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In this Dec. 11, 1951, photo, Dick Kazmaier of Princeton University shows off his Heisman Trophy. Kazmaier has died at 82.  (John Rooney / Associated Press)

Allan Arbus, in 2000, at the Laguna Playhouse, where he was playing the lead role in Arthur Miller’s “The Price.”   (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

For decades, Lo Hsing Han was considered one of the world’s biggest traffickers of heroin. Here, he attends the inauguration ceremony of Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2007.  (Khin Maung Win / Associated Press)

Jeanne Cooper won an Emmy in 2008 for best actress in a drama series. She played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless.”  (Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)

Ann B. Davis (1926-2014) -- The Emmy-winning actress played the housekeeper Alice on the “The Brady Bunch.”  (ABC Photo Archives / ABC via Getty Images)

Author Allan Folsom on a book tour in Paris in 2005. None of his novels was ever filmed -- a great disappointment to him, his wife said.  (Ulf Andersen / Getty Images)

Actress Phyllis Frelich starred on Broadway in “Children of a Lesser God,” for which she won a Tony in 1980. After a long illness, Frelich has died at 70.  (Justin Walters / Associated Press)

Sandy Grossman (1935-2014) -- The television sports director oversaw broadcasts of a record 10 Super Bowls.  (Roman Iwasiwka / Associated Press)

William “Wild Bill” Guarnere participates in the Veterans Day parade in Media, Pa., in 2004. Guarnere was one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries “Band of Brothers.”  (Jacqueline Larma / Associated Press)

Lucy Hood (1957-2014) -- President and chief operating officer of the Television Academy.  (Christopher Polk / Getty Images)

Casey Kasem (1932-2014) -- Los Angeles-based disc jockey pioneered the nationally syndicated countdown-style show in 1970 with “American Top 40.”  (Eric Jamison / Associated Press)

Jim Lange (1932-2014) -- The original and best-known host of “The Dating Game,” with a contestant.  (ABC Photo Archives / ABC via Getty Images)

Kate O’Mara (1939-2014) -- British actress best known as Joan Collins’ TV sister in the 1980s prime-time soap “Dynasty.”   (Gary Stone / Getty Images)

Ted Post in 1996.   (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) -- The Tony Award-winning actress also portrayed Alec Baldwin’s mother in the NBC sitcom “30 Rock.”  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Meshach Taylor (1947-2014) -- Best know for his role as ex-con deliveryman Anthony Bouvier in the hit 1980s sitcom “Desiging Women.”  (Nick Ut / Associated Press)

Garrick Utley (1939-2014) -- A versatile network television journalist.  (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)