Derrida, French Father of Deconstructionism, Dies
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the  founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer  at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of modern French literature and one of France's most popular biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise said on Monday.
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Sembene Ousmane, the father of Senegalese cinema and one of the pioneers of the art in Africa, died at his home over the weekend after a long illness. He was 84.
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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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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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The writer died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York on Tuesday morning. Calling herself an &quot;obsessed moralist&quot;, Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
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Ernst Mayr, one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, has died at 100.
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Jacques Derrida, a philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president&#39;s office said Saturday.
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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of  modern French literature and one of France's most popular  biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise  said on Monday.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies in hospital in northern France  aged 69, family friends say.
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IN HIM France gave the world one of the major figures of the intellectual life of our times, announced Jacques Chirac, the French president, on the day after Jacques Derrida's death.
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Hubert Curien, a scientist, former minister and architect of French space policy regarded as a father of the Ariane series of rockets, has died at age 80.
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The Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre, whose training as an architect had a crucial influence on his approach to fashion, died Sunday in a Milan hospital after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage. He was 62.
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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David Mason, who reported for The Associated Press on the Suez crisis, Charles de Gaulle's rise to power and the Vietnam War in a 37-year career, has died following a long illness, his son said Wednesday. He was 85.
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Dr. Francis Crick, a renowned radicular Biologist, died of cancer on July 29, 2004. Prof. D. Wilson Devaprasad, an ardent reader of SOM had the opportunity of listening to his talk on &#39;DNA Helix&#39; at Hyderabad in 1981.
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Liberal historian and politician Conrad Russell, son of philosopher Bertrand Russell, has died. He was 67.