Shu Uemura, 79, Makeup Artist, Dies
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Mr. Uemura, a Japanese makeup artist, won acclaim in Hollywood and then built an international cosmetics brand under his name.
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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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Victoria de los Angeles, a Spanish soprano whose career spanned five decades as her voice was sought after for its masterful tonal control and its seemingly effortless ability to turn on the power, died Saturday. She was 81.
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French artist, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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Pac Man will be reborn on Microsoft  Corp.'s Xbox Live online service on Wednesday as a final  tribute for designer Toru Iwatani, who is retiring from the $30  billion games industry he helped ignite.
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The creator of a hugely  popular Japanese children's animated show has fallen to her  death after claiming she was no good at her job.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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Mime icon Marcel Marceau, the world's most honored and respected practitioner of what might be America's most ridiculed art form, has died.  He was 84.  In Marceau's native France, President Nicolas Sarkozy led a chorus of mourners by saying, "Fran...
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Rosamund Carr, a New Jersey fashion designer who lived a colorful and tragic life for more than a half century in tumultuous central Africa, has died in Rwanda, friends and employees have said.
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Al Shugart, 76, who pioneered the multibillion-dollar computer hard drive industry and was one of the more colorful characters of Silicon Valley, died Dec. 12 at California's Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from heart surgery he had six weeks earlier.
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The passing of a fashion entrepreneur
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Rose Mattus, who launched Haagen-Dazs ice cream with her husband more than four decades ago, has died. She was 90.
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Marcel Marceau, the world's best-known mime artist who for decades moved audiences across the globe without uttering a single word, has died aged 84.
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The Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre, whose training as an architect had a crucial influence on his approach to fashion, died Sunday in a Milan hospital after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage. He was 62.
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Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at 77.
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun wasshot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon jungle,where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and therain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.