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Peter Steele
Arts & Music
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Peter Steele

Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1962 โ€“ 2010 (48 years old)

Charismatic frontman, bassist, and songwriter for the gothic metal band Type O Negative, renowned for his 6-foot-8 frame, booming sub-bass vocals, and dark self-deprecating humor.

Farmingdale, United States
Vladimir Motyl
Arts & Music
12
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Vladimir Motyl

ะ’ะปะฐะดะธะผะธั€ ะฏะบะพะฒะปะตะฒะธั‡ ะœะพั‚ั‹ะปัŒ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ Belarus
1927 โ€“ 2010 (82 years old)

Soviet and Russian film director who created the legendary Red Western classic White Sun of the Desert (1970), traditionally watched by all Russian cosmonauts before spaceflights.

Moscow, Russia
Ali Ali-Khodja
Arts & Music
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Ali Ali-Khodja

ุนู„ูŠ ุนู„ูŠ ุฎูˆุฌุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1923 โ€“ 2010 (87 years old)

Master painter, graphic designer, and long-time professor and director of the National School of Fine Arts in Algiers, whose lyrical semi-abstract canvases celebrated Casbah geometry.

Algiers, Algeria
Georges Wilson
Arts & Music
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Georges Wilson

Georges Willson
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1921 โ€“ 2010 (88 years old)

Revered French actor and stage director who succeeded Jean Vilar at the helm of the Thรฉรขtre National Populaire (TNP) and starred in cinema classics from The Long Absence to Captain Fracasse.

Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, France
Meki Megara
Arts & Music
3
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Meki Megara

ุงู„ู…ูƒูŠ ู…ุบุงุฑุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1933 โ€“ 2009 (76 years old)

Pioneering modernist painter of the Tetouan School, professor at the National School of Fine Arts of Tetouan, and designer of Bank Al-Maghrib coins, medals, and commemorative currencies.

Tetouan, Morocco
Tyeb Mehta
Arts & Music
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Tyeb Mehta

เคคเคฏเฅเคฏเคฌ เคฎเฅ‡เคนเคคเคพ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1925 โ€“ 2009 (83 years old)

Indian modernist painter and filmmaker of the post-independence avant-garde, renowned for his tragic, fractured depictions of the Diagonal, the Falling Figure, and the Goddess Kali.

Marine Lines (Mumbai), India
Ali Akbar Khan
Arts & Music
28
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Ali Akbar Khan

เฆ†เฆฒเง€ เฆ†เฆ•เฆฌเฆฐ เฆ–เฆพเฆ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh
1922 โ€“ 2009 (87 years old)

Indian classical sarod virtuoso and composer hailed by Yehudi Menuhin as the greatest musician in the world, who popularized North Indian classical music throughout the West.

San Rafael (California), United States
Arts & Music
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Helen Khal

ู‡ูŠู„ูŠู† ุงู„ุฎุงู„
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1923 โ€“ 20 May 2009 (86 years old)

Pioneering Lebanese-American color-field painter, prominent art critic, and author of the groundbreaking 1987 study 'The Woman Artist in Lebanon'.

Beirut, Lebanon
Zoubeir Turki
Arts & Music
16
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Zoubeir Turki

ุฒุจูŠุฑ ุงู„ุชุฑูƒูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
April 19, 1924 โ€“ March 1, 2009 (84 years old)

Foremost Tunisian figurative painter and sculptor whose expressive sketches and monumental bronze statues, notably of Ibn Khaldoun, immortalized traditional urban life and historical national memory.

La Marsa, Tunisia
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