National Obituaries

* * Yesenia Garcia left, and Jeniffer Arzuaga, cousins of Francheska Velez, react to her death in Chicago, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Velez, of Chicago, is one of the victims of a shooting rampage by an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood, Texas.

13 dead in dual attacks at Fort Hood, TX

Thirteen people were killed and dozens wounded in a pair of shootings Thursday at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, the Army says.

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May all military families that suffered a loss find strength in God's arms
- DC

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Claude Levi-Strauss seen in this Jan. 13, 1967 file photo. The Academie Francaise said Tuesday Nov 3 2009 that Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, had died. He was 100.

Father of modern anthropology dies at 100

Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.

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good luck
- guest

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Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala is seen during an interview with The Associated Press, in Madrid, Thursday March 9, 2006.

Spanish intellectual dies at 103

Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile.

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Scientist Qian Xuesen shown in Beijing, China, in 1957. He died on Oct. 31 at the age of 98.

Trained in U.S., Scientist Became China's...

Known in China as the "Father of Chinese Aerospace" or simply the "Rocket King," Qian Xuesen helped launch his native country's missile program.

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In this Nov. 17, 1966 file photo, Soupy Sales rehearses for his Broadway debut in "Come Live With Me", in New York. Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died.

Comedian, actor and TV personality dies

Soupy Sales, the comedian known for his long-running children's program, "Lunch with Soupy Sales" has died at 83

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As a child growing up in the 60's in Brooklyn, Soupy was THE MAN. No one was funnier, no one was cooler. I had occasion to meet Soupy back in the early 80's back stage at one of his shows and he...
- Steve Lind

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Australian TV star dies at 75

Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," has died.

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Don was great he made me laugh his shows were great! I feel a huge loss..
- leo di rocco

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This Nov. 29, 1972 file photo shows Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau writer Jack Nelson. An associate of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jack Nelson said Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 that he died Wednesday morning at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 80.