Historian Arthur Schlesinger dies
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U.S. historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger Jr. died of a heart attack in Manhattan on Wednesday night, the New York Times reported on Thursday. He was 89.
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Artist Charles Biederman, known for his geometric paintings and aluminum reliefs depicting his fiercely held beliefs that art springs from nature, has died, a museum spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Elliot Welles, a Holocaust survivor who found the officer who ordered his mother's death and turned that personal triumph into a relentless crusade to track down fugitive Nazis, has died at the age of 79.Comment
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday, his family said on Sunday.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag,  one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to U.S.  policies after the Sept. 11 attacks, died on Tuesday at age 71  at a New York cancer hospital.
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Austrian-born jazz legend Oscar Klein, who fled when the Nazis took power and recorded with Lionel Hampton and other greats during a career that spanned four decades, has died at the age of 76, local media reported Wednesday.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday, his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, famous for The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, dies  aged 89.
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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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Former world heavyweight champion Max  Schmeling, who fought two unforgettable bouts with American Joe  Louis in the 1930s and fell out of favor with the Nazis after  resisting Hitler's embrace, has died at the age of 99.
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Liberal historian and politician Conrad Russell, son of philosopher Bertrand Russell, has died. He was 67.
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Arthur Miller, whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" made him one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, has died at the age of 89.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.