Travel writer Pete McCarthy dies
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Travel writer and broadcaster Pete McCarthy has died at the age of 51. McCarthy, author of the best-selling book McCarthy's Bar, died at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton.
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Author, broadcaster and newspaper columnist Miles Kington has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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Susan Sontag, who has died at the age of 71, was one of the most respected American writers of her generation and an ardent human rights activist who opposed the Vietnam war and stirred controversy with her thoughts on the September 11 attacks.
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Radio host Mike Dickin was killed earlier this week shortly after he was involved in a six car pile-up in Britain's Cornwall region.  The former Radio 4 host, who was born in 1935, had been traveling on Britain's A30 roadway Monday when the deadly crash occurred, the BBC reported.
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Novelist Arthur Hailey, who has died at the age of 84, was known for his bestselling page-turners exploring the inner workings of various industries, from the hotels to high finance.
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In 2001, Tom Hall, a software project manager laid off during the dot-com implosion, embarked on a round-the-world trip across three continents. He couldn't carry all the travel guidebooks he needed and ended up scouring Kathmandu for a guide to his next destination, Tanzania.
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Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel dies from a heart attack at the age of 65 while on holiday in Peru.
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LIMA/LONDON  - Veteran British disc jockey John  Peel, who championed new music trends like punk on mainstream  radio, has died of a heart attack on holiday in Peru.
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Playbill - Joseph Hayes, a playwright, novelist and producer who won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Play, for his suspenseful melodrama The Desperate Hours, died Sept. 11 in St. Augustine, FL, according to The New York Times.
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Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy&#39;s press secretary and later ABC&#39;s European correspondent, has died of h Salinger, who had been in declining health for four years
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Where were you when you heard John Lennon was killed? I remember it vividly, angling at the curve on Sunset Boulevard by the Hamburger Hamlet on the Strip and heading for work at the old Hollywood Reporter offices. Ever since then, the question for all us early Beatles fans: Why?
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The eldest son of pop impresario Pete Waterman dies at the age of 33 from a long illness.
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Planet Out - SUMMARY: Award-winning mystery writer Joseph Hansen, who created one of the first gay protagonists in the genre, died of heart failure on Nov. 24 after a long respiratory illness.
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Novelist and gay rights activist Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends said on Monday.
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Pulitzer-winning US author Cormac McCarthy wins the UK's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Prize.
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Arthur Hailey, author of "Airport," "Hotel" and other novels that became hit movies, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 84.
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John "Red" Cochran, a scout and former NFL player and assistant coach who spent 42 years with the Green Bay Packers, died at 82.