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            "name": "Pat Hyland Australian jockey and horse trainer dead at age 84",
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            "name": "Alexander Butterfield American Air Force officer and presidential assistant dead at age 99",
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            "name": "Heorhij Halenčanka Belarusian historian dead at age 90",
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            "name": "Festus Onigbinde Nigerian football manager dead at age 88",
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            "name": "Eduard Apalkov Russian former football player dead at age 56",
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            "name": "Pierre el-Rahi Maronite priest dead at age 50",
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            "name": "Engin Fırat Turkish football manager and player dead at age 55",
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            "name": "Merrill Cook American politician dead at age 79",
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            "name": "K. N. Panikkar Indian historian dead at age 89",
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            "name": "Derek Bellotti English footballer dead at age 79",
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            "name": "Pasquale Fiore Italian footballer",
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            "description": "Pasquale Fiore, an Italian footballer and Napoli goalkeeper, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 72. He was the second goalkeeper for Napoli from 1977 to 1984, playing 13 matches in six seasons and serving as the deputy to Luciano Castellino. In 1975, he was part of Napoli’s Primavera team, coached by Rosario Rivellino, that won the Viareggio International Tournament. Fiore also later worked at Heliconia Park.",
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            "name": "Luc Giard Canadian cartoonist and artist dead at age 69",
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            "name": "André Kabile French footballer dead at age 87",
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            "name": "Richard Bozulich Writer, publisher dead at age 90",
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            "description": "Richard Bozulich, an American Go player, author, publisher and college math instructor, died on March 9, 2026, at age 90. He co-founded Ishi Press and was the founding publisher of Kiseido Publishing Co., which produced Go books in English. Bozulich worked with several Japanese professional players and wrote a regular Go column for The Daily Yomiuri, then Japan’s largest English-language newspaper. He also taught mathematics at Shonan Institute of Technology until 2005 and lived in Chigasaki, Japan.",
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            "name": "Giorgio Gosetti Italian film critic dead at age 70",
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            "description": "Giorgio Gosetti, an Italian film critic, died on March 9, 2026. Born in Venice on Feb. 6, 1956, he was also a journalist and festival director. He was best known as the founder and general delegate of the Giornate degli Autori, an independent sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, and for his work with the Rome Film Fest, the Noir in Festival and Rome’s Casa del Cinema. Before becoming known as a film critic and journalist, he worked as a writer and assistant director. He was also a longtime member of FIPRESCI.",
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            "name": "Wylie Gibbs Surgeon dead at age 103",
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            "description": "Wylie Gibbs, the Australian politician and surgeon who served as the Liberal member for the Queensland seat of Bowman in the House of Representatives from 1963 to 1969, died on March 9, 2026, aged 103. Wylie Talbot Gibbs was born in Queensland on 26 July 1922 and grew up in Ipswich. He studied medicine at the University of Queensland after attending Ipswich Grammar School. Before entering politics, he worked as a flying doctor with the Northern Territory Medical Service from 1947 to 1948, as a house surgeon in London from 1949 to 1951, and as a surgeon in Ipswich and Brisbane. In 1951, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.",
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            "name": "Leoš Šimánek Czech traveler dead at age 79",
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            "name": "César Gutiérrez Peña Mechanical engineer dead at age 69",
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            "description": "César Gutiérrez Peña, a Peruvian mechanical engineer, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 69. He was a member of Union for Peru and served as president of the Social Health Insurance of Peru from 2002 to 2003 and as president of Petroperú from 2006 to 2008. Gutiérrez Peña was born in Ica, Peru, on October 22, 1956, and died in Lima.",
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            "name": "Tamal Roy Chowdhury Indian actor",
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            "description": "Tamal Roy Chowdhury, an Indian actor from West Bengal, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 80 after cardiac arrest at his residence in South Kolkata while asleep. He was known for acting in Bengali films including Challenge, Le Halua Le, Bindass, Amazon Obhijaan and Chander Pahar. He had undergone a pacemaker implantation.",
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            "name": "Klaus Kribben Lawyer dead at age 88",
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            "description": "Klaus Kribben, a German politician and lawyer who served in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 1975 to 1996, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 88. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, he was born in Cologne on October 21, 1937.",
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            "name": "Arturo López Bolivian footballer dead at age 90",
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            "description": "Arturo López, a Bolivian footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on March 9, 2026. He made 20 appearances for the Bolivia national team between 1957 and 1965 and was part of Bolivia's squad that won the 1963 South American Championship. López was 90.",
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            "name": "Rauno Lehtiö Finnish Olympic ice hockey player dead at age 84",
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