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DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, fashion photographer who could make plain women look beautiful and fashion models look like Cosmo girls; in New York City. Scavullo's work was published in Rolling Stone, TIME, Sports Illustrated and Harper's Bazaar, but he was best known for photographing more than 300 Cosmopolitan covers from 1965 to 1997 in which Scavullo's lights and lenses, and his team's exacting attention to skin, hair and costume, produced a look that became unique to the magazine. Scavullo did celebrity portraits, glamorized Watergate figure Martha Mitchell for a 1974 cover of New York magazine and shot Burt Reynolds in the nude for a 1972 Cosmo centerfold. "I don't think I can say I'm the best," he told the Washington Post in 1985. "But I think I do what no one else does. My pictures are alive."

DIED. FRANK (TUG) MCGRAW, 59, exuberant baseball relief pitcher whose phrase "Ya gotta believe!" was the rallying cry of the New York Mets' unlikely last-to-first run for the 1973 National League pennant; of brain cancer; in Nashville. McGraw, who was known for on-field antics such as feigning heart palpitations when home-run balls drifted foul, pitched in the World Series for the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. Asked how he would spend his bonus from the 1973 Mets pennant, McGraw replied, "Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish whiskey. The other 10 percent I'll probably waste."

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DIED. JOHN TOLAND, 91, best-selling author whose book The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; in Danbury, Connecticut. After writing six unpublished novels and 25 unproduced plays, Toland discovered the historical-nonfiction genre with a 1957 book about dirigibles. He followed The Rising Sun with books about the Korean War and an Adolf Hitler biography. His 1982 book Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath asserted that the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration had advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a claim widely denounced by historians.

DIED. KIHARU NAKAMURA, 90, English-speaking geisha from Tokyo's Shimbashi quarter, who entertained such visitors as Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Jean Cocteau; in New York City. Daughter of a doctor, Nakamura worked as a geisha for 27 years before emigrating to the U.S. in 1956 and later wrote a memoir that was translated into eight languages. In a 1989 interview with the Los Angeles Times, she lamented the loss of the geisha's art in her country. "Japan has become rich," she said. "But the people's minds are getting poorer."

DIED. MICHAEL STRAIGHT, 87, former publisher of the New Republic and spy for the Soviet Union, whose 1964 confession unmasked Anthony Blunt, part of a ring that included Soviet mole Kim Philby; in Chicago. Recruited while studying at Cambridge University in 1937, Straight worked as a U.S. government economist and claimed the only documents he gave the Soviets were his own economic analyses.

CONFESSED. MIJAILO MIJAILOVIC, 25, to fatally stabbing popular Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in a department store last year; in Stockholm. Mijailovic's lawyer said the killing was a random act with no political motive.