Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy dies aged 96
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Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy, a legend   of resistance to the rise of Nazism and Communism, died at the   age of 96 at his home in Budapest, national news agency MTI   said on Saturday.
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World-renowned bassist Aladar Pege, who moved with ease from jazz to classics and lifted his bulky instrument to star status, has died, the Hungarian cultural ministry said Sunday. He was 67.
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Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest 20th-century poet, was dragged from a home here in the dead of an August night in 1936 and shot dead by Fascist forces loyal to Gen.
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the  only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,  died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.
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Foreign Corresp. One of France's most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69.
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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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Yegor Gaidar, architect of Russia's market reforms, was being treated in a Moscow hospital on Wednesday after coming close to death with a mystery ailment during a visit to Ireland, friends and family said.
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Maurice Papon, a former Cabinet minister who was convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews during World War II and became a symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis, died Saturday. He was 96.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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Former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner, died on Saturday, his family said. He was 83.
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LOS ANGELES  - Laszlo Kovacs, one of Hollywood's most influential and respected directors of photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died yesterday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop
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Jan Wolkers, one of the major Dutch writers of the post-war period, died Friday aged 81, media reported.
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Susan Sontag, the American author, activist and self-defined &quot;zealot of seriousness&quot;, whose provocative prose made her a leading intellectual, has passed away.
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The death of one of the greatest figures in modern French literature, Henri Troyat, is announced in Paris.
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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.