In Remembrance...Celebrities In 2006.

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Composer Takagi dies at age 102

Composer Toroku Takagi, who wrote popular songs including ''Light Blue Waltz,'' died of pneumonia at a hospital in Saitama Prefecture early Friday, his family said. He was 102.

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Canadian Opera Singer Simoneau Dies

Leopold Simoneau, one of Canada's most acclaimed opera singers who performed with many of the world's major orchestras, has died. He was 90.

Simoneau died peacefully Thursday night in the Victoria home where he had lived the past 20 years with his wife, soprano Pierrette Alarie, Pacific Opera Victoria artistic director Timothy Vernon confirmed Sunday.

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Veteran Bollywood director dies

Leading Indian film-maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee has died in hospital in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay).

The 84-year-old director, known for his simple stories about Indian middle class people and their relationships, had been ill for some time.

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A great actor passes on: Glenn Ford dies at 90 (he was Jonathan Kent in Superman: The Movie)

 

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Arthur Franz

Some actors struggle for recognition in dozens of movies until one role puts them in the spotlight, then retreat back into the shadows. One such was Arthur Franz, who has died aged 86. The role was as the mentally disturbed former soldier in The Sniper (1952) who, rejected by a woman he loves, cracks up and terrorises the streets of San Francisco by shooting women from buildings.

Arthur Franz, actor, born February 29 1920; died June 17 2006.

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Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz dies

Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, died Wednesday at the age of 94, bringing tributes from literary figures and world leaders for an author who became a symbol of liberalism in the face of Islamic extremism.

Mahfouz's novels depicted modern life in his beloved neighborhood of Islamic Cairo, a teeming district of millennium-old mosques and winding alleyways. He brought to life his city's traditional families as they faced the 20th century's upheavals, including the changing role of women.

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'King of kitsch' Tretchikoff dies

Artist Vladimir Tretchikoff, whose painting The Chinese Girl became the highest-selling print in history, has died in South Africa aged 92.

Tretchikoff had been in poor health for a number of years and suffered a stroke in 2002 that left him unable to paint.

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Writer of Psycho film script dies

Screenwriter Joseph Stefano, who wrote the script for film classic Psycho, has died at the age of 84.

Stefano began his career as a pianist, singer and dancer but only found real success with his writing - first songs and then screenplays.

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Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy dies aged 96

Hungarian poet Gyorgy Faludy, a legend of resistance to the rise of Nazism and Communism, died at the age of 96 at his home in Budapest, national news agency MTI said on Saturday.

The poet, known to many in the West as George Faludy, played a role in Hungary's 1956 anti-communist uprising and would have been a key speaker at a conference to celebrate its 50th anniversary later this month.

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Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead:

He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said.

It is understood he was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest.

He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that's when it occured.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.