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Actress-singer Elaine Stritch, who died on July 17 at age 89 in Birmingham, Mich., wasn't the sort who would go gentle into that good night - or any night, for that matter. The gravel-voiced Broadway diva, who made her career playing what the New York Times once called "brash and bawdy characters,"…

Even if you didn't know Bobby Womack by name, you probably dug some of his songs that helped make other performers into stars.