Polish Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz dies
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Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1980, died at the age of 93, PAP news agency quoted his family as saying.
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Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100.
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Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was apparently poisoned in London, has died.
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Professor Maurice Wilkins, who helped unlock the structure of DNA with Crick, Watson and Franklin, has died aged 87.
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Gerard Debreu, a former University of California-Berkeley economist who won a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in the study of supply and demand, has died at the age of 83.
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the  only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,  died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.
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Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. He was 92.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's government-in-exile, died in Warsaw late on 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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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his repressive 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday at 91 years old.
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Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms in the early 1990s in the South Asian nation, died of heart failure on Thursday, the government said.
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Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, one of the world's most notorious military dictators, died Sunday in Santiago a week after suffering a heart attack.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who  rose from guerrilla icon to Nobel peace prize-winner but ended  up isolated and mired in conflict with Israel, died in a French  hospital on Thursday, a spokesman said.
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A top Indian nuclear scientist and the scientific mastermind behind the country&#39;s first atomic test, has died in the western city of Bombay (Mumbai).
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish  soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London  during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's  government-in-exile, died in Warsaw late on Thursday.
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Former Indian Prime Minister P.V.  Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms in the early  1990s in the South Asian nation, died of heart failure on  Thursday, the government said.