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            "name": "Jana Dubovcová Slovak politician, minister of justice dead at age 73",
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            "name": "Joe Senser American football player dead at age 69",
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            "name": "Michael Pennington public figure dead at age 82",
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            "description": "Michael Pennington, the English actor, director and writer who co-founded the English Shakespeare Company, died on May 10, 2026, aged 82. Born in Cambridge on June 7, 1943, he was known on screen for his role as Moff Jerjerrod in Return of the Jedi and also appeared in Hamlet. With director Michael Bogdanov, he founded the English Shakespeare Company in 1986 and served as its joint artistic director until 1992. Pennington wrote ten books, directed in the UK, the US, Romania and Japan, and was an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company.",
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            "name": "Zhang Anjian dead at age 55, deputy mayor of Chongqing",
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            "description": "Zhang Anjian, a Chinese politician who served as deputy mayor of Chongqing, died on May 7, 2026. He was a former secretary of the Chongqing Tongnan District Committee, and later served as vice mayor and a member of the Chongqing municipal government party group. He also held posts as director of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, inspector general, and deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of Political and Legal Affairs. Born in February 1971 in Gansu's Jingtai county, Zhang was a member of the Chinese Communist Party.",
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            "name": "Jaime Aparicio Colombian Olympic hurdler dead at age 96",
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            "name": "Rick Kreuger dead at age 76, American baseball player",
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            "description": "Rick Kreuger, the American baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, died on May 7, 2026. Born Richard Allen Kreuger on November 3, 1948, he appeared in Major League Baseball from 1975 through 1978 for the Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians. Listed at 6 feet 2 inches and 185 pounds, he batted right-handed and threw left-handed. Kreuger began his college career at Grand Rapids Junior College before transferring to Michigan State University, and he made his major league debut with Boston on September 6, 1975.",
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            "name": "Wang Yongguo dead at age 87, Chinese vice admiral, commander of the South Sea Fleet",
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            "name": "Pat Caputo American sportswriter and broadcaster, pancreatic cancer dead at age 67",
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            "description": "Pat Caputo, an American sportswriter and broadcaster, died on May 7, 2026, of pancreatic cancer. He was 67. Caputo was based in Southeast Michigan and worked as an on-air host and sports columnist for WXYT-FM in Detroit. He also occasionally appeared on WJBK’s local sports discussion show SportsWorks. Raised in St. Clair Shores and later Birmingham, Michigan, he attended Groves High School and graduated from Michigan State University. He was hired by The Oakland Press in May 1983 and covered the Detroit Tigers from 1986 to 1998 and the Detroit Lions from 1998 to 2002, later serving as the paper’s sports columnist before being laid off in 2020.",
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            "name": "Bede Liu dead at age 91, Taiwanese-American electrical engineer",
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            "description": "Bede Liu, a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer, died on May 7, 2026. He was a professor emeritus at Princeton University. Born in Shanghai, China, on September 25, 1934, Liu earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1954 and went on to receive a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions to digital signal processing algorithms and later to Academia Sinica in 2006. Liu also received the IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing and held several patents.",
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            "name": "Carlos Brito Portuguese politician dead at age 93",
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            "name": "Ursula Bäumlin dead at age 87, Swiss politician, MP",
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            "name": "Joni Lamb American Christian broadcaster, co-founder and president of Daystar Television Network, complications from a spinal injury dead at age 65",
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            "name": "Friedrich Seifert dead at age 84, German mineralogist and geophysicist",
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            "description": "Friedrich Seifert, the German mineralogist and geophysicist, died on May 7, 2026. He was 84. Seifert was the founding director of the Bayerisches Geoinstitut at the University of Bayreuth. Born in Dresden on May 8, 1941, he studied mineralogy at the University of Kiel and the University of Zurich, earning a doctorate from Zurich in 1966 and later completing his habilitation in Bochum. A silicate mineral, seifertite, was named after him.",
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        {
            "name": "Pierre Chambon French biologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences dead at age 95",
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            "reported_date": "2026-05-07",
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            "description": "Pierre Chambon, a French biologist and member of the French Academy of Sciences, died on May 7, 2026, at the age of 95. Born on February 7, 1931, in Mulhouse, France, he founded the Institute for Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Biology in Strasbourg. Chambon was known for work on nuclear hormone receptors and was among the molecular biologists who used gene cloning and sequencing technology to help decipher the structure of eukaryotic genes and how they are regulated. His scientific work focused on the genetics and molecular biology of vertebrates.",
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            "name": "Earl-Jean McCrea dead at age 83, American singer",
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            "sources": [],
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            "reported_date": "2026-05-07",
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            "description": "Earl-Jean McCrea, the American singer known for her work with The Cookies, died on May 7, 2026. Also known as Earl-Jean Reavis, she was a former pop and R&B singer and organist. Born in Brooklyn in 1942, she grew up in North Carolina before returning to Brooklyn as a teenager. In 1961, she joined a new version of the Cookies, which later recorded hits including \"Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)\" and \"Chains.\" She also had a solo hit with the original version of \"I'm into Something Good.\"",
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        {
            "name": "Eugenio Binini Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello and bishop of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli dead at age 91",
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