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1911 – 2006Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)Died 30 August 2006, aged 94Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate, died from complications after a fall in Cairo. He was the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 1988. His Cairo Trilogy remains a landmark of modern Arabic literature.
1916 – 2006Glenn Ford (1916-2006)Canadian-born American actor, a leading man in Gilda, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle and 3:10 to Yuma.
2006Glenn Ford dies in Beverly HillsGlenn Ford dies aged 90.