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Marc Sleen
Arts & Music
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Marc Sleen

Marcel Neels
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1922 โ€“ 2016 (93 years old)

Iconic Flemish cartoonist and wildlife documentary filmmaker who created The Adventures of Nero and co., holding the Guinness World Record for single-handedly drawing over 200 full comic strip albums without assistants.

Sint-Amandsberg (Ghent), Belgium
Moncef Souissi
Arts & Music
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Moncef Souissi

ุงู„ู…ู†ุตู ุงู„ุณูˆูŠุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1944 AD โ€“ 2016 (72 years old)

Visionary theatrical innovator who founded the legendary Regional Theater Troupe of El Kef, decentralizing Tunisian drama and staging masterworks like El Halag and Diwan Ezzanj.

Tunis, Tunisia
Daphne Odjig
Arts & Music
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Daphne Odjig

Daphne Odjig
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1919 โ€“ 2016 (97 years old)

Pioneering Potawatomi-Odawa artist who co-founded the Indian Group of Seven in 1973, blending cubist and Indigenous woodland styles, and became the first Indigenous woman admitted to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Manitoulin Island (Ontario), Canada
Kalthoum Bornaz
Arts & Music
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Kalthoum Bornaz

ูƒู„ุซูˆู… ุจุฑู†ุงุฒ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1945 โ€“ 2016 (71 years old)

Pioneering female Tunisian filmmaker and editor whose feature films Keswa (The Thread of the Tale) and The Other Half of the Sky explored female emancipation, generational memory, and cultural tradition.

Tunis, Tunisia
Arts & Music
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Zaha Hadid

ุฒู‡ุง ุญุฏูŠุฏ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Iraq
31 October 1950 โ€“ 31 March 2016 (65 years old)

First woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, legendary deconstructivist architect renowned worldwide as the 'Queen of the Curve'.

Woking, United Kingdom
Tayeb Saddiki
Arts & Music
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Tayeb Saddiki

ุงู„ุทูŠุจ ุงู„ุตุฏูŠู‚ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1938 โ€“ 2016 (77 years old)

The undisputed titan of modern Moroccan theater who authored and directed over eighty plays, adapting Halqa traditions and medieval Maqamat into globally celebrated theatrical masterworks.

Casablanca, Morocco
Igor Sergun
Arts & Music
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Igor Sergun

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
c. 1958 โ€“ 2016 (58 years old)

Igor Dmitrievich Sergun was a Russian military officer who was a director of GRU, Russia's military intelligence service, from 2011 until his death in January 2016. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Moscow, Russia
Marcel Barbeau
Arts & Music
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Marcel Barbeau

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
c. 1926 โ€“ 2016 (90 years old)

Marcel Barbeau, was a Canadian painter, sculptor, and graphic and performance artist who used different forms of abstraction and art techniques and technology to express himself.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Ottawa, Canada
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