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Country music superstar Eddy Arnold dies at 89
May 8, 2008

Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like "Make the World Go Away" made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his 90th birthday.
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Edward Lorenz dies aged 90
April 24, 2008

Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist who tried to explain why it is so hard to make good weather forecasts and wound up unleashing a scientific revolution called chaos theory, died April 16 of cancer at his home in Cambridge. He was 90.
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Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90
March 18, 2008

He wrote more than 100 books on space, science and the future, and co-authored "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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Dungeons & Dragons co-creator dies at 69
March 4, 2008

MILWAUKEE - Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
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$3 Million Record Collection Sold On E-Bay (Almost)
February 24, 2008

A Pennsylvania man says he can now retire because someone bought his massive record collection on eBay for the asking price -- $3 million.
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Writer of "Hot Rod Lincoln" passes on.
February 19, 2008

Charles Ryan, the Spokane man who co-wrote the hit song "Hot Rod Lincoln," has died at the age of 92.


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LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann dies at 102
April 30, 2008

Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.
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Singer/Songwriter Paul Davis Dead At 60
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Paul Davis, a singer and songwriter whose soft rock hit "I Go Crazy" stayed at the top of the charts for weeks after its release in 1977, has died at a Mississippi hospital.

Davis died Tuesday at Rush Foundation Hospital in Meridian, the city where he grew up and returned to years later. He died of a heart attack, said his cousin James Edwards of Nashville. Davis was 60.
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The author of "Gneiss" and "The Richter Scale" died at the age of 90.
March 16, 2008

March 16, 2008
J. Kent Clark, a longtime Caltech English literature professor, biographer and novelist whose musical comedies for and about the Pasadena campus helped prize-winning scientists and studious undergraduates take a lighthearted view of their follies and foibles, has died. He was 90.
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Hendrix Drummer/California Raisin Voice Dies
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Buddy Miles, who co-founded and played drums in Band Of Gypsys with Jimi Hendrix, passed away February 26 in Austin, Texas, at the age of 60. A cause of death has yet to be announced.
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How to Become a Rock Star
February 19, 2008

By KEVIN SITES, SUN FEB 17, 1:12 PM PST


If Jonathan Coulton were to write a song about his own success as a rock star, there would be little mention of the booze, drugs, one-night stands and lonely road laments that typically play out the power chord mix of mythic guitar heroes and music idols.
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