First Female U.S. Poet Laureate Van Duyn Dies
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America's first female poet laureate Mona Van Duyn, once described as a pioneer of the poetry of the suburbs, has died in St. Louis at the age of 83, her publisher Alfred A. Knopf said on Thursday.
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.
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(Dec. 28) -- Author and activist Susan Sontag has died. She was 71 years old. News of her death came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City Tuesday morning.
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GREENSBORO ---- Mrs. Eva Jane Gerringer McIntyre, 94, died Monday, March 5, 2007, at Greensboro Retirement Center.  Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, March 9, at Rehobeth United Methodist Church, where she was a member, with Pastor Susan E. Pillsbury officiating.
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Dorothy McEwen, the former wife of the software pioneer who famously lost to Microsoft the chance to supply IBM with the operating system for its first personal computer, has died. She was 61.
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Former Texas first lady Nellie  Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John  F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the  age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.
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Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.
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Remembering the incandescent star on the 14th anniversary of her death
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, the first female ambassador to the UN and member of Ronald Reagan's cabinet dies.
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Margaret Truman, the only child of former President Harry S. Truman who became a concert singer, actress, radio and TV personality and mystery writer, died Tuesday
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag, one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to US policies after the September 11 attacks, has died at the age of 71.
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Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles after a battle with throat cancer, her sister, Jacqueline Gaither, said.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, who became the most powerful Republican woman in Washington state history during six terms representing Seattle's east-side suburbs, died Wednesday after developing a blood clot in her Virginia apartment, her family said. She was 66.