Marcel Marceau dies aged 84
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French artist, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died, French authorities said on Thursday.Comment
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Maurice Papon, a former Cabinet minister who was convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews during World War II and became a symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis, died Saturday. He was 96.
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French filmmaker Philippe de Broca, whose works include King of Hearts and That Man from Rio, died on Friday aged 71, according to a close aide.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France and is to be buried in his native United States, his wife said.
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French actor Philippe Noiret, best-known for his role in Cinema Paradiso, dies in France at the age of 76.
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Maurice Papon, the French Nazi collaborator who died at the age of 96, became the symbol of bureaucratic inhumanity after he was convicted for helping organise the deportation of Jews during the Vichy era.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday, saying his family had informed it of his death.
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French actor Philippe Noiret, best-known for his role in "Cinema Paradiso", dies in France at the age of 76.
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Marcel Marceau, the world's best-known mime artist who for decades moved audiences around the world without uttering a single word, has died aged 84.
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French war criminal Maurice Papon died aged 96, four years after being released from a jail term for his role in the World War II deportation of French Jews to Nazi death camps.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
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Prominent Haitian intellectual and politician Gerard Pierre-Charles has died of heart failure in Cuba, where he was receiving emergency treatment for a lung infection, friends and colleagues said Monday. He was 68.
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Maurice Papon, a former Cabinet minister who became a symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis for his role in deporting Jews during the Second World War, has died.Comment
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Raymond Barre, who was French prime minister for five years from 1976-81, has died in Paris, aged 83.
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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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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.