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Now playing Next USA Guitar legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer, his family announces "My father, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, has lost his long and arduous battle with cancer this morning," Wolf Van Halen wrote on Twitter. 06/10/2020
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Now playing Next USA 'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer Actor Chadwick Boseman dies following a four year battle with Colon Cancer at home surrounded by his family. 29/08/2020
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Now playing Next USA John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80 Tributes have been pouring in for Lewis, the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that had the greatest impact on the civil rights movement 18/07/2020
Now playing Next USA Christo, artist who wrapped world's landmarks, dies at 84 Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, famously cloaked Berlin's Reichstag, Paris's Pont Neuf and Australia's Little Bay in reams of fabric. 01/06/2020
Now playing Next USA Playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer dies aged 84 “The one nice thing that I seem to have acquired, accidentally, is this reputation of everyone afraid of my voice,” Kramer once said. 28/05/2020
Now playing Next world news Motor racing legend Stirling Moss dies aged 90 Stirling Moss, who was considered the greatest Formula One driver never to win the world championship, has died. 12/04/2020
Now playing Next Poland Grammy award-winning Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86 Polish culture "has suffered a great and irreparable loss", the country's culture minister said on Sunday. 29/03/2020
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Now playing Next USA Singer, actor, 'The Gambler': Kenny Rogers dies at 81 Actor-singer Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop died at home of natural causes. 21/03/2020
