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            "name": "Roberto Arditti Italian journalist, television writer and radio personality dead at age 60",
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            "name": "Nick Savva Greyhound trainer dead at age 91",
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            "name": "Kristian Gerner Swedish historian and author dead at age 83",
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            "name": "Machana Shamukuni Politician dies",
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            "description": "Machana Shamukuni, a Motswana politician, died on April 2, 2026. He served as Minister of Justice from the department’s creation in 2022 until 2024 and was a Member of the National Assembly for the Chobe constituency from 2014 to 2024. Shamukuni was elected to the National Assembly in the 2014 general election, defeating BCP candidate Gibson Nshimwe, and won reelection in 2019 against UDC candidate Simasiku Mapulanga. During his first term, he was appointed Assistant Minister of Presidential Affairs.",
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            "name": "Jean-Claude Lozac’hmeur French linguist, historian, and academic dead at age 85",
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            "name": "Gilbertson Sangma Indian footballer dead at age 70",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 70,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-02",
            "published_at": "2026-04-02T12:00:00+01:00",
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            "description": "Gilbertson Sangma, an Indian footballer who played as a forward, died on April 2, 2026. He received his early football lessons at the Assam Police Reserve in Dergaon. Sangma began his senior career in 1973 in the Inter District Football Championships, representing Golaghat, and was selected soon after for the Assam state team in the Santosh Trophy. In 1974–75, he scored the goal that eliminated defending champions Kerala and took Assam to the quarter-finals. He represented Assam in the Santosh Trophy for seven seasons, from 1973 to 1980.",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbertson_Sangma"
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        {
            "name": "Nicolás Biglianti Uruguayan footballer, Rampla Juniors, Peñarol), pancreatic cancer dead at age 51",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/nicolas-biglianti-2",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 51,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-02",
            "published_at": "2026-04-02T12:00:00+01:00",
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            ],
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            ],
            "description": "Nicolás Biglianti, a Uruguayan footballer who played for Liverpool Montevideo, Rampla Juniors and Peñarol, died on April 2, 2026, of pancreatic cancer. He was 51. Biglianti, whose full name was Nicolás Fernando Biglianti Ruiz, played as a goalkeeper in a 17-year professional career that began and ended at Liverpool Montevideo. He also won the Torneo Clausura with Peñarol in 2008 after joining the club in February of that year.",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Biglianti",
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                "label": "Pancreatic cancer",
                "status": "reported",
                "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-pancreatic-cancer"
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        {
            "name": "Vittorio Messori Italian journalist dead at age 84",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/vittorio-messori",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 84,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-02",
            "published_at": "2026-04-02T12:00:00+01:00",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_Messori"
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        {
            "name": "Ian Rutherford New Zealand cricketer dead at age 68",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 68,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-02",
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            ],
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            ],
            "description": "Ian Rutherford, a New Zealand cricketer who played for Otago, Central Districts and Central Otago, died on April 2, 2026, aged 68. Born in Dunedin on June 30, 1957, Ian Alexander Rutherford played for Central Districts and Otago between 1974 and 1984, and also represented Central Otago in the Hawke Cup. His highest first-class score was 222 for Otago against Central Districts in the 1978–79 Shell Trophy Final, after batting for 625 minutes. He played 79 first-class matches, scoring 3,794 runs at an average of 27.10, and 21 List A matches, scoring 449 runs at 14.96.",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rutherford"
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        {
            "name": "Shozin Fukui Japanese film director and screenwriter dead at age 64",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/shozin-fukui",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 64,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-02",
            "published_at": "2026-04-02T00:00:00+01:00",
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                "writers"
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            ],
            "description": "Shozin Fukui, a Japanese film director and screenwriter, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 64–65. He was best known for his work in the cyberpunk genre and for the films \"964 Pinocchio,\" \"Rubber's Lover\" and \"S-94.\" Born in 1961, Fukui worked for a video company while attending university, shooting live performances, and later made short films including \"Chaser of the Ranger,\" \"Scourge of Blood\" and \"Metal Days.\" His credits also included six experimental shorts and two feature films, \"964 Pinocchio\" and \"Rubber's Lover.\"",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shozin_Fukui"
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        {
            "name": "Reda bin Mohammed Saeed Obeid Saudi academic and civil servant, member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia dead at age 89",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/reda-bin-mohammed-saeed-obeid",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 89,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-02",
            "published_at": "2026-04-02T00:00:00+01:00",
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            ],
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            ],
            "description": "Reda bin Mohammed Saeed Obeid, a Saudi academic and civil servant and member of the Shura Council of Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1998, died on April 2, 2026. Born in Medina in 1936, he earned a bachelor’s degree in science, majoring in chemistry and physics, from Cairo University in 1958 and a PhD in physical chemistry, specializing in polymer chemistry, from the University of Birmingham in 1962. He began his academic career as a teaching assistant at King Saud University, later becoming a professor of physical chemistry there. He also served as vice dean and then dean of the College of Science from 1963 to 1971, the first Saudi national to hold that post, and was president of King Abdulaziz University from 1984 to 1994.",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reda_bin_Mohammed_Saeed_Obeid"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dan Piachaud Sri Lankan cricketer dead at age 89",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/dan-piachaud",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 89,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-02",
            "published_at": "2026-04-02T00:00:00+01:00",
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            ],
            "nationality": [
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            ],
            "description": "Dan Piachaud, a Sri Lankan cricketer who played for Oxford University, Marylebone and the national team, died on April 2, 2026, aged 89. Born in Colombo in 1937, he studied at St Thomas' College before going to Keble College, Oxford. He made 52 first-class appearances for Oxford University, the joint-highest total for the university, and took nearly 150 wickets as an off break bowler. Piachaud also played county cricket for Hampshire and first-class cricket for Ceylon.",
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        {
            "name": "Justin Panakkal dead at age 90, Indian Catholic priest and composer",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/justin-panakkal",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 90,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
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            "description": "Justin Panakkal, an Indian Catholic priest and composer, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 90. Also known as Fr. Justin, he was a priest of the Discalced Carmelite congregation and worked as a music composer, writer, theologian and lyricist. Born in Kumbalangi on August 10, 1935, he became known for Christian devotional songs including “Paithalam Yesuve,” “Puthiyoru Pulari,” “Nayaka Jeevadayaka,” “Yeshuvente Prananathan” and “Snehaswaroopa Thava Darshanam,” which became part of Kerala’s Christian tradition. He also wrote books on theology.",
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        {
            "name": "Erzsébet Illés Hungarian astronomer dead at age 89",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/erzsebet-illes",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 89,
            "death_date": "2026-04-02",
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            "description": "Erzsébet Illés, a Hungarian astronomer, died on April 2, 2026, at the age of 89. She was also a space researcher and planetologist, and served as an emerita researcher at the Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Illés spent her entire research career at the institute in Budapest. After the launch of the first artificial satellites in 1957, she joined a research group carrying out optical observations of satellites to study Sun–Earth physical relationships. In 1961, she completed training on the Ural-1 computer and became one of the first Hungarian astronomers to apply digital computing to astronomical research.",
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