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João Donato de Oliveira Neto

João Donato

Brazil

1934 – 2023 (88 years old)

Visionary Brazilian pianist, composer, and arranger who bridged bossa nova, samba, Latin jazz, and funk, composing standards like "A Rã", "Simples Carinho", and the jazz-funk classic album Quem É Quem.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Jane Mallory Birkin

Great Britain

1946 – 2023 (76 years old)

English-French singer, actress, and enduring style muse. Formed a legendary personal and artistic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg, sang Je t'aime... moi non plus, and inspired the iconic Hermès Birkin bag.

Paris, France

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Alan Wolf Arkin

Alan Arkin

United States

1934 – 2023 (89 years old)

Genius American character actor and director who won an Academy Award for Little Miss Sunshine and earned Oscar nominations for The Russians Are Coming, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and Argo, over a six-decade stage and screen career.

Carlsbad, United States

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Glenda May Jackson

Great Britain

1936 – 2023 (87 years old)

Extraordinary British actress and politician who won two Oscars (Women in Love, A Touch of Class), then walked away from Hollywood to serve 23 years as a passionate socialist Member of Parliament.

London, United Kingdom

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Richard Treat Williams

Treat Williams

United States

1951 – 2023 (71 years old)

American actor who earned Golden Globe nominations for his breakout role as George Berger in Miloš Forman's Hair and Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City, and touched millions as Dr. Andy Brown in Everwood.

Manchester, United States

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Astrud Gilberto (née Weinert)

Astrud Gilberto

Brazil

1940 – 2023 (83 years old)

Brazilian singer whose cool, unadorned, breathy vocals on The Girl from Ipanema introduced bossa nova to the world, winning the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1965 and selling millions of copies.

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States

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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock)

United States

1939 – 2023 (83 years old)

Revered worldwide as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she overcame immense personal adversity to stage one of the greatest career comebacks in music history, selling over 100 million records and winning 12 Grammys.

Küsnacht, Switzerland

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George Raymond Stevenson

Ray Stevenson

Great Britain

1964 – 2023 (58 years old)

Towering Northern Irish actor renowned for imposing, charismatic performances including legionary Titus Pullo in HBO's Rome, Volstagg in Marvel's Thor films, Frank Castle in Punisher: War Zone, villain Governor Scott Buxton in RRR, and Baylan Skoll in Ahsoka.

Ibiza, Spain

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Andrew Michael Rourke

Andy Rourke

Great Britain

1964 – 2023 (59 years old)

Inimitable English bassist of the legendary indie rock band The Smiths whose melodic, funky, and driving basslines powered classics like "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", "This Charming Man", and "Barbarism Begins at Home".

Manchester, United Kingdom

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Rita Lee Jones de Carvalho

Rita Lee

Brazil

1947 – 2023 (75 years old)

Celebrated Brazilian singer-songwriter and feminist icon crowned the "Queen of Rock" (Rainha do Rock), who co-founded the groundbreaking psychedelic band Os Mutantes, driving the Tropicália movement, and sold over 55 million records.

São Paulo, Brazil

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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr.

Gordon Lightfoot

Canada

1938 – 2023 (84 years old)

Revered Canadian folk-rock troubadour and songwriter celebrated as Canada's greatest songwriter, whose lyrical masterpieces including "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "Sundown", and "If You Could Read My Mind" helped define the folk-pop sound of the 1970s.

Orillia, Canada

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Gerald Norman Springer

Jerry Springer

Great Britain

1944 – 2023 (79 years old)

American broadcaster and Democratic politician who served as the 56th Mayor of Cincinnati before hosting The Jerry Springer Show for 27 seasons (1991–2018), turning chaotic, televised domestic brawls into a global pop-culture phenomenon.

Skokie, United States

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Frederick Russell Jones

Ahmad Jamal

United States

1930 – 2023 (92 years old)

Incomparable American jazz pianist and composer whose revolutionary use of space, dynamic restraint, and subtle touch directly transformed Miles Davis and modern jazz, and whose 1958 live album At the Pershing sold over one million copies.

Northampton, United States

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Dame Barbara Mary Quant

Mary Quant

Great Britain

1930 – 2023 (93 years old)

Iconic British fashion designer who defined the "Swinging Sixties" and the Mod youthquake movement, popularizing the miniskirt, hotpants, colored tights, and PVC rainwear, liberating women's fashion from aristocratic formality.

Farley Green, United Kingdom

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Allan Jaffee

Abraham Jaffe

United States

1921 – 2023 (102 years old)

Centenarian American satirical cartoonist who drew for MAD Magazine for a record 65 years, inventing the legendary "Fold-In" inside back cover and the hilarious recurring feature "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions".

New York City, United States

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Michael Lerner

Michael Lerner

United States

1941 – 2023 (81 years old)

Formidable American character actor who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as studio mogul Jack Lipnick in the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, and appeared in Elf and Godzilla.

Los Angeles, United States

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

坂本 龍一

Japan

1952 – 2023 (71 years old)

Visionary Japanese composer, pianist, and electronic music trailblazer. Co-founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Oscar-winning film composer for The Last Emperor, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and The Revenant.

Tokyo, Japan

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Wayne Shorter

United States

1933 – 2023 (89 years old)

Titan of modern jazz saxophone and one of the genre's greatest composers. Key member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and co-founder of jazz fusion pioneers Weather Report.

Glendale, California, United States

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