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Clarence Clemons
Arts & Music
9
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Clarence Clemons

Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1942 โ€“ 2011 (69 years old)

Towering American saxophonist known as 'The Big Man', whose soulful, soaring tenor sax solos formed the emotional heart of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for four decades.

Palm Beach, United States
Elena Bonner
Resistance & Human Rights
47
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Elena Bonner

ะ•ะปะตะฝะฐ ะ“ะตะพั€ะณะธะตะฒะฝะฐ ะ‘ะพะฝะฝัั€
๐ŸŒ Turkmenistan
15 February 1923 โ€“ 18 June 2011 (88 years old)

Elena Bonner was a fearless Soviet pediatrician, World War II veteran, and premier human rights activist who co-founded the Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976 and served as the voice and international representative of her husband, Andrei Sakharov. Defying constant KGB surveillance, arrests, and internal exile in Gorky, she represented Soviet prisoners of conscience before the world community and accepted the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize on Sakharov's behalf.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Art
1
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Twins Seven-Seven

Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale Toshin Gbogunlorin
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria
1944-05-03 โ€“ 2011-06-16 (67 years old)

Internationally renowned Nigerian painter and bandleader from the Osogbo Art School whose vivid mythological canvases brought Yoruba cosmology to global prominence.

Osogbo, Nigeria
Kane Hadya
Humanitarian & Peace
16
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Kane Hadya

ูƒุงู†ูŠ ู‡ุงุฏูŠุง
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania
1932 โ€“ 2011 (79 years old)

Pioneering educator and social worker from Boghรฉ along the Senegal River who founded the earliest women's literacy and vocational training centers in post-independence Mauritania.

Boghรฉ, Mauritania
M. F. Husain
Arts & Music
26
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M. F. Husain

เคฎเค•เคผเคฌเฅ‚เคฒ เคซเคผเคฟเคฆเคพ เคนเฅเคธเฅ‡เคจ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1915 โ€“ 2011 (95 years old)

Iconic Indian modernist painter dubbed the 'Picasso of India', co-founder of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, celebrated for his dynamic galloping horses and monumental mythological epics.

Woking (Surrey), United Kingdom
Claudio Bravo
Arts & Music
9
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Claudio Bravo

Claudio Nelson Bravo Camus
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile
1936 โ€“ 2011 (74 years old)

Renowned Chilean hyperrealist painter influenced by Spanish Golden Age masters like Zurbarรกn, celebrated for luminous still lifes, wrapped packages, and his palatial studio in Morocco.

Taroudant, Morocco
Dimi Mint Abba
Arts & Music
13
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Dimi Mint Abba

ุฏูŠู…ูŠ ู…ู†ุช ุขุจุง (ู„ูˆู„ุง ู…ู†ุช ุณุฏุงุชูŠ)
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania
1958 โ€“ 2011 (52 years old)

Immense Mauritanian singer and ardin (harp) player hailed as the 'Diva of the Desert', who won the 1976 Pan-Arab Youth Music Prize in Tunis and brought Saharan music to world festivals.

Nouakchott, Mauritania
Music
2
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Alys Robi

Alice Robitaille
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1923 โ€“ 2011 (88 years old)

Pioneering Quebec vocal star of the 1940s who popularized Latin-American music with smash hits like Bรฉsame Mucho and Tico-Tico, and courageously rebuilt her career after a forced lobotomy in an asylum.

Quebec City, Canada
Jeff Conaway
Arts & Music
10
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Jeff Conaway

Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1950 โ€“ 2011 (60 years old)

Charismatic American actor remembered as Kenickie in the blockbuster film musical Grease, struggling actor Bobby Wheeler on Taxi, and Security Chief Zack Allan on Babylon 5.

Los Angeles, United States
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