Alberta lieutenant-governor and popular gardening guru Lois Hole dies
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Alberta's much-beloved lieutenant-governor, Lois Hole, has died, the premier's office said Friday.
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LAS GATOS, Calif. Critically acclaimed author Iris Chang has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 36. Chang was the best-selling author of &quot;The Rape of Nanking,&quot; which chronicled the Japanese occupation of China.
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George MacDonald Fraser, creator of the caddish Victorian anti-hero Harry Flashman, has died
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Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's companion Madge Allsopp, has died aged 100.
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Marcel Marceau, the French mime artist who for 60 years transfixed international audiences with his stage persona Bip the Clown, has died at the age of 84, relatives said Sunday.
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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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Actor Jerry Orbach, best known for his long-running role as New York police detective Lennie Briscoe on &quot;Law &amp; Order,&quot; has died.
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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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Edmund Hillary, the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest, died Friday aged 88.
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Raymond Barre, a prominent economist who served as French prime minister during the presidency of Valery Giscard d&#39;Estaing in the 1970s, has died Saturday aged 83, his family announced.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who loved Texas wildflowers almost as much as she loved her husband, the late US president Lyndon Johnson, died Wednesday in Austin, her family said. She was 94.
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Reversing course, police said today that Bob Woolmer, a Pakistani cricket coach, died of natural causes in March.
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LONDON - Princess Alice, aunt of the Queen and the oldest member of the Royal Family, has died, Buckingham Palace said Saturday. The palace said the princess died peacefully in her sleep Friday with her family around her.
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Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as "Shrub," died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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Princess Alice, aunt of British Queen Elizabeth II, died Friday night at the age of 102, Kensington Palace said Saturday. &quot;Princess Alice died peacefully in her sleep at Kensington
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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.