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            "name": "Lajos Ódor Hungarian Olympic rower dead at age 65",
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            "name": "Charles Poindexter Farmer dead at age 83",
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            "name": "Thuraya Qabil Poet dead at age 85",
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            "name": "Morishige Naruse Business executive dead at age 92",
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            "description": "Morishige Naruse, a Japanese politician, died on February 4, 2026, in Okazaki, Japan, two days before his 93rd birthday. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served in the House of Councillors from 1989 to 2001. Born in Okazaki on February 6, 1933, Naruse was also described as a business executive.",
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            "name": "Zohar Shavit Israeli scholar dead at age 74",
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            "name": "Jorge Ruffinelli Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor at the University Veracruzana, Full Professor at Stanford University dead at age 82",
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            "description": "Jorge Ruffinelli, a Uruguayan literary critic and academic, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 82. Born in Montevideo on December 16, 1943, he was an associate professor at the University of Buenos Aires in 1973, a professor at the Universidad Veracruzana in 1974, and a full professor at Stanford University in 1986. In his youth, he was a disciple of Ángel Rama and contributed to the weekly Marcha. He was also regarded as an expert in Latin American cinema and served on juries at several international festivals.",
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            "name": "Mickey Lolich American baseball player",
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            "description": "Mickey Lolich, the American baseball player best known as a left-handed pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, died on February 4, 2026. He played in Major League Baseball from 1963 until 1979, almost entirely for Detroit, and was a three-time All-Star. Lolich won at least 14 games every year from 1964 through 1974 and struck out at least 200 batters seven times. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 1968 World Series after three complete-game victories against the St. Louis Cardinals, including a Game 7 win over Bob Gibson. He was runner-up for the 1971 American League Cy Young Award after leading the league with 25 wins and 308 strikeouts.",
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            "name": "Odílio Balbinotti Businessman dead at age 84",
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            "name": "Igal Talmi Nuclear shell model dead at age 101",
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            "description": "Igal Talmi, a Ukrainian-born Israeli nuclear physicist, died on February 4, 2026. He was 101. Born in Kiev, then in the Soviet Union, on January 31, 1925, Talmi’s family immigrated to Mandate Palestine later that year and settled in Kfar Yehezkel. He graduated from Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv in 1942, joined the Palmach, earned a master’s degree in physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1947, received a doctorate from ETH Zurich in 1949, and was a research fellow at Princeton University from 1952 to 1954, where he worked with Eugene Wigner.",
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            "name": "Mario Merlino Italian neo-fascist activist dead at age 81",
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            "description": "Mario Merlino, an Italian neo-fascist activist, historian and writer associated with National Vanguard, died on February 4, 2026. Born Mario Michele Merlino in Rome on June 2, 1944, he was identified in the available record as an Italian neo-fascist activist. Additional context notes that he participated in the Battle of Valle Giulia on behalf of National Vanguard and later supported the far-right Ukrainian nationalist organization Right Sector. He died in Rome at the age of 81.",
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            "name": "François Beukelaers Belgian actor and stage director dead at age 88",
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            "description": "François Beukelaers, the Belgian actor and stage director, died on February 4, 2026. Born in Vilvoorde on February 2, 1938, he was also a singer and educator whose career ran from 1965 to 2026. Herman Teirlinck encouraged him to study theatre at the studio of the National Theatre in Antwerp, later called the Studio Herman Teirlinck. Beukelaers later taught at the same studio and also taught directing at INSAS. In 1965, he made his debut as a professional director at the Antwerp KNS with Thornton Wilder’s \"Our Town\".",
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            "name": "Tommy Crook Musician dead at age 81",
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            "description": "Tommy Crook, an American guitarist, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 81. Thomas Paul Crook was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 16, 1944, and lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, throughout his life. He began playing guitar at age 4 and was appearing on local television in Tulsa by age 10. Crook, whose work spanned bluegrass, country music and jazz, was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2007.",
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            "name": "Tōsha Meishō Musician dead at age 84",
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            "description": "Tōsha Meishō, a Japanese hayashi musician, died on February 4, 2026. Born Isao Nakagawa in Tokyo in 1941, he was one of a long line of Tōsha school musicians specializing in musical accompaniment for kabuki theatre. He began studying under his father, Tōsha Shūhō, around age six. He took the name Tōsha Suihō in 1958 and made his first stage appearance in 1963 in a production of \"Ō-Edo Shuten-dōji\" at the Kabuki-za. Over the course of his career, he received the Osaka Prefecture Citizens' Arts Award in 1978 and several awards from the Agency for Cultural Affairs.",
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            "name": "Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Mapping the Y-linked sex determinant in XX males dead at age 94",
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            "description": "Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, the British geneticist, died on February 4, 2026, aged 94. Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith was born in Glasgow on 5 September 1931 and was educated at Stowe School. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1955 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree. In 1955–1956, he served as House Physician and House Surgeon at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow, and from 1956 to 1958 he was Senior House Officer and Registrar in Pathology. He was known for mapping the Y-linked sex determinant in XX males.",
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            "name": "Jacques Tremblay Canadian politician dead at age 83",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 83,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Jacques Tremblay, a Canadian politician, died on February 4, 2026. Born in Iberville, Quebec, on February 8, 1942, he was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec for the Quebec Liberal Party in the Iberville electoral district. Tremblay served one term and did not run in the 1989 election. He was 83.",
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            "name": "Leo Hilokoski Finnish bowler dead at age 84",
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            "name": "Wojciech Gryniewicz Sculptor dead at age 79",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Wojciech Gryniewicz, a Polish sculptor, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Bydgoszcz on April 5, 1946, he graduated from the State High School of Fine Arts in Bydgoszcz and studied sculpture at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. He was a student of Alfred Wiśniewski and Adam Smolana.",
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            "name": "Ron Teasley American baseball player dead at age 99",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Ron Teasley, an American baseball player who played for the New York Cubans, died on February 4, 2026. Ronald Teasley Sr. was born on January 26, 1927, and was a native of Detroit, Michigan. He attended Northwestern High School and Wayne State University, where he played baseball and basketball. Teasley served in the U.S. Navy in 1945 and 1946. He played with the New York Cubans in 1948 after being released by the Olean Oilers, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm club, and later played for the Carman Cardinals of the Mandak League in 1949 and 1950.",
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        {
            "name": "Ted Berger American arts activist dead at age 85",
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            "sources": [],
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            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Ted Berger, an American arts activist, died on February 4, 2026. He was based in New York City and was one of the creators of the Cultural Council Foundation's Artists Project, which grew to be the largest CETA art program in the United States. Berger also served as executive director emeritus of the New York Foundation for the Arts, from which he retired in 2005, and as executive director of NYCreates. He joined NYFA in 1973 as the United States' first statewide Artists-in-Schools coordinator. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1940, he was married to Asya Eliash for more than 60 years and is survived by their son, Jonathan.",
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        {
            "name": "Marlies Krämer Politician dead at age 88",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/marlies-kramer",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
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            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Marlies Krämer, a German feminist activist and politician, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Illingen in 1937, she began an apprenticeship in retailing after World War II, married in 1958 and had four children. She served on the city council of Sulzbach from 1987 to 1994. Krämer was also a force behind the 1996 renaming of low-pressure areas in Germany, which led to a system in which female names are used one year and male names the next.",
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        {
            "name": "Lorenza Trucchi Journalist dead at age 104",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 104,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Lorenza Trucchi, an Italian journalist, art critic and curator, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 104. Born in Monaco on January 11, 1922, she moved with her family to Rome in 1933. Trucchi studied law before turning to art criticism and writing for newspapers and periodicals including Il Momento, Il Gazzettino, Il Corriere Mercantile, Leggere, Il Taccuino delle Arti, Giovedi and Art Dossier. In 1950, Dino Buzzati invited her to write for Corriere della Sera. She was also known for her association with Alberto Burri and Jean Dubuffet.",
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            "name": "Sandra Schultz Newman Attorney dead at age 87",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 87,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "name": "Bill Loewen Canadian entrepreneur dead at age 95",
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            "name": "Ed Iskenderian One of Chevrolet’s “Legends of Performance” dead at age 104",
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            "age": 104,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Ed Iskenderian, an American hot rodder and entrepreneur, died on February 4, 2026, at age 104. Known as Edward “Isky” Iskenderian, he was an Armenian-American hot rodder and businessman born on July 10, 1921, in Cutler, California. Raised in California after his family moved to Los Angeles, he developed an early interest in ham radio before becoming fascinated with hot rods. He attended Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles and later became known as one of Chevrolet’s “Legends of Performance.”",
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        {
            "name": "Marie Woo Ceramicist dead at age 97",
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        {
            "name": "John Virgo English professional snooker player dead at age 79",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 79,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "name": "Nogueira de Brito Lawyer dead at age 88",
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            "name": "Margalit Oved American-Israeli dancer and choreographer dead at age 96",
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            "age": 96,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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        {
            "name": "Tomàs Pladevall Catalan cinematographer dead at age 79",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "name": "Corrado Carnevale Italian jurist dead at age 95",
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            "name": "John Lofland American sociologist dead at age 79",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
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            "age": 79,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "name": "Abdul Latif Bangladeshi cricket player and manager dead at age 86",
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            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "name": "Fernand Ouellette Canadian writer dead at age 95",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 95,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Ouellette"
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            "name": "Bjørn Lofterød Norwegian Olympic sailor dead at age 76",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 76,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Bjørn Lofterød, a Norwegian Olympic sailor, died on February 4, 2026, at the age of 76. Born in Oslo on June 17, 1949, he competed in sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Lofterød was the brother of Odd Roar Lofterød. He died in Son.",
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            "name": "Julian Wojtkowski Polish Roman Catholic prelate and theologian dead at age 99",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/julian-wojtkowski",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 99,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Julian Wojtkowski, a Polish Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, died on February 4, 2026, at age 99. Born in Poznań on January 31, 1927, he was ordained a priest in 1950 after studying for the priesthood for the Diocese of Warmia. He later earned a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the Catholic University of Lublin in 1953. Wojtkowski served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Warmia from 1969 until his resignation in 2004 and also held the titular see of Murustaga.",
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            "name": "The Elegants American singer dead at age 88",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/the-elegants",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 88,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "The Elegants, the American doo-wop vocal group formed in 1958 in South Beach, Staten Island, New York, died on February 4, 2026. The group was started by Vito Picone, Arthur Venosa, Frank Tardogno, Carman Romano and James Moschello. Before their nursery rhyme-inspired song \"Little Star\" became a number one hit, the group often performed informally under the boardwalk near their homes. Written by Venosa and Picone, \"Little Star\" was their only million seller, spent 19 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 25 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1958.",
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            "name": "Gisela Engeln-Müllges German mathematician dead at age 85",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gisela-engeln-mullges",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 85,
            "death_date": "2026-02-04",
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            "description": "Gisela Engeln-Müllges, a German mathematician and professor of numerical mathematics at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, died on February 4, 2026. Born in Leipzig in 1940, she studied mathematics at RWTH Aachen University beginning in 1961 after escaping to West Germany in 1961. She completed her doctorate in 1971 and joined the Aachen University of Applied Sciences as a professor in 1982. From 1992 to 2005, she served there as vice rector for research, development, and technology. With Frank Uhlig, she coauthored books on numerical algorithms in C and Fortran.",
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