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Jo Raquel Tejada
Arts & Music
25
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Jo Raquel Tejada

Raquel Welch
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1940 โ€“ 2023 (82 years old)

American actress and international sex symbol of the 1960s and 1970s whose prehistoric doe-skin bikini poster for One Million Years B.C. became a defining cultural phenomenon, winning a Golden Globe for The Three Musketeers.

Los Angeles, United States
Akira Matsumoto
Arts & Music
25
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Akira Matsumoto

ๆพๆœฌ ้›ถๅฃซ
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1938 โ€“ 2023 (85 years old)

Titan of Japanese manga and anime whose sweeping romantic space operas, including Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999, and Space Pirate Captain Harlock, captivated international audiences and inspired Daft Punk's Interstella 5555.

Tokyo, Japan
Thomas Miller
Arts & Music
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Thomas Miller

Tom Verlaine
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1949 โ€“ 2023 (73 years old)

American rock musician, singer, and visionary guitarist who fronted the seminal New York proto-punk band Television, creating the 1977 masterpiece Marquee Moon with its intricate, shimmering dual-guitar interplay.

New York City, United States
Akli Yahiatene
Arts & Music
2
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Akli Yahiatene

ุฃูƒู„ูŠ ูŠุญูŠู‰ ุชู†
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1933 โ€“ 2023 (89 years old)

Legendary singer of Algerian folk and Chaabi, imprisoned multiple times by French authorities during the revolution, famous for the universal exile anthem 'Yal Menfi'.

Algiers, Algeria
Saรขd Ben Cheffaj
Arts & Music
3
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Saรขd Ben Cheffaj

ุณุนุฏ ุจู† ุดูŽูู‘ุงุฌ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1939 โ€“ 2023 (84 years old)

Master Moroccan painter, graduate of the San Fernando Royal Academy in Madrid and the ร‰cole du Louvre in Paris, whose poetic, somber expressionist canvases made him a titan of Moroccan visual arts.

Tetouan, Morocco
Arata Isozaki
Arts & Music
24
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Arata Isozaki

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1931 โ€“ 2022 (91 years old)

Visionary Japanese architect, urban planner, and 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate who bridged Eastern and Western architectural thought, designing the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Palau Sant Jordi for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Oita, Japan
Terence Edward Hall
Arts & Music
26
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Terence Edward Hall

Terry Hall
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1959 โ€“ 2022 (63 years old)

Inimitable deadpan frontman of the seminal British 2 Tone ska band The Specials, whose socially conscious anthems "Ghost Town" and "A Message to You, Rudy" defined early-1980s British youth culture, later forming Fun Boy Three.

London, United Kingdom
Angelo Badalamenti
Arts & Music
26
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Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1937 โ€“ 2022 (85 years old)

Grammy-winning American film composer whose haunting, dreamlike, and darkly romantic musical partnership with director David Lynch produced the iconic scores for Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and The Straight Story.

Lincoln Park, New Jersey, United States
Irene Cara Escalera
Arts & Music
22
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Irene Cara Escalera

Irene Cara
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1959 โ€“ 2022 (63 years old)

Oscar and Grammy-winning American singer and actress of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage who defined 1980s cinematic pop music by starring in and singing the title track of Fame, and co-writing and singing "Flashdance... What a Feeling".

Largo, Florida, United States
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