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            "name": "Dale West dead at age 84, Canadian football player",
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            "name": "Henri Barki dead at age 75, Turkish-Canadian social scientist",
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            "name": "Al Hurricane Jr. dead at age 66, American singer-songwriter",
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            "name": "Herb Wilkinson dead at age 102, American basketball player",
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            "name": "George Eastman dead at age 83, Italian actor and screenwriter",
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            "name": "Walt Rock dead at age 84, American professional football player",
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            "name": "Barney Frank dead at age 86, public figure",
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            "name": "B. C. Khanduri dead at age 91, Indian politician, chief minister of Uttarakhand, minister of road transport and highways, and three-time MP",
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            "name": "Veronika Valentová dead at age 52, Czech writer and translator",
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            "name": "Peter Hollingworth dead at age 91, Australian Anglican bishop, archbishop of Brisbane and governor-general",
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            "description": "Peter Hollingworth, the Australian Anglican bishop who served as archbishop of Brisbane from 1989 to 2001 and as governor-general of Australia from 2001 to 2003, died on May 19, 2026, aged 91. Born in Adelaide on April 10, 1935, he was appointed Australia’s governor-general in 2001 and resigned in 2003. He was named Australian of the Year in 1991 and was also an author and recipient of civil and ecclesiastical honours.",
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            "name": "Alan Bradley dead at age 87, Canadian author",
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            "description": "Alan Bradley, the Canadian author best known for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Toronto in 1938, he was a mystery writer known for the Flavia de Luce series, which began with that novel. Bradley grew up in Cobourg with two older sisters and later worked as a radio and television engineer before taking positions in Toronto and at the University of Saskatchewan.",
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            "name": "Gunter Hampel dead at age 88, German jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer",
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            "description": "Gunter Hampel, a German jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Göttingen on Aug. 31, 1937, he was a jazz musician whose work included vibraphone, clarinet, saxophones, piano and flute. He became dedicated to free jazz in the 1960s, developed Birth Records, and worked with Jeanne Lee, John McLaughlin, Muruga Booker, Laurie Allan, Udo Lindenberg, Pierre Courbois, Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, Steve McCall and Perry Robinson.",
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            "name": "Christian Freeling dead at age 79, Dutch game designer and mathematician",
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            "description": "Christian Freeling, a Dutch game designer and mathematician, died on May 19, 2026, in Enschede, Netherlands, at the age of 79. Born in Enschede on February 1, 1947, he was a retired mathematics teacher known for inventing abstract strategy games including Dameo, Grand Chess, Havannah and Hexdame. His designs ranged across different game types, and he also adapted rules for orthogonal board games to the hexagonal grid, creating new versions with altered properties. Freeling considered Dameo, Emergo, Grand Chess, Storisende, Sygo and Symple among his most important games, with Emergo his personal favorite.",
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            "name": "Robert Woodson dead at age 89, American political activist",
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            "description": "Robert Woodson, an American political activist, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Robert Leon Woodson on April 8, 1937, in Philadelphia, he was a civil rights activist, community development leader, author and founder and president of the Woodson Center, a nonprofit research and demonstration organization supporting neighborhood-based initiatives to revitalize low-income communities. In February 2020, he launched the center's 1776 Unites campaign to counter The 1619 Project. Woodson dropped out of high school in 1954 to join the Air Force, later earned his GED, and went on to graduate from Cheyney University in 1962 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1965.",
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            "name": "Robert Irving dead at age 71, Canadian industrial, co-CEO of J.D. Irving, and sport administrator, president of the Moncton Wildcats, cancer",
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            "name": "Jacqui Chan dead at age 91, Trinidadian actress, dancer and singer",
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            "description": "Jacqui Chan, a Trinidadian actress, dancer and singer, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 91. Born Jacqueline Chan in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on July 15, 1934, she was a Chinese-Trinidadian performer who became a principal dancer in the London West End production of The King and I. She later appeared in the London stage production of The World of Suzie Wong and played Gwennie in the film version. Her other screen credits included Cleopatra and Krakatoa, East of Java.",
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            "name": "Mike Purzycki dead at age 80, public figure",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
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            "description": "Mike Purzycki, the former mayor of Wilmington, Delaware, died on May 19, 2026. He was 80–81. Purzycki served as Wilmington’s 56th mayor from 2017 to 2025. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945, he graduated from Seton Hall Preparatory School in 1963 and attended the University of Delaware on a football scholarship. He played football for four years at the university, set every Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens receiving record, and earned a degree in history. He later played briefly for the New York Giants, worked in real estate, attended Delaware Law School at night, was admitted to the Delaware bar and served as an attorney for the Delaware Senate.",
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            "name": "Pierre Sotura dead at age 95, French politician, mayor of L’Île-Saint-Denis, member of the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine",
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            "description": "Pierre Sotura, a French politician and cabinetmaker, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 95. He served as mayor of L'Île-Saint-Denis from 1965 to 1971 and as a member of the General Council of Hauts-de-Seine from 1973 to 2004. Sotura was also a member of the French Communist Party.",
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            "name": "Péter Scherer dead at age 64, Hungarian actor",
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            "name": "Barbara Lenk dead at age 75, public figure",
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            "name": "Wolfgang Steinmayr dead at age 81, Austrian Olympic racing cyclist",
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            "name": "Tito Benady dead at age 95, Gibraltarian historian",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 95,
            "death_date": "2026-05-19",
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            "description": "Tito Benady, a Gibraltarian historian, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 95. Also known as Mesod Benady MBE, he was of Sephardic Jewish descent and specialised in the local and military history of Gibraltar. He was involved in local politics during the 1970s, contesting the 1976 election as an independent and the 1980 election as a candidate of the Party for the Autonomy of Gibraltar, led by Joseph Triay. He supported rapprochement with Spain and was unsuccessful in both elections.",
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            "name": "Heinz-Helmich van Schewick dead at age 85, German politician",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 85,
            "death_date": "2026-05-19",
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        {
            "name": "João Maurício Adeodato dead at age 70, Brazilian jurist and legal philosopher",
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            "verification_status": "reported",
            "sources": [],
            "age": 70,
            "death_date": "2026-05-19",
            "reported_date": "2026-05-19",
            "published_at": "2026-05-19T00:00:00+01:00",
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            "name": "Karl Pischl dead at age 85, Austrian politician",
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            "death_date": "2026-05-19",
            "reported_date": "2026-05-19",
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            "name": "Hieromonk Roman dead at age 71, Russian hieromonk, poet, and singer",
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            "sources": [],
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            "name": "Jacob Cress dead at age 81, American furniture maker",
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            "sources": [],
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            "death_date": "2026-05-19",
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