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Don Everly whose pioneering, harmonizing rock sound with his younger brother Phil, led to more than a dozen hit songs as the Everly Brothers has died. He was 84. FILE PHOTO: Don Everly whose pioneering, harmonizing rock sound with his younger brother Phil, led to more than a dozen hit songs as the Everly Brothers has died. He was 84. This photo taken in 1983 of The Everly Brothers, aka Don Everly and Phil Everly in London. (D. Morrison/Getty Images)

Charlie Robinson dead at 75 Actor Charlie Robinson accepts his award for ‘Lead Actor in a Play’ at the 2006 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards at the Orpheum Theatre on Nov. 13, 2006, in Los Angeles, California. The veteran stage and screen actor, best known for his role as Mac on the sitcom “Night Court,” died Sunday, July 11, 2021, at the age of 75. (Photo by Ryan Miller/Getty Images) (Ryan Miller/Getty Images)

Donald Rumsfeld FILE PHOTO: Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attends a wreath laying ceremony with former President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Mark Esper on the grounds of the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in observance of the 18th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Rumsfeld's family announced Wednesday that the former Secretary of Defense had died at the age of 88. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Geno Hayes dead at 33 Former NFL linebacker and Florida State University standout Geno Hayes died Monday, April 26, 2021, at the age of 33, four days after being placed on hospice care at his parents’ home in Georgia for end-stage liver disease. Hayes is pictured here in an undated photo before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers took on the Chicago Bears at London’s Wembley Stadium. (Andrew Matthews - EMPICS/PA Images via Getty Images)

Sarah Obama In this Feb. 6, 2008, file photo, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of then U.S. President Barack Obama, sits in the backyard of her house in the village of Kogelo, near the shores of Lake Victoria, in Kenya. Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama's Kenyan family, has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday, March 29, 2021, but did not disclose the cause of death. She was at least 99 years old. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Hilton Valentine, guitarist for ‘The Animals’ dead at 77 FILE PHOTO: Hilton Valentine guitarist for British rock and roll band, The Animals, has died. He was 77. The photo shows the English rock band when they reformed in 1983 for a world tour. Clockwise from back left, is bassist Chas Chandler, guitarist Hilton Valentine, drummer John Steel, keyboard player Alan Price and singer Eric Burdon. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Keystone/Getty Images)

Sheldon Adelson FILE - This Feb. 10, 2017 file photo, Chief Executive of Las Vegas Sands Corporation Sheldon Adelson shows at a business roundtable with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. Adelson, the billionaire mogul and power broker who built a casino empire spanning from Las Vegas to China and became a singular force in domestic and international politics has died after a long illness, his wife said Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Nancy Bush Ellis FILE PHOTO: This Jan. 7, 1990, file photo shows President George H. W. Bush hiding behind his sister, Nancy Ellis, as he prepares for a jog along the C&O canal in the Georgetown section of Washington. A longtime Democrat who helped her Republican brother and nephew get elected president, died of complications of the coronavirus Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at an assisted living facility in Concord, Massachusetts. She was 94. (Marcy Nighswander/AP)

January 02, 2021 at 3:33 pm EST

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