Author Sidney Sheldon dies at 89
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Best-selling US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies in California aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota scientist who invented the K ration diet used by soldiers in World War II and who linked high cholesterol and fatty diets to heart disease, has died at the age of 100.
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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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Sid Raymond, an actor who landed roles alongside A-list stars and was the voice of beloved cartoon characters but went largely nameless himself, has died. He was 97.
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers, Broadway theater, movies and television, then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
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Comedian Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of the super-hip team of entertainers known as the Rat Pack and led by Frank Sinatra, has died at age 89, his longtime friend and publicist, Warren Cowan, said on Thursday.
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Jazz singer and author George Melly dies at his London home at the age of 80
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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of  American theater who wrote "Death of a Salesman" and was  revered for works that spoke for the common man, has died. He  was 89.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French writer who pioneered the so-called "new novel" genre in the 1950s, died Monday at the age of 85, the Academie Francaise (French Academy) said.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist and author who gained international fame for her landmark work on death and dying, has died in her suburban Phoenix home. She was 78.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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Arthur Miller, whose dramas of fierce moral and personal responsibility such as "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" made him one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, has died at the age of 89.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies in hospital in northern France  aged 69, family friends say.
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Utah Jazz Coach Jerry Sloan is coping without his wife of 41 years, Bobbye, who died on June 18 at age 61 from pancreatic cancer.
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Francoise Sagan, author of the best-selling novel "Bonjour Tristesse," died Sept. 24 of heart and lung failure in Normandy, France. She was 69.