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Obituaries
Ghazi al-Gosaibi, Saudi diplomat, minister, poet, dead at 70 - 2010-08-15
RIYADH- Popular Saudi minister and poet Ghazi al-Gosaibi, who as envoy to Britain sparked outrage with an ode to a Palestinian suicide bomber, died Sunday at age 70, official Al-Akhbariya TV said....
Jazz singer, actress Lena Horne dead at 92 - 2010-05-10
NEW YORK- Legendary US jazz singer and actress Lena Horne, who broke down barriers for black performers in the 1940s and later dedicated herself to the civil rights movement, has died at the age of...
British actress Lynn Redgrave dies at 67 - 2010-05-03
NEW YORK- Oscar-nominated actress Lynn Redgrave has died after a long battle against breast cancer, her children said Monday, in a new blow to one of Britain's most famous acting dynasties....
Italian screenwriter Scarpelli dies aged 90 - 2010-04-29
ROME- Oscar-nominated screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, who penned cinema classics including "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", has died aged 90, Italian media said Wednesday.
Scarpelli died during the...
Leading art collector Ernst Beyeler dies - 2010-02-27
GENEVA- Swiss art trader Ernst Beyeler, who became renowned for one of the most impressive international collections of 20th century art, has died at the age of 88, his foundation said on Friday....
Reclusive writer J.D. Salinger dead at 91 - 2010-01-29
WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle - Reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who has died aged 91, was a giant of American literature whose seminal novel "The Catcher in the Rye" lent a voice to the angst and despair of...
Deaths that marked 2009 - 2009-12-29
PARIS - Ten deaths that marked 2009:
HELEN SUZMAN (died January 1, aged 91)
Suzman was for decades the lone voice of white dissent in South Africa's parliament against apartheid rule. She...
British actor Edward Woodward dies aged 79 - 2009-11-17
LONDON- British actor Edward Woodward, famous for film and TV roles including "The Wicker Man," Australian feature "Breaker Morant" and US series "The Equalizer," died in hospital Monday aged 79, his...
French thinker Levi-Strauss dead at 100 - 2009-11-04
PARIS, Carole Landry - French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who helped shape Western thinking about human civilisation, has died at the age of 100, his publisher and colleagues said Tuesday....
Brazil drum king and Michael Jackson collaborator dead at 54 - 2009-11-03
RIO DE JANEIRO - Hundreds of people in Salvador de Bahia turned out Monday for the funeral of Antonio Alves de Souza, Brazil's king of drums and Olodum group leader, who accompanied Michael Jackson...
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