Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies
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Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist and onetime mathematical prodigy whose lampooning lyrics skewered racism, the Catholic Church, marriage and the Cold War, has died. He was 97. Friends told Variety
A Harvard graduate and longtime resident of Cambridge, the singer inspired many musicians and comics that came after.
Tom Lehrer, the sardonic mathematician who became an influential musical satirist during the 1950s and ’60s, has died at age 97. Friends discovered him deceased at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on Saturday, Variety reports.