JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Fatima Meer, a friend and biographer of Nelson Mandela has died. She was 81....

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Miguel Delibes, an acclaimed and prolific novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain and psychological analyses of characters facing turning points, died Friday. He was 89....

LONDON (AP) -- Sir Brian Pitman, the banker who led Lloyds TSB to become one of Europe's largest financial groups, has died at age 78, the British Bankers' Association said Friday....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen, who helped form one of the NFL's greatest defensive lines before embarking on a successful career in television, died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 69....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- John Nance, a former Associated Press reporter and photographer who covered the Vietnam War and later oversaw the news cooperative's operations in the Philippines, has died. He was 74....

MIAMI (AP) -- Tim Holland, a world backgammon champion who was one of the most prominent competitors in the game's modern heyday, has died. He was 79....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman and member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" who followed up football with a successful television career in "Little House on the Prairie," NFL broadcasts and commercials, has died. He was 69....

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. A. Raymond Tye was 87....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded....

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81....

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Willie Davis, a speedy center fielder who collected two World Series rings, three Gold Gloves and was a two-time All-Star during his 14 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died. He was 69....

BOGOTA (AP) -- Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- David Kimche, the Israeli spy-turned-diplomat who played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal that rocked President Ronald Reagan's administration, has died. He was 82....

LONDON (AP) -- Sir Kenneth Dover, a distinguished historian of Greek culture who gained wider fame by admitting his wish to kill a troublesome colleague, has died at 89....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died. He was 84....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee. He was 47....

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Richard Stapley, the actor who appeared alongside Elizabeth Taylor in "Little Women" and with Gene Kelly in "The Three Musketeers," has died. He was 86....

LONDON (AP) -- British tenor Philip Langridge, who won praise for his vocal versatility and subtle characterization, has died at the age of 70, the Royal Opera House said Sunday....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79....

DOVER, Tenn. (AP) -- Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style drama "The Legend of Boggy Creek" influenced the hit film "The Blair Witch Project" decades later, has died at age 71....

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80....

SUKHUMI, Georgia (AP) -- Vladislav Ardzinba, who led the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia to de facto independence through a bloody war and ethnic cleansing, died on Thursday, his doctor said. He was 64....

MERCED, Calif. (AP) -- A former adviser to former Gov. Jerry Brown who became an activist on transportation issues has died in what California authorities believe was a suicide....

LONDON (AP) -- Michael Foot, a bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain's Labour Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died Wednesday morning, officials said. He was 96....

LONDON (AP) -- Winston Spencer Churchill, a former member of Parliament and grandson of Britain's wartime leader, died Tuesday, an associate said. He was 69....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67....

PARIS (AP) -- Bernard Coutaz, who founded the respected independent classical record label Harmonia Mundi and ran it for five decades, has died, his company said Monday. He was 87....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The last surviving child of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata has died at 94....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, who performed with scores of musicians but was best known as the longtime bass player for the band led by pop-rock stars Daryl Hall and John Oates, has died. He was 58....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor died Sunday, his publisher said. He was 62....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- David Bankier, a prominent Holocaust scholar and head of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 63....