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Kevin Starr, a historian whose writing focused on California. “He captured the spirit of our state and brought to life the characters and personalities that made the California story,” said Gov. Jerry Brown.
Andrew Burton for The New York Times
Kevin Starr
Died on January 14, 2017 at age 76
In a monumental eight-volume history of California, Mr. Starr traced the promise and the perils of his home state with a novelist’s sense of narrative and character and a filmmaker’s eye for colorful detail.
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.