Celebrity Deaths

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
Craig Brown, the last man to take Scotland to a World Cup final, has died at the age of 82.

[NathanR]

RE: Celebrity Deaths
British actor Julian Sands has been confirmed dead, aged 65.

Sands had been missing since January, having gone missing whilst hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains in California, a body was discovered on Saturday and it has just been confirmed to have been of Sands.

RIP.

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
Dame Ann Leslie, one of Britain's most famous and formidable journalists, has died at the age of 82.

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
US actor Alan Arkin, who won an Oscar and a Bafta for his role as the outrageous grandad in the film Little Miss Sunshine, has died aged 89.

[NathanR]

RE: Celebrity Deaths
Actress Meg Johnson, best known for her 17-year stint as Pearl Ladderbanks on Emmerdale has died at the age of 86.

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
Singer Coco Lee, who enjoyed pop stardom in Asia in the 1990s and 2000s, has died at the age of 48. Born in Hong Kong, Lee moved to the US as a child and released albums in Mandarin and English. She also voiced the lead character in the Mandarin version of Disney's hit film Mulan, and performed a song from the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at the 2001 Oscars.

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
British-French actress and singer Jane Birkin OBE died at her home in Paris at the age of 76, French media has reported. Birkin was best known for her sexually explicit 1969 song 'Je t'aime.. moi non plus,' which she sang with the late Serge Gainsbourg.

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
Tony Bennett, the legendary New York pop and jazz singer, has died aged 96.

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
Vince Hill, the singer best known for his 1967 hit Edelweiss, has died at the age of 89.

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
George Alagiah, one of the BBC's longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer.