Journalist and Mandela Biographer Dies at 78
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Description: British journalist Anthony Sampson, who died this weekend at age 78, was a longtime resident of South Africa and edited the influential anti-apartheid magazine, Drum.
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David Mason, who reported for The Associated Press on the Suez crisis, Charles de Gaulle's rise to power and the Vietnam War in a 37-year career, has died following a long illness, his son said Wednesday. He was 85.
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Dutch author and sculptor Jan  Wolkers, once controversial for his explicit writing on sex and  later famous for his glass and steel creations, died on Friday  aged 81, his publisher said.
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South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one  of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against  AIDS, announced that his only surviving son had succumbed to  the disease Thursday.
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Best-selling author and journalist Bebe Moore Campbell, who tackled social issues from an African American perspective in books like "Brothers and Sisters," has died of complications from brain cancer.
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French novelist Pierre Daninos, best known for his best-seller "The diary of Major Thompson", died at the age of 91.
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Sir William Deakin, a historian who founded St. Antony's College at Oxford University, helped Winston Churchill write about World War II, and led the first British mission to Marshal Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia, has died at the age of 91, his family said.
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A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72.
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Nagib Mahfuz, Egypt's most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, has died at the age of 94, several weeks after his health suddenly deteriorated.
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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French  writer who pioneered the so-called new novel genre, dies at the age of 85.
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John Peel, the broadcaster whose shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4 endeared him to listeners across generations, has died aged 65.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced that his eldest son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, died of AIDS Thursday morning at a Johannesburg hospital.
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The funeral has taken place of Dr Beyers Naude, one of the leading anti-apartheid campaigners in South Africa, who died earlier this month aged 89.
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Respected Mexican journalist  Jesus Blancornelas, often threatened and once shot for  campaigning against violent drug traffickers on the U.S.  border, died of a long-term illness on Thursday aged 70.
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Pierre Salinger, 79, dies: The press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and foreign correspondent for ABC News dies in France.