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            "name": "Ora Kedem Contributions to thermodynamics and separation processes dead at age 101",
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            "name": "Hans-Georg Reimann German race walker dead at age 84",
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            "description": "Hans-Georg Reimann, the German race walker who won two Olympic medals in 20-kilometre racewalking, died on February 25, 2026. He competed for SC Dynamo Berlin and the GDR, taking bronze at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and silver at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal. Reimann also won silver at the 1962 European Championships and, with Peter Frenkel, set a world record in the event. He was born on 24 August 1941 in Starrischken, Municipality Heydekrug, and later worked as a trainer for racewalkers.",
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            "name": "Mansour Diagne Senegalese Olympic basketball player dead at age 93",
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            "description": "Mansour Diagne, a Senegalese basketball player who competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics, died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 93. Born in Dakar on January 21, 1933, he represented Senegal at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968.",
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            "name": "Moustafa Reyadh Egyptian footballer",
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            "description": "Moustafa Reyadh, the Egyptian footballer who played as a forward for Tersana and the Egypt national team, died on February 25, 2026. Born Ibrahim Mohammed Reyadh on April 5, 1941, he was the fourth all-time scorer in the Egyptian Premier League with 123 goals. He won the league title with Tersana in the 1964–65 season and the Egypt Cup in 1965 and 1967. Reyadh was the Egyptian Premier League’s top scorer in 1961–62 and 1963–64, and represented Egypt at the 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1962, 1963 and 1970 Africa Cup of Nations. He earned 66 caps and scored 26 goals for his country.",
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            "name": "Claudio González Argentine footballer",
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            "name": "Conchita Bustindui Spanish pelotari dead at age 98",
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            "description": "Conchita Bustindui, a Spanish pelotari known for playing professional basque pelota in Spain and Mexico, died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 98. Born Conchita Bustindui Garate in Berriatua, Biscay, Spain, on December 2, 1927, she was described by Mundo Deportivo as one of \"the first professional athletes in the world in the women's field\" alongside her teammates. She died in Markina-Xemein, Spain.",
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            "name": "Alex Noerdin Indonesian Governor of South Sumatra between 2008 and 2018 dead at age 75",
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            "description": "Alex Noerdin, an Indonesian politician who served as governor of South Sumatra from 2008 to 2018, died on February 25, 2026. He was 75. Born in Palembang, South Sumatra, on 9 September 1950, Noerdin also served as regent in Banyuasin for two consecutive terms, from 2001 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2012. He resigned from that post in June 2008 to seek the governorship of South Sumatra, was elected later that year, and took office on 7 November 2008. His second term ended on 21 September 2018, when he was succeeded by Herman Deru.",
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            "name": "Boško Đorđević Serbian footballer dead at age 72",
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            "description": "Boško Đorđević, a Serbian footballer who played as a forward, died on February 25, 2026. Born on August 22, 1953, he was best known for his five and a half seasons with FK Partizan from 1974 to the winter of 1979. During that spell, he won the Yugoslav First League in 1975–76 and 1977–78, and the Mitropa Cup in 1978. Đorđević was joint top scorer of the league in 1974–75 with 20 goals in 29 appearances. He later played for FK Rad and SG Union Solingen before retiring in 1983.",
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            "name": "Ariel Russian musician dead at age 74",
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            "description": "Ariel, the Russian pop/rock band based in Chelyabinsk, died on February 25, 2026. Formed in 1967 from the merger of two earlier ensembles, Ariel and Allegro, the group was headed by Valery Yarushin and, from 1989 to the present day, by Rostislav Gepp. Known for performances that often drew on Russian folk music, the band was popular during the Soviet era and won several awards.",
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            "name": "Fahmy Omar Egyptian radio broadcaster dead at age 97",
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            "description": "Fahmy Omar, Egyptian radio broadcaster and onetime head of Egyptian Radio, died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 97. Known as the \"Sheikh of the Broadcasters,\" he worked in radio for 37 years from 1950 to 1988, rising through the ranks and leaving a lasting legacy. He presented the program \"Saa'a Li Qalbak\" (\"An Hour for Your Heart\"), which helped many Egyptian comedy stars achieve prominence.",
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            "name": "List of French supercentenarians French supercentenarian dead at age 110",
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            "age": 110,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "The List of French supercentenarians, described as a French supercentenarian and the oldest living man in France, died on February 25, 2026. French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from France who have reached at least 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group had validated the longevity claims of 161 French supercentenarians. France has also been home to Jeanne Calment, whose well-documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days remains the longest verified human longevity on record. The oldest verified Frenchman ever was Georges Thomas, who lived from 1911 to 2024 and died at the age of 112 years and 195 days.",
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            "name": "Jeff Galloway American Olympic runner dead at age 80",
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            "age": 80,
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            "description": "Jeff Galloway, an American Olympic runner and author, died on February 25, 2026. He was 80. Born John Franks Galloway in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 12, 1945, he competed for the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team in the 10,000 meters. A lifetime runner, he was an All-American collegiate athlete and continued with a successful masters running career. Galloway also served as chief executive officer of Galloway Productions, which ran training programs and events, and he owned two running specialty stores. He wrote Galloway's Book on Running.",
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            "name": "Zhani Ziçishti Albanian actor dead at age 85",
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            "description": "Zhani Ziçishti, an Albanian actor of stage, film and television, died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 85. He was born in Korçë on May 31, 1940, and graduated in 1964 from the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Institute of Arts in Tirana. After graduating, he performed for 30 years on the stage of the Andon Zako Çajupi Theatre in Korçë before later emigrating to Greece.",
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        {
            "name": "Rob Grant Novelist, screenwriter, television producer dead at age -1",
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            "description": "Rob Grant, the British comedy writer and television producer who co-created the Red Dwarf comedy franchise, died on February 25, 2026, aged 70. Born Robert Grant in Salford on September 25, 1955, he studied psychology at Liverpool University for two years. In the mid-1980s, he collaborated with Doug Naylor on radio programmes including Son Of Cliché and Wrinkles for BBC Radio 4, and on television projects such as Spitting Image, The 10 Percenters and work for Jasper Carrott. After Red Dwarf, Grant wrote the television series The Strangerers and Dark Ages, and four solo novels, his last being Fat. He also worked in a later writing partnership with Andrew Marshall.",
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            "name": "R. Nallakannu Politician, social activist dead at age -1",
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            "description": "R. Nallakannu, an Indian politician and senior leader of the Communist Party of India, died on February 25, 2026. He served as the State Secretary of the Communist Party of India in Tamil Nadu from 1992 to 2005. Born in Tiruvaikuntam, in what is now Srivaikuntam, Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu, on December 26, 1924, he was also active as a social activist. Nallakannu died in Chennai at the age of 101.",
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            "name": "Scotty Morrison Canadian ice hockey referee dead at age 95",
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            "description": "Ian “Scotty” Morrison, a Canadian National Hockey League referee and former vice-president, died on February 25, 2026, at age 95. Born in Montreal on April 22, 1930, he played junior hockey in Quebec before becoming a referee in junior and senior amateur leagues. He moved to Vancouver to work in the Western Hockey League and was hired by the NHL at age 24, then the youngest referee in league history. He later served as referee-in-chief of the Western Hockey League, returned to the NHL in 1965 as referee-in-chief, and was named the league’s vice-president of officiating in 1981. In 1986, he became the NHL’s vice-president of project development and later served as president and chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame.",
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        {
            "name": "Willy Ngoma Congolese military spokesman dead at age 52",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 52,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Willy Ngoma, a Congolese military spokesman for the March 23 Movement, died on February 25, 2026. Born in 1974, he served in several capacities within the movement, including commander and military spokesman. Ngoma said he was Congolese, though other sources described him as also holding Rwandan nationality. He had been subject to United Nations Security Council sanctions since February 2024 under Resolution 2293 (2016), as reaffirmed by Resolution 2688 (2023).",
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            "name": "Charlie Smith Dannelly American politician dead at age 101",
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            "description": "Charlie Smith Dannelly, an American politician and retired educator, died on February 25, 2026. He served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate from 1994 to 2013, representing the 33rd and later the 38th district, which included constituents in Mecklenburg County. A retired educator from Charlotte, North Carolina, he served several years as Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Before entering politics in 1977, Dannelly was a teacher and principal. He was born in Bishopville, South Carolina, on August 13, 1924, and served in the Korean War as a first lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division.",
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        {
            "name": "Abdul Majid Arfaei Researcher, author, elamitologist dead at age 86",
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            "sources": [],
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            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Abdul Majid Arfaei, an Iranian researcher and elamitologist, died on February 25, 2026, at the age of 86. Also known as Abdul Majid Arfaee, he was born on September 1, 1939, in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran. He was known for translating 647 tablets related to the era of Darius the Great, which were read by Richard Hallock and included in the first volume of the series. He was also described as an elamologist and assyriologist, and as a professor at the University of Chicago.",
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        {
            "name": "Bruce Froemming Umpire dead at age 86",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 86,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Bruce Froemming, an American baseball umpire, died on February 25, 2026, at age 86. Froemming worked in Major League Baseball from 1971 to 2007, spending most of his career in the National League. He first umpired in the NL in 1971 and, from 2000 to 2007, worked in both major leagues. In 2006, he umpired his 5,000th game at Fenway Park, becoming the second umpire to reach that milestone. He worked five World Series and a record 10 League Championship Series appearances before ending his regular-season career in 2007 in his native Milwaukee.",
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        {
            "name": "Vladimír Liščák Czech sinologist dead at age 72",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/vladimir-liscak",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 72,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Vladimír Liščák, a Czech sinologist, died on February 25, 2026. Born on 9 February 1954, he was a researcher at the East Asia Department of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He published a number of books and, from 2001, was a member of the Nomenclature Commission of the Czech Chamber of Commerce. He was a co-author of most of the publications in the series Geographical Nomenclature Lists of the United Nations – Czech Republic and headed the authorial team for publications devoted to the names of states.",
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        {
            "name": "Petter Planke Businessman dead at age 89",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 89,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Petter Planke, a Norwegian businessman known for co-founding Tomra, died on February 25, 2026, aged 88. Born in Oslo on March 7, 1937, he co-founded the industry company in 1972 with his brother, Tore Planke, and became a pioneer in the production of reverse vending machines. By 2000, Tomra held about 75% of the world market for reverse vending machines. Planke also served as a board member of Norges Industriforbund from 1981 to 1985 and was a member of the Norwegian Export Council from 1987 to 1989. He was married to Grete Rønneberg.",
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        {
            "name": "Natalya Klimova Russian actress",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 87,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "name": "Burnie Payne Australian footballer dead at age 86",
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            "description": "Burnie Payne, an Australian footballer who played for Hobart and St Kilda, died on February 25, 2026, aged 86. Born Burnet Thomas Payne on 8 May 1939, he made his TANFL debut at 16 and was a member of Hobart's 1959, 1960 and 1963 premiership teams. St Kilda recruited him for the 1964 VFL season, and he finished second in the club's goal-kicking that year. Payne returned to Tasmania after one season on the mainland and later won William Leitch Medals in 1965 and 1966, becoming the first Hobart player to do so in consecutive years. He was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.",
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        {
            "name": "Ludwig Scotty Nauruan politician dead at age 77",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 77,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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        {
            "name": "William E. Connolly American political theorist dead at age 88",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 88,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "William E. Connolly, an American political theorist, died on February 25, 2026. Born William Eugene Connolly on January 6, 1938, in Flint, Michigan, he was known for his work on democracy, pluralism and capitalism. Connolly was the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His 1974 book, The Terms of Political Discourse, won the 1999 Benjamin Lippincott Award. He also taught at Ohio University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst before joining Johns Hopkins in 1985, where he later served as chair of the political science department.",
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        {
            "name": "Ioanna Papantoniou Greek author dead at age 90",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 90,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioanna_Papantoniou"
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        {
            "name": "Takeshi Amemiya Japanese economist dead at age 90",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/takeshi-amemiya",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 90,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Takeshi Amemiya, a Japanese economist, died on February 25, 2026. Born in Tokyo on March 29, 1935, he specialized in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece. Amemiya was the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics emeritus and a professor of classics at Stanford University. He was a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.",
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        {
            "name": "Horst Schnoor German footballer dead at age 91",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/horst-schnoor",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 91,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            ],
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                "Germany"
            ],
            "description": "Horst Schnoor, the German football goalkeeper who played for Hamburger SV, died on February 25, 2026. Born in Hamburg on April 11, 1934, he was Hamburger SV's first-choice goalkeeper for much of the period from 1952 to 1967 and made 507 competitive appearances for the club. He won the German football championship with Hamburger SV in 1960 and the DFB-Pokal in 1963, and was credited with a club record of 139 matches without conceding a goal.",
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        {
            "name": "Dick Absher American football player",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/dick-absher",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 81,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
            "published_at": "2026-02-25T12:00:00+01:00",
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            "description": "Dick Absher, an American football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League, died on February 25, 2026. Born in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 1944, he played college football for the Maryland Terrapins before being selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 1967 NFL/AFL draft. Absher played in the NFL for the Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, and the Eagles.",
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        {
            "name": "Rex Lee Jim American Navajo politician dead at age 63",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
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            "age": 63,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Rex Lee Jim, an American Navajo politician and writer who served as Vice President of the Navajo Nation, died on February 25, 2026, at age 63. Born in 1962 in Rock Point, Arizona, he served as a Navajo Council Delegate and held office under President Ben Shelly. Jim died in Albuquerque, New Mexico.",
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        {
            "name": "Antonio Tejero Spanish lieutenant colonel and failed coup leader dead at age 93",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 93,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Antonio Tejero, the Spanish lieutenant colonel and failed coup leader behind the 1981 Spanish coup attempt, died on February 25, 2026, in Alzira, Spain, at the age of 93. A Guardia Civil officer, he was the most prominent figure in the failed coup against Spain’s newly democratic government on February 23, 1981, when he stormed the Congress of Deputies with 200 armed Civil Guards. He was later sentenced to 30 years in prison for consummated military rebellion, with recidivism noted as an aggravating circumstance, after having previously been arrested for his role in the failed Operation Galaxia coup attempt in 1978.",
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        {
            "name": "Carol Walker American mathematician dead at age 90",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
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            "age": 90,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
            "reported_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "Carol Walker, an American mathematician and mathematics textbook author, died on February 25, 2026. Born Carol Lee Walker on August 19, 1935, in Martinez, California, she studied music education at the University of Colorado Boulder and later earned graduate training in mathematics at the University of Denver and New Mexico State University. Her early research in the 1960s and 1970s focused on abelian groups, and in the 1990s her interests shifted to fuzzy logic and fuzzy control systems. After postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study, she joined New Mexico State University in 1964, where she became a full professor in 1972. She chaired the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 1979 to 1993 and served as associate dean of arts and sciences until her retirement in 1996.",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Walker"
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        {
            "name": "La Academia Mexican singer dead at age 47",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 47,
            "death_date": "2026-02-25",
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            "description": "La Academia, the Mexican reality musical talent television series shown on TV Azteca, died on February 25, 2026. The program premiered in June 2002 and was in its thirteenth installment. It shared the competition format of many versions of the global \"Star Academy\" franchise, though it was not affiliated with Endemol. In its early seasons, La Academia was a strong ratings performer and outpaced Televisa's Operación Triunfo Mexico in several countries, including Chile, Peru and Venezuela. The series was later franchised to Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Indonesia, the United States, Paraguay, Singapore, Thailand, Central America and Greece.",
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        {
            "name": "Giorgio Mammoliti Landscaper, labour organizer dead at age 64",
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            "description": "Giorgio Mammoliti, a Canadian politician, died on February 25, 2026. He represented Ward 7 York West on Toronto City Council from 2000 to 2018 and previously served as the Ontario New Democratic Party member for Yorkview in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. He ran for mayor of Toronto in 2010 and 2023. Before entering elected office, Mammoliti worked for the Metro Toronto Housing Authority and was a labour union president. Born in Toronto on September 20, 1961, he was 64.",
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            "name": "Phil Ryan American Texas Ranger, heart disease dead at age 80",
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