Photos: Notable deaths 2019

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Ginger Baker, legendary drummer and Cream co-founder, dead at 80

Paula Deen's brother, Bubba Hiers, dead at 65

Novelist Toni Morrison is presented with a Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama during an East Room event May 29, 2012 at the White House. Morrison has died at the age of 88.

Russell Smith of The Amazing Rhythm Aces performs in London in 1998. Smith died of cancer at age 70 on July 12, 2019.

Former presidential candidate Ross Perot

Geto Boys rapper Bushwick Bill dead at 52

After 7 singer Melvin Edmonds, brother of Babyface, dead at 65

Julia Ruth Stevens, Babe Ruth's daughter, dead at 102

The Prodigy’s Keith Flint found dead in his home

Glen Wood, co-founder of NASCAR's legendary Wood Brothers Racing, dies at 93

Nordstrom co-president Blake Nordstrom dies at 58

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Jack Sheldon, March of Jazz, Florida, 2000. Artist Brian Foskett. (Photo by National Jazz Archive/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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