French singer Henri Salvador dies
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Henri Salvador, the French crooner credited with inspiring the bossa nova, dies in Paris at the age of 90.
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French author Julien Gracq, one of the last links with the pre-World War II Surrealist movement, has died at the age of 97, his family said Sunday.
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Raymond Barre, who was French prime minister for five years from 1976-81, has died in Paris, aged 83.
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The pop star, who found fame in the 1980s with hits Gloria and Self Control, died in her sleep at her home in East Quogue, New York on Thursday.
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A Brazilian music producer who was a leading nominee at the Latin Grammy awards was killed in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles early on Thursday, hours after leaving the show, police and his record label said.
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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of  modern French literature and one of France's most popular  biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise  said on Monday.
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Singer, actress, and songwriter Laura Branigan, whose signature song Gloria was her first hit, has died of an aneurysm in her New York home at age 47.
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Howard Keel, who sang and danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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Laura Branigan, the Grammy-nominated singer who shot to fame with   her 1982 anthem "Gloria," died of a brain aneurysm Thursday at her home   in East Quogue, New York. She was 47.
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Legendary TV star Johnny Carson dies at the age of 79, after battling the respiratory disease emphysema.
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NEW YORK  &#151; Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday.
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Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers in the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.
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Lyricist Hy Zaret, who wrote the words for Unchained Melody, dies at the age of 99.
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The death of one of the greatest figures in modern French literature, Henri Troyat, is announced in Paris.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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Medina: A French teenager wounded in an attack that killed three compatriots in Saudi Arabia died on Tuesday.Comment