Former U.N. leader Waldheim dies at 88
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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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Sten Andersson, a leading figure in Sweden's governing Social Democratic Party and one-time mediator in the Middle East peace process, has died, the party said Saturday. He was 83.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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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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Author Susan Sontag, an almost lone  voice of intellectual opposition to U.S. policies after the  Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71 at a New York  cancer hospital.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a key player in  former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died, the American  Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on  Friday.
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Suharto, who was ousted from power in 1998 after 32 years of authoritarian rule, dies at 86.
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Former Austrian president and UN secretary general Kurt Waldheim, who died on June 14, was buried in Vienna Saturday with political and religious leaders calling for reconciliation over his Nazi past.
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Downed Israeli Air Force Navigator Ron Arad is dead, former German intelligence chief Bernd Schmidbauer flatly told German Television in an interview set to broadcast Monday night.
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Former dictator who held an iron grip on Indonesia for 32 years, dies of multiple organ failure
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Former Indonesian President Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president who became tainted by revelations that he hid his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Claude Pompidou, the publicity-shy widow of President Georges Pompidou who famously called the presidential palace "a house of sadness," died Tuesday in Paris, her foundation said. She was 94.
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Gen. Andi Muhammad Jusuf, a former Indonesian army chief who played a pivotal role in the rise to power of former dictator Suharto nearly four decades ago, has died. He was 76.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer, whose tortured genius prompted both awe and outrage, has died at the age of 64 at his home in Iceland, a close friend said Friday.
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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, died in hospital on Friday.