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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Donna Summer
Arts & Music
7
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Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1948 โ€“ 2012 (63 years old)

Crowned the undisputed 'Queen of Disco', whose powerhouse vocals and collaborations with Giorgio Moroder on I Feel Love, Hot Stuff, and Last Dance revolutionized electronic dance and pop music.

Nashville, United States
Warda Al-Jazairia
Arts & Music
11
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Warda Al-Jazairia

ูˆุฑุฏุฉ ุงู„ุฌุฒุงุฆุฑูŠุฉ (ูˆุฑุฏุฉ ูุชูˆูƒูŠ)
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1939 โ€“ 2012 (72 years old)

Legendary Algerian diva who sold over 100 million records across the Arab world, celebrated for her patriotic hymns to Algerian independence and immortal romantic classics composed by Baligh Hamdi.

Algiers, Algeria
Donald Dunn
Arts & Music
8
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Donald Dunn

Donald Carl Dunn
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1941 โ€“ 2012 (70 years old)

Legendary American bass guitarist and cornerstone of Stax Records whose groovy, syncopated basslines with Booker T. & the M.G.'s anchored timeless soul masterpieces by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and the Blues Brothers.

Memphis, United States
Junior Seau
Sports & Athletics
10
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Junior Seau

Ti'aina Baul Seau Jr.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1969 โ€“ 2012 (43 years old)

One of the greatest and most passionate linebackers in American football history, a twelve-time Pro Bowler and beloved icon of the San Diego Chargers whose posthumous CTE diagnosis ignited national reforms in head injury safety.

Oceanside, United States
Levon Helm
Arts & Music
7
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Levon Helm

Mark Lavon Helm
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1940 โ€“ 2012 (71 years old)

Soulful American drummer and lead vocalist for The Band, whose authentic Delta roots gave life to The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and Up on Cripple Creek.

Woodstock, United States
Dick Clark
Arts & Music
8
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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1929 โ€“ 2012 (82 years old)

Legendary American radio and television personality known as 'America's Oldest Teenager', who introduced rock and roll into mainstream culture as host of 'American Bandstand' and rang in four decades of New Year celebrations with 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'.

Pacific Ocean, United States
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
Arts & Music
8
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Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1939 โ€“ 2012 (73 years old)

Distinguished Russian stage and screen actor and director, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, renowned for his aristocratic bearing, deep voice, and roles in classics including Nikita Mikhalkov's 'At Home Among Strangers'.

Dmitrovsky District, Russia
Piermario Morosini
Sports & Athletics
10
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Piermario Morosini

Piermario Morosini
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
1986 โ€“ 2012 (25 years old)

Talented Italian professional footballer and youth international midfielder whose tragic collapse on the pitch in 2012 united Italian sports in grief and prompted mandatory cardiac screening and automated external defibrillators across professional leagues.

Bergamo, Italy
Art
1
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Afewerk Tekle

Afewerk Tekle
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia
1932-10-22 โ€“ 2012-04-10 (79 years old)

Ethiopia's most internationally celebrated painter and stained-glass master whose colossal 150-square-meter stained-glass work 'Total Liberation of Africa' graces Africa Hall.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
History
1
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Raymond Aubrac

Raymond Samuel (dit Aubrac)
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1914 โ€“ 2012 (97 years old)

Heroic French civil engineer and top internal resistance leader who co-founded Libรฉration-Sud with his wife Lucie Aubrac, was arrested with Jean Moulin at Caluire, and escaped in a daring armed rescue.

Salernes (Var), France
Fang Lizhi
Resistance & Human Rights
50
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Fang Lizhi

ๆ–นๅŠฑไน‹
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
12 February 1936 โ€“ 6 April 2012 (76 years old)

Fang Lizhi was a premier Chinese astrophysicist and university educator whose open advocacy for human rights, academic freedom, and democratic reform earned him the title of 'China's Sakharov'. His stirring campus lectures inspired the 1986 student democracy protests and laid the philosophical foundations for the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement, after which he spent a year sheltered inside the US Embassy in Beijing before entering exile.

Tucson, Arizona, United States
Jim Marshall
Sciences & Discovery
11
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Jim Marshall

James Charles Marshall
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1923 โ€“ 2012 (88 years old)

English pioneer of guitar amplification known as 'The Father of Loud' whose iconic Marshall amplifiers and 'Marshall stacks' created the signature roaring overdrive tone of rock and roll for Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Led Zeppelin.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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