Author Campbell dead after battle with cancer
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Best-selling author and journalist Bebe Moore Campbell, who tackled social issues from an African American perspective in books like "Brothers and Sisters," has died of complications from brain cancer.
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The popular Canadian writer Pierre Berton died of heart failure in a Toronto hospital at age 84, CBC television reported.
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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The presenter of BBC Radio 4's The World at One programme, Nick Clarke, dies of cancer, aged 58.
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Top-selling British author Arthur Hailey, whose novels sold 170 million copies around the world, died in his sleep at his Bahamas home, his wife said on Thursday.
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The wife of Kim Jong-il, North Korea&#39;s dictator, has died after a long battle with cancer, according to unconfirmed reports yesterday.
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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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(Dec. 28) -- Author and activist Susan Sontag has died. She was 71 years old. News of her death came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City Tuesday morning.
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LENNOX Miller, who won two Olympic 100-metre medals for Jamaica and was the father of top American female sprinter Inger Miller, died on Monday of cancer.
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Allen Carr, the Briton who helped millions of people to quit smoking, has died after losing his battle with lung cancer, his spokeswoman said.
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan has died in the north-western town of Honfleur aged 69. She died of heart and lung failure a few days after being admitted to a local hospital.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78.
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George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said.
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ALBANY, Calif. -- Champion sprinter Lost in the Fog was euthanized after a monthlong battle with advanced cancer in his spleen and abdomen.