November 25, 2010 @ 20:44
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Ingrid Pitt, who survived a Nazi concentration camp and dodged Communist police to become one of Britain's best-known horror stars, died Tuesday, her daughter said. She was 73.
Steffanie Pitt said her mother collapsed while on her way to a birthday dinner due to be held in her honor over the weekend. The cause of death wasn't known, although Steffanie Pitt said her mother had recently been in poor health.
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Pitt is survived by her second husband, her daughter Steffanie, and a granddaughter. Funeral arrangements were still being worked out Tuesday.
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David Nolan, whose opposition to the Vietnam War and President Richard M. Nixon’s wage and price controls impelled him in 1971 to join with a few friends to found the Libertarian Party to fight against government power, died Sunday in Tucson. He was 66.
Mark Hinkle, chairman of the party’s national committee, said Mr. Nolan appeared to have had a heart attack or stroke while driving his car. He lived in Tucson.
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He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth.
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Hugh Prather, a self-help author whose first book, “Notes to Myself,” put an aphoristic finger on the pulse of the ’70s, has sold more than five million copies and inspired the long-running “Saturday Night Live” segment “Deep Thoughts,” died on Nov. 15 at his home in Tucson. He was 72.
Mr. Prather died in his hot tub, apparently of a heart attack, his wife, Gayle, said.
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Besides his wife, the former Gayle Halligan, whom he married in 1965, he is survived by their sons, John and Jordan; a son from his first marriage, Scott; two half-siblings, Alan Prather and Joan Prather; a stepbrother, Jeffrey Prather; and a grandchild.
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Norris Church Mailer, an actress, model, author and painter who enjoyed and endured the ride of her life as the sixth and final wife of Norman Mailer, died at her home in Brooklyn on Sunday. She was 61.
Her death was announced on the website of the Norman Mailer Society, which in a statement said she passed away "after a long and valiant struggle with cancer."
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