German aristocrat Bismarck dead at 44
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Count Gottfried von Bismarck, whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of Germany's "Iron Chancellor" was clouded by two deaths at his decadent parties, has died at the age of 44.
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Prince Bernhard, the charismatic German-born father of the Netherlands' Queen Beatrix who earned the respect of the Dutch during the Nazi occupation, died Wednesday. He was 93.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died, Prime Minister Helen Clark said on Friday.
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An Indonesian engineer working for Germany-based telecommunication giant Siemens was killed in a shootout in the Iraqi town of Mosul, reports said Monday.
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Britain's oldest serving parliamentarian, Lord Renton, dies at the age of 98.
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LUXEMBOURG: Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, the mother of Grand Duke Henri, died Monday after a long battle with lung cancer, the government announced.
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Indonesia's ex-leader, 86, Suharto dies after suffering multiple organ failure, police and hospital authorities say.
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The oldest member of the Japanese Royal family, Princess Takamatsu, dies of blood poisoning at a hospital in Tokyo.
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Margaret Truman Daniel, the only child of former president and famously proud father Harry Truman who became an author of popular murder mysteries, died on Tuesday at age 83, the Truman Library said.
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Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the most famous opera singer ever, died on Thursday morning, aged 71.
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Nigel Nicolson, who spent his life at the pinnacle of British intellectual and political society, died Sept.
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Margaret Truman Daniel, the only child of former President Harry Truman, died Tuesday. She was 83.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations chief and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he hid his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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A total of 26 German tourists are known to have died during the earthquake and tsunamis that killed more than 60,000 people around the Indian Ocean, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died. He was 88.
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Former Indonesian dictator Suharto -- the "smiling general" who ruled his country with an iron fist for three decades -- died Sunday at a hospital in Jakarta, said his doctor. He was 86.
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Queen Elizabeth II and her family bade farewell to Princess Alice, who died a week earlier at 102, believed to be the greatest age ever reached by a member of the British royal family.