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Herbert Allison Jr. testifies about the government’s bailout program in 2009. Allison spent much of his career at Merrill Lynch before going into government service.  (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)

Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz, shown last week in Philadelphia, was among seven people killed Saturday night in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, the newspaper’s editor said Sunday.  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

ThyssenKrupp AG board of directors member Berthold Beitz prior to the annual shareholders meeting of the steel company in Bochum, Germany, in 2012.   (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

GWAR lead singer Dave Brockie (a.k.a. Oderus Urungus) was found dead at age 50 on Sunday, March 23, in his home in Richmond, Va. A police spokeswoman said foul play is not suspected.  (Craig Y. Fujii / Los Angeles Times)

Former U.S. Rep. Kenneth J. Gray, pictured in 2013 at 88, talks to his grandson, Josh Joiner, before taking off in a helicopter ride at Black Diamond Harley-Davidson in Marion, Ill. Gray has died at 89.  (Steve Matzker / The Southern)

Bishop Desmond Tutu, left, is greeted by Rep. William H. Gray III, who had just returned from a trip to South Africa, outside Philadelphia’s Bright Hope Baptist Church in 1986. Gray, who has died at 71, fought for anti-apartheid sanctions in Congress.  (Peter Morgan / Associated Press)

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, in 2004.   (Lucy Pemoni / Associated Press)

Zeituni Onyango’s immigration status was revealed days before her nephew, Barack Obama, won his first presidential election in 2008. At the time, she was living in the United States illegally while appealing a denial of her asylum request.   (Josh Reynolds / Associated Press)

At a 1974 Cabinet meeting at the White House, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, right, sits with President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Though they often disagreed, Kissinger called Schlesinger his intellectual “equal.”  (Consolidated News Pictures / Getty Images)

John Seigenthaler works in his office at the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville in 2005. The maverick journalist, who helped shape USA Today and championed civil rights, died Friday at the age of 86.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)

In 1972, Curtis Tarr spins a plexiglass drum holding capsules with the birth dates and orders for men born in 1953 at the beginning of the fourth annual Selective Service lottery in Washington. Tarr, who developed the lottery for the draft during the Vietnam War, has died at age 88.  (Charles W. Harrity / Associated Press)

John Vasconcellos, California’s longest continuously serving legislator until term limits forced him out in 2004, died Saturday at home in Santa Clara. Calif.  (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.) speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill after a House Intelligence Committee hearing in 2012. Young, Florida’s longest-serving member of Congress and a defense hawk who was influential on military spending, has died at the age of 82.  (Cliff Owen / Associated Press)