Edna's sidekick Emily Perry dies
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Actress Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna Everage's companion Madge Allsopp, has died aged 100.
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Barry Humphries, the Australian comic best known as the flamboyant Dame Edna, has been ordered by doctors to rest for six months because of complications from appendix surgery.
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Top French coiffeur Alexandre de Paris, who styled the hair of Elizabeth Taylor and many other stars, dies at 85.
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Beverly Sills, the world-renowned soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from inoperable lung cancer, her manager said.
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NEW YORK  &#151; Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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Actress Suzanne Pleshette, best  known as the feisty but level-headed wife of Bob Newhart on  television's 1970's hit "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age  of 70, friends said on Sunday.
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Nellie Briles, who won two World Series titles during his 14-year career as a major league pitcher, died Sunday, the Pittsburgh Pirates said. He was 61.
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Janet Leigh, who gained her greatest fame as the victim of the shocking shower murder scene in Psycho, has died at her home in Beverly Hills.
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The toll of the devastating midweek fire in the Bronx continued rising into the weekend as a 6-year-old girl died late Friday from the smoke she had inhaled, the New York City medical examinerâs office said yesterday.
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Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either.
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The husky-voiced actress redefined the television sitcom wife in the 1970s by playing the smart, sardonic Emily Hartley on âThe Bob Newhart Show.â
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LOS ANGELES - Actress Janet Leigh, best known for her bloodcurdling in-the-shower death scene in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s Psycho, died Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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BOISE, Idaho  - A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an   86-year-old woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E.   coli infections raised to three the number of deaths from an   outbreak traced to fresh spinach, state health officials said   on Friday.
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Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man, who became pen  pals with actress Susan Sarandon while on death row, was put to  death by lethal injection on Thursday for murdering a  convenience store clerk during a 1985 robbery.
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Eddie Layton, the Yankee Stadium organist and ballpark fixture for more than 35 years, has died after a brief illness.
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CHINO, Calif. A 76-year-old Chino woman has died days after being diagnosed with the West Nile virus -- but officials aren&#39;t sure whether the mosquito-borne illness caused her death.