Hugh Massingberd, Laureate for the Departed, Dies
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Mr. Massingberd, a celebrated former obituaries editor of The Telegraph of London who made a once-dreary page required reading, died on Christmas Day.
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Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's best-known  journalists and war correspondents who shocked the literary  world with a vitriolic assault on Islam after the September 11  attacks on the United States, died on Friday aged 77.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of American theater who wrote "Death of a Salesman" and was revered for works that spoke for the common man, has died. He was 89.
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The writer died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Tuesday morning. Calling herself an &quot;obsessed moralist&quot;, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
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Gordon Brown and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes pay tribute to Everest  mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died.
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NEWS of the death of world intellectual and philosopher, Algerian born French philosopher, Jacques Derrida, has thrown the literary community and world leaders into mourning.
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Tributes hail "outstanding" and "genius" composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, following his death aged 84.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school, has died of cancer at the age of 74, his entourage said.
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Newspapers in France bid a sad adieu to a literary icon.
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Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president&#39;s office announced.
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Arts & entertainment: Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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Rex Humbard, a US televangelist, who enjoyed an audience of millions in his 1970s heyday, dies.
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Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, and France&#39;s &quot;most French of Americans&quot;, has died of heart failure at 79.
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Martin Scorsese is honoured by the Directors Guild of America for his mob thriller The Departed.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France and is to be buried in his native United States, his wife said.
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British novelist Doris Lessing will receive her Nobel prize for literature on Wednesday, having been unable to attend the prize ceremony in Sweden last year due to ill health.