Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Martin Brian Mulroney

Canada

1939 – 2024 (84 years old)

18th Prime Minister of Canada (1984–1993) who negotiated the historic Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed the Acid Rain Treaty, and led Commonwealth sanctions against South African apartheid.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Arts & Music

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Kenneth Alexander Mitchell

Kenneth Mitchell

Canada

1974 – 2024 (49 years old)

Canadian actor renowned for portraying multiple Klingon characters (Kol, Kol-Sha, Tenavik) and Aurellio on Star Trek: Discovery, Joseph Danvers in Marvel's Captain Marvel, and Eric Green on Jericho, admired for his courage living with ALS.

Los Angeles, United States

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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev

Вячеслав Михайлович Лебедев

Soviet Union

1943 – 2024 (80 years old)

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for an unprecedented thirty-five years (1989–2024), guiding the Russian judicial apparatus through the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consolidation of modern Russian statehood.

Moscow, Russia

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Sports & Athletics

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Andreas Brehme

Andreas Brehme

Germany

1960 – 2024 (63 years old)

German international footballer and left-back legend who scored the winning penalty goal in the 85th minute of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final against Argentina in Rome, sealing Germany's third world title.

Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Johan Vincent Galtung

Johan Galtung

Norway

1930 – 2024 (93 years old)

Norwegian sociologist, mathematician, and principal founder of the academic discipline of peace and conflict studies, who pioneered the concepts of "structural violence", "negative peace", and "positive peace".

Oslo, Norway

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Alexei Navalny

Алексей Анатольевич Навальный

Russia

4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024 (47 years old)

Alexei Navalny was a visionary Russian anti-corruption attorney, opposition leader, and human rights champion who exposed systemic Kremlin kleptocracy through viral investigations watched by hundreds of millions. Surviving an FSB Novichok chemical nerve agent assassination attempt in 2020, he courageously returned to Moscow in 2021, enduring brutal solitary confinement in maximum-security Arctic penal colonies until his death in February 2024.

Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

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Arts & Music

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Stephen Richard Wright

Steve Wright

Great Britain

1954 – 2024 (69 years old)

Beloved British radio pioneer who transformed national broadcasting on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2, introducing the American "zoo format" to the UK with Steve Wright in the Afternoon and entertaining millions with "Sunday Love Songs".

London, United Kingdom

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Sports & Athletics

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Kelvin Kiptum Cheruiyot

Kenya

1999 – 2024 (24 years old)

Kenyan distance-running prodigy who shattered the world marathon record in 2023 with an astonishing time of 2:00:35 at the Chicago Marathon, becoming the first person in history to run an official marathon in under 2 hours and 1 minute.

Uasin Gishu, Eldoret, Kenya

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Law

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Robert Badinter

Robert Badinter

France

1928 – 2024 (95 years old)

Preeminent French jurist, criminal defense attorney, and Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand who fought a historic lifelong moral crusade that successfully abolished the death penalty in France in October 1981.

Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine), France

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Arts & Music

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Kenji Suzuki

鈴木 健二

Japan

1950 – 2024 (74 years old)

Japanese vocalist and improvisational pioneer who fronted the seminal German krautrock band Can from 1970 to 1973, singing in a multilingual stream-of-consciousness style on landmark albums Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, and Future Days.

Cologne, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Neill Kirby McMillan Jr.

Mojo Nixon

United States

1957 – 2024 (66 years old)

American psychobilly and satirical roots-rock musician, actor, and SiriusXM radio host famed for hilarious anti-establishment novelty anthems like "Elvis Is Everywhere" and "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child".

Cincinnati, United States

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Arts & Music

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Seiji Ozawa

小澤 征爾

China

1935 – 2024 (88 years old)

World-renowned Japanese orchestra conductor who served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a historic 29 seasons and music director of the Vienna State Opera, renowned for his kinetic podium style and interpretations of modern and romantic works.

Tokyo, Japan

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique

Sebastián Piñera

Chile

1949 – 2024 (74 years old)

Two-time democratic President of Chile (2010–2014, 2018–2022) and billionaire businessman. Led the dramatic, successful rescue of 33 trapped miners at the San José mine in 2010 and rapid post-earthquake reconstruction.

Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Hage Gottfried Geingob

Namibia

1941 – 2024 (82 years old)

Third President of Namibia (2015–2024) and founding father who served as the country's inaugural Prime Minister. Anti-apartheid SWAPO leader who chaired the assembly that drafted Namibia's acclaimed democratic constitution.

Windhoek, Namibia

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Arts & Music

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Arthur Ian Lavender

Ian Lavender

Great Britain

1946 – 2024 (77 years old)

English stage and screen actor beloved across generations as the naive, scarf-wearing Private Frank Pike in the iconic BBC World War II comedy series Dad's Army, the last surviving member of the legendary Home Guard platoon.

Woolpit, United Kingdom

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Arts & Music

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Donald Patrick Murray

Don Murray

United States

1929 – 2024 (94 years old)

American actor who earned an Academy Award nomination in his film debut opposite Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop, starred in A Hatful of Rain and Advise & Consent, and originated the patriarch Sid Fairgate on Knots Landing.

Santa Barbara, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Christopher McKenzie Priest

Christopher Priest

Great Britain

1943 – 2024 (80 years old)

Renowned British science fiction and speculative fiction novelist whose intricate explorations of memory, unreliable reality, and illusion yielded masterworks including Inverted World and the World Fantasy Award-winning The Prestige, adapted into Christopher Nolan's acclaimed film.

Isle of Bute, United Kingdom

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Arts & Music

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Carl Weathers

Carl Weathers

United States

1948 – 2024 (76 years old)

American actor, director, and former NFL linebacker immortalized as Apollo Creed in the Rocky film franchise, Colonel Al Dillon in Predator, and Greef Karga in Star Wars: The Mandalorian.

Los Angeles, United States

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