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Helmut Kohl in 1990.
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Helmut Kohl
Died on June 16, 2017 at age 87
A towering postwar figure, Mr. Kohl reunified Germany after 45 years of Cold War antagonism, propelled a deeply held vision of Europe’s integration, and earned plaudits from Moscow and Washington for his deft handling of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.