Soviet prima ballerina dies at 66
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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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Delores Nikodinov, whose daughter, Angela, was a top contender at the United States Figure Skating Championships, was killed yesterday morning in an accident while riding in a shuttle minivan with her family from the airport to their downtown hotel.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - The mother of Russia's   last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was   to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia   tries to make peace with its dark past.
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Fashion Wire Daily - One of fashion&#39;s greatest designers, Gianfranco Ferre, died Sunday evening in Milan. He was 62.
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A member of Greece&#39;s Olympic judo squad who leapt from a third-floor apartment after an argument with her boyfriend just days before the Athens Games has died, a hospital source said Tuesday.
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A Greek judoka, who 17 days ago jumped off a balcony after a row with her boyfriend hours before she was due to go into the athletes&#39; Olympic village for the Athens Games, has died in hospital.
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A mistress of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il &#151; whose son with him is considered a possible successor &#151; has died of an illness, according to media reports.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer, famous for a Cold War showdown, has died aged 64.
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Glamorous heroine of the yesteryears Parveen Babi was on Saturday found dead at her Juhu residence.
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Arts & entertainment: As prima ballerina Darcey Bussell prepares to say her final farewells, look back at some of the highlights of her career.
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Former first lady Claude Pompidou, the widow of President Georges Pompidou, died Tuesday in Paris, her foundation said. She was 94.
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Founder of the Body Shop Dame Anita Roddick has died at the age of 64 from a major brain haemorrhage.
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A KGB master agent who ran some of  Moscow's most damaging Cold War spies in the West -- Klaus  Fuchs and the Rosenbergs -- died on Friday after a lifetime of  espionage that helped the Soviet Union acquire the nuclear  bomb.
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Eleni Ioannou, the Greek Olympic judo team member who was hospitalized after plummeting from her apartment balcony more than two weeks ago, died on Tuesday.
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Regine Crespin, the French opera great who took her personal magnetism and soprano voice to the world's leading stages, died Thursday. She was 80.
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A choreographer who inspired her company and a dancer who inspired audiences is retiring from the stage after a pioneering career.
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The Soviet Union's most successful ice  hockey player, Alexander Ragulin, has died aged 63, his former  club CSKA Moscow said Thursday. One of only two players along  with Soviet goaltender Vladislav Tretyak to win 10 world  titles, Ragulin also claimed three consecutive Olympic gold  medals in 1964, 1968 and 1972.