Gabriel Garcia Marquez turns 80
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Celebrations for Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 80th birthday begin with a marathon reading.
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Colombia marks the 80th birthday of its most famous writer, the Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Parties and readings are being held to mark what would have been writer Roald Dahl's 90th birthday.
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MARCA, Spain  - Seventy years after he was shot during the Spanish civil war, 90-year-old Leandro Saun turns red with anger when talking about a conflict that still divides Spain.
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Angel Gonzalez, one of Spain's most prominent poets and member of a literary generation known for its opposition to the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, has died at the age of 82.
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British-born science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who turns 90 Sunday, says all he wishes for is peace in his adopted home Sri Lanka where he has lived for the past five decades.
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The singer turns 75 on September 28.
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One of France&#39;s most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69. Sagan was catapulted into the limelight in 1954, when she was 18, with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness).
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Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez returned Wednesday for the first time in a quarter century to his birthplace and inspiration for the fictional town Macondo, immortalized in his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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It may come as something of a shock to generations of men across the globe, but Sophia Loren, the very paragon of sultry Latin beauty, celebrates her 70th birthday on Monday.
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By MICHAEL KUCHWARA  NEW YORK - Broadway costume designer Alvin Colt - at age 90 - is being celebrated by the Museum of the City of New York.
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Spanish actor Jose Luis de Villalonga, who appeared in over 60 movies including the 1961 classic &quot;Breakfast at Tiffany&#39;s&quot; has died at his home on the island of Mallorca, Spanish media reported Thursday. He was 87.
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Nagib Mahfuz, Egypt's most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, has died at the age of 94, several weeks after his health suddenly deteriorated.
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Guy Gabaldon, who as an 18-year-old Marine private single-handedly persuaded more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender in the World War II battle for Saipan, has died. He was 80.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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The 88-year-old novelist gets a second chance at an acceptance speech.
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Rafael Marquez captured the World Boxing Council super bantamweight title on Saturday when holder Israel Vazquez quit on his stool before the start of the eighth round due to breathing difficulties from a broken nose.