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AP - Gordon Bradley

AP - Henry Brant, an avant-garde composer whose works placed dozens and sometimes hundreds of musicians throughout a concert hall — and sometimes throughout an entire city — has died. He was 94.

AP - 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.

AP - Bo Yang

AP - Taiwanese essayist Bo Yang, who infuriated both Nationalist and Communist authorities with his tart critiques of abusive leaders and antidemocratic behavior, died Tuesday of lung disease in Taipei. He was 88.

AP - Yossi Harel, the ship commander whose attempt to bring Holocaust survivors to Palestine aboard the Exodus 1947 built support for Israel’s founding, died on Saturday. He was 90.

AP - Comedian Kenneth Keith Kallenbach, a long-running member of Howard Stern’s “Wack Pack,” has died after falling ill in jail. He was 39.

AP - Al Wilson, the soul singer and songwriter who had a number of 1970s hits including “Show and Tell,” has died. He was 68.

AP - Rosalie Ritz, a premier courtroom artist who for four decades chronicled dozens of high-drama trials, including those of Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson, has died. She was 84.

AP - Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, a Colombian prelate who helped lead the Vatican’s campaign against abortion and insisted condoms do not prevent HIV transmission, has died, one of his assistants said Sunday. He was 72.