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            "name": "Frankie Cain American professional wrestler dead at age 93",
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            "name": "Nicolas Giani Italian football/soccer player dead at age 39",
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            "description": "Nicolas Giani, an Italian professional footballer who played as a centre-back, died on February 2, 2026. Born on March 13, 1986, he began his career at Inter Milan. In August 2005, he was loaned to Serie B club Cremonese before returning to Inter and appearing in the 2006 Torneo di Viareggio. He later played two Serie C1 seasons for Pro Patria, joined Vicenza in a joint-ownership deal in July 2008, and was signed by Perugia on a temporary deal on January 23, 2013.",
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            "name": "Gabor Boritt American historian dead at age 86",
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            "name": "John MacDonald Hong Kong racing car driver dead at age 89",
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            "name": "Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz Mexican Roman Catholic prelate dead at age 75",
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            "name": "Charles Renoux French Benedictine monk and orientalist dead at age 100",
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            "name": "Slave American musician",
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            "name": "Frank S. Royal American physician dead at age 86",
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            "name": "Hem Singh Bhadana Politician dead at age 55",
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            "name": "Ahmad Obeidat Jordanian politician dead at age 87",
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            "name": "Chuck Sullivan American lawyer and sports executive dead at age 83",
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            "name": "Ranjit Das Bangladeshi football player and manager dead at age 93",
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            "name": "Chuck Negron Singer-songwriter dead at age 83",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "Chuck Negron, an American singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and lead vocalist of the rock band Three Dog Night, died on February 2, 2026, of heart failure and COPD in Studio City, Los Angeles, California. Born Charles Negron II in Manhattan, New York City, on June 8, 1942, he was active as a singer-songwriter from 1960 to 2020. His work spanned pop rock, soft rock, and blue-eyed soul, and he was formerly of Three Dog Night.",
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            "name": "Daryl Hoole Author, homemaker dead at age 91",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "Daryl Hoole, an American author and public speaker, died on February 2, 2026, at age 91. Born Daryl Van Dam in Salt Lake City, Utah, she wrote on home management and family living and authored nine books. Her bestselling book, The Art of Homemaking, remained in publication for 25 years. Hoole also gave numerous lectures on her subjects throughout the United States and Canada, including close to 40 years of appearances at Education Week at Brigham Young University. She also served as a missionary in the Netherlands and later in Asia with her husband in Church service.",
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            "name": "Valentin Balakhnichev Russian engineer and athletics coach dead at age 76",
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            "description": "Valentin Balakhnichev, a Russian engineer and athletics coach, died on February 2, 2026. Born on April 23, 1949, in Lutsk, Soviet Union, he was a former athlete for the Soviet Union and later became president of the All-Russia Athletic Federation in 1991. He took third place in the 110 metres hurdles at the 1973 national championships and represented his country at the 1973 European Indoor Championships. After graduating from Moscow Power Engineering University, he retired from active competition in 1976 and began coaching. Balakhnichev also served on the Council for Physical Culture and Sport under the President of the Russian Federation and on the Executive Committee of the Russian Olympic Committee. He was later banned for life by the IAAF after investigations into corruption involving performance enhancing drug testing.",
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            "name": "Marian Kasprzyk Polish welterweight boxer dead at age 86",
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            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "name": "Bud Moore American college football player and coach dead at age 86",
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            "sources": [],
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        {
            "name": "René Galy-Dejean French politician dead at age 93",
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            "name": "Alfonso Buller English musician dead at age 66",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "Alfonso Buller, an English MC, dancer and music promoter, died on February 2, 2026. Best known as the co-founder of the sound system MVITA, he was a key figure in the Madchester scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Buller and MVITA provided sound systems and performed at events for acts including The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and 808 State. Born in Withington, Manchester, in January 1960, he was active from 1988 to 2026.",
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            "name": "William Safran 95–96 dead at age 95",
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            "age": 95,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "William Safran, an American academic and Holocaust survivor and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Dresden, Germany, on July 8, 1930, to Romanian and Polish immigrant parents, he spent more than three years in a ghetto, forced-labor camp and concentration camp under the Nazi regime. After liberation, he was in a United Nations displaced persons camp before moving to the United States in 1946 with surviving family members. Safran specialized in France and wrote on ethnic politics, nationalism, institutional and cultural pluralism, citizenship, immigration, diaspora, national identity, and the politics of language and religion. He was editor-in-chief of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics from its founding in 1995 until 2010.",
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        {
            "name": "Maria Rita Parsi Italian psychotherapist dead at age 78",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 78,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "Maria Rita Parsi, an Italian psychotherapist, writer and television commentator, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Rome on August 5, 1947, she worked as a teacher, educational psychologist and psychotherapist. She founded and directed SIPA, the Italian School of Psychoanimation, a humanistic research institute. In 1992, she created the non-profit Fondazione Movimento Bambino, which worked for the legal and social protection of minors and to support the cultural growth of children, parents, teachers, social-health and communication workers. Parsi also appeared on numerous television programs as an expert and wrote columns for several national newspapers.",
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            "name": "Ken Peplowski Musician dead at age 66",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 66,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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        {
            "name": "Yuan Wei-jen Taiwanese singer-songwriter dead at age 57",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 57,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "Yuan Wei-jen, a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and music producer, died on February 2, 2026. Born on June 24, 1968, he rose to fame in 1991 as part of the duo Fanren with Mo Fan, winning the Golden Melody Award for Best Vocal Group twice. He later worked mainly as a producer and became a significant figure in the Mandopop industry. Among his credits were helping establish Na Ying as a major pop singer with hits including “Conquer,” “Just a Dream,” and “Awaken,” and composing the Mandarin version of “Stubborn” for Faye Wong.",
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            "name": "Miroslav Košuta Slovenian poet dead at age 89",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 89,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "Miroslav Košuta, a Slovenian poet, playwright and translator, died on February 2, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on March 11, 1936, in Križ by Trieste, he was a younger representative of Intimism and Socialist Realism. In 2011, he received the Prešeren Award, Slovenia’s highest cultural honor, for his poetry and his contribution to the preservation of Slovene in Italy.",
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        {
            "name": "Gladys Erbetta Argentine sprinter dead at age 97",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gladys-erbetta",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 97,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
            "published_at": "2026-02-02T12:00:00+01:00",
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            "description": "Gladys Erbetta, an Argentine sprinter, died on February 2, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Gladys Ivonne Erbetta Huri, later Mordini, on September 28, 1928, in Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, she competed in the women's 200 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Erbetta"
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        {
            "name": "Fabio Scuto Italian journalist dead at age 69",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 69,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
            "published_at": "2026-02-02T12:00:00+01:00",
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        {
            "name": "Myra MacPherson American journalist dead at age -1",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": -1,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
            "published_at": "2026-02-02T12:00:00+01:00",
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            "description": "Myra MacPherson, an American journalist, died on February 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C., at age 91. Born Myra Lea MacPherson in Marquette, Michigan, and raised in Belleville, Michigan, she graduated from Michigan State University in 1956 with a degree in journalism. She was known for writing about politics, the Vietnam War, feminism, and death and dying. MacPherson had a long affiliation with The Washington Post, where she was hired in 1968 by executive editor Ben Bradlee to write for the Style section and remained until 1991. She continued writing after leaving the newspaper and won a number of awards.",
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        {
            "name": "Józef Gąsienica-Sobczak Polish skier dead at age 91",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 91,
            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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        {
            "name": "Jean Widmer Graphic designer dead at age 96",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-02",
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            "description": "Jean Widmer, a Swiss graphic designer, died on February 2, 2026, at the age of 96 in Paris. Born Hans Ulrich Widmer on March 31, 1929, in Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland, he studied at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts before moving to France in the 1950s. He worked to revamp public signage and road infrastructure, and was among the first designers in France to make typography an element of his designs. He also created the design of the Centre Pompidou logo.",
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