Trend-Setting Architect Philip Johnson Dies
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Trend-setting U.S. architect Philip  Johnson, whose glass skyscrapers helped define America's urban  landscape, has died at age 98, his lawyer's office said on  Wednesday.
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By Jude Webber and Kate Kelland LIMA/LONDON  - Veteran British disc jockey JohnPeel, who championed new music trends like punk on mainstreamradio, has died of a heart attack on holiday in Peru.
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Gianfranco Ferre, the Italian designer known as the "architect of fashion" for his structured, sculpted shapes and for his groundbreaking tenure at Christian Dior, died Sunday. He was 62.
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Jacques Derrida, a philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president&#39;s office said Saturday.
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Photos through the years of PC World's long-serving Test Center director, who died last week of cancer.
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Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
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Maxime &quot;Max&quot; Faget, an intuitive engineer who became the chief architect of NASA&#39;s Mercury capsule and a key contributor to the design of three other manned spacecraft, has died.
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Lord Forte, the hotel and catering magnate, has died at his London home, a spokeswoman says.
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Richard Avedon, one of the most  influential portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th  century, died on Friday at age 81 in Texas, where he had been  photographing an essay on democracy for the New Yorker  magazine, a magazine spokeswoman said.
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Former Federal Reserve Governor Edward Gramlich, who warned early on about the need to tighten oversight of higher-risk mortgage lending, has died, the Urban Institute announced on Wednesday. He was 68.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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[India News]: New Delhi, Dec 23 : Former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, the architect of India&#39;s bold economic reforms, master political strategist and gifted scholar, died here Thursday after battling ill health.
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Steven Holl's buildings are more than beautiful -- they've got brains, too. For 31 years, the New York architect has taken advantage of his obsessive interest in science to build inventive structures with a geeky alter ego.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who quietly served as one of the most trusted advisers to her husband President Lyndon Johnson, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of 94, family spokeswoman Elizabeth Christian said.
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The Toyota executive credited with the design of the popular gas-electric hybrid car the Prius died in a plane crash Saturday off the coast of California, according to the New York Times.
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TOKYO -- The chief architect of Sony's PlayStation game console stepped down Tuesday as the Japanese company struggles to defend its dominance in the video game industry and revive its reputation as an electronics pioneer.
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At once the elder statesman and the enfant terrible of American architecture, Philip Johnson was known less for his buildings than for the sheer force of his presence.