Jose (Pepin) Bello, 103, who influenced painter Salvador Dali, film director Luis Bunuel and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, died in his sleep of old age at his Madrid home, his family told Spanish national news agency Efe. Bello was known to be the last living representative of the cultural movement known as the Generation of 1927. Despite his influence over some of the country's best known cultural figures, Bello produced few literary or art works himself.

Mexican writer and poet Andres Henestrosa, 101, a Zapotec Indian who defended and promoted his native language, died Thursday at his Mexican City home after a monthslong battle with pneumonia. Henestrosa was born in southern Oaxaca state and didn't learn Spanish until he was 15 years old. He often focused his work on indigenous cultures and languages, writing a Zapotec-Spanish dictionary in 1936. Henestrosa also was elected to Mexico's Congress and Senate.

Eddie (Bozo) Miller, 89, a man known for his amazing capacity for food consumption, died Monday. Miller, who had struggled with diabetes and other health problems, died of natural causes at his home in Oakland, said his son-in-law, Steve Blackman. Miller was known for his appetite for life and feasting, which landed him in record books. He once downed 27 two-pound chickens at one sitting for a bet. He also was known for eating more than 300 ravioli at one time.

Vincent Gruppuso, 67, a former deliveryman who bought a recipe for rice pudding from a Brooklyn deli in the 1960s and turned it into multimillion-dollar company, died Dec. 29 of complications of diabetes. Gruppuso, the founder of Kozy Shack Enterprises, died at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. One of Gruppuso's stops on his bread delivery route in the mid-1960s was the Cozy Shack delicatessen, where he took an instant liking to the rice pudding. He started selling trays at his other stops and, in 1967, bought the recipe and started his own business in Queens.

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