Former U.N. leader Waldheim dies at 88
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, who mended ties with the Vatican but clashed with the Greek state, died of cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer, famous for a Cold War showdown, has died aged 64.
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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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Author Susan Sontag, an almost lone  voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policies after the  Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71 at a New York  cancer hospital.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland aged 64.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his violent 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, died in hospital on Friday.
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Claude Pompidou, the publicity-shy widow of President Georges Pompidou who famously called the presidential palace "a house of sadness," died Tuesday in Paris, her foundation said. She was 94.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion who was once dubbed the "Mozart of Chess", has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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Former president Suharto, hailed as the father of development by some Indonesians during his 32 years in power and accused of corruption and rights abuses by others, died on Sunday after a long illness.
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Former Swedish prince Count Lennart Bernadotte has died aged 95 at his home in southern Germany, his family said in a local newspaper.
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Edouard Brunner, a former U.N. mediator in the Middle East and Georgia-Abkhazia conflicts who labeled British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as "vindictive" over the Falklands, has died, officials said Monday. He was 75.
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Yasser Arafat, revered as the champion of Palestinian statehood and reviled as a terrorist, died Thursday at the age of 75, spreading spasms of grief among Palestinians and rekindling calls for new peace talks with Israel.
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Former dictator who held an iron grip on Indonesia for 32 years, dies of multiple organ failure
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Dictator whose 30-year rule was based on ruthless repression, cronyism and manipulation of the world's rival superpowers dies after organ failure
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, whose iron-fisted rule became a byword for corruption and bloody repression but also brought economic growth, died Sunday after a long fight for life.