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            "name": "Raúl Castronovo dead at age 77, public figure",
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            "description": "Raúl Castronovo, an Argentine footballer, died on May 15, 2026. He was 77. Raúl Osvaldo Castronovo Zanón was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, and played as a striker. He began his career with Rosario Central in 1968 before moving to Peñarol in Uruguay, where he finished as joint top scorer of the 1971 Copa Libertadores with 10 goals. He later spent three seasons in Ligue 1 with AS Nancy Lorraine and then continued his career in Spain with CD Málaga, Hércules CF, UD Salamanca and Algeciras CF, competing in both La Liga and Segunda División.",
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            "name": "Tony Zappone dead at age 78, American journalist and radio personality",
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            "description": "Tony Zappone, an American journalist and radio personality, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 78. Born Anthony Nicholas Zappone on October 9, 1947, in Tampa, Florida, he built a career in journalism and broadcasting that also included work as an author, newspaper, radio and television news correspondent, and real estate consultant. According to his biography, he became the youngest credentialed journalist to cover a major national political convention at age 16. He also took photographs of President John F. Kennedy during Kennedy’s five-hour visit to Tampa in 1963, and those images later became part of the John F. Kennedy Library’s holdings.",
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            "name": "Izz al-Din al-Haddad dead at age 55, Palestinian Islamic militant, commander of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, airstrike",
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            "description": "Izz al-Din al-Haddad, a Palestinian Islamic militant and commander of Hamas in the Gaza Strip since 2025, died on May 15, 2026, in an airstrike. Also known by the nom de guerre Abu Suhaib, he was born in Gaza in 1970 and joined Hamas at a young age. He later served as leader and commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades beginning in May 2025 and as the fourth Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip. Al-Haddad was a member of Hamas's General Military Council and was instrumental in planning and executing the group's operations.",
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            "name": "Telesphore George Mpundu dead at age 78, public figure",
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            "description": "Telesphore George Mpundu, a Zambian Roman Catholic prelate and former Archbishop of Lusaka, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 78. Born on May 21, 1947, in Kopeka, Mpulungu District, Zambia, he served as coadjutor bishop of Lusaka from 2004 to 2006 and then as archbishop from 2006 until his resignation in 2018. In 2024, he was excommunicated after consecrating Anthony Ward of the Servants of the Holy Family as bishop without Vatican approval.",
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            "name": "Dominic Su Haw Chiu dead at age 87, Malaysian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sibu",
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            "description": "Dominic Su Haw Chiu, a Malaysian Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of Sibu from 1987 to 2011, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 86. Born in Sibu, Sarawak, on May 29, 1939, he studied at St Francis Xavier's Minor Seminary in Singapore from 1961 to 1963 and at College General in Penang from 1964 to 1969. He was ordained a deacon on April 28, 1969, and to the priesthood on December 4, 1969, by Bishop Charles Reiterer. He later studied canon law at the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome from 1979 to 1981.",
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            "name": "Bas Westerweel dead at age 62, Dutch radio and television presenter",
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            "description": "Bas Westerweel died on May 15, 2026. He was a Dutch radio and television presenter, known for Het Klokhuis. His work in radio and television formed the basis of his public profile.",
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            "name": "Nelson Wang dead at age 75, public figure",
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            "description": "Nelson Wang, an Indian restaurateur and founder of China Garden in Mumbai’s Kemps Corner neighborhood, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 75 or 76. Born in Kolkata in 1950, Wang was of Chinese descent and is widely credited by various sources with inventing Chicken Manchurian, a popular Indian-Chinese dish. He moved to Mumbai in 1974 with ₹27, began working in a small restaurant in Colaba, and later said he had also taken odd jobs, including as a limbo dancer. Wang has said he was working at the Cricket Club of India when, in 1975, a customer asked him to create a new dish.",
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            "name": "Edmund Phelps dead at age 92, public figure",
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            "description": "Edmund Phelps, an American economist and 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, died on May 16, 2026. He was 92. Born in Evanston, Illinois, on July 26, 1933, Phelps was known early in his career for research at Yale’s Cowles Foundation in the first half of the 1960s on the sources of economic growth. His work on the golden rule savings rate helped prompt further study of how nations balance present consumption with saving and investment for the future. Phelps was at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1971 and moved to Columbia University in 1971. He later developed the natural rate of unemployment.",
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            "name": "Malik Nadeem Kamran dead at age 72, Pakistani politician, Punjab MPA",
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            "description": "Malik Nadeem Kamran, a Pakistani politician and Punjab Member of the Provincial Assembly, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 72. He served as an MPA from 1997 to 1999, then again from 2008 to May 2018 and from August 2018 to January 2023. Born on 3 August 1953 in Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan, he graduated in 1974 from Bahauddin Zakariya University with a Bachelor of Arts degree.",
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            "name": "Dame Felicity Lott dead at age 79, English soprano, cancer",
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            "description": "Dame Felicity Lott, the English soprano, died on May 15, 2026, aged 79, after a reported illness with cancer. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on May 8, 1947, she studied piano from age 5, played violin and began singing lessons at 12. She studied French and Latin at Royal Holloway, University of London, and took singing lessons in Grenoble during a year in France as part of her degree. Lott made her operatic debut at the City of London Festival in 1974 as Seleuce in Handel's Tolomeo and appeared the following year as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute at the English National Opera.",
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            "name": "Conceição Lima dead at age 64, São Toméan poet",
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            "description": "Conceição Lima, a São Toméan poet known for A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 64. Born Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima on December 8, 1961, in Santana, São Tomé, she studied journalism in Portugal and worked in radio, television and the print press in São Tomé and Príncipe. In 1993, she founded the weekly independent publication O País Hoje, which she directed and wrote. Lima was among the few poets to come of age after her country’s independence in 1975.",
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            "name": "Sherman Lewis dead at age 83, American football player and coach",
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            "description": "Sherman Lewis died on May 15, 2026. He was an American football player for the Toronto Argonauts and New York Jets and later coached for the Green Bay Packers. Lewis was known for his work in both playing and coaching roles in professional football.",
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            "name": "Jill Curzon dead at age 87, public figure",
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            "description": "Jill Curzon, an English actress, died on May 15, 2026. Born in 1938, she was best known for her film and television work in the 1960s, including Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., in which she played Louise, the niece of Dr. Who, Peter Cushing. Her television credits included The Champions, Adam Adamant Lives!, The Saint, Hugh and I and Disneyland. Her film roles also included parts in 80,000 Suspects, Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow and Smokescreen. She was interviewed about Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. in the 1995 documentary Dalekmania.",
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            "name": "Randal Marlin dead at age 88, Canadian academic",
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            "description": "Randal Marlin, a Canadian academic and philosophy professor at Carleton University, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 88. He specialized in the study of propaganda and was known for his work on the ethics of persuasion. Born in Washington, D.C., on January 22, 1938, Marlin was educated at Princeton University, McGill University, the University of Oxford, Aix-Marseille University, and the University of Toronto. He wrote Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion, first published in 2002 and revised in 2013, and also authored The David Levine Affair: Separatist Betrayal or McCarthyism North? in 1998.",
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            "name": "Bengt Berger dead at age 83, Swedish jazz drummer, composer and producer",
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            "description": "Bengt Berger, a Swedish jazz drummer, composer and producer, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 83. Born in Stockholm on August 31, 1942, Berger studied north and south Indian music from the 1960s with Pandit Taranath Rama Rao and Mridangam Vidwan P.S. Devarajan. He also played the tabla and mridangam.",
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            "name": "Jean Harlez dead at age 101, Belgian film director",
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            "description": "Jean Harlez, the Belgian film director, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 101. Born in Erquelinnes, Belgium, on December 31, 1924, he worked as a filmmaker from 1955 to 2026. He was the first assistant to Charles Dekeukeleire from 1947 to 1950 before becoming a filmmaker himself. Harlez made films in French and was known for Le Chantier des Gosses, filmed in 1956 and eventually released in 1970.",
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            "name": "Angelica Domröse dead at age 85, public figure",
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            "description": "Angelica Domröse, the German actress known for Love's Confusion, The Adventures of Werner Holt and The Legend of Paul and Paula, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 85. Born in Berlin on April 4, 1941, she was discovered in 1958 by director Slatan Dudow during a casting for Love's Confusion. She later attended the film university Potsdam-Babelsberg in 1961 and joined the Berliner Ensemble in 1966. Domröse subsequently worked with the Volksbühne Berlin until 1979 and also appeared in productions for the DEFA film studio and Deutscher Fernsehfunk.",
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            "name": "Egon Loy dead at age 95, German footballer",
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            "description": "Egon Loy, a German footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Eintracht Frankfurt, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 95. Born on May 14, 1931, he began his senior career with TSV 04 Schwabach near Nuremberg and later moved into the Bavarian amateur league. He won the Länderpokal of the amateurs three times from 1952 to 1954 and made his Oberliga Süd debut for Eintracht Frankfurt on August 22, 1954, in a 1–0 away win at Offenbach. Loy made 28 league appearances for Eintracht in his first season.",
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            "name": "Brian Lindstrom dead at age 65, American documentary filmmaker, progressive supranuclear palsy",
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            "description": "Brian Lindstrom, an American documentary filmmaker, died on May 15, 2026, at age 65. He was associated with documentaries on addiction, incarceration, mental illness and police brutality. His films included Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill, which premiered at DOCNYC and was named Documentary of the Year by the Docnroll Film Festival, and I Am Not Untouchable. I Just Have My Period, made with his wife Cheryl Strayed for The New York Times in 2019. Lindstrom was born in Portland, Oregon, on February 12, 1961.",
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        {
            "name": "Jilke Michielsen dead at age 19, Ewing sarcoma",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
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            "age": 19,
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            "reported_date": "2026-05-15",
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            "description": "Jilke Michielsen, a Belgian racing cyclist, died on May 15, 2026, after being diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma. Born on January 5, 2007, she won the Belgian National Road Race Championships in the rookie category in 2022 and the second-year category in 2023. She also finished eighth in the youth Tour of Flanders in 2022. After her diagnosis at the end of 2023, she continued studying at the University of Antwerp while undergoing chemotherapy, before announcing in May 2026 that she was ending treatment as the cancer had returned and her body was no longer producing enough red blood cells.",
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        {
            "name": "Jimmy Mann dead at age 73, public figure",
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            "death_date": "2026-05-15",
            "reported_date": "2026-05-15",
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            "description": "Jimmy Mann, the English footballer who played for Bristol City, Barnsley and Doncaster Rovers, died on May 15, 2026. He was 73. Born James Arthur Mann in Goole, Yorkshire, in 1952, he began his career at Leeds United before joining Bristol City in 1974. A midfielder, he made more than 230 Football League appearances, and was part of the Bristol City side promoted to the First Division under Alan Dicks in 1976. He also scored a long-range goal against Nottingham Forest in 1979. Mann later had brief spells at Barnsley, Scunthorpe United and Doncaster Rovers before moving into non-league football.",
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        {
            "name": "Jon Phipps McCalla dead at age 79, American judge",
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            "name": "Jules Angst dead at age 99, Swiss psychiatrist and academic",
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