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Judith Jones, the editor who discovered Julia Child and advanced a generation of culinary writers that revolutionised cooking and tastes in American homes, and who for a half-century edited John Updike, Anne Tyler, John Hersey and other literary lions, died on Wednesday at her summer home in Walden, Vermont. She was 93.
The Q was the first company to perform at the unfinished Sydney Opera House to 500 workers in hard hats.
Australian tennis champion Mervyn Rose, who won seven grand slam tournament titles in the 1950s and later coached champions including Billie Jean King and Margaret Smith Court, died on Sunday in Coffs Harbour at the age of 87.
Sam Shepard, who has died aged 73, overcame a difficult childhood and poor education to become one of America's leading literary figures – a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, an Oscar-nominated actor, an author, director, poet, musician and long-time partner of actor Jessica Lange.
"I worked with so many monsters: the Daleks first, then the Ice Warriors and the Cybermen – they were horrendous.
Passionate, eccentric, warm-hearted, unpretentious, generous. Mary Scott lived life on her terms.
Graham Miller's love of teaching science made him a natural choice to be the presenter of the first television science series to be broadcast directly from the studio to the classroom.
The blind singer-songwriter who took Indigenous music to the world has died after battling health problems for most of his life.
Invited to join Sinatra and the Rat Pack at a casino bar she kept walking and told a friend 'I don't want to deal with drunks'.
An expert on ageing, Dr Shigeaki Hinohara warned of danger in sedentary lifestyle.
Lane said "My designs are all original. Original from someone."
John Heard, an actor who played pained characters in dramas but was probably best known for his role as the father who mistakenly left his youngest son behind on a family trip to Paris in the comedy Home Alone, has died in Palo Alto, California aged 71.
Marilyn Monroe wrote that watching Aleshia Brevard was like seeing herself on film.
Despite his unconventional appearance and love of hospitality, barrister Michael Adams showed throughout his career a concern for vulnerable people in the justice system and his determination to provide an environment where equality of treatment might be possible.
Rat of Tobruk won the Military Cross at the 2nd Battle of El Alamein
Frances Gabe's self-cleaning house remained the only one of its kind ever built.
Bernie Shepherd was an indispensable part of curriculum, assessment, scaling and standard setting in NSW.
Filmmaker's father was projectionist, his mother an usherette
He later decried the prescription of ADHD medications as being "at unprecedented and unjustified levels".
John Ulrik, who fled a Hitler-threatened Europe in 1934, became an outstanding leader and organiser "out in the sticks" in Melbourne's east.
Presbyterian minister Ron Blackwood provided wise advice and leadership to his church through the difficult times leading to union in the Uniting Church.
Thanks to China's strict censorship most Chinese have probably never heard of Liu Xiaobo.
Yuri I. Drozdov, Elsa Martinelli, Captain "Tubby" Crawford
When Rudolf Nureyev was cranky, few would stand up to him. Lawrence was an exception.
Graceland brought world attention to South Africa.
Prolific playwright John Lee planned a series of uplifting, life-affirming, accessible and entertaining musicals that would investigate some of the moral quandaries of the human condition.
Sheila Michaels, who half a century ago, wielding two consonants and a period, changed the way modern women are addressed, has died in Manhattan. Ms Michaels, who introduced the honorific "Ms" into common parlance, was 78.
Nell Charlwood, a farm girl from the prairies, lived in Melbourne for 72 years as a Canadian citizen, and may have been the last of Melbourne's Canadian war brides.
In both his distinguished careers as meteorologist and internationalist,Ian Bell gave greatly and energetically to the world, and greatly enjoyed the giving.
Fendi under-the-arm handbag featured in three storylines in Sex and the City and became the "it" bag no self-respecting celebrity could be seen without.
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