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OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESS PATRICIA NEAL DIES

CAUSE OF DEATH: LUNG CANCER

Patricia Neal (January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen. She won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in the drama Hud (1963).

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SING ALONG CONDUCTOR MITCH MILLER DIES

Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive. One of the most influential figures in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of Artists and Repertoire at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist, he is sometimes thought of as the creator of what would become karaoke with his NBC-TV series, Sing Along with Mitch. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in the early 1930s, Miller began his musical career as an accomplished player of the oboe and English horn, and recorded several highly regarded classical albums featuring his instrumental work, but he is best remembered as a conductor, choral director, television performer and recording executive.

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SINGER OF 1966 HIT SONG ‘SUNNY’, BOBBY HEBB DIES

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Bobby Hebb (born Robert Von Hebb, July 26, 1938, Nashville, Tennessee - died August 3, 2010) was an African American singer and songwriter, best known for his writing and recording of "Sunny".

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RAIDERS ‘ASSASSIN’ JACK TATUM DIES

CAUSE OF DEATH: HEART ATTACK

John David Tatum (November 18, 1948 - July 27, 2010) was a former American football defensive back who played ten seasons from 1971 through 1980 for the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers in the National Football League. He was popularly known as "The Assassin." He was voted to three Pro Bowls (1973-1975) and was a member of one Super Bowl winning team in his nine seasons with the Raiders.

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ACTOR MAURY CHAYKIN DIES AT 61

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CONDUCTOR SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS DIES

CAUSE OF DEATH: CANCER

Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE (pronounced /m??k?r?s/; 17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janá?ek and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

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