AP - Car-building legend Boyd Coddington, whose testosterone-injected cable TV reality show “American Hot Rod” introduced the nation to the West Coast hot rod guru, has died. He was 63.
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AP - Former Israeli military chief Dan Shomron, the paratrooper who commanded the famed 1976 hostage rescue at Entebbe airport in Uganda, died Tuesday from the effects of a stroke. He was 70.
AP - Tian Bao, who was one of the first Tibetans to embrace communism and join Mao Zedong’s revolutionary army, has died, Chinese state television reported Tuesday. He was 92.
AP - Dennis Letts, a retired university professor and actor who made his Broadway debut this season in his son’s acclaimed production of “August: Osage County,” has died of cancer. He was 73.
AP - Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97.
AFP - Former Slovenian president and long-time prime minister Janez Drnovsek, who had been suffering from cancer, died overnight at his home on the outskirts of Ljubljana, his office said Saturday.
AP - Former President Janez Drnovsek, who helped lead Slovenia to independence from Yugoslavia and later enthralled many of his countrymen by adopting a New Age lifestyle, died Saturday, his office said. He was 57.
AP - Evan Mecham, a firebrand conservative who served 15 months as Arizona’s governor before a dramatic impeachment trial removed him from office in 1988, has died, his son said Friday. He was 83.
AP - Robin Moore, a nonfiction author best known for writing “The French Connection” and “The Green Berets,” has died after a long illness. He was 82.