Playboy prince in exile who once courted James Bond girl in Dr No
Prince Alexander found cousin King Peter a companion in his favourite pursuits of reckless driving, baiting tutors and picking up not entirely suitable girls
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Prince Alexander found cousin King Peter a companion in his favourite pursuits of reckless driving, baiting tutors and picking up not entirely suitable girls
Francois Georges Domaingue died after a prolonged period of poor health. His was a long journey, full of achievements, despite humble beginnings and a modest end.
Peter Morley, who has died aged 91, carried out the only interview with Adolf Hitler's younger sister, Paula Wolf, and directed ITV's coverage of the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, beating the BBC to secure a Bafta.
Harry Rabinowitz, who has died aged 100, was the original conductor for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats.
Socialite Lady Renouf dies on her birthday.
June Loney was principal harpist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Australian athletics has lost one of its most successful contributors with the passing of former Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and national team coach Norm Osborne.
Hollywood photographer Bill Jones, one of the first black photographers working the celebrity beat, has died in his home in Los Angeles at age 81; neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin, who published more than 100 research papers on Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, has died aged 79; Squadron Leader Percy Beake, who flew Spitfires in the latter stages of the Battle of Britain has died aged 99; the last fugitive wanted over war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Goran Hadzic, has died aged 57; French Resistance fighter who assassinated Philippe Henriot as part of the Paris Resistance has died aged 94.
Self-described as a "footloose" judge, he returned to work at age 70 "back from the dead" despite the loss of both feet in a medical emergency
Provenzano was arrested in shepherd's refuge after police tracked laundry of his partner
Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the 6 million Jews slaughtered in World War II, died at his home in Manhattan.
Sally Beauman: "I was paid a great deal of money and wrote a book that was sexually explicit. Both were unforgivable."
Sydney Harbour pilot who always said that the longer a pilotage took, the more time there was to make mistakes.
Cartoonist Frank Dickens: "Monday: Up at 5.45am. Thinks up six 'Bristows'. Draws them. 9.00am faxes them to office. End of working week."
Schanberg was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize for his courage in staying at his post in Phnom Penh
Pilot thought to have been the last surviving Australian fighter "ace" of the Second World War.
Taylor discussed how the loneliness of dying is made worse by Australian laws that make helping someone to die a criminal offence
Matthew Evans persuaded T. S. Eliot's widow a musical version of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats might be a good idea.
Hal Holman was awarded significant honours by the governments of both Australia and Papua New Guinea for his art and sculpture.
Her writing took people behind the American dream to the pain and misery in the lives of the ultra wealthy.
Lois Lane generally ended up tied to railway tracks, trapped in a cave or, as Neill put it, "bound, gagged and waiting for the bomb to go off".
Stefania Siedlecky identified poor access of Aboriginal women to the health system.
John Farquharson covered stories from the defection of Russian spy Vladimir Petrov to sacking of the Whitlam government.
Sinister movie The Wicker Man inspired a cult following
Caroline Aherne, five time Bafta winner was sick of being famous
Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work "Night" is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature, has died, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial said. He was 87.
Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker who earned a reputation as one of Hollywood's boldest directors with the haunting 1978 Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter, and then all but squandered it two years later with Heaven's Gate, died on Saturday. He was 77.
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One reporter called him "The Man Who Ate Arnott's", referring to the acrimonious corporate takeover of the 1990s. David Johnson, the famed chief executive of Campbell Soup Company, led it. His illustrious corporate career started with an MBA from the University of Chicago.
American soprano Phyllis Curtin was a champion of contemporary music.
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