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\n\tTom Lehrer<\/a>, the influential song satirist whose darkly comic lyrics gained a cult following decades after he stopped making music, has died at the age of 97.<\/p>\n \n\tLehrer died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his longtime friend David Herder told the Associated Press<\/em><\/a>. No cause of death was provided.<\/p>\n \n\tThe New York City-born, Harvard-educated Lehrer began making music while studying mathematics in college, applying his humor to song to tackle issues ranging from racism to militarism to religion to nuclear war in the Fifties and early Sixties.<\/p>\n