Eugene Polley, Inventor of the Wireless TV Remote, Dies at 96
23.05.2012, 05:17:36
Mr. Polley, a Zenith engineer, invented the Flash-Matic remote control for television, and spent years reminding people he was the device’s sole inventor.
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Katie Beckett, Who Inspired Health Reform, Dies at 34
23.05.2012, 03:40:05
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, called Ms. Beckett “an inadvertent pioneer in the civil rights movement for people with disabilities.”
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Henry Denker, Author in Many Genres, Dies at 99
23.05.2012, 03:05:41
Mr. Denker’s large output ranged from novels and movies to TV and Broadway plays.
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Jean Pakter, Women’s Health Advocate in New York, Dies at 101
23.05.2012, 03:05:42
As head of the city’s maternity services bureau, Dr. Pakter supported a law that legalized abortion in New York before Roe v. Wade, and one of her studies led to a breakthrough in care for premature babies.
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Frederick J. Brown, Painter of Musicians, Dies at 67
22.05.2012, 19:37:18
Mr. Brown explored the relationship between music and painting in portraits of hundreds of jazz and blues artists.
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Robin Gibb, Member of the Bee Gees, Dies at 62
21.05.2012, 19:30:06
Mr. Gibb was the second member of this brother act, whose sound helped define the disco era, to die.
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Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Lockerbie Bomber, Dies at 60
22.05.2012, 15:00:35
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was the only person convicted in the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.
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Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti Publicist and Manager, Dies
20.05.2012, 06:27:20
Mr. Breslin was the brash publicist and manager of the tenor Luciano Pavarotti who described his philosophy this way: “Marketing an artist is basically like marketing a bar of soap.”
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