Ten deaths that marked 2009: HELEN SUZMAN (died January 1, aged 91) Suzman was for decades the lone voice of white dissent in South Africa's parliament against apartheid rule. She served in parliament between 1953 and 1989 and was the first lawmaker to visit African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela in jail. After Mandela became the first post-apartheid president ...

Friends and relatives of the last survivor of the Titanic gathered on Saturday to scatter her ashes at the point where the ill-starred ocean liner set sail in April 1912. Elizabeth Gladys Dean -- who died on May 31, aged 97 -- was only nine weeks old when the "unsinkable" liner hit an iceberg on its maiden transatlantic voyage, drowning 1,517 ...

The ashes of the last Titanic survivor have been scattered at the English port where the ship began its ill-fated maiden voyage in 1912. Millvina Dean, who was 9 weeks old when her parents took her aboard the ship, died May 31 at age 97. Her ashes were scatted ...