What the critic Pauline Kael once described as Mr. Edwards’s “love of free-for-all lunacy” was flaunted in good movies and bad ones: in commercial successes like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961) and “The Pink Panther” (1963), the first of a series of films starring Peter Sellers as a bumbling French policeman, and in box-office disasters like the musical spy extravaganza “Darling Lili” (1970), staring his wife, Julie Andrews, and his slapstick tribute to silent-film comedy, “The Great Race” (1965), starring Jack Lemmon as a black-suited villain and Tony Curtis as a white-suited hero.
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MacKenzie Miller, 89, who trained 1993 Kentucky Derby winner Sea Hero, of complications of a stroke
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Football player and broadcaster Don Meredith, 72, of a brain hemorrhage.
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Convicted killer John E. DuPont, 72, a DuPont heir who made headlines when he killed a champion wrestler, was found dead in his cell of undisclosed causes:
John Eleuthère du Pont was born Nov. 22, 1938, in Philadelphia and lived a lavish and eccentric lifestyle. He built the Delaware Museum of Natural History to house his renowned collections of 66,000 birds and two million seashells. And on his rolling 800-acre estate, he built a $600,000 training center for pentathletes, swimmers and wrestlers, who competed under his sponsorship as Team Foxcatcher._____
On occasion, Mr. du Pont ferried athletes to competitions in his helicopter. But his behavior changed from unconventional to troubling over the years, athletes who had trained with him said at the time of the shooting.
Mike Gostigian, a former Olympic pentathlete who knew him from childhood, said in 1996 that Mr. du Pont’s personality seemed to grow more erratic after three incidents in the 1980s: an automobile accident that curbed his vigorous life as a sportsman, a brief marriage that failed and the death of his mother, Jean Austin du Pont.
Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller, 92, following treatment for pneumonia. He also suffered from leukemia.
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