Pittsburgh mayor dies at 61
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Mayor Bob O'Connor, who learned he had a rare form of brain cancer only seven months into his term, died Friday night, his spokesman said. He was 61.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - Former premier Louis J. Robichaud, once described as the architect of modern New Brunswick, has died after a brief battle with cancer.
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Helen Copley, former chairman of  privately held newspaper chain the Copley Press and publisher  of the San Diego Union-Tribune, has died at the age of 81, the  newspaper said on Thursday.
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City workers on Saturday prepared for the body of Mayor Bob O'Connor to lie in state, a day after the city leader died from a rare form of brain cancer at age 61.
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Yasser Arafat, long-time leader of the Palestinian people, died in Paris on November 11 at the age of 75. He had been taken to France for medical treatment after falling gravely ill at the Palestine Authority
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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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Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, died early Thursday morning in a Paris hospital, a French military spokesman announced.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, who ruled with an iron fist for 32 years, has died, a senior police official told reporters on Sunday at the hospital where he was being treated.
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards dies at the age of 73 after battling oesophageal cancer.
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Johnny Grant, Hollywood's honorary mayor, was found dead Wednesday night, Los Angeles police said. Grant, 84, appeared to have died of natural causes. Authorities found him in his bed at the Roosevelt Hotel, where he lived, about 7 p.m. Pacific Time (1...
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An inferno raced through a Charleston, South Carolina, furniture warehouse collapsing its roof and killing nine firefighters in a tragedy that the city's mayor described as "difficult to fathom." "They lost their lives fighting for the safety of our citizens," Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley announced Monday he will run for a sixth term, a move that could put him in office longer than his legendary father.
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A senior health official working to eradicate polio in north-west Pakistan is killed in a bomb attack.
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Former Mayor James E. West, who opposed gay-rights bills but was recalled from office over an Internet gay sex scandal, died Saturday of complications from recent cancer surgery. He was 55.a
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Sen. Antonio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhaes, one of Brazil's most influential politicians who held on to power as the country came under a military dictatorship and returned to democracy, died Friday, hospital officials said. He was 79.
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Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more than a half-century, has died. He was 84.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his violent 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.