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June 28, 2010 Robert Byrd, 92, longest-serving US senator, in office for 51 years. A Democrat, he was briefly a member of the Ku Klux Klan and he joined Southern Democrats in an unsuccessful filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Link BBC

April 20, 2010: Dr Dorothy Height, 98, pioneering US civil rights activist. President Barack Obama described her as "the godmother of the civil rights movement" and a hero to Americans.
Link: BBC

April 15, 2010: Benjamin L. Hooks, 85, former longtime head of the US National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

April 3, 2010: Eugene Terre'Blanche, 79, leader of the South African white supremacist group, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement.
Link: SMH

April 2, 2010: Lady (Sonia) McMahon, 77, widow of former Australian prime minister Sir William McMahon, and prominent socialite, of cancer.
Link: ABC

March 3, 2010: Michael Foot, 96, former British Labour party leader. He was first elected to Parliament in 1945 and led the party from 1980-83.
Link: Telegraph

March 2, 2010: Winston Churchill, 69, British journalist and Conservative MP, the grandson and namesake of the World War II prime minister.
Links: Times

February 20, 2010: Alesander Haig, 85, US Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan.
Link: Times

February 10, 2010: Charlie Wilson, 76, former Texas congressman whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the USSR was chronicled in the Tom Hanks film Charlie Wilson's War.
Link: Houston Chronicle

August 25, 2009: Edward Kennedy, 77, US Senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy, of a brain tumour. A key Democrat who pushed important legislation, his presidential ambiitons were thwarted when, in 1969, he drove a car off a bridge at Chappaquiddick. His passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
Links: CNN

July 31, 2009: Corazon Aquino, 76, former President of Philippines who led a "people power" revolution that replaced dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Links: BBC

December 18, 2008: Mark Felt, 95, White House official, codenamed "Deep Throat", who blew the whistle to reporter Bob Woodward on US president Richard Nixon's dirty tricks in the Watergate affair.
Links: CNN

May 21, 2008: Brian Keenan, 66, Irish republican and guerrilla strategist, of cancer.
Links: Guardian

January 27, 2008: Sunharto, 86, former president of Indonesia.
Links: NY Times

December 27, 2007: Benazir Bhutto, 54, former Pakistani prime minister, assassinated at a political rally. Many others also died when the gunman blew himself up.
Links: BBC; CNN

December 22, 2007: Sir Charles Court, 97, former premier of Western Australia, and father of former WA premier Richard Court.
Links: ABC

December 15, 2007: Clem Jones, 89, visionary long-serving lord mayor of Brisbane, Australia. Jones was also in charge of rebuilding Darwin in 1975 in the wake of Cyclone Tracy.
Links: Courier-Mail; ABC

November 20, 2007: Ian Smith, 88, former prime minister of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Smith defied the world to declare independence and led the country for 14 years, but that gave way to black majority rule under Robert Mugabe.
Links: BBC; Telegraph.

November 7, 2007: Earl Dodge, 74, US politician and businessman who ran for President on the Prohibition ticket.
Links: NY Times

November 2, 2007: Peter Andren, 63, independent Australian Member of Parliament, of cancer. A former television and radio journalist, he was a vocal critic of many government policies.
Links: ABC

October 14, 2007: Bob Denard, 76, French former mercenary, born Gilbert Bourgeaud, who operated in Africa in the 1960s and 70s and once controlled the former colony of Comoros.
Links: IHT

October 12, 2007: Kim Beazley Sr, 90, Australian politician who was Education Minister in the Whitlam Government (1972-75). He was also the father of the former ALP leader Kim Beazley.
Links: Courier-Mail, SMH

September 30, 2007: Milan Jelic, 51, president of Bosnia's Serb Republic, of a heart attack.
Links: MSNBC

July 22, 2007: Zahir Shah, 92, former king of Afghanistan who was deposed in 1973 but returned after the fall of the Taleban.
Links: BBC

July 11, 2006: Lady Bird Johnson, 94, widow of former US president Lyndon Baines Johnson, born Claudia Alta Taylor. She not only supported her husband's political ambitions, but built up a media empire in Texas.
Links: CNN

June 14, 2007: Kurt Waldheim, 88, former United Nations Secretary General and Austrian president. Waldheim's reputation was tarnished when it was revealed that he had hidden his involvement with a Nazi military unit in the Balkans during World War II.
Links: New York Times

June 4, 2007: Tom Burns, 75, iconic figure in the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party and onetime deputy premier of Queensland.
Links: Courier-Mail

May 15, 2007: Jerry Falwell, 73, US evangelical Christian and leader of the conservative political force the Moral Majority. A controversial figure, he first came to prominence as host of The Old Time Gospel Hour on radio and television.
Links: CNN; BBC

April 23, 2007: Boris Yeltsin, 76, the man who "brought democracy to Russia" after the dismantling of the Soviet Union. He was the first democratically elected head of state in Russia, and the first Kremlin leader to step down voluntarily.
Links: CNN; BBC; ABC

February 13, 2007: Maurice Papon, 96, French civil servant who became a Nazi collaborator during World War II. Evidence against him did not come to light until the 1980s and he was jailed in 1998 for complicity in crimes against humanity.
Links: ABC; BBC