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A few days after he was paralysed from the neck down in a riding accident in 1995, Superman actor Christopher Reeve told his wife, Dana: &quot;Perhaps we should let me go.
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Allen Carr, an anti-smoking campaigner  who helped millions quit after he kicked a 100-a-day habit,  died from lung cancer on Wednesday, his spokesman said.
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Controversial Mancunian stand-up comedian dies of kidney failure at age of 76.
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A pensioner who lost out on a near Â£1m betting jackpot has died hours before he was to be given a share of another winner&#39;s windfall.
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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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RIP conqueror of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary, the NZ climber who in 1953 conquered Mount Everest and subsequently did much to improve the lot of Nepal's Sherpa people has died aged 88.â¦
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"To be washed gently ashore, maybe on the many pleasant beaches near the place I was born. Then the full circle of my life will be complete"  Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.The gangling New Zealander devoted much of his life to aiding the mountain people of Nepal and took his fame in stride, preferring to be called 'Ed' and considering himself an ordinary man.'Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity,' Clark said in a statement. Read more
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Polish Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz, who campaigned against tyranny, dies aged 93 in Krakow.
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Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb the world's highest mountain Mount Everest, has died at the age of 88, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Friday.
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Police appeal again for witnesses after a 'caring and popular' man dies in hospital after a street attack.
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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.
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BBC journalist Ivan Noble, whose online  diary about his brain tumor treatment touched hearts around the  world, has died at the age of 37.
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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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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died of a heart attack Sunday, his party&#039;s president said. He was 67. Dora Maria Tellez told The Associated Press Lewites, a former Managua mayor, died at a hospital in the capital.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died, according to New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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An anti-nuclear activist died in France on Sunday after having a leg cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France&#39;s SNCF railway operator said.