Brazilian poet Marly de Oliveira dies
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Marly de Oliveira, the Brazilian poet who wrote the award-winning volume "O Mar de Permeio," or "The Sea Between Us," died Friday in Rio de Janeiro. She was 69.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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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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The last of three children who say the Virgin Mary appeared before them in Portugal in 1917 dies aged 97.
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Shail Chaturvedi, eminent Hindi poet, humorist, lyricist and Bollywood character actor, passed away here early Monday morning.
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Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century has died at the age of 74, the BBC reported Saturday.
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British jazz singer and author George  Melly died on Thursday at the age of 80, his wife Diana said in  a statement.
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American stand-up comedian Richard Jeni dies of gunshot wounds in a suspected suicide.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, the irreverent creator of the "Kudzu" comic strip, died on Tuesday in a Mississippi car crash, his newspaper said.
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Singer, actress, and songwriter Laura Branigan, whose signature song Gloria was her first hit, has died of an aneurysm in her New York home at age 47.
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US stand-up comedian Richard Jeni dies of gunshot wounds in a suspected suicide in Los Angeles.
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EAST QUOGUE, N.Y. - Laura Branigan, a Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her 1982 platinum hit "Gloria," has died...
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Serginho, a 30-year-old defender, died after suffering a heart attack while playing for Sao Caetano in a Brazilian first-division soccer game against Sao Paulo yesterday, his team said.
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the "deconstruction theory", dies at the age of 74.
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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died of a heart attack Sunday, his party&#039;s president said. He was 67. Dora Maria Tellez told The Associated Press Lewites, a former Managua mayor, died at a hospital in the capital.
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LONDON, Dec 4  A critically ill British woman who won a landmark legal ruling this week to travel abroad for an assisted suicide has died at a Swiss clinic, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (VES) said ...
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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.