Author Iris Chang Dies
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Description: Iris Chang, historian and author of the bestselling nonfiction book The Rape of Nanking, dies in California of apparent suicide at age 36.
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New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a leading writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to the noodle shops of Saigon and restaurants of Paris to write about the food and wine he loved, died on Wednesday. He was 71.
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Grammy nominee and New York native pop singer Laura Branigan died of a brain aneurysm on Thursday August 26, 2004 at her home in New York.
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Michael Chang, the youngest man to claim a grand slam singles title when he won the 1989 French Open, has been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, officials announced on Wednesday.
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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Al Shugart, 76, who pioneered the multibillion-dollar computer hard drive industry and was one of the more colorful characters of Silicon Valley, died Dec. 12 at California's Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from heart surgery he had six weeks earlier.
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Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.
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Bob Evans, 77, a computer scientist who helped popularize personal computing and served as a scientific adviser to the Taiwanese government, died of a heart ailment Sept.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist and author who gained international fame for her landmark work on death and dying, has died in her suburban Phoenix home. She was 78.
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Novelist Phyllis A. Whitney, whose romantic suspense tales sold millions of copies and earned her top accolades from the Mystery Writers of America, has died. She was 104.
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Best-selling writer Iris Chang is found dead in her car in California with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Actress Janet Leigh, best known as the character stabbed to death in the shower in 1960&#39;s Psycho, has died at her Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest  British novelists of the 20th century, revealed the first signs  of Alzheimer's disease in her final novel, researchers said on  Wednesday.
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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The acclaimed Chinese-American author Iris Chang was eulogized in simultaneous ceremonies in northern California, Washington and Nanjing, China, after her apparent suicide earlier this month.
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Susan Sontag, the author, human rights activist and social critic, has died in a New York cancer hospital, aged 71. Ms Sontag, who had suffered from leukemia for some time, was known for interests that ranged
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Award-winning Taiwanese film-maker Edward Yang dies from cancer at the age of 59.