Actor Gary Coleman died at the age of 42  after suffering a brain hemorrhage Wednesday May 27.

Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was best known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in the American sitcom A Diff’rent Stroked.

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Broadway legend Lena Horne dies at age 92.

Lena Horne epitomized hot and she epitomized cool.

As an actress, she might be the most elegant vision that much of America never saw. For many years Hollywood didn’t think the country was ready for a black leading lady, even one whose elegance and beauty could take an audience’s breath away.

As a singer, she was in her mid-60s before her one-woman tour de force on Broadway in 1981-82 showed everyone in the city and the world just what she could do with a song.

Horne, who died Sunday in New York Presbyterian Hospital at the age of 92, lit up the sky from the moment in 1932 when she took her first steps in the Cotton Club chorus line. The sky just had a lot of clouds in it for a lot of years.

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Guru, the influential rapper known for his conscious and intellectual themes, his monotone delivery, and his combination of jazz sounds with hip-hop beats, has died after battling cancer, collaborators said. He was 43.

The world has lost “one of the best MCs and hip-hop icons of all time,” according to a statement from Solar, Guru’s producer. It was posted on the Web site of DJ Premier, who with Guru made up the rap duo Gang Starr. The site said Guru died Monday.

Guru worked with top musicians including Herbie Hancock, Isaac Hayes, Chaka Kahn, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Common, Jamiroquai, Macy Gray and Damian Marley.

—LA Times

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