Trend-Setting Architect Philip Johnson Dies
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Trend-setting U.S. architect Philip  Johnson, whose glass skyscrapers helped define America's urban  landscape, has died at age 98, his lawyer's office said on  Wednesday.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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Phil Knight stepped down as chief executive of Nike (NKE) on Thursday, replaced by William Perez, head of SC Johnson &amp; Son. Knight, co-founder of the athletic shoe and apparel maker
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Richard Avedon, one of the most  influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th  century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been  photographing an essay on democracy for the New Yorker  magazine, a magazine spokeswoman said.
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Lady Bird Johnson, whose helped President Lyndon B. Johnsonâs road to the White House, has died at 94.
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Maxime &quot;Max&quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA&#39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died.
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Ancel Keys, a pioneer in public health best known for identifying the connection between a cholesterol-rich diet and heart disease, has died.
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Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who became an outspoken critic of Washington's Cuba policy, has died in a Havana hospital following ulcer surgery, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.
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Philip Johnson, the innovative architect who promoted the "glass box" skyscraper and then smashed the mold with daringly nostalgic post-modernist designs, has died. He was 98.
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Gianfranco Ferre, the Italian designer known as the "architect of fashion" for his structured, sculpted shapes and for his groundbreaking tenure at Christian Dior, died Sunday. He was 62.
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NEW YORK - Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at his home. He was 77...
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Philip H. Knight resigned yesterday as head of the Oregon sneaker company that he built into Nike Inc., a global sportswear powerhouse that made everyone want to soar in Air Jordans, Wear
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Gerard Debreu, a former University of California-Berkeley economist who won a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in the study of supply and demand, has died at the age of 83.
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Singapore Zoo's most famous icon, an orangutan who once hobnobbed with Britain's Prince Philip, popstar Michael Jackson and actress Elizabeth Taylor, has died, zoo staff said Saturday.
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THE ULTIMATE 1980s businessman and arch Thatcherite Lord Hanson has died from cancer. He was 82. Lord Hanson built up his company, Hanson, into one of Britainâs most powerful companies in its time.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who loved Texas wildflowers almost as much as she loved her husband, the late US president Lyndon Johnson, died Wednesday in Austin, her family said. She was 94.