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2009 List of Famous Deaths

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The latest addition to the list is Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney. He was 79 and died in Newport Beach, California after a yearlong bout with stomach cancer.

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Two more additions.

LOS ANGELES – Brittany Murphy, the actress who got her start in the sleeper hit "Clueless" and rose to stardom in "8 Mile" before her movie roles declined in recent years, died Sunday in Los Angeles of what appeared to be natural causes, a Los Angeles County coroner's official said. She was 32.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_brittany_murphy;_ylt=AtDeg1Nh71P_90JCaN2k2Ey9IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTM3MnZqNWRsBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjIxL3VzX29iaXRfYnJpdHRhbnlfbXVycGh5BGNjb2RlA3JhbmRvbQRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzMEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNhY3RyZXNzYnJpdHQ-

TEHRAN, Iran – The spiritual father of Iran's reform movement died Sunday at the age of 87, prompting thousands of his followers to immediately head to the holy city where the dissident cleric is to be buried.

A huge display of mourning for Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri could transform his funeral Monday into another display of power by the opposition, whose activists have for months defied a brutal crackdown, a mass trial and abuses in detention to denounce the country's hard-line clerical rulers. Opposition leaders called for people to turn out for a day of mourning.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_obit_montazeri

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