AP - Gilberto Rincon Gallardo, a former socialist presidential candidate who gained respect in Mexico for defending the rights of the disabled, gays and other marginalized groups, died on Saturday. He was 69.
AP - Hazel Warp, who was Vivien Leigh’s stunt double in “Gone With the Wind,” has died. She was 93.
AP - Barbara Warren, one of the world’s elite endurance athletes in her age group and one-half of a well-known pair of triathlete twins, has died after breaking her neck in a bike crash at the Santa Barbara Triathlon. She was 65.
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AP - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California’s same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.
AP - Abie Nathan, the peace activist who made a dramatic solo flight to Egypt in a rattletrap single-engine plane and later founded the groundbreaking “Voice of Peace” radio station, died Wednesday. He was 81.
AP - Dave Freeman, co-author of “100 Things to Do Before You Die,” a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47.
AP - Fred Crane, the one-time actor whose Southern accent won him a slot as one of Scarlett O’Hara’s beaux and the opening line in “Gone With the Wind,” has died.
AP - Lieutenant Colonel Howard Lee Baugh, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, has died.
AFP - Gene Upshaw, an 11-time all-star before going on to become executive director of the NFL’s Players Association, died of cancer on Thursday. He was 63.