Tributes were paid on Tuesday to former two-time Tourde France winner Laurent Fignon who died following a battle with cancer.

The French rider, who had been suffering from cancer of the digestive system, passed away in the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris at the age of 50 years.

Rest In Peace, Laurent.

Alain Corneau, the French filmmaker who leapt to international notice with the 1991 hit "Tous les Matins du Monde," aperiod drama about 17th-century musicians, has died, his talent agency said. He was 67.

Artmedia agency said Monday that Corneau, who was suffering from cancer, died overnight.

Rest In Peace, Alain.

Cops and detectives, doctors and lawyers, spies and cowboys, heroes, superheroes and semi-superheroes. These are staples of television drama, and one of the unsung people who stapled them was Jackson Gillis, a prolific slogger in the trenches of television writing whose career spanned more than four decades and whose scripts put words in the mouths of Superman, Perry Mason, Columbo, Wonder Woman, Zorro, Tarzan, NapoleonSolo and Illya Kuryakin, Jessica Fletcher and, in a manner of speaking, Lassie.

Mr. Gillis died of pneumonia in Moscow, Idaho, on Aug. 19, his daughter, Candida, said. He was 93.

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In addition to his daughter, who lives in Moscow, he is survived by a brother, William, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and a grandson.

Rest In Peace, Jackson.

Richard T. Conroy, who recast his early misadventures in the State Department and the Smithsonian Institution in comic memoirs and mystery novels and who had launched a secondary career as an artist and photographer, died Aug. 6 of heart disease at Hillhaven nursing center in Adelphi. He was 82.

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Survivors include two daughters, S. Claire Conroy of Silver Spring and Camille Conroy of Parkersburg, W.Va.; a sister; and a grandson.

Rest In Peace, Richard.

George David Weiss, who helped write chart-topping pop hits including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "What a Wonderful World," has died. He was 89.

He died Monday of natural causes at his home in Oldwick, N.J., his wife, Claire, said.

Rest In Peace, George.