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            "name": "Kazuo Imanishi Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia dead at age 85",
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            "description": "Kazuo Imanishi, a Japanese football player and manager, died on April 16, 2026, of pneumonia. He was 85. Imanishi played for Toyo Industries, later Mazda, after graduating from Tokyo University of Education and joined the club in 1963. He played in the Japan Soccer League, where Toyo Industries won four consecutive championships from 1965 to 1968 and also took the Emperor's Cup in 1965, 1967 and 1969. Imanishi retired in 1969 after appearing in 42 league games. He also played for the Japan national team, making his debut against India on December 10, 1966, and appearing in three international matches.",
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            "name": "Andy Kershaw English broadcaster and radio DJ, cancer dead at age 66",
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            "name": "Bruno Cantone Italian footballer dead at age 89",
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            "name": "Raza Kazim Pakistani philosopher and political activist dead at age 96",
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            "name": "Jim Jabir American women’s basketball coach, pancreatic cancer dead at age 63",
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            "description": "Jim Jabir, an American women’s basketball coach who worked at Dayton, Siena and Marquette, died on April 16, 2026, of pancreatic cancer. He was 63. Jabir, a native of Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Nazareth College in 1984 with a degree in English and began his coaching career there as an assistant in 1984-85. He later served as head coach at Buffalo State, where he won a SUNYAC championship and reached the NCAA Regionals, before taking head coaching jobs at Siena, Marquette and Providence.",
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            "name": "Mamadou Sylla Guinean arms dealer dead at age 66",
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            "description": "Mamadou Sylla, a Guinean arms dealer and politician, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 66. Born in Boké on January 25, 1960, he became wealthy after being among several people given large amounts of rice by the government to retail in 1986. He later moved to Conakry and became a senior judge. In 1998, Sylla bought an arms importer and was awarded a contract to supply the Guinean Army. He also became a significant supporter of President Lansana Conté, extending overdraft facilities to the army and spending large sums supporting Conté's 2001 referendum to remove term limits.",
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            "name": "Barbara Flynn Currie American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives dead at age 85",
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            "description": "Barbara Flynn Currie, an American politician and member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 2019, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 85. A Democrat, she served as Majority Leader from 1997 to 2019. Currie’s 40 years in the Illinois General Assembly was the longest tenure of any woman to serve in the body. Born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on May 3, 1940, she grew up in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. She graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, later earned a bachelor’s degree in 1968 and a master’s degree in political science in 1973 from the University of Chicago.",
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            "name": "Alex Manninger Austrian footballer dead at age 48",
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            "description": "Alex Manninger, an Austrian footballer and goalkeeper, died on April 16, 2026. He was 48. Manninger played internationally for the Austria national team on 33 occasions, including at UEFA Euro 2008, and represented clubs in Italy, Germany, Austria and England. He began his career as a youth player for SV Salzburg in 1993 and was promoted to the first-team squad in 1995–96. After a loan spell at Vorwärts Steyr, he joined Grazer AK in 1996 before moving to Arsenal in the Premier League, where he was understudy to David Seaman.",
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            "name": "Garret Anderson American baseball player, heart attack dead at age 53",
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            "description": "Garret Anderson, an American baseball player who played for the Los Angeles Angels, died on April 16, 2026, of a heart attack. He was 53. Anderson played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily for the California, Anaheim and Los Angeles Angels franchises. A three-time All-Star, he helped lead the Angels to the 2002 World Series title and was named Most Valuable Player of the 2003 All-Star Game. He held Angels franchise records in games played, at bats, hits, runs scored, RBIs, total bases, extra-base hits, singles, doubles, grand slams and RBIs in a single game. Anderson attended Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, California.",
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            "name": "Cerina Fairfax Former second lady of Virginia, murdered by husband dies",
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            "name": "James Hayward American abstract painter dead at age 82",
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            "description": "James Hayward, an American abstract painter, died on April 16, 2026. He was 82. Born in 1943 in San Francisco, California, Hayward was known for paintings divided into two bodies of work: flat paintings, made from 1975 to 1984, and thick paintings, which began in 1984 and continued thereafter. He worked in series, including The Annunciations, The Stations of the Cross, the Red Maps, Fire Paintings and Smoke Paintings. Hayward earned a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University, studied in the graduate art program at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1966 to 1969, and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington in 1972.",
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            "name": "Justin Fairfax American politician, lieutenant governor of Virginia, suicide by gunshot dead at age 47",
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            "description": "Justin Fairfax, an American politician and former lieutenant governor of Virginia, died on April 16, 2026, in Wakefield, Virginia, at age 47. A Democrat, he served as Virginia’s 41st lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022 and was the second African-American elected statewide in Virginia, following Douglas Wilder. Born in Pittsburgh in 1979, Fairfax later graduated from Duke University and became a lawyer before entering statewide office.",
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            "name": "Tony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony British lawyer, judge and life peer, member of the House of Lords dead at age 82",
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            "description": "Tony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, the British lawyer, judge and life peer who served in the House of Lords from 2009 to 2020, died on April 16, 2026, aged 82. Born Anthony Peter Clarke on 13 May 1943, he studied Economics and Law at King's College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1965 and developed a commercial and maritime law practice. He was one of the first 11 Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the first High Court judge to be appointed directly to that court when it came into existence in 2009.",
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            "name": "Ivan Rebernik Slovenian diplomat dead at age 86",
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            "description": "Ivan Rebernik, a Slovenian diplomat and librarian, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 86. He served as Slovenia’s ambassador to the Vatican and as Chancellor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Born in Maribor on October 7, 1939, Rebernik earned a bachelor’s degree in theology and a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1984, he studied the administration of an automated library as a visiting expert at the Smithsonian Institution and at the Catholic University of America. He spoke Slovene, English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, German, Russian, French and Spanish.",
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            "name": "Seigō Tsuchida Japanese politician, mayor of Higashine dead at age 82",
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            "description": "Seigō Tsuchida, Japanese politician and mayor of Higashine since 1998, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 82. He served as mayor of Higashine, Yamagata Prefecture, for seven terms, and died in office. Born in Higashine on October 25, 1943, Tsuchida graduated from Yamagata Prefectural Yamagata Higashi High School and completed a law degree at Keio University in March 1967. He later served as a secretary to House of Representatives member Yuzo Matsuzawa and was elected to the Yamagata Prefectural Assembly in 1979, serving four consecutive terms.",
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            "name": "Narayana Ramachandran Indian sports administrator, president of the Indian Olympic Association dead at age 77",
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            "description": "Narayana Ramachandran, an Indian sports administrator and president of the Indian Olympic Association from 2014 to 2017, died on April 16, 2026, aged 77. He was also an Indian squash and triathlon administrator and served as president of the World Squash Federation, elected in 2008 and succeeding Jahangir Khan of Pakistan. Ramachandran was the brother of N. Srinivasan, the former chairman of the BCCI and ICC.",
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            "name": "Dory Selinger American cyclist, Paralympic champion, traffic collision dead at age 54",
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            "description": "Dory Selinger, an American cyclist and Paralympic champion, died on April 16, 2026, after being struck by a vehicle while riding near his home in McKinney, Texas. He was 54. Selinger was a former Paralympic cyclist and world record holder who competed in international cycling competitions. He won Paralympic and three-time world championships in track cycling and competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics.",
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            "name": "Miguel Canto Mexican boxer dead at age 78",
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            "description": "Miguel Canto, a Mexican boxer, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 78. Born Miguel Angel Canto Solis in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, on January 30, 1948, he was a former world boxing champion who held the WBC and lineal flyweight titles. He began his professional career on February 5, 1969, losing his first bout to Raul Hernandez in Mérida before later becoming a champion. Canto was known for relying on technique and ring knowledge rather than seeking knockouts, winning 15 of more than 70 professional fights by knockout.",
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        {
            "name": "Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, bishop emeritus of Pinar del Río dead at age 84",
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            "description": "Jorge Enrique Serpa Pérez, a Cuban Roman Catholic prelate and bishop emeritus of Pinar del Río, died on April 16, 2026. He was 84. Born in Cienfuegos on March 16, 1942, he moved with his family to Havana as a child and studied at El Buen Pastor Seminary in Havana. In 1961, he went to Tournai, Belgium, to study theology and was ordained there on July 14, 1968. He was assigned to the Archdiocese of Havana and, after being unable to return to Cuba for years, served in the Archdiocese of Bogotá in Colombia before returning to Cuba in 1999. From 2003 to 2007, he was rector of San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary.",
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        {
            "name": "Oleg Maisenberg Ukrainian-born Austrian pianist dead at age 80",
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            "age": 80,
            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
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            "description": "Oleg Maisenberg, a Ukrainian-born Austrian pianist, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Odessa, then in the Ukrainian SSR, he received his first piano lessons from his mother at age five. He studied at the Central Music School in Kishinev and the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Professor Alexander Jocheles. In 1967, he won second prize at the International Schubert Competition in Vienna and first prize in the competition Music of the Twentieth Century. He emigrated to Vienna in 1981 and later appeared with major orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.",
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            "name": "André Bernard French Olympic modern pentathlete dead at age 90",
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            "name": "Masayoshi Tsuchida Japanese politician dead at age 82",
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            "name": "Giorgos Gonios Greek footballer dead at age 79",
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            "name": "Craig Krampf American drummer dead at age 80",
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            "sources": [],
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            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-16",
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            "name": "Ernie Smith Jamaican reggae singer dead at age 80",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 80,
            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-16",
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        {
            "name": "Edoardo Borzatti von Löwenstern Italian archaeologist and paleontologist dead at age 91",
            "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/edoardo-borzatti-von-lowenstern",
            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
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            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-16",
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            "name": "Don Schlitz American songwriter dead at age 73",
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            "sources": [],
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            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
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        {
            "name": "Paris Harvey 91. American Methodist minister and human rights activist dies",
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            "sources": [],
            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
            "reported_date": "2026-04-16",
            "published_at": "2026-04-16T00:00:00+01:00",
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            "name": "Laura Balbo Italian politician dead at age 92",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 92,
            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
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            "name": "Pharis Harvey 91. American Methodist minister and human rights activist dies",
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            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
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        {
            "name": "David Smith Australian politician, Western Australia MLA dead at age 82",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 88,
            "death_date": "2014-03-08",
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        {
            "name": "Jan Potměšil Czech actor dead at age 60",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 60,
            "death_date": "2026-04-16",
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            "name": "Mark Carrington dead at age 64, New Zealand cricketer",
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            "description": "Mark Carrington, a New Zealand cricketer who played for Northern Districts, died on April 16, 2026, aged 64. Born Sidney Mark Carrington on August 19, 1961, in Gisborne, he played for Northern Districts in the 1980s and also represented Poverty Bay in the Hawke Cup. He was educated at Gisborne Boys' High School and was among the first people of Māori descent to represent Northern Districts.",
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