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            "name": "Peter Checkland dead at age 95, British management scientist and academic",
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            "description": "Peter Checkland, British management scientist and academic, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 95. He was an emeritus professor of systems at Lancaster University and developed soft systems methodology, or SSM, a systems-thinking approach to complex problem situations. Born in Birmingham on December 18, 1930, he attended George Dixon's Grammar School and earned a first-class M.A. in chemistry from St John's College, Oxford, in 1954. He spent 15 years working in industry as a manager in ICI's chemicals business before joining Lancaster University's Systems Engineering department in the late 1960s, where he later became professor of systems and led an action research programme.",
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            "name": "Brenda Travis dead at age 81, American civil rights campaigner",
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            "name": "K. Rajan dead at age 85, Indian film producer and director, suicide by jumping",
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            "description": "K. Rajan, an Indian film producer and director, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 85 after suicide by jumping. He worked on Tamil films and began his career as a producer with Brammacharigal (1983), starring Suresh. He later directed Namma Ooru Mariamma (1991) and wrote Thangamana Thangachi (1991) for director Senthilnathan. Rajan also produced Doubles (2000) and Ninaikkatha Naalillai (2001), and served as president of the Chennai Distributors Association in 2000.",
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            "name": "Luis de la Peña dead at age 95, Mexican physicist",
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            "description": "Luis de la Peña, a Mexican physicist, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 95. Born in Mexico City in 1931, he studied mechanical-electrical engineering at ESIME of the National Polytechnic Institute and began his professional career designing audio systems. He taught at ESIME from 1954 and joined the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, in 1958, where he was a researcher at the Institute of Physics and a professor in the Faculty of Sciences. He completed his PhD in 1964 at Moscow State University under Arseny Sokolov. De la Peña was known for his work in stochastic electrodynamics and received Mexico’s National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 2002.",
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            "name": "Jennifer Paes dead at age 72, Indian Olympic basketball player, cancer",
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            "description": "Jennifer Paes, an Indian former basketball player who participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics, died on May 17, 2026, aged 72, of cancer. She captained the Indian national basketball team in 1982. Paes, née Dutton, also accompanied her husband, field hockey player Vece Paes, to the Olympics.",
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            "name": "Juris Upatnieks dead at age 90, Latvian-American physicist and inventor",
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            "description": "Juris Upatnieks, a Latvian-American physicist and inventor, died on May 17, 2026, at age 90. Born in Riga, Latvia, on May 7, 1936, he was a pioneer in holography and is known as a co-inventor of the field. After fleeing Latvia with his parents at the close of World War II and spending time in Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1951. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Akron and later at the University of Michigan. In 1964, he demonstrated with Emmett Leith the first three-dimensional holograms in the United States and published technical papers with Leith from 1962 to 1964. He was nominated for the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Leith but did not win.",
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            "name": "Scott Hastings dead at age 61, Scottish rugby union player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma",
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            "description": "Scott Hastings, Scottish rugby union player and sports commentator, died on May 17, 2026, aged 61, in Edinburgh, Scotland, of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He was a Scotland international and played for Watsonians, Edinburgh District and, later, Edinburgh Rugby when the provincial side turned professional. At amateur level, he played for Watsonians, helping them win the Scottish Premiership in the 1997–98 season and the Melrose Sevens in 1996. With Edinburgh District, he was part of the side that won the Scottish Inter-District Championship for three successive seasons from 1986–87 to 1988–89.",
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            "name": "Fred Negrit dead at age 76, public figure",
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            "description": "Fred Negrit, a French educator and cultural promoter, died on May 17, 2026, at the age of 76. He was known for his work promoting Indian languages and culture in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France in the Caribbean. Born in Guadeloupe on June 7, 1949, Negrit earned a Master of Arts from the Université des Antilles Guyane in Pointe-à-Pitre and a Hindi Pravesh Certificate from the Central Hindi Directorate in New Delhi. He taught in government schools for 35 years and retired as a vice-principal. Negrit was the founding president of the Guadeloupean Council for Indian Languages and also offered free classes in Hindi, Sanskrit and Tamil at his home.",
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            "name": "Mohamed Ali Hafez dead at age 88, Served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement",
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            "description": "Mohamed Ali Hafez, a Saudi Arabian scouting executive and journalist, died on May 17, 2026. He was an official of the Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides and served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1957 to 1963 and again from 1965 to 1971. In 1957, he became the first secretary-general of the Arab Scout Bureau. He was awarded the Bronze Wolf in 1963 for exceptional services to world Scouting.",
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            "name": "Peter G. Neumann dead at age 93, American computer science researcher, complications from a fall",
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            "description": "Peter G. Neumann, an American computer science researcher, died on May 17, 2026, at age 93 from complications from a fall. He worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s and edited the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM. Neumann founded ACM SIGSOFT and was a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He held three degrees from Harvard University: an A.B. in mathematics in 1954, an S.M. in applied mathematics in 1955 and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and science in 1961. He also held a Fulbright scholarship in Germany from 1958 to 1960.",
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            "name": "Corrado Teneggi dead at age 90, Lecce, Como",
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            "description": "Corrado Teneggi died on May 17, 2026. He was an Italian footballer who played for Savona, Lecce and Como. Born on March 13, 1936, in Teano, he died in Savona.",
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            "name": "Anton Švajlen dead at age 88, Slovak footballer, Olympic silver medalist",
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            "description": "Anton Švajlen, a Slovak footballer and 1964 Olympic silver medalist, died on May 17, 2026, aged 88. A goalkeeper for VSS Košice, he made 336 appearances in the Czechoslovak First League between 1959 and 1975. He competed for Czechoslovakia at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where the team won silver. Švajlen was also known as a penalty taker, scoring 11 league goals in his club career, all from penalties, and adding one in a UEFA Cup match against Spartak Moscow.",
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            "name": "M. J. K. Smith dead at age 92, English cricketer",
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            "description": "M. J. K. Smith, the English cricketer who played for Leicestershire, Warwickshire and England, died on May 17, 2026, aged 92. Born Michael John Knight Smith on 30 June 1933 in Westcotes, Leicestershire, he was educated at Stamford School and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read geography. He played for Leicestershire from 1951 to 1955 and for Warwickshire from 1956 to 1975, captaining the county side from 1957 to 1967. Smith appeared in 50 Tests for England and captained the team in 25 of them.",
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            "name": "Max Samper dead at age 87, French footballer",
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            "age": 87,
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            "description": "Max Samper died on May 17, 2026. He was a French footballer who played for RC Paris, Angoulême and the national team. His death was announced in obituary notices without further detail.",
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            "name": "Cho Il-hyeon dead at age 70, South Korean politician, MP",
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            "age": 70,
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            "description": "Cho Il-hyeon, a South Korean politician and former member of the National Assembly, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 70. Born on July 15, 1955, in Hongcheon County, South Korea, he served as an MP from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2004 to 2008. He was associated with the Unification National Party and the Uri Party.",
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            "name": "Gérard Revol dead at age 89, French politician, deputy, mayor of Bagnols-sur-Cèze",
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            "description": "Gérard Revol, French politician and former mayor of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, died on May 17, 2026, aged 89. A member of the Socialist Party, he served as mayor of Bagnols-sur-Cèze from 1995 to 2001 and as a deputy in the National Assembly from 1997 to 2002. Born on April 9, 1937, in Fontaine, France, Revol was also an engineer.",
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            "name": "Totó la Momposina dead at age 85, Colombian singer",
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