to the magazine over a 70-year career.

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Gloria Allen, most widely known as Mama Gloria, a Chicago transgender icon and activist who was the subject of an award-winning documentary and a critically acclaimed play, died June 13, 2022 in her Lakeview apartment. She was 76.

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Wrestler Scott Hall, who revitalized the industry when he formed the nWo with Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan and was known as Razor Ramon, died March 14, 2022. He was 63.

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Sally Kellerman, the Oscar-nominated actor who played "Hot Lips" Houlihan in director Robert Altman's 1970 army comedy "MASH," died Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, at age 84. Kellerman died of heart failure at her home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, her manager and publicist Alan Eichler said.

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Stephen Wilhite the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, died of COVID on March 14, 2022. He was 74.

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French designer Thierry Mugler, whose dramatic designs were worn by celebrities like Madonna, Lady Gaga and Cardi B, died Jan. 23, 2022. He was 73.

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Shortstop Maury Wills, who helped the Los Angeles Dodgers win three World Series titles with his base-stealing prowess, died Sept. 19, 2022, in Sedona, Ariz. He was 89.

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Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock 'n' roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as "Be My Baby," "Baby I Love You" and "Walking in the Rain" as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes, died Jan. 12, 2022. She was 78.

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Leslie Jordan, the Emmy-winning actor whose wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a comedy and drama standout on TV series including "Will & Grace" and "American Horror Story," died Oct. 24, 2022. He was 67.

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Richard L. "Dick" Duchossois, chairman emeritus of Arlington Park International Racecourse and World War II veteran, died Jan. 28, 2022 at the age of 100.

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Coolio, who was among hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," died Sept. 28, 2022 in Los Angeles. He was 59.

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Director Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies "Animal House" and "Ghostbusters," died Feb. 12, 2022. He was 75.

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The cultural critic, columnist and author Terry Teachout, who wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News and other publications, died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. He was 65.

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Mike Hagerty, a character actor known for roles on TV shows including "Friends," "Cheers," "Seinfeld" and "Somebody Somewhere," died May 5, 2022 at the age of 67.

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NHL legend Guy Lafleur, a former Montreal Canadiens star who won six Stanley Cups with the team and became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in six consecutive seasons, died April 22, 2022 at the age of 70.

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Marvin J. Chomsky, the Emmy-winning director and producer who helmed episodes of beloved TV shows like "Roots" and "Star Trek," died Monday, April 11, 2022. He was 92. He's seen here, center, during the 34th annual Emmy Awards, on Sept. 19, 1982, posing with Leonard Nimoy, left, and William Shatner, right.

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Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in "Seinfeld," died on June 12, 2022. He was 90.

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Actor Nichelle Nichols, who gained fame as Lt. Ntoya Uhura on the original "Star Trek" television series, died July 30, 2022. She was 89.

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Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, died of injuries from a fiery car crash. She was taken off life support on August 14, 2022. She was 53.

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Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy," and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, died May 7, 2022, at age 86.

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Oscar-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman (right) died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022 at age 93. She teamed with husband Alan Bergman on "The Way We Were," "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" and hundreds of other songs.

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Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, who played a crime-solving psychologist on TV series "Cracker" and the half-giant Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" movies, died Oct. 14, 2022. He was 72.

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Actor, artist and singer Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the 1960s sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," died Nov. 16, 2022. He was 96.

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Ron Galella, the celebrity photographer whose pursuit of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis resulted in a restraining order against him after he stalked her for years, died at age 91 on April 30, 2022, at his home in Montville, N.J., of congestive heart failure.

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Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry Seinfeld's doting mom, Helen, on the hit sitcom, died April 15, 2022 at the age of 93. Her "Seinfeld" role was her best known but followed decades of work on stage and screen.

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Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and a second one a generation later as the brilliant, troubled Truman Capote in "Tru," has died. He was 90. Morse died at his home April 20, 2022 after a brief illness, said David Shaul of BRS/Gage Talent Agency.

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Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters, died March 25, 2022. He was 50.

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Bernard Shaw, CNN's chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast journalist best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 as missiles flew around him in Baghdad, died Sept. 8, 2022. He was 82.

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Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated director of "The Last Picture Show," and "Paper Moon," died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82.

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Tony Siragusa, the charismatic defensive tackle who helped lead a Baltimore defense to a Super Bowl title, died June 22, 2022 at the age of 55. Siragusa's broadcast agent, Jim Ornstein, confirmed the death.

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Fred Ward, a veteran actor who appeared in such films as "The Right Stuff," "The Player," "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Tremors," died May 8, 2022. He was 79.

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Betty Davis, the singer and songwriter whose raunchy persona, fierce funk grooves and Afrofuturistic style in the early 1970s made her a forerunner of R&B and hip-hop to come, died on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Homestead, Pa. She was 77.

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"Sweet" Charlie Brown, a star on the DuSable team that lost to Mount Vernon in the 1954 state title game remembered as the "most controversial" game in IHSA tournament history, died Aug. 26, 2022 at the age of 86.

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Former Tribune sports writer John Mullin, a well-known and respected figure in the Chicago sports media landscape for decades with his most prominent contributions coming on the Chicago Bears beat, died June 19, 2022 at the age of 74.

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Best-selling novelist Henry Patterson, who wrote 85 books, including The Eagle Has Landed, using the pseudonym Jack Higgins, died April 9, 2022 at age 92.

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Actor Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor who became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. He was 94.

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Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely and Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series "Baskets," died Jan. 21, 2022 at age 68.

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Lusia Harris Stewart, who was the only woman to be drafted by an NBA team and scored the first points in women's basketball history at the Olympics, died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021 at the age of 66.

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Producer Michael Lang, one of the co-creators and promoters of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022 at the age of 77.

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Comedian Judy Tenuta, a brash standup from west suburban Oak Park, who cheekily styled herself as the "Goddess of Love" and toured with George Carlin as she built her career in the 1980s golden age of comedy, died Oct. 6, 2022, at age 72, according to her publicist.

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Actress Yvette Mimieux, who starred in such films as "The Time Machine," "Where the Boys Are" and others, died Jan. 17, 2022 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 80.

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Jeremy Giambi, the former major league outfielder and first baseman, died Feb. 9, 2022, at his parents' home in Southern California, police said. He was 47.

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Larry Storch (shown in 1966), the comedic character actor who also did voiceover work and impressions and was best known for his role as Corporal Randolph Agarn on "F Troop," died July 8, 2022 at the age of 99.

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Andy Fletcher, keyboardist for British synth pop giants Depeche Mode for more than 40 years, died May 26, 2022 at age 60. Depeche Mode announced the death of founding member Fletcher on its official social media pages.

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Actor Ray Liotta, best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in "Goodfellas" and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field of Dreams," died May 25, 2022 at the age of 67. A representative for Liotta told The Hollywood Reporter and NBC News that he died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming a new movie.

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David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, died August 7, 2022 at the age of 89.

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Julio Cruz, described as an "igniter" for the 1983 American League West champion Chicago White Sox, died Feb. 22, 2022. He was 67.

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Caleb Swanigan (No. 50), the former Purdue basketball star who was the Associated Press Big Ten Player of the Year in 2017 and who played in the NBA for the Portland Trail Blazers and the Sacramento Kings, died June 20, 2022 at the age of 25.

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Richard Christiansen, longtime former Tribune theater critic, died Jan. 28, 2022 at the age of 90.

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Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at age 88.

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Robert Durst, the wealthy New York real estate heir and failed fugitive who was dogged for decades with suspicion in the disappearance and deaths of those around him before he was convicted of killing his best friend and sentenced to life in prison, died Jan. 10, 2022. He was 78.

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James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, died Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. He was 93. He was born in Chicago on June 10, 1929, according to NASA.

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Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic "Das Boot" propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films "In the Line of Fire," "Air Force One" and "The Perfect Storm," died Aug. 12, 2022. He was 81.

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Country music great Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter who became a pillar of country music, died Oct. 4, 2022 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90.

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Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in "Goodfellas" and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on "Law & Order," died July 25, 2022 at the age of 83.

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Paul Zimbrakos, who influenced and trained countless young reporters at Chicago's City News Bureau during more than four decades as an editor at the now-shuttered 24/7 wire service, died May 31, 2022 at the age of 86.

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Merri Dee, who spent 43 years in Chicago broadcasting primarily at WGN-Ch. 9, died March 16, 2022 at the age of 85.

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Ash Carter, who served as secretary of defense in the final two years of the Obama administration and opened military combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, has died at age 68 on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022.

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Odessa Permian head coach Gary Gaines, who led the Texas high school football team made famous in the book and movie "Friday Night Lights," died Aug. 22, 2022. He was 73. Gaines' family says the former coach died of Alzheimer's disease.

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Hall of Fame relief pitcher Bruce Sutter — a six-time All-Star who led the National League in saves for five years, won the 1979 Cy Young Award with the Chicago Cubs and posted 300 saves in a 12-year career with the Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves — died Oct. 13, 2022 at the age of 69.

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Len Dawson, the Hall of Fame quarterback who helped the Kansas City Chiefs to a Super Bowl title, died Aug. 24, 2022. He was 87.

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Ramsey Lewis, a Chicago jazz legend whose music entertained fans over a more than 60-year career that began with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of the country's most successful jazz musicians, died Sept. 12, 2022. He was 87.

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Marilyn Miglin, pictured with her daughter Marlena, the cosmetics magnate and widow of murdered real estate developer Lee Miglin, died March 14, 2022 at the age of 83.

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Sportswriter Craig Lynch, who was blind, worked as a sportswriter for radio station WLPO-AM and the Chicago Sun-Times. He died from complications from a stroke on March 15, 2022 at the age of 72.

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Joseph Kromelis, a fixture well known in downtown Chicago streets as "Walking Man," died Dec. 11, 2022 months after he was set on fire in May while sleeping on the street. He was 75.

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Aaron Carter, the singer-rapper who began performing as a child and had hit albums starting in his teen years, was found dead Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022, at his home in Southern California. He was 34.

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Sam Gooden, one of the original members of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, died August 4, 2022. He was 87.

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Kirstie Alley, a two-time Emmy winner whose roles on the TV megahit "Cheers" and in the "Look Who's Talking" films made her one of the biggest stars in American comedy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died Dec. 5, 2022. She was 71.

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Bob McGrath, an actor, musician and children's author widely known for his portrayal of one of the first regular characters on the children's show "Sesame Street" died at the age of 90 on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022.

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Estelle Harris, (right), shown with Don Rickles at the world premiere of "Toy Story 3" in 2010. Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza's short-fused mother on TV's "Seinfeld" and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the "Toy Story" franchise, died April 2, 2022. She was 93.

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Alec John Such, the bassist and one of the founding members of Bon Jovi, died at age 70 according to the band on June 5, 2022. No details on when or how John Such died were immediately available.

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James Caan, whose indelible, Oscar-nominated performance as Sonny Corleone, the recklessly hotheaded son of Marlon Brando's Mafia don in "The Godfather," is sure to be remembered as long as there are gangster movies, died at 82 on July 6, 2022.

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Rosmarie Trapp, whose family inspired "The Sound of Music," died at a nursing home in Morrisville, Vt., on May 13, 2022. She was 93.

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Joe E. Tata, the actor known as the Peach Pit diner owner Nat Bussichio on the 1990s teen drama "Beverly Hills, 90210" died Aug. 24, 2022. He was 85.

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Charley Trippi, a runner-up for the Heisman Trophy at Georgia who went on to lead the Chicago Cardinals to their most recent NFL championship in 1947, died Oct. 19, 2022. He was 100.

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Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Borscht Belt comedy scene in the Catskills, has died at age 85. Roman died Nov. 26, 2022, at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla., his booking agent and friend Alison Chaplin said Sunday.

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Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.

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Author Barbara Ehrenreich, the muckraking author, activist and journalist who in such notable works as "Nickel and Dimed" and "Bait and Switch" challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, died Sept. 1, 2022 in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her son. She was 81.

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Former Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Wilmington died Jan. 6, 2022, in Los Angeles at the age of 75.

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John "The Professor" Clayton, an NFL football writer and reporter for ESPN, died March 18, 2022 following a short illness. He was 67.

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Bob Saget, a comedian and actor known for his role as a widower raising a trio of daughters in the sitcom "Full House," was found dead in an Orlando, Fla. hotel Jan. 9, 2022. He was 65.

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Lindsey Erin Pearlman, a Chicago actor who had roles in "General Hospital," "American Housewife" and other shows, was found dead Feb. 18, 2022 days after she was reported missing in Los Angeles.

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Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious "enfant terrible" of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first big endeavor, "Breathless," and stood for years as one of the world's most vital and provocative directors died on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. He was 91.

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French actor Gaspard Ulliel, who is in the upcoming Marvel series "Moon Knight" and was the face of Chanel's fragrance Bleu, died Jan. 19, 2022, after a skiing accident in the Alps. He was 37.

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Pervis Spann, pictured with his daughter Melody Spann-Cooper the Chairman of WVON radio, was the voice for Black Chicago during his transformative tenure as a disc jockey and owner at WVON. Spann's career spanned more than 60 years. He died March 14, 2022 at the age of 89.

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Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut from the 1980 hit movie "Fame" and belted out the era-defining hit "Flashdance ... What a Feeling" from 1983's "Flashdance," has died her publicist announced Nov. 26, 2022. She was 63.

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David Warner, a versatile British actor whose roles ranged from Shakespearean tragedies to sci-fi cult classics, died on July 24, 2022. He was 80.

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Dwayne Hickman, the actor and network TV executive who would always be remembered by a generation of baby boomers for his role as Dobie Gillis, died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. He was 87.

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P. J. O'Rourke, the prolific author and satirist who re-fashioned the irreverence and "Gonzo" journalism of the 1960s counterculture into a distinctive brand of conservative and libertarian commentary, died Feb. 15, 2022 at age 74.

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Paul Silas, a member of three NBA championship teams and LeBron James' first coach in the league, has died his family announced Dec. 11, 2022. He was 79.

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Ken Starr, whose criminal investigation of Bill Clinton led to the president's impeachment, died Sept. 13, 2022. He was 76.

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Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who became the longest-serving Republican senator in history as he represented Utah for more than four decades, died April 23, 2022, at the age of 88.

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Vogue magazine editor at large André Leon Talley has died at 73, it was announced on Jan. 18, 2022.

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Former Boston Celtics basketball player Bill Russell, who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 titles in 13 years and was the first Black head coach in any major U.S. sport, died July 31, 2022 at the age of 88.

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Clarence Gilyard Jr., a popular supporting actor whose credits include the blockbuster films "Die Hard" and "Top Gun" and the hit television series "Matlock" and "Walker, Texas Ranger," has died at age 66. His death was announced Nov. 29, 2022.

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Emilio Delgado, the actor and singer who for 45 years was a warm and familiar presence in children's lives and a rare Latino face on American television as fix-it shop owner Luis on "Sesame Street," died Thursday, March 10, 2022. He was 81.

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Musician Christine McVie, the soulful British musician who sang lead on many of Fleetwood Mac's biggest hits, has died at 79. The band announced her death on social media Nov. 30, 2022.

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Jason David Frank, who played the Green Power Ranger Tommy Oliver on the 1990s children's series "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," has died, according to a statement Nov. 20, 2022, from his manager, Justine Hunt. He was 49.

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Tony Sirico (right), who played the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in "The Sopranos" and brought his tough-guy swagger to films including "Goodfellas," died Friday, July 8, 2022. He was 79.

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Guitarist and fiddle player Jeff Cook, who co-founded the country band Alabama, died Nov. 7, 2022 at his home in Destin, Fla. He was 73.

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Bill Veeck and his wife Mary Frances on April 9, 1960. Mary Frances Veeck, who was considered an ambassador for baseball and sounding board for former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, died Sept. 10, 2022 at the age of 102.

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Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born matriarch of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died at the age of 76. Her family announced Judd's death on April 30, 2022.

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John R. Froines, a chemist who stood trial alongside six other antiwar activists — known as the Chicago Seven — on charges of conspiring to incite a riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and who went on to become a pioneering advocate for environmental justice, died July 13, 2022, in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 83.

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Gallagher, the inventive prop comedian known for smashing watermelons as part of his act, died Nov. 11, 2022 of organ failure, his former manager Craig Marquardo confirmed. He was 76.

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Melissa Bank, the author of "The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing," died of lung cancer on August 2, 2022 at the age of 61, according to her publisher Viking.

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Gary Brooker, the Procol Harum frontman who sang one of the 1960s' most enduring hits, "A Whiter Shade of Pale," died Feb. 19, 2022. He was 76.

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Patrick Demarchelier, the French-born photographer known for his high fashion images of top models and celebrities, including Princess Diana, has died at age 78 according to his Instagram account on March 31, 2022.

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Bobby Rydell, a pompadoured heartthrob of early rock 'n roll who was a star of radio, television and the movie musical "Bye Bye Birdie," died April 5, 2022. Rydell died of complications from pneumonia at a hospital in a suburb of his hometown of Philadelphia, according to a statement posted by his marketing and event coordinator Maria Novey.

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Bass player Calvin Simon, the Parliament-Funkadelic Co-Founder and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at the age of 79.

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The so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii's largest landowners died on Dec. 12, 2022. She was 96.

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Placido Domingo (left) and Maria Ewing (right) perform "Tosca" in 1992. Ewing, a soprano and mezzo-soprano noted for intense performances who became the wife of director Peter Hall and the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, died Jan. 9, 2022 at age 71.

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Olivia Newton-John, the top female pop vocalist of the 1970s who starred in movies including "Grease" and "Xanadu," died Aug, 8, 2022. She was 73.

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Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, known for his art that turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a clothespin and the "Batcolumn" located on the 600 block of West Madison Street in Chicago, died July 18, 2022 at the age of 93.