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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Louis Cameron Gossett Jr.
Arts & Music
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Louis Cameron Gossett Jr.

Louis Gossett Jr.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1936 โ€“ 2024 (87 years old)

Pioneering African American actor who became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Drill Sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman, having won an Emmy for portraying Fiddler in Roots.

Los Angeles, United States
Daniel Kahneman
Philosophy & Thought
29
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Daniel Kahneman

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel
1934 โ€“ 2024 (90 years old)

Pioneering Israeli-American cognitive psychologist whose revolutionary work with Amos Tversky on behavioral economics and cognitive biases earned him the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics and resulted in Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Princeton, United States
Richard Serra
Arts & Music
25
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Richard Serra

Richard Serra
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1938 โ€“ 2024 (85 years old)

American monumental sculptor and minimalist master renowned for colossal, site-specific installations of weathered Cor-Ten steel that redefined the physical experience of space, gravity, and bodily perception.

Orient, United States
Maurice El Mรฉdioni
Arts & Music
5
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Maurice El Mรฉdioni

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๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1928 โ€“ 2024 (95 years old)

Virtuoso Jewish-Algerian pianist from Oran who revolutionized North African music by inventing 'Pianoriental', fusing Arabic quarter-tones and Andalusian modes with boogie-woogie piano.

Oran, Algeria
Michael Emmet Walsh
Arts & Music
23
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Michael Emmet Walsh

M. Emmet Walsh
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1935 โ€“ 2024 (88 years old)

Incomparable American character actor who appeared in over 220 films and TV series, famous as Captain Bryant in Blade Runner, the deranged sniper in The Jerk, and the sleazy private eye Loren Visser in the Coen brothers' Blood Simple.

Swanton, United States
Mutsumi Inomata
Arts & Music
24
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Mutsumi Inomata

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1960 โ€“ 2024 (63 years old)

Celebrated Japanese illustrator, animator, and character designer famed for her delicate watercolor aesthetic, large soulful eyes, and beloved character designs across the Tales video game series and anime classics like Windaria and Gundam Seed.

Yokohama, Japan
Eleanor Collins
Music
0
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Eleanor Collins

Canada's First Lady of Jazz
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
21 November 1919 โ€“ 3 March 2024 (104 years old)

Pioneering jazz vocalist known as "Canada's First Lady of Jazz" who in 1955 became the first Black person in North America to host a national weekly television variety show.

Vancouver, Canada
Akira Toriyama
Arts & Music
29
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Akira Toriyama

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1955 โ€“ 2024 (68 years old)

Visionary Japanese manga artist and character designer who created Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, selling over 300 million books and profoundly transforming global popular culture, anime, and the video game industry.

Nagoya, Japan
Iris Apfel
Arts & Music
23
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Iris Apfel

Iris Barrel
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1921 โ€“ 2024 (102 years old)

American interior designer, businesswoman, and centenarian fashion icon famed for her flamboyant personal style, oversized round glasses, layers of costume jewelry, and high-profile White House restoration projects.

Elmont, United States
David Jay Bordwell
Arts & Music
26
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David Jay Bordwell

David Bordwell
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1947 โ€“ 2024 (76 years old)

Preeminent American film theorist, historian, and longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison professor whose textbook Film Art: An Introduction and neoformalist theories transformed international cinema studies and the analysis of cinematic form.

Madison, United States
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