Journalist Nigel Dempster dies after long illness
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Journalist and broadcast Nigel Dempster, widely credited with creating the modern newspaper gossip column, has died after a long illness, the Daily Mail  said Thursday
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Dr Raja Ramanna, the bellwether of Indiaâs nuclear programme, passed away at Bombay Hospital in the early hours of Friday. He was 79.
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Legendary author Sidney Sheldon has died from pneumonia, his publicist told AFP, after a prolific career that saw him pen Oscar-winning screenplays and sell over 300 million books. He was 89.
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American journalist Harry W. Morgan, who interviewed Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy and Indira Gandhi and taught generations of journalists, died Tuesday. He was 73.
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Description: British journalist Anthony Sampson, who died this weekend at age 78, was a longtime resident of South Africa and edited the influential anti-apartheid magazine, Drum.
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A Radio Liberty journalist dies in prison in Turkmenistan with reported injuries to her head, the station says.
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Ivan Noble, the BBC journalist who has been writing about his treatment for a brain tumour, dies aged 37.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the strongest voices 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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A Londoner believed to be the world's oldest newspaper columnist dies at the age of 101.
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Willem Oltmans, without doubt the Netherlands' most colourful and controversial journalist, succumbed to cancer at the age of 79 in his hometown Amsterdam on Thursday.
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One of Vietnam's best-known dissidents, Hoang Minh Chinh, dies at the age of 85 after a long illness.
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Noted film maker Gulshan Rai died here on Monday after a prolonged illness.
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The 64-year-old Brockton surveyor who slipped into a coma last week after being infected with Eastern equine encephalitis has died, officials at Caritas Good Samaritan Hospital said.
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Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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Controversial comedian Bernard Manning dies in a Manchester hospital aged 76 after a short illness.
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The former chairman of Derby County, businessman and journalist Lionel Pickering dies aged 74.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.