Author Sidney Sheldon dies at 89
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US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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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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Sidney Sheldon was both literate and lurid, and he made that combination hard to resist.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth KÃ¼bler-Ross, whose provocative books revolutionized how the living talk about death and advocated a belief in the afterlife, died Tuesday in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Arthur Hailey, the best-selling author who plucked characters from ordinary life and threw them into extraordinary ordeals, died in his home in the Bahamas, his wife said Thursday. He was 84.
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US comedian Joey Bishop, the last surviving member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," dies at the age of 89.
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LOS ANGELES  - Arthur Hailey, whose best-selling novels provided the basis for many films, died on Wednesday, Nov. 25 at the age of 84.
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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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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was  69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the  Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a  longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and  was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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The author of the German war novel "Das Boot", Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, has died, his spokeswoman said on Friday. He was 89.
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George Melly, a flamboyant, gravel-voiced jazz singer, critic and raconteur, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 80 years old.
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Flamboyant jazz singer and author George Melly dies at his London home at the age of 80.
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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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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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A longtime friend says comedian Joey Bishop, the last of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, has died at his home.