Math Whiz Shiing-Shen Chern Dies at 93
117579
Shiing-shen Chern, a Chinese-American mathematician famous for his breakthroughs in differential geometry, died Friday in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin. He was 93.
80753
Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
619960
The founder of Seagate Technologies died on Tuesday following complications from heart surgery.
738617
Dr. Judah Folkman, who discovered  that tumors generate their own network of tiny blood vessels to  nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical  School said on Tuesday.
179598
Ken Kennedy, a professor who founded the computer science department at Rice University in 1984 and eventually became one of the world's pioneers in parallel and distributed computing, died last week at 61. Computerworld's Gary Anthes remembers Kennedy.
147980
SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his brutal 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday at 91 years old.
551989
One of France&#39;s most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69. Sagan was catapulted into the limelight in 1954, when she was 18, with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness).
291197
Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on Monday, his family and the government said. He was 85.
16874
accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
512871
PARIS (France): French philosopher Jacques Derrida has died of cancer at the age of 74 on Saturday, said sources. Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
487005
World renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a founder of the school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, has died, the office of French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday. Derrida was 74.
39458
Zhao Ziyang, a reformist toppled as  China's Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army  crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in  hospital on Monday, his family said. He was 85.
502523
Pierre Messmer, a member of the French Resistance who was the country's prime minister from 1972 to 1974, has died at age 91, former President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday.
424550
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.
313506
Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
674522
A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
731704
Foreign Corresp. One of France's most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69.