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            "name": "Jean Alambre French author and songwriter dead at age 79",
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            "name": "Hany Shaker Egyptian singer, actor and composer dead at age 73",
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            "name": "Alain Marchadour dead at age 88, French Roman Catholic priest and exegetist",
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            "name": "Cândido Mota Portuguese radio announcer, television presenter, and actor dead at age 82",
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            "description": "Cândido Mota, Portuguese radio announcer, television presenter, and actor, died on May 3, 2026, at the age of 82. Born Cândido Soares Pinto da Mota on September 28, 1943, he began working in radio at 17 at Rádio Clube Português and later achieved his greatest success at RDP - Rádio Comercial. He became known for hosting Em Órbita and for O Passageiro da Noite, one of the first interactive broadcasts in Portuguese radio, as well as programs including Fonografias and Dançatlântico. He also collaborated with Herman José and appeared as a voice-over on the RTP game shows A Roda da Sorte and Com a Verdade M' Enganas during the 1990s.",
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            "description": "Branko Marušič, a Slovenian historian, died on May 3, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Gorizia, Italy, to an upper middle class Slovene family, he moved with his family to the Yugoslav side of the Yugoslav–Italian border in 1947 and later lived in Solkan. After attending Nova Gorica Grammar School, he studied history at the University of Ljubljana. Marušič specialized in the political history of the 19th century and wrote extensively on the Slovene–Italian border regions of Goriška and Venezia Giulia. He published in both Slovene and Italian, and his work focused on Slovene–Italian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries.",
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            "name": "Michel Merlet French composer and pedagogue dead at age 86",
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            "name": "Lee Allen Zeno American musician, cancer dead at age 71",
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            "name": "Geoff Stedman New Zealand physicist, Hector Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand dead at age 83",
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            "name": "Nelson Martínez Rust dead at age 81, auxiliary bishop of Valencia in Venezuela and bishop of San Felipe",
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            "description": "Nelson Martínez Rust, a Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop of Valencia in Venezuela from 1982 to 1992 and bishop of San Felipe from 1992 to 2016, died on May 3, 2026. He was 81. Born in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, on June 10, 1944, Martínez Rust was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Valencia in 1968. He later studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and specialized in Sacred Scripture before his appointment as auxiliary bishop of Valencia and titular bishop of Bararus in 1982. He was named bishop of San Felipe in 1992 and served in that post until 2016.",
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            "name": "Charles W. Curtis dead at age 99, American mathematician and historian.[better source needed]",
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            "name": "Leslie Campbell Jamaican politician dies",
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            "name": "Józef Michalik Polish Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Przemyśl, bishop of Zielona Góra–Gorzów and president of the PEC dead at age 85",
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            "name": "Boris Volodin Russian politician, member of the Soviet of the Union dead at age 94",
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            "name": "Claire Maurier French actress dead at age 97",
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            "description": "Claire Maurier, the French actress known for La Cage aux Folles, Amélie and A Bad Son, died on May 3, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon in Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, on March 27, 1929, she began acting in small film roles in the late 1940s and went on to appear in more than 90 films from 1947 to 2013. Among her notable early performances were Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut’s 1959 film The 400 Blows, and Christiane Colombey in the 1963 film La Cuisine au beurre.",
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            "name": "Krzysztof Pawłowski Polish politician, senator dead at age 79",
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            "name": "Régis Barroso Brazilian politician, deputy dead at age 84",
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            "name": "Jean Raquin French politician, member and president of the General Council of Jura dead at age 90",
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            "name": "Paul Schwartz Romanian Jewish community leader dead at age 86",
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            "name": "Gheorghe Ștefăneț Moldovan singer and musician dead at age 80",
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            "age": 80,
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            "name": "Babulal Bairwa Indian politician, Rajasthan MLA, complications from diabetes dead at age 72",
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            "name": "Pietro Giuseppe Grasso dead at age 96, Italian jurist",
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