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Quincy Delight Jones Jr.

United States

1933 – 2024 (91 years old)

Colossal musical titan whose legendary 70-year career produced Michael Jackson's Thriller, organized We Are the World, scored The Color Purple, and earned 28 Grammy Awards and an Honorary Academy Award.

Los Angeles, United States

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Liam James Payne

Liam Payne

Great Britain

1993 – 2024 (31 years old)

English singer and songwriter who rose to global superstardom as a member of the boy band One Direction, one of the best-selling pop acts of the 21st century, before pursuing a successful solo career with hits like "Strip That Down".

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

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Emily Drinkard Houston

Emily Drinkard

United States

1933 – 2024 (91 years old)

Two-time Grammy-winning American gospel and soul matriarch who founded the backing vocal powerhouse The Sweet Inspirations, sang behind Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, and guided her daughter Whitney Houston to global superstardom.

Westfield, United States

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Kristoffer Kristofferson

United States

1936 – 2024 (88 years old)

Poetic giant of American songwriting and acclaimed actor. Author of country music classics Me and Bobby McGee, Sunday Morn' Comin' Down, and Help Me Make It Through the Night. Golden Globe winner for A Star Is Born.

Hana, Maui, Hawaii, United States

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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith

Great Britain

1934 – 2024 (89 years old)

Incomparable British stage and screen titan whose razor-sharp wit and poignant emotional depth won two Oscars, four Emmys, three Golden Globes, and five BAFTAs. Renowned as Minerva McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey.

London, United Kingdom

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James Earl Jones

United States

1931 – 2024 (93 years old)

Majestic American acting titan whose booming, aristocratic basso profondo voice gave life to Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King. Celebrated stage pioneer who won two Tony Awards, two Emmys, and a Grammy.

Pawling, New York, United States

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Sérgio Santos Mendes

Sérgio Mendes

Brazil

1941 – 2024 (83 years old)

Grammy-winning Brazilian pianist, composer, and bandleader who brought bossa nova and samba to the global mainstream with his group Brasil '66 and their world-famous rendition of Jorge Ben's "Mas que Nada".

Los Angeles, United States

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Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon

Alain Delon

France

1935 – 2024 (88 years old)

The ultimate leading man and sacred monster of post-war European cinema. Renowned for his hypnotic, feline beauty and stoic performances in masterworks like Le Samouraï, Rocco and His Brothers, and The Leopard.

Douchy-Montcorbon, France

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Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands

United States

1930 – 2024 (94 years old)

Legendary American actress whose ferocious, emotionally raw collaborations with husband John Cassavetes in A Woman Under the Influence and Gloria redefined modern screen acting. Winner of 4 Emmy Awards and an Honorary Academy Award.

Los Angeles, United States

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Shannen Maria Doherty

Shannen Doherty

United States

1971 – 2024 (53 years old)

American actress who defined 1990s television pop culture as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Prue Halliwell on Charmed, later revered for her courageous, public nine-year advocacy and chronicle of living with metastatic cancer.

Malibu, United States

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Shelley Alexis Duvall

Shelley Duvall

United States

1949 – 2024 (75 years old)

American actress and pioneering television producer renowned for iconic collaborations with director Robert Altman, her tour-de-force role as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and her Peabody-winning Faerie Tale Theatre.

Blanco, United States

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Donald McNichol Sutherland

Canada

1935 – 2024 (88 years old)

Towering Canadian character actor whose magnetic, idiosyncratic performances in M*A*S*H, Klute, Don't Look Now, Ordinary People, and The Hunger Games established him as one of cinema's greatest chameleons.

Georgeville, Quebec, Canada

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Anouk Aimée

France

1932 – 2024 (92 years old)

Distinguished French actress of aristocratic elegance and soulful mystery, immortalized in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and 8½, Jacques Demy's Lola, and Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, for which she earned a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination.

Paris, France

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Françoise Madeleine Hardy

Françoise Hardy

France

1944 – 2024 (80 years old)

Iconic French singer-songwriter and 1960s cultural figure who soared to international fame with "Tous les garçons et les filles", pioneering a melancholy, sophisticated pop style that influenced generations of global musicians.

Monticello, France

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David William Sanborn

David Sanborn

United States

1945 – 2024 (78 years old)

Six-time Grammy Award-winning American alto saxophonist whose searing, passionate tone bridged jazz, pop, blues, and rock, famously soloing on David Bowie's "Young Americans" and releasing landmark solo albums.

Sleepy Hollow, United States

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Frank Philip Stella

Frank Stella

United States

1936 – 2024 (87 years old)

Towering American painter and sculptor whose 1959 "Black Paintings" and shaped canvases helped launch Minimalism, famous for his defining aesthetic maxim: "What you see is what you see."

New York City, United States

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Laurent Cantet

Laurent Cantet

France

1961 – 2024 (62 years old)

Distinguished French film director and screenwriter who won the 2008 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Class (Entre les murs), celebrated for socially conscious, naturalistic cinema probing labor, class, and education.

Paris, France

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Joseph Gerard Flaherty

Joe Flaherty

United States

1941 – 2024 (82 years old)

American-Canadian comic actor and two-time Emmy-winning writer who was a foundational star of Second City and SCTV, famed for characters Guy Caballero and Count Floyd, and memorable roles in Happy Gilmore and Freaks and Geeks.

Toronto, Canada

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