California wine-maker Gallo dies
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The man who helped to create an international market for Californian wine, Ernest Gallo, dies, aged 97.
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Beverly Sills, the world-renowned  soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in  modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from  inoperable lung cancer, her manager said.
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PARIS - Henri Jayer, a master of supremely concentrated, immaculately balanced pinot noir who was viewed by connoisseurs to be the finest Burgundy winemaker of his generation, has died, his daughter said Thursday. He was 84.
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Chinese-American writer Iris Chang, historian and author of the bestselling nonfiction book &quot;The Rape of Nanking&quot;, has died of apparent suicide in California, China Radio International reported Friday.
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US actor Glenn Ford dies aged 90, at his home in Beverly Hills.
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PHILIPPINE movie star Fernando Poe, who nearly unseated President Gloria Arroyo in hotly contested polls this year, passed away today.
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PARIS: Francis Mayer, chairman and chief executive officer of French state-owned bank CDC, has died at age 56 in Paris.Comment
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Hotel magnate Hervey Feldman, who was  known as the father of the Embassy Suites hotels, died at his  home in Dallas, his company said on Thursday.
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LAS GATOS, Calif. Critically acclaimed author Iris Chang has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 36. Chang was the best-selling author of &quot;The Rape of Nanking,&quot; which chronicled the Japanese occupation of China.
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Opera singer Jerry Hadley died Wednesday, just over a week after he was severely injured in an apparent suicide attempt, a family spokeswoman said.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, who made a  fortune first in the oil business and later in entertainment,  died over the weekend at his home in Beverly Hills, California,  at the age of 79, his publicist said late on Saturday.
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Spanish singer and actress Rocio Jurado dies at the age of 61 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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LOS ANGELES -- A 60-year-old man with a number of chronic ailments has become the sixth person in California to die from West Nile virus, health officials said.
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US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns expressed sorrow Monday at the suicide of Japan&#39;s farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who had been embroiled in a political funding scandal.
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Prolific television producer Aaron  Spelling, whose shows such as &quot;Beverly Hills 90210&quot; and  &quot;Dynasty&quot; helped shape U.S. prime-time television, died on  Friday, days after suffering a stroke, his publicist said. He  was 83.
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Michael Jackson, a leading world beer critic who praised the brews of Belgium and acknowledged he would never be as famous as "that Michael Jackson," has died. He was 65.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Not all Italians are in the Mafia, says restaurant owner Franco Gallo, who's upset and offended that ex-MP Alfonso Gagliano has been linked in a published report to an American crime family.