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"60 Minutes" correspondent Bob Simon died Wednesday in a car accident in New York City, CBS News reported. He was 73.

Simon's career in news spanned some 50 years and earned him countless awards.

He joined CBS News in 1967 as a reporter and editor based in New York. Simon went on to report from all over the world.

He covered the war in Vietnam and was on one of the last helicopters out of Saigon, according to his CBS News biography.

In 1991, Simon was captured by Iraqi forces at the start of the Gulf War. He and three colleagues spent 40 days in prison, an experience he later wrote about in his book "Forty Days."

Among his many awards are four Peabodys, 27 Emmys and the Overseas Press Club's highest honor for a body of work, the biography read.

Simon and his wife, Françoise, have one daughter, who is a producer for "60 Minutes."

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Australian-born actor Rod Taylor, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, "The Birds," died this week in Los Angeles.

Taylor was 84.

He died at home Wednesday surrounded by his family and loved ones, his daughter, Felicia Taylor, said in a statement. No cause of death was given.

"My dad loved his work. Being an actor was his passion -- calling it an honorable art and something he couldn't live without," she said.

Rod Taylor appeared in dozens of films, including "The Time Machine," "The Train Robbers" and "Sunday in New York."

"There are so many incredible feelings I have for him," said Tippi Hedren, his co-star in "The Birds."

"Rod was a great pal to me ... we were very, very good friends," she said. "He was one of the most fun people I have ever met, thoughtful and classy, there was everything good in that man."

Taylor was born in Sydney -- the only child of a steel contractor father and a writer mother. He attended a fine arts college and a theater school in his hometown before heading to Hollywood in the 1950s.

He also co-starred with Dennis Cole in the CBS 1971 series The Bearcats.

Once there, his star kept rising with various high-profile roles in movies such as "The Train Robbers" and "The Catered Affair." In his final role, he played Winston Churchill in the 2009 movie, "Inglourious Basterds," with Brad Pitt.

Taylor is survived by his wife of more than three decades, Carol, and his daughter, Felicia, a former CNN News correspondent.