Hugh Massingberd, Laureate for the Departed, Dies
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Mr. Massingberd, a celebrated former obituaries editor of The Telegraph of London who made a once-dreary page required reading, died on Christmas Day.
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AVIGNON, France, Oct 17  - Pierre Salinger, who served as press secretary to two US presidents, has died of a heart attack near his home in southern France, and is to be buried in his native United States, his French wife said early Sunday.
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Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy&#39;s press secretary and later ABC&#39;s European correspondent, has died of h Salinger, who had been in declining health for four years
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Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz dies in hospital in Cairo, at the age of 94.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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The Departed may get Martin Scorsese the best director Oscar award.
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Oscar-winning composer Elmer  Bernstein, who wrote some of Hollywood's most memorable music,  including scores for "The Magnificent Seven" and "Thoroughly  Modern Millie," has died at age 82, his publicist said on  Thursday.
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British novelist Doris Lessing will  receive her Nobel prize for literature on Wednesday, having  been unable to attend the prize ceremony in Sweden last year  due to ill health.
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The debonair Chinese diplomat who tutored Chairman Mao in English has died, ending an eventful life that began as an abandoned child and brought her next to Mao and U.S. President Richard Nixon as they shared toasts and jokes.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of American theater who wrote "Death of a Salesman" and was revered for works that spoke for the common man, has died. He was 89.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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"I am thrilled and humbled to receive this great honor, and am very grateful that my work has been recognized in this way"  Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of Iran's revolution ordered his assassination, has been made knight, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday. via Arizona Republic
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting Egyptian life in his beloved corner of ancient Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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The Daily Mail's editor pays tribute to the "brilliant" diary writer Nigel Dempster, who has died aged 65.
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LOS ANGELES: Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who penned scores for blockbusters ranging from To Kill a Mockingbird and The Magnificent Seven to Ghostbusters has died at the age of 82.
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With the death last week of Elmer Bernstein, following so soon after the deaths of Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin, two of the fellow Hollywood composers he most admired, an era ends.
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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.