British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold dies
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Sir Malcolm Arnold, the first British composer to win an Academy Award, died Saturday at the age of 84 after a short illness, his companion said.
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American opera singer Jerry Hadley dies at the age of 55, eight days after an apparent suicide attempt.
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Beverly Sills, one of the United States&#39; most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78.
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Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, the founder of the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, died Thursday at a hospital in Monaco, his son said. He was 95.
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Marcel Marceau, the world's best-known mime artist who for decades moved audiences across the globe without uttering a single word, has died aged 84.
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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday at age 88.
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MODENA, Italy  - Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, whose gifted voice and charisma brought opera to the masses, died of cancer on Thursday aged 71.
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British jazz singer and author George Melly died on Thursday at the age of 80, his wife Diana said in a statement.
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Gordon Brown and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes pay tribute to Everest  mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died.
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Legendary Italian tenor Luciano  Pavarotti, who brought opera to the masses, died on Thursday  after a battle with cancer. He was 71.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, dies aged 88.
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Malcolm Summers, one of the closest eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died of a heart ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on Monday.
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Flamboyant jazz singer and author George Melly dies at his London home at the age of 80.
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Dame Alicia Markova, one of the UK's most influential prima ballerinas, dies at the age of 94.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Hollywood lost one of its music legends last night with the death of Elmer Bernstein, 82, an Oscar-winning composer who wrote the scores for more than 200 films over five decades, including such classics as The Magnificent ...
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The longtime conductor of the Crystal Cathedral Orchestra &#151; a composer and arranger who worked with Celine Dion and John Tesh &#151; shot himself to death at the soaring glass-and-steel church Friday after a nine-hour standoff that started just before a Christmas pageant was to begin.