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            "name": "Pierre Pascallon French politician, deputy, mayor of Issoire dead at age 84",
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            "name": "Viktor Kuzmenko Ukrainian rescuer, Hero of Ukraine dies",
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            "name": "Terje Haugland dead at age 82, Norwegian long jumper",
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            "description": "Terje Haugland, the Norwegian long jumper, died on May 5, 2026. Born in Haugesund on April 11, 1944, he competed for Norway in the long jump and finished eleventh at the 1969 European Championships, thirteenth at the 1970 European Indoor Championships and thirteenth at the 1971 European Championships. He became Norwegian champion in 1969 and 1971 and represented Haugesund IL and IK Tjalve. Haugland was the son of Eugen Haugland and the father of Hanne Haugland.",
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            "name": "Richard Cameron English playwright dead at age 77",
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            "description": "Richard Cameron, the English playwright from Doncaster, died on May 5, 2026, aged 77. Born on 16 June 1948 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, he wrote plays including Pond Life, Not Fade Away, The Mortal Ash, Almost Grown, All of You Mine, The Glee Club, Gong Donkeys, Flower Girls and Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down. He also wrote Dear Nobody, starring Sean Maguire, and Stone, Scissors, Paper for BBC in 1997. Cameron contributed to the television series Midsomer Murders, writing the episode Midsomer Rhapsody.",
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            "name": "Jonathan Tiersten public figure dead at age 60",
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            "description": "Jonathan Tiersten, an American actor known for Sleepaway Camp, died on May 5, 2026, at age 60. Tiersten portrayed Ricky Thomas in the 1983 cult film Sleepaway Camp and later reprised the role in the 2008 sequel Return to Sleepaway Camp. He also worked in music, fronting several bands, mainly in the Fort Collins, Colorado area, and served as the lead singer of Ten Tiers. In addition, he composed the score for a short film starring David Krumholtz and acted in The Perfect House, for which he won three best actor awards and received a fourth nomination.",
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            "name": "Crystal R. Emery dead at age 65, American film director and producer",
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            "description": "Crystal R. Emery, an American film director and producer known for The Deadliest Disease in America, died on May 5, 2026. She was an American filmmaker, playwright and theatre director, and the founder and chief executive of URU The Right To Be, Inc., a nonprofit content production company. Emery was also featured in the Smithsonian's #IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit, a collection of life-sized 3D-printed statues of role models in STEM. She directed the 2010 documentary The Deadliest Disease in America and worked in film and theater from 1985 to 2025.",
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            "name": "Valeri Zhabko dead at age 58, Russian footballer",
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            "description": "Valeri Zhabko, a Russian footballer and defender, died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 58. Born Valeri Nikolayevich Zhabko on August 18, 1967, he made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1985 for Torpedo Volzhsky. He later played three games in the UEFA Cup 1994–95 for Tekstilshchik Kamyshin. Zhabko was born in Vichuga and died in Volgograd.",
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            "name": "Evelyn Cox American country and bluegrass singer and musician dead at age 66",
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            "description": "Evelyn Cox, an American country and bluegrass singer and musician with The Cox Family, died on May 5, 2026. She was 66. The Cox Family was an American country and bluegrass music group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. The group was heard on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Its 1994 collaboration with Alison Krauss, I Know Who Holds Tomorrow, won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album.",
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            "name": "Yevgeny Sivokon Ukrainian film director dead at age 88",
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            "description": "Yevgeny Sivokon, a Ukrainian film director, died on May 5, 2026. He was 88. Born in Kyiv on May 7, 1937, he worked as a director of animated films in the Soviet and Ukrainian film industries. Sivokon won numerous Soviet, Ukrainian and international festivals. By 2007, almost all Ukrainian animation had been created by students of his. He was also the author of the 1985 book If You Love Animation.",
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            "name": "Kyle Loftis dead at age 43, American internet personality and entrepreneur",
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            "name": "Yevhen Syvokin Ukrainian film director dead at age 88",
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            "name": "Temur Maisuradze dead at age 66, Georgian politician, MP",
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            "name": "Dante Ang dead, Filipino journalist and newspaper owner",
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            "description": "Dante Ang, a Filipino journalist and chairman emeritus and owner of The Manila Times, died on May 5, 2026. He was born on June 27, 1942. Ang was known as Dante Ang Sr. and Dante Ang I. He bought The Manila Times in 2001 and was later named chairman emeritus by the paper’s family board. He also served as publicist for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from 1993 to 2003 and was appointed chair of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas in December 2005, serving until June 30, 2010. In 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte named him special envoy for international public relations.",
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            "name": "Trevor Bennett dead at age 99, Canadian politician, Newfoundland MHA",
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            "description": "Trevor Bennett, a Canadian politician and Newfoundland MHA, died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 99. Born on Sept. 3, 1926, in Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland, he served in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for St. Barbe from 1979 to 1982 as a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. Bennett was a businessman and lived in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, at the time of his death.",
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            "name": "R. B. Choudary Indian film producer, traffic collision dies",
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            "name": "Idris Tarangzai dead at age 64, Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPA, shot",
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            "name": "René Groebli Swiss photographer dead at age 98",
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            "reported_date": "2026-05-05",
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            "description": "René Groebli, a Swiss photographer known for his artistic photo-books, industrial and advertising photography, photojournalism and photo-illustration, died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 98. Born in Zurich on Oct. 9, 1927, he was also noted for his expressionistic photo-books and his expertise in dye transfer and colour printing. Groebli began an apprenticeship as a photographer with Theo Vonow in Zurich in 1944 and later trained as a documentary cameraman at Central Film and Gloria Film Zürich, graduating in 1948, though he did not go on to work as a cinematographer.",
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        {
            "name": "Peter Ferrara dead at age 71, American lawyer and policy analyst",
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            "description": "Peter Ferrara, an American lawyer and policy analyst, died on May 5, 2026, at the age of 71. He was also a columnist and served as an analyst for The Heartland Institute. Ferrara was formerly general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union. A libertarian scholar, he was known for supporting privatization of Social Security and for his views on climate change. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, earned an economics degree from Harvard College in 1976, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1979.",
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        {
            "name": "Guto Graça Mello dead at age 78, Brazilian composer and music producer",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
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            "age": 78,
            "death_date": "2026-05-05",
            "reported_date": "2026-05-05",
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            "description": "Guto Graça Mello died on May 5, 2026. He was a Brazilian composer and music producer. His death was noted in reports identifying him as Guto Graça Mello, 78. He was known professionally in Brazil’s music industry.",
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        {
            "name": "Servet Pëllumbi Albanian politician, speaker of parliament dead at age 89",
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