Famous French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss has died aged 100, his publisher announced. He passed away during the night from Saturday to Sunday.
After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, best known for his roles in the hit films "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," died in his Los Angeles home aged 57.
Nobel Prize winning scientist Norman Borlaug (left), an agricultural pioneer whose work was credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, has died at the age of 95, the New York Times has reported.
The body of deceased Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy was brought to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on Friday. He will be laid to rest Saturday in the city's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica.
Sergei Mikhalkov (photo right), the author who wrote the lyrics of the Russian national anthem for both Vladimir Putin and Joseph Stalin 50 years before, died on Thursday, aged 96.
Senator Edward Kennedy will be buried on Saturday beside his brothers at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., following a private funeral mass. US President Barack Obama will deliver a speech at the mass.
Pop star Michael Jackson's death was caused by lethal levels of the powerful anaesthetic propofol, according to findings by the Los Angeles chief medical examiner that were unsealed in a Houston court on Monday.
South Korea bid farewell to former President Kim Dae-Jung on Sunday, known for his attempts to reconcile with Pyongyang under his administration's "sunshine" policy. Kim, a former democracy activist and a Nobel laureate, died Tuesday at age 85.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics to foster fitness among the handicapped, has died at the age of 88. Eunice was the sister of former US President John F. Kennedy, former Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
American director and screenwriter John Hughes, who directed a series of hit films in the 1980s including 'The Breakfast Club' and 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and penned the screenplay for 'Home Alone', has died in New York at the age of 59.
