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            "name": "Jorge Calandrelli Argentine composer dead at age 86",
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            "description": "Jorge Calandrelli, Argentine composer, arranger and conductor, died on May 4, 2026, at age 86. He was known for his work with Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Arturo Sandoval, Yo-Yo Ma, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Lady Gaga and John Legend. Calandrelli won six Grammy Awards and received 28 nominations. He also won Latin Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year and Best Instrumental Album for his work on Arturo Sandoval’s \"A Time for Love\" in 2010, and was twice nominated for an Academy Award for his work on \"The Color Purple\" and \"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.\"",
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            "name": "Yuji Ohno dead at age 84, Japanese musician and composer",
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            "name": "Ion Toderaș dead at age 77, Research in ecology and zoology; development of Apispir biostimulant",
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            "name": "David Plowden dead at age 93, Photography",
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            "description": "David Plowden, an American photographer, died on May 4, 2026. He was born on October 9, 1932, in Boston and became known for historical documentary photographs of urban cities, steam trains, American farmlands and small towns. Plowden produced 20 books, and his work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Center for Creative Photography, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and graduated from Yale College in 1955.",
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            "name": "Eladio Zárate Paraguayan football player and manager dead at age 84",
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            "description": "Eladio Zárate, Paraguayan football player and manager, died on May 4, 2026, at the age of 84. He played for Huracán, Unión Española and the Paraguay national team, including at the Copa América 1963. Zárate also played in clubs in Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. He began his managerial career in 1974, later coaching Coquimbo Unido with Enrique Hormazábal in 1976. He served as assistant to Cayetano Ré at Guaraní in the 1984 season, when the club won the Paraguayan championship, and later led teams in Paraguay's second level and regional sides until 2000.",
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            "name": "Robert A. Stebbins dead at age 87, American-born Canadian sociologist",
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            "name": "Hicham Fi Aridha Algerian YouTuber dies",
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            "name": "Alexis Dipanda Mouelle Cameroonian magistrate, president of the supreme court dead at age 84",
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            "name": "Jalil Hamid dead at age 69, singer and producer",
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            "name": "Bob Skinner American baseball player and manager dead at age 94",
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            "description": "Bob Skinner, an American baseball player and manager, died on May 4, 2026, at age 94. Robert Ralph Skinner played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals from 1954 to 1966. He later managed for the Philadelphia Phillies and San Diego Padres, and also worked as a coach and scout. Skinner spent more than 50 years in the game.",
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            "name": "Kazuhiro Ninomiya Japanese judoka dead at age 79",
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            "description": "Kazuhiro Ninomiya, a Japanese judoka, died on May 4, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Fukuoka, Japan, on November 28, 1946, he competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics after graduating from Tenri University and training under Isao Okano at the Shoki Juku. Ninomiya joined the Fukuoka Prefecture police force in 1972 and placed third in that year’s All-Japan Judo Championships. He won gold medals at the 1970 Asian Judo Championships and the 1973 World Championships in Lausanne. He retired after the 1978 Jigoro Kano Cup, later serving as an adviser to local and prefectural judo committees and as a judo instructor.",
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            "name": "Hermano da Silva Ramos dead at age 100, French-Brazilian racing driver",
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            "description": "Hermano da Silva Ramos, the French-Brazilian racing driver, died on May 4, 2026, at the age of 100. Born in Paris on December 7, 1925, he was the son of a French mother and a Brazilian father. Known in motor racing as Hermano João “Nano” da Silva Ramos, he competed in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix and scored two championship points. From April 2023 until his death, he was the oldest living Formula One driver.",
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            "name": "Konstantin Tolkachyov Russian politician dead at age 73",
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            "name": "Hicham fil Aridha Algerian YouTuber dies",
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            "name": "Dame Shirley Porter public figure dead at age 95",
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            "name": "Miguel Ángel J. Márquez Ruiz dead at age 83, Mexican veterinarian",
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            "description": "Miguel Ángel J. Márquez Ruiz, a Mexican veterinarian, died on May 4, 2026. He was a veterinarian with more than 50 years of professional practice and received international recognition for his contributions to veterinary medicine. Márquez taught at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he worked in clinical pathology, virology, immunology and avian epidemiology.",
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            "name": "John Sterling American sportscaster, heart failure dead at age 87",
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            "description": "John Sterling, the American sportscaster best known for his work with the New York Yankees, died on May 4, 2026, of heart failure. He was 87. Born John Sloss in New York City on July 4, 1938, he grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Sterling became the Yankees’ radio play-by-play announcer in 1989 and held the job through 2024, calling 5,060 consecutive Yankees games from 1989 to 2019. Before that, after changing his name to Sterling, he worked in Baltimore and also did play-by-play for Morgan State University football from 1971 to 1978.",
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            "name": "Olivier Dupuis dead at age 68, MEP",
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            "reported_date": "2026-05-04",
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            "name": "Stein Erik Hagen Norwegian businessman, founder of Rimi, cardiac arrest dead at age 69",
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            "age": 69,
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            "description": "Stein Erik Hagen, Norwegian businessman and founder of the Rimi discount store chain, died on May 4, 2026, after cardiac arrest. He was 69. Hagen was chairman of Orkla and a major shareholder there, and through his family company Canica held large stakes in Steen & Strøm, Jernia and Komplett. He founded Rimi with his father in the 1970s and later sold the chain to Swedish ICA and Ahold in the 2000s. According to Forbes, he was worth US$2.1 billion and ranked as the sixth richest person in Norway.",
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            "name": "André Cerdini dead at age 96, Magistrate",
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            "description": "André Cerdini, the French magistrate who oversaw the trial of Klaus Barbie, died on May 4, 2026. Born André Émile Cerdini on December 18, 1929, in Vals-les-Bains, France, he studied law at the Catholic University of Lyon and began his career in the French judiciary after serving in Ivory Coast and later in Normandy, Puy, and Lyon. He became chief magistrate of the Cour d'assises of Rhône at the Palais de justice historique de Lyon in 1984. Cerdini died in Vals-les-Bains at the age of 96.",
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            "name": "Carlos Garaikoetxea Spanish politician, lehendakari, heart attack dead at age 87",
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            "name": "Geoff Dakin dead at age 90, South African cricketer",
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            "name": "Brendan O’Brien Irish journalist dead at age 82",
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            "name": "Henk Beckers Dutch politician, senator dead at age 81",
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            "sources": [],
            "age": 81,
            "death_date": "2026-05-04",
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            "description": "Henk Beckers, Dutch politician and senator from 2011 to 2015, died on May 4, 2026. Born Henricus Gerardus Josephus Maria Beckers on May 30, 1944, in Mheer, in the German-occupied Netherlands, he was a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. Beckers also worked as a notary. He was 81.",
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            "name": "Lee Hong-koo South Korean politician, prime minister dead at age 92",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 92,
            "death_date": "2026-05-04",
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        {
            "name": "Derek Conway English politician dead at age 73",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 73,
            "death_date": "2026-05-04",
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            "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Conway"
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            "name": "Herman Branover Russian-Israeli physicist dead at age 94",
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            "name": "Tat’jana Ljubeckaja dead at age 85, Russian fencer",
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            "death_date": "2026-05-04",
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