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FILE -- In this Oct. 19, 2009, file photo foremr Botswana President Ketumile Masire at a news conference in London. Authorities in Botswana say Masire died Thursday, June 22 , 2017 at the age of 91 in the country's capital Gabarone after an illness. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Former Botswana President Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostJune 24, 2017

William J.L. Sladen, Scientific Adventurer, Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostJune 4, 2017

Singer Who Overcame Discrimination Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostMay 27, 2017

Paralyzed ‘Informed Consent’ Plaintiff in Key Case Dies at 78

by Emily Langer The Washington PostMay 20, 2017

Stanley Weston, Helped Create G.I. Joe, Dies at 84

by Emily Langer The Washington PostMay 13, 2017

In this 1967 publicity photo made available by ABC News shows television producer, Anne Morrissy Merick. Morrisy Merick fought to give female reporters equal access to cover the Vietnam War. ABC assigned Morrisy Merick to the war in 1967. She died at age 83 on May 2, 2017, in Naples, Florida. (ABC News via AP)

Anne Morrissy Merick, Trailblazing Journalist, Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostMay 13, 2017

This 1975 image released by William Morrow shows author Robert M. Pirsig working on a motorcycle. Pirsig, whose novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" became a million-selling classic after more than 100 publishers turned it down, died at his home in South Benwick, Maine on Monday, April 24, 2017. He was 88. (William Morrow via AP)

Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostApril 29, 2017

‘Parachute’ Author Richard Bolles, 90, Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostApril 9, 2017

CORRECTS DATE OF PHOTO TO JUNE 7, 1967, INSTEAD OF JUNE 8, 1967 - In this June 7, 1967, file photo taken by David Rubinger and provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli soldiers take their first look at the Jewish religion's holiest place, the Wailing Wall in the old city of Jerusalem after it was captured from Jordan during the Israel-Arab war. Rubinger, a long time photojournalist for TIME-LIFE magazine, has died at the age of 92. His most famous photo was of the paratroopers after Israeli forces captured the Western Wall and east Jerusalem. Rubinger was born in Vienna in 1924 and immigrated to Palestine in 1939. He discovered photography while serving in the British army's Jewish Brigade in World War II. He was awarded Israel's highest honor, the Israel Prize, in 1997. (David Rubinger/Courtesy of Government Press Office via AP, File)

David Rubinger, Israeli Photographer, Was 92

by Emily Langer The Washington PostMarch 4, 2017

This 2014 image released by Fox News shows radio and television host Alan Colmes. Colmes, best known as the amiable liberal foil to the hard-right Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, died Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, after a brief illness. He was 66. (Fox News via AP)

Alan Colmes, Liberal in the ‘Lion’s Den’ of Fox News, Dies at 66

by Emily Langer The Washington PostFebruary 26, 2017