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Terry Melcher, surfin’-era singer, songwriter and recording executive who produced the Byrds’ No. 1 hits “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” and co-wrote the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo,” has died. He was 62. Melcher, who also worked on several projects with his mother, actress and singer Doris Day, died of cancer Friday night in his Beverly Hills home, publicist Linda Dozoretz said Saturday.

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Jasper Herbert Kane, 101, a biochemist who suggested that antibiotics could be made in mass quantities rather than dose by dose, died Tuesday in Boca Raton, Fla., of natural causes associated with aging. Born in Brooklyn, Kane by age 16 was working at its Chas. Pfizer & Co. plant, which then manufactured chemicals for the food and drink industry. He studied nights at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic University) and graduated in 1928.

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Thomas Dibblee Jr., 93, prominent field geologist who mapped nearly a quarter of California, died Wednesday at his Santa Barbara home of unspecified causes. Educated at Stanford University, Dibblee mapped areas for oil companies, the U.S. Geological Survey, UC Santa Barbara and himself. In 1953, he and a friend, Mason T. Hill, co-wrote a key study suggesting a more-than-350-mile displacement of land along the San Andreas fault over time. Their paper became a fundamental part of research on plate tectonics.

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Cy Coleman, the Tony Award-winning composer of such Broadway shows as “Sweet Charity,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “City of Angels,” who also wrote some of the most enduring songs in pop music, including “Witchcraft” and “The Best Is Yet to Come,” died Thursday night. He was 75. Coleman and his wife, Shelby, had attended the opening-night performance on Broadway of the Michael Frayn play “Democracy” and were at a party after the performance when Coleman said he was feeling ill. He went to New York Hospital, where he collapsed and died of heart failure, according to John Barlow, his publicist.

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Nuclear physicist Robert Bacher, a central figure behind the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II and the first provost of Caltech, died of natural causes Thursday at a retirement community in Montecito. He was 99. Bacher was one of hundreds of young scientists recruited to Los Alamos, N.M., for the Manhattan Project to build the bomb. He was pulled away from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943, where he had been conducting radar research, another crucial wartime effort.

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Joseph Weiss, 80, a San Francisco psychoanalyst whose research and theory deepened the understanding of how people change through psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, died Nov. 7 at his home of complications from lung cancer. Weiss’ interest in the psychoanalytic process began when he noticed that his mother cried at happy endings of movies instead of during the movie when painful situations were unfolding.

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Richard Alan Simmons, 80, a writer and producer from the early days of television, died Nov. 13 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The cause of death was not announced, but he had been in failing health for some time. Simmons was best-known for his Emmy-nominated teleplay “The Price of Tomatoes,” which ran on actor Dick Powell’s dramatic anthology series in the early 1960s.

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Alexander Ragulin, 63, a defenseman on the Soviet hockey teams of the 1960s and 1970s and a three-time Olympic champion, died Wednesday in Russia. The cause of death was not reported. Ragulin and his brothers, twins Mikhail and Anatoly, were leading figures in Soviet hockey for several decades.

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Robert “Bob” Barker, a longtime Orange County journalist who covered the Huntington Beach city beat for nearly three decades, died Thursday after a 16-month fight with brain cancer. He was 73. “The reason we opened the paper was to see what Bob had written,” said City Councilwoman Debbie Cook. “He was the soul of Huntington Beach.”
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Adam Young, who helped found one of the nation’s 25 largest television station groups, died Monday in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 91.He had a stroke, Young Broadcasting Inc. said.