Daydream Believer writer dies
627057
John Stewart, who wrote the Monkees hit Daydream Believer and was in folk group The Kingston Trio, dies.
367366
Planet Out - SUMMARY: Award-winning mystery writer Joseph Hansen, who created one of the first gay protagonists in the genre, died of heart failure on Nov. 24 after a long respiratory illness.
593710
Retired English Prof. Douglas T. Day, III died at his home Oct. 10 of what was apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Albemarle County Police told The Washington Post.
412946
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.
519919
Singer Laura Branigan, best known for her 1982 hit &quot;Gloria,&quot; died Thursday at her East Quogue, NY, home of a brain aneurysm.
152221
One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.
437700
Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning  Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's  most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the  age of 89, a publicist said.
440802
Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school, has died of cancer at the age of 74, his entourage said.
471024
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.
732901
Dutch author and sculptor Jan  Wolkers, once controversial for his explicit writing on sex and  later famous for his glass and steel creations, died on Friday  aged 81, his publisher said.
275258
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.
683867
PARIS - World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president&#39;s office said Saturday.
231204
PARIS - World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president's office said Saturday. He was 74...
633659
A hit 1960s songwriter was wrongly reported dead after the death of a man who claimed authorship.
197251
Fred Ebb, the lyricist who wrote Chicago and the classic song New York, New York, dies of a heart attack.
39703
Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89, a publicist said.
449377
Former Tomorrow's World presenter Raymond Baxter dies in hospital at the age of 84.