Columnist Dempster dies aged 65
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The Daily Mail's editor pays tribute to the "brilliant" diary writer Nigel Dempster, who has died aged 65.
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Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who recently turned his incisive wit toward a budding career as novelist, died Tuesday in an auto accident in Mississippi. He was 57.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
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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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Pierre Berton, whose populist tales of Canadian history made him one of the country's best known writers and media personalities, has died at age of 84.
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The 83-year-old former Prime Minister of India, Narasimha Rao, has died of cardiac failure in a New Delhi hospital. In 1991 Narasimha Rao became first outside the Nehru-Gandhi family India&#39;s prime minister.
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Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, a key voice on foreign affairs, has died aged 80, his spokeswoman says.
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Alfred Sherman, a one-time communist who later became a close adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died at the age of 86.
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US television evangelist Tammy Faye Messner has died aged 65 after a long battle with cancer.
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards dies at the age of 73 after battling oesophageal cancer.
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Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him  banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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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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CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. &#151; A woman who lives on the same cul-de-sac as former President Clinton died Monday after a mysterious shooting on an isolated road that left her lawyer husband wounded, authorities said.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28 -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.
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Former US senator Thomas Eagleton, who was dropped as George McGovern's presidential running mate in 1972 after he admitted having undergone shock treatment for depression, died Sunday at age 77, his family said.
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Ed Bradley, 65, a suave and streetwise reporter considered one of the best interviewers on television and the winner of 19 Emmy awards for his work on "60 Minutes" and "CBS Reports," died of leukemia Nov. 9 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He lived in New York.
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Indiana football coach Terry Hoeppner died Tuesday of complications from a brain tumor. He was 59.