German artist Immendorff dies at age 61
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German expressionist artist Joerg Immendorff, famous for his surreal and provocative paintings and sculptures, died on Monday at age 61 in Duesseldorf after a long illness, his wife Oda Jaune-Immendorff said.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion and portrait photography into art forms and captured unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker magazine said.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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The legendary Russian prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova has died aged 66 after a long illness, the Bolshoi theatre where she made a brilliant career during the Soviet era announced on Tuesday.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Portrait and fashion photographer Richard Avedon died on Friday morning at age 81, a spokeswoman for the family said.
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German boxing great Max Schmeling dies at the age of 99.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was legendary director Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer of choice, died Wednesday after a long illness, his son said. He was 83.
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Susan Sontag, an intellectual and human rights activist who wrote on subjects as diverse as photography, philosophy and AIDS, died today in New York City.
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Just two days after New York&#39;s Museum of Modern Art closed its spectacularly successful temporary exhibit in Berlin, the spotlight turned to another attention-grabbing art display in the German
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Heinz Berggruen, an influential collector of Picasso's artworks and longtime friend of the artist, has died in France, the Picasso Museum in Paris said Sunday. He was 93.
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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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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti has died in hospital, aged 95.
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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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Portrait and fashion photographer  Richard Avedon died on Friday morning at age 81, a spokeswoman  for the family said.
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Former world heavyweight champion Max  Schmeling, who fought two unforgettable bouts with the great  American Joe Louis in the 1930s, has died at the age of 99.
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Josef Schwammberger, a former Nazi labor-camp commander who was known for his particular sadism and hid for 40 years in Argentina before being captured and returned to Germany for trial, has died in a prison hospital. He was 92.