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Charles Bailleul

France

c. 1928 – 2026 (98 years old)

Charles Bailleul was a French linguist and Roman Catholic missionary, a member of the White Fathers.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Paris, France

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René Backmann

France

c. 1945 – 2026 (81 years old)

René Backmann was a French journalist known for international reporting at Le Nouvel Observateur and later for his columns at Mediapart, with work focusing on the Middle East and on questions of rights and humanitarian crises. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Paris, France

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Paul Glynn

Australia

c. 1929 – 2026 (97 years old)

Paul Glynn was an Australian Marist missionary priest and writer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Canberra, Australia

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Literature & Poetry

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Sondra Gotlieb

Canada

c. 1937 – 2026 (89 years old)

Sondra Gotlieb was a Canadian journalist and novelist who lived in Toronto, Ontario.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Ottawa, Canada

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Literature & Poetry

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Yury Yemelyanov

Russia

c. 1938 – 2026 (88 years old)

Yury Vasilyevich Yemelyanov was a Soviet-Russian historian and author, who was a Candidate of History Sciences (1979). Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Moscow, Russia

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Literature & Poetry

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Robert Macklin

Australia

c. 1942 – 2026 (84 years old)

Robert Victor Macklin was an Australian author and journalist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Canberra, Australia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Olena Hrechanina

Ukraine

c. 1936 – 2026 (90 years old)

Olena Yakovlevna Hrechanina was a Ukrainian geneticist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Sciences & Discovery

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Gregory Gregoriadis

Great Britain

c. 1935 – 2026 (91 years old)

Gregory Gregoriadis was a Greek-born British biochemist who pioneered the use of liposomes in drug targeting and vaccine development. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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Abdullahi Abubakar

Nigeria

c. 1936 – 2026 (90 years old)

Abdullahi Abubakar was a Nigerian Islamic cleric and humanitarian. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Abuja, Nigeria

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Literature & Poetry

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Aroha Awarau

Switzerland

c. 1977 – 2026 (49 years old)

Aroha Edward Awarau was a New Zealand journalist and playwright. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Sciences & Discovery

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Jean Rossier

Belgium

c. 1945 – 2026 (81 years old)

Jean Rossier was a Belgian biologist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Brussels, Belgium

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Sciences & Discovery

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Mieczysław Mąkosza

Poland

c. 1935 – 2026 (91 years old)

Mieczysław Józef Mąkosza was a Polish chemist who specialised in organic synthesis and investigation of organic mechanisms. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Warsaw, Poland

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Literature & Poetry

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Indira Devi Dhanrajgir

India

c. 1931 – 2026 (95 years old)

Indirā Dēvi Dhanarājgīr, better known as Rajkumari Indira Devi, was an Indian-English poet, painter, socialite and photography enthusiast from Hyderabad. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

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Sciences & Discovery

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Mario Rigutti

Italy

c. 1927 – 2026 (99 years old)

Mario Rigutti was an Italian astronomer and science communicator. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Rome, Italy

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Sciences & Discovery

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Louis E. Brus

United States

c. 1944 – 2026 (82 years old)

Louis Eugene Brus was an American chemist, and the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Robert Wolgemuth

United States

c. 1949 – 2026 (77 years old)

Robert David Wolgemuth was an American author who was the chairman of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Karl Riha

Germany

c. 1936 – 2026 (90 years old)

Karl Riha was a German poet, writer and literary scholar.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Berlin, Germany

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Erich von Däniken

Switzerland

c. 1936 – 2026 (90 years old)

Erich Anton Paul von Däniken was a Swiss author of several pseudoscientific books which made claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Bern, Switzerland

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