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            "name": "Piero Dotti Italian footballer dead at age 86",
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            "name": "David Wilcock American paranormal writer, suicide by gunshot dead at age 53",
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            "name": "Florian Schneeberger Austrian Olympic sailor, bus accident dead at age 55",
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            "name": "Li Daoyu Chinese diplomat, ambassador to the United States dead at age 93",
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            "name": "Lawrence Korb American attorney, assistant secretary of defense dead at age 86",
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            "name": "Manfred Böckl German writer dead at age 77",
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            "name": "Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton British meteorologist and life peer, member of the House of Lords, vascular dementia dead at age 84",
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            "name": "Sergei Stadler Russian violinist and conductor dead at age 63",
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            "name": "Cynthia Shange South African model and actress dead at age 76",
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            "name": "Alan Osmond American singer dead at age 77",
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            "name": "Rita Mulier Belgian feminist author and economist dead at age 91",
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            "name": "Wayne Moss American session guitarist and songwriter dead at age 88",
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