Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dies
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The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a one-time spiritual advisor to the Beatles, has died in his Dutch home, his Transcendental Meditation movement announced Wednesday.
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Soviet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova dies after a long illness at the age of 66, the Bolshoi announces.
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Legendary rock drummer and Hall of Fame  inductee Jim Capaldi died on Friday after a brief fight with  stomach cancer, his publicist said.
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Former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms in the early 1990s in the South Asian nation, died of heart failure on Thursday, the government said.
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The undisputed king of Bollywood's baddies, Amrish Puri, died on Wednesday at the age of 72 after a long illness, a hospital spokesman said in India's film capital.
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FORMER PRIME Minister PV Narasimha Rao passed away in New Delhi on Thursday. Rao, who was 83 years old, had been critically ill for the last two weeks.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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John Peel, a BBC radio disc jockey who was a champion of innovative and independent music for nearly four decades, died on Monday night in Cuzco, Peru.
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The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian  mystic who taught meditation to the West, inspired the  anti-materialism of the late sixties and the music of the  Beatles, gaining a hold over the era's most influential stars.
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By Jude Webber and Kate Kelland LIMA/LONDON  - Veteran British disc jockey JohnPeel, who championed new music trends like punk on mainstreamradio, has died of a heart attack on holiday in Peru.
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The veteran DJ John Peel has died aged 65. He suffered a heart attack shortly after being taken ill during a working holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru, with his wife Sheila.
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Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped create the sound of jazz fusion, died from cancer in Vienna on Tuesday, local news agency APA reported, quoting his son Erich.
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Veteran British broadcaster John Peel, who championed all types of cutting edge pop and rock acts over the past 35 years on his radio show, has died after a heart attack, the BBC announced.
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Popular Marathi film superstar and Hindi film comedian Laxmikant Berde passed away at 2.45 am on the 16th of December following kidney failure.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the iconic guru who sought to blend Eastern spirituality and Western science to harness the mind's power and heal the world, was cremated Monday in a tumultuous ceremony at one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
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Noted film producer and acclaimed filmmaker Mani Ratnam's brother G Srinivasan died in a tragic accident while he was trekking in a tourist resort in Manali along with his wife and elder daughter on Sunday.