South African poet Kunene dies at 76
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Mazisi Kunene, the first poet laureate of a democratic South Africa whose works recorded the history of the Zulu nation, has died at age 76.
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Nelson Mandela has led South Africa in mourning Adelaide Tambo, the widow of former African National Congress chief Oliver Tambo and herself a stalwart in the apartheid struggle.
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Arts & entertainment: Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, known for his intellectual and emotional works about some of the worst cruelties of the 20th century, died Saturday, his assistant said. He was 93.
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Willem Oltmans, without doubt the Netherlands' most colourful and controversial journalist, succumbed to cancer at the age of 79 in his hometown Amsterdam on Thursday.
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Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab to have won the Nobel Prize for literature, dies in hospital in Cairo.
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The death is confirmed of the leading Welsh artist, Sir Kyffin Williams, at the age of 88.
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One person is killed during angry clashes between police and protesters in South Africa, police say.
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TRENTON, NJ -- A New Jersey man who recently returned from a trip to Liberia died last week of an illness that had not been detected in the United States since 1989, but is common in West Africa.
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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died of a heart attack Sunday, his party&#039;s president said. He was 67. Dora Maria Tellez told The Associated Press Lewites, a former Managua mayor, died at a hospital in the capital.
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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau dies at the age of 84, the AFP news agency reports.
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Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century has died at the age of 74, the BBC reported Saturday.
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The revered Swedish conductor Sixten Ehrling has died at the age of 86 in New York, his home for the last thirty years.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died yesterday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop
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The guru to the Beatles who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, died at his Dutch home overnight, aides said on Wednesday. He was said to be 91.
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Lucien Carr, a journalist and a member of the inner circle of literature's Beat Generation, died Friday. He was 79.
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South African saxophonist Moses  Khumalo, a prominent player in the country's jazz scene, has  died at the age of 27.