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            "name": "Stephen Greene Irish hurler dead at age 81",
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            "name": "Michael Sollis Australian musician, bowel cancer dead at age 40",
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            "name": "Tülay Özer Turkish singer dead at age 79",
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            "description": "Tülay Özer, a Turkish singer, died on May 1, 2026, at the age of 79. Born on December 10, 1946, in Kemaliye, Turkey, she began her professional music career in 1972 after working in accountancy. She was known for pop folk and arabesque recordings and for albums including Tülay (1976), Seven Ağlatılmaz (1978), Kalbimdeki Sevgili (1981), Özleyiş (1989), and Olmalı Olacak (1993). Her first release came in 1974, and she had a breakthrough in 1975 with İkimiz Bir Fidanız – Son Ümit.",
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            "name": "G. Robert Blakey American attorney dead at age 90",
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            "name": "Georg Wadenius public figure dead at age 80",
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            "name": "Panayot Butchvarov dead at age 93, Bulgarian philosopher",
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            "description": "Panayot Butchvarov, the Bulgarian philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, died on May 1, 2026. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 2, 1933, he was a Bulgarian-born American philosopher whose work focused on metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. He joined the University of Iowa in 1968 after leaving Syracuse University as a full professor and retired in 2005. Butchvarov also served as president of the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division in 1992-93 and edited the Journal of Philosophical Research.",
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            "name": "Man Phatnothai Thai politician, minister of information and communication technology, deputy prime minister dead at age 85",
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            "name": "Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo Swiss physician and advocate for therapeutic fasting dead at age 73",
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            "name": "Dionysis Tsamis dead at age 74, Greek footballer",
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            "description": "Dionysis Tsamis, a Greek professional footballer and later manager, died on May 1, 2026. Born on May 21, 1951, in Agrinio, he played as a midfielder. Tsamis began his football career in the youth team of Panetolikos in 1967 and later moved into senior football. He made his official debut on November 8, 1972, in the second leg of a UEFA Cup tie against Liverpool. He was also noted as a member of AEK Athens, according to the photograph on file with his Wikipedia article.",
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            "name": "Philippe Lazar French statistician and epidemiologist, president of Inserm, president of the Research Institute for Development dead at age 90",
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            "description": "Philippe Lazar, French statistician and epidemiologist, died on May 1, 2026, at the age of 90. He served as president of Inserm from 1982 to 1996 and as president of the Research Institute for Development from 1997 to 2001. Lazar was born in Paris on April 21, 1936. He won the Concours général in Latin composition in 1952 before graduating from the École polytechnique in 1956. He went on to a career in research and statistics and was a founding member of the Comité consultatif national d'éthique.",
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            "name": "Péter Bikár dead at age 81, Hungarian ice hockey player",
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            "name": "Karl-Heinz Mühe dead at age 77, Teacher",
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            "name": "Juliet Winters Carpenter dead at age 77, American translator",
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            "name": "Hans-Wilhelm Pesch dead at age 88, German politician, MP",
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            "name": "Antonio Arcari Italian Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic nuncio to Honduras, Mozambique, and Costa Rica dead at age 72",
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            "name": "Danny Mixon dead at age 76, American jazz pianist, prostate cancer",
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            "name": "Yevgeniy Duleyev dead at age 70, Olympic silver medallist",
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            "name": "Greg Hyman dead at age 78, American inventor, co-creator of Tickle Me Elmo",
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            "name": "Audrey Beth Davis American entertainment publicist dead at age 82",
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            "name": "William W. Stinson dead at age 92, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Limited",
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