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Jason David Frank
Arts & Music
23
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Jason David Frank

Jason David Frank
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1973 โ€“ 2022 (49 years old)

Accomplished martial artist and actor who became a worldwide pop-culture icon as Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger and White Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, starring across ten television series over twenty-five years.

Houston, Texas, United States
William Daniel McCafferty
Arts & Music
26
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William Daniel McCafferty

Dan McCafferty
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1946 โ€“ 2022 (76 years old)

Powerhouse Scottish rock singer and frontman for hard rock band Nazareth for forty-five years, whose rasping, high-octane vocals electrified hits like "Love Hurts", "Hair of the Dog", and "Broken Down Angel", directly influencing Axl Rose.

Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom
Jerry Lee Lewis
Arts & Music
21
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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1935 โ€“ 2022 (87 years old)

Volcanic American rock and roll pioneer nicknamed "The Killer", whose ferocious piano-pounding and swagger in 1957 classics "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire" established him alongside Elvis Presley as a founding titan of rock music.

Clayton, United States
Leslie Allen Jordan
Arts & Music
23
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Leslie Allen Jordan

Leslie Jordan
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1955 โ€“ 2022 (67 years old)

Diminutive, flamboyant Emmy-winning American comedic actor and playwright celebrated for his scene-stealing role as Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace, appearances in American Horror Story, and joyful viral pandemic videos that comforted millions.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Anthony Robert McMillan
Arts & Music
23
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Anthony Robert McMillan

Robbie Coltrane
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1950 โ€“ 2022 (72 years old)

Towering Scottish actor and comedian who achieved worldwide affection as the gentle half-giant Rubeus Hagrid across all eight Harry Potter films, won three consecutive BAFTAs as forensic psychologist Fitz in Cracker, and starred in James Bond films.

Stirlingshire, United Kingdom
Loretta Webb
Arts & Music
25
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Loretta Webb

Loretta Lynn
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1932 โ€“ 2022 (90 years old)

Groundbreaking American country music singer-songwriter dubbed "The Coal Miner's Daughter", whose fiercely honest working-class anthems confronting female autonomy, marital infidelity, and birth control broke radio taboos and sold over 45 million records.

Hurricane Mills, United States
Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
Arts & Music
24
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Artis Leon Ivey Jr.

Coolio
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1963 โ€“ 2022 (59 years old)

Grammy-winning American West Coast rapper who achieved global multi-platinum immortality with his 1995 hip-hop anthem "Gangsta's Paradise", one of the best-selling rap singles in history, and recorded "Fantastic Voyage".

Los Angeles, United States
Farrell Sanders
Arts & Music
21
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Farrell Sanders

Pharoah Sanders
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1940 โ€“ 2022 (81 years old)

Colossal American spiritual jazz and free jazz tenor saxophonist whose ferocious overblowing, split tones, and cosmic masterworks like "The Creator Has a Master Plan" with John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane expanded the spiritual horizons of music.

Los Angeles, California, United States
Farida Saboundji
Arts & Music
1
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Farida Saboundji

ูุฑูŠุฏุฉ ุตุงุจูˆู†ุฌูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1930 โ€“ 2022 (92 years old)

Doyenne of Algerian television, radio, and theater whose aristocratic diction and career spanning seven decades shaped classics like 'El Massir' and 'Meknassia'.

Algiers, Algeria
Jean-Luc Godard
Arts & Music
21
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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1930 โ€“ 2022 (91 years old)

Radical French-Swiss filmmaker and critic who pioneered the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) with masterpieces including Breathless, Contempt, and Pierrot le Fou, dismantling classical cinematic conventions and revolutionizing modern cinema.

Rolle, Switzerland
William Klein
Arts & Music
24
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William Klein

William Klein
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1926 โ€“ 2022 (96 years old)

Radical American-born French photographer and filmmaker whose revolutionary, raw, grainy street photography (Life Is Good & Good for You in New York, 1956), fashion imagery, and satirical cinema (Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?) upended photographic convention.

Paris, France
Rolf Kรผhn
Arts & Music
20
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Rolf Kรผhn

Rolf Kรผhn
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1929 โ€“ 2022 (92 years old)

Visionary German jazz clarinetist and composer whose virtuosity bridged Benny Goodman-style swing, American hard bop in New York with John Coltrane, and revolutionary European free jazz alongside his pianist brother Joachim Kรผhn.

Berlin, Germany
Bachir Yellรจs
Arts & Music
7
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Bachir Yellรจs

ุจุดูŠุฑ ูŠู„ุณ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1921 โ€“ 2022 (100 years old)

Centenarian master painter, foundational director of the ร‰cole Nationale des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, and lead artistic coordinator of the monumental Maqam Echahid (Martyrs' Memorial) in Algiers.

Algiers, Algeria
Wolfgang Petersen
Arts & Music
24
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Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1941 โ€“ 2022 (81 years old)

German film director who directed the claustrophobic World War II submarine masterpiece Das Boot, earning six Oscar nominations, before becoming a major Hollywood blockbuster auteur with The NeverEnding Story, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, and Troy.

Los Angeles, United States
Anne Celeste Heche
Arts & Music
21
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Anne Celeste Heche

Anne Heche
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1969 โ€“ 2022 (53 years old)

Vibrant American actress whose versatile talents shone in 1990s hits including Donnie Brasco, Volcano, Six Days Seven Nights, and Wag the Dog, who broke ground for LGBTQ+ visibility in Hollywood through her public relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.

Los Angeles, California, United States
Jean-Jacques Sempรฉ
Arts & Music
23
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Jean-Jacques Sempรฉ

Jean-Jacques Sempรฉ
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1932 โ€“ 2022 (89 years old)

Poetic French cartoonist and illustrator whose delicate, pastel watercolor drawings captured human foibles and joy, world-famous for co-creating the beloved Le Petit Nicolas children's series with Renรฉ Goscinny and drawing 113 covers for The New Yorker.

Paris, France
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