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<b>Philanthropist, investor John Templeton, July 8</b><br>John Templeton, an investor and mutual fund pioneer who established a foundation to encourage scientific and social research, has died at 95. He died on July 8 from pneumonia at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, said his spokesman Donald Lehr. Templeton created the $1.4 million Templeton Prize billed as the world's richest annual prize to honor advancement in knowledge of spiritual matters. Winners have included Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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Philanthropist, investor John Templeton, July 8
John Templeton, an investor and mutual fund pioneer who established a foundation to encourage scientific and social research, has died at 95. He died on July 8 from pneumonia at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas, said his spokesman Donald Lehr. Templeton created the $1.4 million Templeton Prize billed as the world's richest annual prize to honor advancement in knowledge of spiritual matters. Winners have included Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (AP/Ed Bailey)

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