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1943 – 2017Sam Shepard (1943-2017)Died 27 July 2017, aged 73American playwright, actor, and director who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Right Stuff. His plays, including True West and Fool for Love, reshaped American theater. He died of complications from ALS.