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            "name": "Kenji Ohba Japanese actor and stuntman dead at age 71",
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            "name": "Marc Plantegenest Saint Pierrais politician, deputy, senator dead at age 82",
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            "name": "Harold K. Brown dead at age 92, Civil rights leader",
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            "name": "José Navarro public figure dead at age 77",
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            "name": "László Fazekas Hungarian football player and coach dead at age 78",
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            "description": "László Fazekas, Hungarian football player and coach, died on May 6, 2026, at the age of 78. Born on 15 October 1947, he played the third most international games for the Hungary national team and represented his country at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Fazekas also played in the 1978 and 1982 World Cups. In the 1982 tournament, he scored two long-range goals in Hungary’s 10–1 win over El Salvador at Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero.",
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            "name": "Algis Jurgis Kundrotas Lithuanian physicist dead at age 75",
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            "name": "Lawrence J. Smith American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives dead at age 93",
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            "name": "Shin Jong-o South Korean judge, suicide dies",
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            "name": "Jake Hall British actor, model and reality television star, head injury dead at age 35",
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            "name": "Ted Turner American media proprietor dead at age 87",
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            "name": "Aimable Karasira Rwandan academic, YouTuber and dissident, drug overdose dies",
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            "name": "Morris Watts dead at age 89, American football player and coach",
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            "name": "Pierre-François Veil French lawyer and civil servant, president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah dead at age 72",
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            "name": "Carlos Malcolm Jamaican trombonist, percussionist and bandleader dead at age 91",
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            "age": 91,
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            "name": "Georgy Golitsyn dead at age 91, Russian scientist",
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            "name": "Dick Hughes American baseball player dead at age 88",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
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            "name": "Anatoly Rusanov dead at age 94, Russian chemist",
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            "age": 94,
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            "name": "Russ Hodge American Olympic decathlete dead at age 86",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 86,
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            "name": "Vladimir Cvetković Serbian basketball player and sports administrator dead at age 84",
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