Tory 'stalking horse' Meyer dies
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Sir Anthony Meyer, the Tory backbencher who challenged Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership in 1989, has died.
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Journalist and broadcast Nigel Dempster, widely credited with creating the modern newspaper gossip column, has died after a long illness, the Daily Mail  said Thursday
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Count Gottfried von Bismarck, whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of Germany's "Iron Chancellor" was clouded by two deaths at his decadent parties, has died at the age of 44.
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He was the Spielberg of sex, the Kurosawa of carnality, the Orson Welles of mammary-mad cinema. Russ Meyer, who died last weekend at 82, was a Hollywood outsider who crafted a formula for soft-core skin flicks
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LONDON Edward Meyer, the 77-year-old chairman of Grey Global Group, was philosophical last week when asked why he had decided to sell the company to WPP Group, one of the sprawling, publicly traded holding companies that increasingly dominate the
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Pauline Gore, mother of former  Vice President Al Gore and widow of the late U.S. Sen. Albert  Gore Sr., died at her home in Tennessee on Wednesday, her  family said. She was 92.
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Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller, the unassuming billionaire who last year abandoned a race for Arkansas governor &amp;#151; a post once held by his father &amp;#151; died Sunday after unsuccessful treatments for a blood disorder, his office said. He was 57.
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Russ Meyer, the notorious maverick director of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Mondo Topless, Motor Psycho and Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens, has died at age 82 in his home in the Hollywood Hills.
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Distinguished peer Lord Scarman, who conducted the Brixton riots inquiry, has died at home.
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Titillation kingpin Russ Meyer, the mastermind behind soft-core   classics like Vixen! and  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!   and the mainstream melodrama Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, died   Saturday at his Hollywood home. He was 82.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who was dogged by allegations of a Nazi past, dies aged 88.
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One of three sailors injured in a fire that disabled a Canadian submarine off the coast of Ireland has died, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Wednesday.
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The Kentucky Derby winner is gone, but his impact on veterinary medicine lives on.
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A mistress of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il &#151; whose son with him is considered a possible successor &#151; has died of an illness, according to media reports.
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LOS ANGELES - Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 79...
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The death of cult movie-maker Russ Meyer, one of the most colourful figures in the cinema world, has set off a trail of tantalising rumours he has a secret heir to his fortune.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim dies of heart failure, Austrian media reports.