DIED
John Pinette, 50, stand-up comic who often performed on The Tonight Show and The View, cracking jokes about his weight, and made a memorable cameo in the series finale of Seinfeld in 1998.
DIED
Chuck Stone, 89, longtime columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News whose broadsides against racism and police brutality inspired criminal suspects to turn themselves in to him rather than to the police.
DOOMED
Beloved comic-book character Archie Andrews; in the July 16 issue of Life With Archie, a series that explores his future, he will die saving a friend. He will continue to appear in comic-book stories about “the present.”
DIED
Peaches Geldof, 25, British television presenter, model and daughter of rock musician and philanthropist Bob Geldof. The cause of death was unknown at press time.
DIED
Curtis Bill Pepper, 96, prolific reporter and author who traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East covering topics from the Vatican to King Hussein of Jordan and Laurence Olivier.
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