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Emily Langer

Emily Langer

Obituary Writer and Reporter at The Washington Post

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  • Commerce
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Patricia Broderick, former D.C. Superior Court judge, dies at 75

Paralyzed in a car accident during college, she overcame her disability to become a Justice Department lawyer and serve for more than two decades on the bench.
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George Annas, ethicist and advocate for patients’ rights, dies at 79

He spent decades at the intersection of medicine, ethics and the law and played a central role in establishing patients’ rights.
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Alice Notley, acclaimed voice in American poetry, dies at 79

Widely regarded as one of the finest living American poets, she was a finalist for a 1999 Pulitzer Prize.
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Enzo Staiola, child actor at heart of ‘Bicycle Thieves,’ dies at 85

He was 8 years old, with no acting experience, when director Vittorio De Sica cast him in the 1948 film that epitomized Italian neorealism.
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Mara Corday, Hollywood starlet of the 1950s, dies at 95

She ran from killer spiders and scorpions in sci-fi thrillers, then made a career comeback as a supporting actress opposite Clint Eastwood.
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Leslie Epstein, novelist who delved into Holocaust history, dies at 87

He mined the past in novels including “King of the Jews,” an acclaimed if divisive work about moral complexities in the Nazi ghettos.
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Presley Chweneyagae, acclaimed actor of ‘Tsotsi,’ dies at 40

The slum-set drama “Tsotsi” (2005) garnered South Africa’s first Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
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Ed Smylie, engineer who helped save Apollo 13 crew, dies at 95

He and his NASA colleagues were credited with jury-rigging a carbon dioxide filter that allowed the astronauts to breathe as they made their way back to Earth.
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Joe Don Baker, tough guy actor in ‘Walking Tall,’ dies at 89

The strapping Texan appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, delivering his most memorable performance as the crime-busting sheriff Buford Pusser.
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Robert Shapiro, top executive at NutraSweet and Monsanto, dies at 86

He helped make NutraSweet a popular nonsugar sweetener and later promoted genetically modified crops as chief of Monsanto.
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Margot Friedländer, keeper of Holocaust memory in Germany, dies at 103

After half a century in the United States, she returned to live in her native Berlin and became one of Germany’s most prominent survivors of the Holocaust.