Canadian Creator of Nemo Dies
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Dan Lee, the animator who designed the character of Nemo for Pixar's "Finding Nemo," has died at the age of 35. He lost his 17-month battle with lung cancer. Since joining Pixar in 1996, Lee has also worked on the films "A Bug's Life," "T...
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Emmy winner William Sackheim, who produced television shows including "Gidget," and "The Flying Nun," and co-wrote the first "Rambo" movie, has died. He was 84.
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Best-selling US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies in California aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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Jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson dies aged 82, according to Canadian media reports.
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Charlie Bell, the straight-talking former head of fast-food giant McDonald's, dies of cancer aged 44.
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The legendary mime Marcel Marceau is no more.
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Bert Bolin, a Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the Nobel Peace-winning U.N. panel on climate change, has died at age 82.
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Steve Gerber, the comic book writer and creator whose signature character was the alienated, cigar-chomping Howard the Duck, has died. He was 60. Gerber, who also co-created Marvel's "Omega the Unknown" and created the 1980s animated series "Thundarr the Barbarian," suffered from pulmonary fibrosis.
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George MacDonald Fraser, creator of the caddish Victorian anti-hero Harry Flashman, has died
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Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.
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French film director Philippe de Broca, who made his name in the 1960s with comedies starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, has died at the age of 71 from cancer.
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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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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning  Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's  most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the  age of 89, a publicist said.
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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 man who invented the small, long-lasting alkaline batteries that power Walkmans, Gameboys and other portable devices has died.
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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 83, one of his children told AFP on Sunday.