• Source: Deaths in December 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.




December 2005






= 1

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Gust Avrakotos, 67, American CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan, stroke.
Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.
Béla Berger, 74, Hungarian-Australian chess master.
Hermann Buchner, 86, German World War II flying ace.
Jack Colvin, 73, American actor, (The Incredible Hulk), coronary thrombosis.
Michael Evans, 61, American White House photographer, cancer.
Ray Hanna, 77, New Zealand-English pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company.
Karin Himboldt, 85, German film actress.
Michael Kehlmann, 78, Austrian theatre and television film director, screenwriter and actor.
Victor Premasagar, 78, Indian theologian and Bishop of Medak (1983–1992).
Eddie Schroeder, 94, American speed skater.




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Nikolai Artemov, 97, Soviet and Russian physiologist.
Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer.
Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
Malik Joyeux, 25, French professional surfer, drowned.
William P. Lawrence, 75, American U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound.
Leonard Lewis, 78, British television director and producer.
Peter Menegazzo, 61, Australian cattle baron, plane crash.
Tom Miller, 87, American gridiron football player.
Jaime Morón, 55, Colombian football player.
Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian convicted of drug trafficking, execution by hanging.
Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, 67, Iraqi politician, former prime minister under Saddam Hussein.




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Frederick Ashworth, 93, American naval officer, weaponeer who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead, 73, British aristocrat and politician.
Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma.
Lance Dossor, 90, Australian pianist.
Peter E. Haas, 86, American billionaire businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.
Kikka, 41, Finnish pop and schlager singer, heart attack.
Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician, minister of Oil and Energy (1983–1986).
Lupe Madera, 52, Mexican boxer.
Atsuko Tanaka, 74, Japanese avant-garde artist.




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Ted Allbeury, 88, British author of espionage fiction.
Débora Arango, 98, Colombian artist.
Percy Brandt, 83, Swedish actor.
Errol Brathwaite, 81, New Zealand writer.
Alfred Farag, 76, Egyptian playwright.
Gregg Hoffman, 42, American film producer (Saw).
Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer, heart attack.
Jacob Pins, 88, German-Israeli woodcut artist and art collector.




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John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician.
Gerald Smedley Andrews, 101, Canadian frontier teacher, land surveyor, and soldier.
Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.
Gerard Bruggink, 88, Dutch fighter pilot during World War II and recipient of the Military Order of William.
Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer.
Ursula Buckel, 79, German soprano.
Netai Bysack, 84, Indian Olympic cyclist.
Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-Austrian author, heart failure.
Edward L. Masry, 73, American attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes.
Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack.
Ed Murphy, 75, American soccer player.
Harry Pepl, 60, Austrian jazz guitarist and composer.
Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall.
Bob Richardson, 77, American fashion photographer.
Bill Robinson, 71, British rugby league player.
Claude Ambrose Rogers, 85, English mathematician.
Vladimir Toporov, 77, Russian philologist.




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Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France, pneumonia.
Richard Grimsdale, 76, British electrical engineer, built the world's first transistorised computer.
Paul Halla, 74, Austrian footballer.
Peter Hollfelder, 75, German classical pianist.
Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist.
Koba Kurtanidze, 41, Soviet judoka.
Stephen L. Mosko, 57, American composer.
Devan Nair, 82, President of Singapore (1981–1985), dementia.
Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, Polish-born oldest man in the UK at the time of his death.
Danny Williams, 63, South African singer, lung cancer.
William P. Yarborough, 93, American Army officer.




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Lucy d'Abreu, 113, Indian-born oldest person in the UK at the time of her death.
Martine Bercher, 61, American football player.
Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer (Aliens, The Princess Bride, Thelma & Louise), heart attack.
Marvin Braude, 85, American member of Los Angeles City Council.
Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, American politician, South Carolina governor (1987–1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987), heart attack.
Bud Carson, 75, American football player, former NFL head coach, emphysema.
Loomis Dean, 88, American photographer, notably for Life magazine.
Beach Dickerson, 81, American actor.
Thukha, 95, Burmese film director, actor, and film producer.
Eddy Verstraeten, 57, Belgian road bicycle racer.




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John Beale, 72, British virologist.
R. W. Bradford, 58, American writer, publisher of Liberty magazine, kidney cancer.
Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge, pneumonia.
Donald Martino, 74, American composer.
George D. Painter, 91, British biographer.
David S. Saxon, 85, American physicist and educator.
Leo Scheffczyk, 85, German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian.
Roger Shattuck, 82, American writer and critic, prostate cancer.
Jim Simons, 55, American golfer, accidental multiple drug toxicity.
J. N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.
Georgiy Zhzhonov, 90, Russian actor and writer, lung cancer.




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Norman Blundell, 88, Australian cricketer.
Mike Botts, 61, American drummer, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, and Tina Turner, cancer.
Rudolf Meidner, 91, Swedish economist and socialist.
Homer Mensch, 91, American internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.
Eunice Norton, 97, American classical pianist and music promoter.
Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.
György Sándor, 93, Hungarian internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.
Boris Taslitzky, 94, French painter.




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Evgenii Feinberg, 93, Soviet physicist.
Mary Jackson, 95, American schoolteacher and actress (The Waltons, Parenthood), Parkinson's disease.
Eugene McCarthy, 89, American politician, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1959–1971), U.S. Representative (1949–1959), Parkinson's disease.
Jim McIntyre, 78, American basketball player.
Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor (Stir Crazy, Harlem Nights), heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.
Clark G. Reynolds, 65, American naval historian, heart attack.




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Walt Cudzik, 73, American NFL football player for the Boston Patriots.
Maria Kaniewska, 94, Polish actress, screenplay writer, film director.
Norman Leavitt, 92, American film and television actor.
Richard Sandbrook, 59, British environmentalist, cancer.
Hayim Tadmor, 82, Israeli assyriologist and professor.
Max Walters, 85, British botanist and academic.




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Sandipan Chattopadhyay, 72, Indian Bengali writer.
Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australian Roman Catholic archbishop.
Max Mariu, 53, First Maori Catholic bishop.
Robert Newmyer, 49, American film producer (The Santa Clause, Training Day, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), heart attack.
David Pritchard, 86, British chess player and chess writer.
Ramanand Sagar, 87, Indian director, producer, and writer.
Juraj Szikora, 58, Slovak football player.
Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and politician, assassinated by a car bomb.
Gyula Trebitsch, 91, Hungarian-German film producer.
Annette Vadim, 69, Danish actress, cancer.




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John Barraclough, 79, Australian politician.
Roland Guy, 77, British army general.
John Langstaff, 84, American singer and music educator.
Majid Musisi, 38, Ugandan football player, AIDS-related complications.
Dick Nolan, 66, Canadian musician.
Stanley "Tookie" Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, execution by lethal injection.




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Erhard Ahmann, 64, German football manager.
Ruth Amiran, 91, Israeli archaeologist.
Stew Bowers, 90, American baseball player.
Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide.
Rokuro Ishikawa, 80, Japanese businessman (Kajima Corporation).
Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.
Tom Milne, 79, British film critic.
John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.
C. I. Paul, 61, Indian (Malayalam) actor, heart attack.
Trevanian, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian".




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T. K. Balachandran, 77, Indian actor, cancer.
Maurice Beresford, 85, British economic historian and archaeologist.
James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect, Parkinson's disease.
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.
Heinrich Gross, 90, Austrian alleged nazi doctor and war criminal during World War II.
Jiřina Hauková, 86, Czech poet and translator.
Walter Haut, 83, American Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947.
Stan Leonard, 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure.
Julián Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías.
John McIntyre, 89, Scottish theologian.
Akira Ohgi, 70, Japanese baseball player and manager, lung cancer.
Jim Ostendarp, 82, American football coach at Amherst College for 33 years.
Enrico Paoli, 97, Italian international chess master.
William Proxmire, 90, American politician, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957–1989), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Darrell Russell, 29, American former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident.




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Robert L. Baird, 85, American jockey and trainer in thoroughbred horse racing.
Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer, complications of Parkinson's disease.
Boyi Bhimanna, 94, Indian Telugu poet, Parkinson's disease.
Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot).
Aleksandr Mazur, 92, Heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Ukraine.
Joseph Owades, 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer.
Helmut H. Schaefer, 80, German mathematician.
John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing, L.A. Law, The Rock), Emmy winner (2002), heart attack.
Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure.




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Jack Anderson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
Trevor Duncan, 81, English composer.
Mustafa Ertan, 79, Turkish footballer.
Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, cancer.
Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack.
Agnès Guillemot, 74, French film editor.
Yeleazar Meletinsky, 87, Russian scholar and academic.
Emil Ratzenhofer, 91, Austrian Olympic pair skater.
Sverre Stenersen, 79, Norwegian gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Ward Williams, 82, American basketball player.
Tahsin Özgüç, 89, Turkish archaeologist.




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Belita, 82, British Olympic skater and film actress.
Bill Coulthard, 81, Canadian basketball player.
Keith Duckworth, 72, British automotive designer.
Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist.
Howie Ferguson, 75, American gridiron foootballL player.
Rómulo García, 78, Argentine Roman Catholic archbishop.
Barry Halper, 66, American baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees.
N. Sankaran Nair, 80, Indian director of Malayalam movies.
Dmitry Okhotsimsky, 84, Russian engineer in the Soviet space program.
Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal, 86, British politician and peer.
P. M. Sayeed, 64, Indian Minister of Power, heart attack.
Alan Voorhees, 83, American transportation engineer and city planner , stroke.




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Charles Brett, 77, Northern Irish architectural historian.
George Bromilow, 74, British footballer at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Yū Fujiki, 74, Japanese film and television actor.
Vincent Gigante, 77, American Genovese family crime boss, heart disease.
Julio Iglesias Puga, 90, Spanish gynaecologist, heart attack.
Marjorie Kellogg, 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon), Alzheimer's disease.
William Leslie, 80, American film and television actor.
Azra Sherwani, 65, Pakistani actress.




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Alfredo Arango, 60, Colombian international football player.
Louis Biesbrouck, 84, Dutch football player.
Raoul Bott, 82, Hungarian-American mathematician, cancer.
Argentina Brunetti, 98, Argentine actress. (It's a Wonderful Life, The Caddy), writer, journalist.
Theodore Holmes Bullock, 90, American neuroscientist.
Bradford Cannon, 98, American plastic surgeon, pneumonia.
Genrikh Fedosov, 73, Soviet football player.
Lavinia Gianoni, 94, Italian gymnast.
José Roberto Hill, 60, Mexican actor.
William White Howells, 97, American anthropologist.
Billy Hughes, 57, American former child/film actor during the 1960s.
Óscar López, 66, Colombian international football player, diabetes.
Graham Wilson, 66, Australian rugby league player.




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Horace Ellis Crouch, 87, American military aviator, member of the Doolittle Raid.
Myron Healey, 82, American film actor who normally played Western villains.
Elrod Hendricks, 64, U.S. Virgin Islander Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack.
Pericle Martinescu, 94, Romanian writer, journalist and translator.
Traian Stoianovich, 84, American historian and academic.
Hallam Tennyson, 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, suspected victim of murder.
Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, 90, Spanish officer of arms.




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Richard Bellucci, 91, American ear surgeon and inventor.
T. Cooper Evans, 81, American politician, Republican US Representative from Iowa (1981–1987).
Aurora Miranda, 90, Brazilian entertainer and sister of Carmen Miranda, heart attack.
Bill Scott, 82, Australian author.
George Speaight, 91, British art historian, actor and puppeteer.




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Lajos Baróti, 91, Hungarian football coach.
Selma Jeanne Cohen, 85, American dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance, Alzheimer's disease.
Ivar Eskeland, 78, Norwegian philologist, publisher, and radio personality.
Gwynne Blakemore Evans, 93, American Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare, stroke.
Truman Gibson, 93, American anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter.
Harold Hallman, 43, Canadian football player, complications during surgery.
Emmett Leith, 78, American electrical engineer.
Kay Stammers, 91, British tennis player.
Norman D. Vaughan, 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd's 1928 South Pole expedition.
Yao Wenyuan, 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four, diabetes.




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George Gerbner, 86, American professor of communication, cancer.
Georg Johannesen, 74, Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric, drowned.
Constance Keene, 84, American classical pianist.
Harold Lawton, 106, British academic and veteran of World War I.
Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, 80, Indian film actress, director, and singer/songwriter.
Michael Vale, 83, American actor who appeared in over Dunkin' Donuts 1,300 commercials, diabetes.
Wang Daohan, 90, Chinese politician and negotiator during the cross-straits talks.




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Felice Andreasi, 77, Italian actor, Parkinson's disease.
Derek Bailey, 75, English avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease.
Robert Barbers, 61, Filipino politician and senator, heart attack.
Donald Dawson, 97, American lawyer, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman.
John Hayes, 76, British art historian and museum curator.
Henry Kock, 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer.
Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish soprano.
Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot.
Clint Sampson, 44, American football player, car accident.
Sarat Chandra Sinha, 92, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam.
Charles Socarides, 83, American psychiatrist, physician, and author, heart failure.
Roy Stuart, 70, American actor, cancer.




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Mikuláš Athanasov, 75, Czechoslovak wrestler and Olympic medalist.
Bud Blake, 87, American cartoonist] (Tiger).
John Cooke, 68, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
Muriel Costa-Greenspon, 68, American mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years.
Bill DeArango, 84, American jazz guitarist.
Guy Delorme, 76, French actor (The Three Musketeers, Moonraker), lip and oral cavity carcinoma.
John Diebold, 79, American businessman, pioneering American computer engineer.
Ted Ditchburn, 84, English football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, England national football team).
Jules Gérard-Libois, 82, Belgian historian and writer.
John H. Herz, 97, American scholar of international relations and law.
Ernesto Leal, 60, Nicaraguan politician, presidential chief of staff and foreign minister, pneumonia.
Kerry Packer, 68, Australian billionaire publishing-, media- and gaming tycoon, kidney failure.
Viacheslav Platonov, 66, Russian volleyball player and coach.
Vincent Schiavelli, 57, American actor (Ghost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), lung cancer.
Viktor Stepanov, 58, Russian actor, bone cancer.
John Taylor, 80, Canadian football player (St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy and Montreal Alouettes).
Erich Topp, 91, German U-boat commander during World War II.




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Stuart Alexander, 44, American businessman and murderer, pulmonary embolism.
Philip N. Carney, 86, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Xavier Connor, 88, Australian jurist and foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
Hartmut Enke, 53, German musician.
Edith Heath, 94, American studio potter.
Leif Hermansen, 80, Danish Olympic rower.
Dick Klein, 71, American gridiron football player.
Abraham S. Luchins, 91, American Gestalt psychologist.
Dee Pollock, 68, American film and television actor.
Giancarlo Primo, 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat USA and USSR in the 1970s.
Tokuji Wakasa, 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways.




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Bruce Carver, 57, American video game developer, cancer.
Paul Cloyd, 85, American basketball player.
Patrick Cranshaw, 86, American actor (Old School, Best in Show, Herbie: Fully Loaded), pneumonia.
Tage Ekfeldt, 79, Swedish Olympic sprinter.
Marco Guglielmi, 77, Italian actor, screenwriter and author.
Stevo Žigon, 79, Serbian actor and theatre director, heart attack.




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Armand Phillip Bartos, 95, American architect.
Gerda Boyesen, 83, Norwegian psychologist.
Dan Carnevale, 87, American baseball player.
Young-Oak Kim, 86, American military officer during World War II and the Korean War and civic leader, cancer.
Ray Mattox, 78, American politician.
Eileen Nolan, 85, British Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.
Elizabeth Parcells, 54, American operatic coloratura soprano, colorectal cancer.
Cyril Philips, 93, British historian and academic administrator.
Basil William Robinson, 93, British art scholar and author.
Sir Eric Stroud, 81, British paediatrician.
Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, 72, Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop.




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Eddie Barlow, 65, South African cricketer.
Candy Barr, 70, American exotic dancer, pneumonia.
Charles J. Bowles, 83, American physical education expert.
Pasquale Carpino, 69, Italian-born Canadian television chef and operatic singer.
Tory Dent, 47, American poet, essayist and art critic, AIDS-related complications.
Rona Jaffe, 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters), cancer.
Fred "Jock" Smith, 79, Scottish footballer (Hull City, Sheffield United and Millwall).
Bobby Stevens, 98, American baseball player.




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Sanora Babb, 98, American writer.
Harry Clarke, 89, American gridiron football player.
Maurice Dodd, 83, British cartoonist (The Perishers), brain haemorrhage.
Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer.
Fee Malten, 94, German film actress.
John Peel, 101, British gynaecologist.
Erica Reiner, 81, American assyriologist and author.
Carlos Roffé, 62, Argentine film and television actor.
Maclovia Ruiz, 95, American dancer, pneumonia.
Xolilizwe Sigcawu, 79, South African King of the Gcaleka.
Aleksandr Silayev, 77, Russian sprint canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.
Claude Sylvain, 75, French actor and singer.
David Trustram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe, 75, British lawyer.
Phillip Whitehead, 68, British politician and television presenter, MP for Derby North, heart attack.




References






External links


List of December 2005 deaths at IMDb

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