Marcel Marceau dies aged 84
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Arts & entertainment: French president pays tribute to man who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence.
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Canadian author and television broadcaster Pierre Berton died Tuesday afternoon after struggling with heart problems and diabetes. Many remember him as a wonderful person. He had been a columnist, a magazine editor, and an author of dozens of books. He...
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French actor Philippe Noiret, best-known for his role in Cinema Paradiso, dies in France at the age of 76.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French  writer who pioneered the so-called new novel genre, dies at the age of 85.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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French filmmaker Philippe de Broca, whose works include King of Hearts and That Man from Rio, died on Friday aged 71, according to a close aide.
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English film score composer Sir Malcolm Arnold dies in hospital after a brief illness at the age of 84.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84
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Henri Salvador, the French crooner credited with inspiring the bossa nova, dies in Paris at the age of 90.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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American opera singer Jerry Hadley dies at the age of 55, eight days after an apparent suicide attempt.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was  69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the  Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a  longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and  was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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TORONTO (CP) - Author and broadcaster Pierre Berton, "a great Canadian voice" whose numerous books on Canadian history and culture contributed to this country's collective identity, has died at age 84.
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Former French Prime Minister Raymond  Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner,  has died, his family said on Saturday. He was 83.
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Maurice Papon, the French Nazi collaborator who died at the age of 96, became the symbol of bureaucratic inhumanity after he was convicted for helping organise the deportation of Jews during the Vichy era.
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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.