AP - Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style, robust laugh and trademark cloud of cigarette smoke billowing around his head, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.
AP - French actor Michel Serrault, whose hit performance as a transvestite in the film and stage versions of “La cage aux folles” (The Birdcage) catapulted him to international stardom, has died. He was 79.
AP - Victor Frunza, a Romanian anti-communist dissident and writer, has died in Denmark of a heart attack. He was 72.
AP - Master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest artists in cinema history, died Monday at his home on an island off the coast of Sweden. He was 89.
AP - Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style and his robust, trademark laugh, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.
AP - The head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, who made history when he invited the late John Paul II to his Orthodox country in 1999 but was criticized for being too close to former Communists, died Monday. He was 92.
AP - Painter Odile Crick, whose most famous drawing was a graceful sketch of the double-helix structure of DNA, has died.
AP - Dilip Ganguly, whose 21-year career at The Associated Press saw him report from Baghdad during the Gulf War, on the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and on stories across South Asia, died on Sunday. He was 57.
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AP - Lawton Williams, who wrote the 1957 hit “Fraulein” recorded by Bobby Helms, has died in Fort Worth, Texas. He had just turned 85.