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Willie Mays, one of the greatest baseball players in the history of Major League Baseball, passed away in the Bay Area of California on June 18, 2024, at the age of 93. His death marks the end of an era for baseball fans who revered him not only for his prodigious talent on the field but also for...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, died Dec. 1 in Phoenix. O’Connor, who was 93, died due to complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, according to the court, per a Washington Post report. O...

Daniel Ellsberg, American political activist and former U.S. military analyst, died Friday, June 16, 2023, at home in Kensington, California. He was 92. Ellsberg gained prominence for his involvement in the release of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of U.S. government decision-making during...

Queen Elizabeth II, who served as the head of the British monarchy and royal family for 70 years, died peacefully Thursday at Balmoral in Scotland. She was 96. The Queen was respected by the citizens of the U.K. and the 14 British Commonwealths and leaves a defining legacy that captured the...

Influential billionaire investor Julian Robertson, who founded Tiger Management and mentored generations of hedge fund managers known as "Tiger Cubs," has died. He was 90. According to a Bloomberg report, citing Robertson's longtime spokesperson Fraser Seitel,...