Robert Short, 76, the author and theologian who wrote "The Gospel According to Peanuts," died Monday in Little Rock, Ark. A cause of death was not immediately known.
The Presbyterian minister wrote his book with the blessing of the cartoon's creator, Charles Schulz. The book first was published in 1965 and sold more than 10 million copies.
Short wrote seven other books, including two others with Peanuts themes.
Gen. Bela Kiraly, 97, a Hungarian military leader who commanded the tumultuous 1956 uprising against Soviet invaders and decades later served in his country's first post-Communist parliament, died July 4 in Budapest. No cause of death was reported.
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