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            "name": "Garry Leo Australian rugby league footballer dead at age 81",
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            "name": "Jun Matsumoto Japanese politician, twice MP, deputy chief cabinet secretary, and chair of the National Public Safety Commission, stomach cancer dead at age 75",
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            "name": "Houston McKelvey Irish priest dead at age 83",
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            "name": "Chris Athens Mastering engineer dies",
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            "description": "Chris Athens, an American mastering engineer, died on March 19, 2026. He began his career at Sony Music Studios in New York in the mid-1990s and worked there until 1998, when he joined Sterling Sound, where he spent 13 years. In 2010, he founded Chris Athens Masters in Austin, Texas. By 2026, Athens had received six Grammy Award nominations, including recognition for his work on Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century, Drake’s Views and Scorpion, and “God’s Plan,” as well as Ella Mai’s debut album.",
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            "name": "Mike Melvill Test pilot dead at age 85",
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            "description": "Mike Melvill, a South African test pilot and one of the pilots of SpaceShipOne, died on March 19, 2026, at age 85. Born Michael Winston Melvill in Johannesburg, South Africa, he became known for piloting the experimental spaceplane on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P, on June 21, 2004. That flight made him the first commercial astronaut and the 435th person to go into space. He also piloted SpaceShipOne’s flight 16P, the first competitive flight in the Ansari X Prize competition.",
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            "name": "Marcos Conigliaro Argentine football player and manager dead at age 83",
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            "name": "Saleh Mohammadi Iranian wrestler, execution by hanging dead at age 19",
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            "name": "Louie Louie American singer dead at age 63",
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            "description": "Louis Edmond Cordero, the Puerto Rican musician, record producer and actor known as Louie Louie, died on March 19, 2026. Born on July 10, 1962, he released four full-length albums, including two on major record labels and one under his real name, Louie Cordero, and issued a number of singles. His 1990 songs \"Sittin' in the Lap of Luxury\" and \"I Wanna Get Back with You\" were his only singles to chart in the United States. He also appeared in the video for Madonna's \"Borderline\" and played Rick in \"House Party 2.\"",
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            "name": "Richard E. Myers Businessman dead at age 91",
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            "description": "Richard E. Myers, an American politician and businessman who served in the Iowa House of Representatives, died on March 19, 2026, at age 91. Born Richard Ellsworth Myers Jr. in Iowa City, Iowa, on October 29, 1934, he attended Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and Kirkwood Community College. A Democrat, Myers served in the Iowa House from 1994 to 2005, representing the 49th district from 1994 to 2003 and the 30th district in 2003.",
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            "name": "Michel Rolland French oenologist dead at age 78",
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            "description": "Michel Rolland, a French oenologist, died on March 19, 2026. Based in Bordeaux, he had hundreds of clients across 13 countries and was known for consultancies outside France, which set him apart from most of his countrymen. His signature style was described as fruit-heavy and oak-influenced, a preference also shared by critic Robert Parker. Born into a winemaking family in Libourne, Rolland grew up on the family estate Château Le Bon Pasteur in Pomerol and studied at Tour Blanche Viticultural and Oenology School in Bordeaux.",
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            "name": "Chuck Norris American martial artist, actor and author dead at age 86",
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            "name": "Alton Sutnick American medical researcher and educator dead at age 97",
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            "description": "Alton Sutnick, an American medical researcher and educator, died on March 19, 2026. Sutnick was also an administrator and the author of more than 200 scholarly publications. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1950 and a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1954. In 1961, he established a laboratory at Temple University School of Medicine for the study of pulmonary surfactant and was the first medical researcher to apply pulmonary surfactant physiological observations to adult human lung disease, including pneumonia, lung cancer and pulmonary embolism.",
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            "name": "Vincenzo C. Vannicola Electrical engineer dead at age 93",
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            "description": "Vincenzo C. Vannicola, an American electrical engineer, died on March 19, 2026. Born Vincent Christopher Vannicola in New Haven, Connecticut, on September 8, 1932, he graduated from Wilbur Cross High School in 1951 and earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Connecticut in 1956. He later received a master’s degree in electromagnetics from Syracuse University in 1968 and a PhD in signal processing engineering. Vannicola worked as an engineer at General Electric in Utica, New York, and later served as a signal processing engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory until 1996. That year, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for technical contributions to radar signal processing theory and practice.",
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            "name": "Rick Young American Hall of Fame bullfighter and rodeo clown dead at age 92",
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            "description": "Rick Young, an American Hall of Fame bullfighter and rodeo clown, died on March 19, 2026. Known as “The Ragin’ Cajun,” he worked for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and began his rodeo career in 1959. Born in Houston, Texas, on March 3, 1934, Young was raised on his family’s Appaloosa horse ranch near Tickfaw, Louisiana, and graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University. He worked as a bullfighter and rodeo clown for 35 years, including at the 1974 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City. He was named PRCA Clown of the Year and was inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2004 and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2022.",
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            "name": "Jeff Webb Entrepreneur dead at age 76",
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            "description": "Jeff Webb, an American cheerleading executive and entrepreneur who founded Varsity Spirit and the International Cheer Union, died on March 19, 2026, of complications from a fall. Webb, born in Dallas in 1949, was the founder of the Universal Cheerleading Association and Varsity Brands and served as founder and president of the International Cheer Union, the world governing body of cheerleading. He was also a publisher and media executive, serving as co-publisher and senior news editor of Human Events later in his career.",
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            "name": "Md. Anwarul Azim Arif Academic dead at age 74",
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            "description": "Md. Anwarul Azim Arif, a Bangladeshi academic administrator and banker who served as vice-chancellor of the University of Chittagong from 2011 to 2015 and of International Islamic University Chittagong from 2021 to 2024, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 74. Born on May 1, 1951, in Satkania, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan, he completed a master's degree in commerce at the University of Chittagong and later earned an MBA from the University of the Philippines. Arif was chairman of Social Islami Bank Limited from 2017 to 2021 and also chaired the central executive committee of the Central Shariah Board for Islamic Banks of Bangladesh.",
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        {
            "name": "Alfonso Bañón Engineer dead at age 95",
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            "description": "Alfonso Bañón, a Spanish politician and deputy from 1979 to 1982, died on March 19, 2026, in Pamplona, Spain, at the age of 95. Born in Valladolid on August 8, 1930, he was a member of the Agrupación Popular Navarra and the Union of the Democratic Centre. Bañón served in the Congress of Deputies from 1979 to 1982.",
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            "name": "Umberto Bossi Italian politician, MP, twice MEP, and co-founder of Lega Nord dead at age 84",
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            "description": "Umberto Bossi, the Italian politician who was an MP from 1987 to 2004 and again from 2008, twice an MEP and a co-founder of Lega Nord, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 84. Born in Cassano Magnago, Italy, in 1941, he was a leader of Lega Nord, the party that sought autonomy for Northern Italy, or Padania. Bossi graduated from a scientific high school and later studied medicine at the University of Pavia, though he did not complete a degree. He was briefly a member of the Italian Communist Party in 1975.",
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            "name": "Terry Cox British drummer dead at age 89",
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            "description": "Terry Cox, a British drummer best known for his work with Pentangle and The Humblebums, died on March 19, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Terence William Harvey Cox on March 13, 1937, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, he was also a member of Duffy's Nucleus and played with several other artists, including David Bowie and Elton John. Cox was drummer for Charles Aznavour from 1974 to 1982, and in 1973 he had a songwriting partnership with Lynsey de Paul and Lenny Zakatek, recording \"Get Your Gun\" and \"Gotta Runaway\" for release as Zakatek on Bell Records.",
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        {
            "name": "Michael Bambang Hartono Owner of BCA, Founder of Polytron dead at age 86",
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