Choreographer Michael Kidd, no kidd himself, has died at the age of 92.
No kidding.
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Top trainer Dale Baird, 72, was killed in traffic accident Sunday.
He wasn't that well known except in the record books because his business was primarily in training claiming horses.
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Jazz piano great Oscar Peterson, 82, has died. He died of kidney failure.
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Frank Capra, Jr., 73, the son of Senior, died of prostate cancer. He never wanted to go into his dad's business but ended up doing it anyway.
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Laura Huxley, widow of Aldous, died the other day at the age of 96.
She didn't just sit around and become a wife of a famous man; she also was his biographer, a violinist, a filmmaker, and many other things.
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