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Burt Freeman Bacharach
Arts & Music
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Burt Freeman Bacharach

🇺🇸 United States
1928 – 2023 (94 years old)

Genius American composer and songwriter who crafted the sophisticated melodic soundtrack of 20th-century pop. Created immortal standards like What the World Needs Now, Walk On By, and Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.

Culver City, California, United States
Christian Atsu Twasam
Sports & Athletics
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Christian Atsu Twasam

Christian Atsu
🇬🇭 Ghana
1992 – 2023 (31 years old)

Ghanaian international winger who won Player of the Tournament at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, played for Chelsea, Porto, and Newcastle United, and dedicated his life to freeing petty offenders from prison and financing schools in Ghana.

Accra, Ghana
Pervez Musharraf
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Pervez Musharraf

پرویز مشرف
🇮🇳 India
1943 – 2023 (79 years old)

President of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008 and Army Chief who seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup. Positioned Pakistan as a key US ally in the post-9/11 War on Terror and pursued economic liberalization and social reforms.

Karachi, Pakistan
Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo
Arts & Music
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Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo

Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo
🇪🇸 Spain
1934 – 2023 (88 years old)

Visionary Spanish-French haute couture pioneer dubbed the "metallurgist of fashion" by Coco Chanel. Renowned for futuristic chainmail dresses, Space Age aesthetics, and iconic global fragrances like 1 Million.

Portsall, Brittany, France
Bobby Hull
Sports & Athletics
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Bobby Hull

The Golden Jet
🇨🇦 Canada
3 January 1939 – 30 January 2023 (84 years old)

Electrifying hockey superstar whose 119 mph slapshot and blazing blond rushes earned him the nickname "The Golden Jet," revolutionizing professional hockey in the 1960s and 70s.

Hillside, United States
Thomas Miller
Arts & Music
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Thomas Miller

Tom Verlaine
🇺🇸 United States
1949 – 2023 (73 years old)

American rock musician, singer, and visionary guitarist who fronted the seminal New York proto-punk band Television, creating the 1977 masterpiece Marquee Moon with its intricate, shimmering dual-guitar interplay.

New York City, United States
Moncef Ghachem
Literature & Poetry
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Moncef Ghachem

المنصف غشام
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1946 – 2023 (76 years old)

Major Tunisian Francophone poet known as the 'Poet of the Sea', whose evocative collections such as Cap Africa celebrated the fishermen, winds, and ancient maritime traditions of Mahdia.

Mahdia, Tunisia
Akli Yahiatene
Arts & Music
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Akli Yahiatene

أكلي يحيى تن
🇩🇿 Algeria
1933 – 2023 (89 years old)

Legendary singer of Algerian folk and Chaabi, imprisoned multiple times by French authorities during the revolution, famous for the universal exile anthem 'Yal Menfi'.

Algiers, Algeria
David Van Cortlandt Crosby
Arts & Music
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David Van Cortlandt Crosby

David Crosby
🇺🇸 United States
1941 – 2023 (81 years old)

Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who co-founded The Byrds, pioneering folk-rock, and Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young), whose complex vocal harmonies and counterculture anthems defined 1960s American rock.

Santa Ynez, United States
Saâd Ben Cheffaj
Arts & Music
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Saâd Ben Cheffaj

سعد بن شَفّاج
🇲🇦 Morocco
1939 – 2023 (84 years old)

Master Moroccan painter, graduate of the San Fernando Royal Academy in Madrid and the École du Louvre in Paris, whose poetic, somber expressionist canvases made him a titan of Moroccan visual arts.

Tetouan, Morocco
Julian Richard Morley Sands
Arts & Music
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Julian Richard Morley Sands

Julian Sands
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1958 – 2023 (65 years old)

Distinguished English actor famed for his romantic breakthrough as George Emerson in Merchant Ivory's A Room with a View, and bold performances in Warlock, Leaving Las Vegas, Naked Lunch, and The Killing Fields.

Otley, United Kingdom
Geoffrey Arnold Beck
Arts & Music
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Geoffrey Arnold Beck

🇬🇧 Great Britain
1944 – 2023 (78 years old)

Virtuoso English rock and fusion guitarist regarded as one of the most innovative players in music history. Pioneer of feedback, distortion, and whammy bar technique with The Yardbirds and The Jeff Beck Group.

Beddington, Surrey, United Kingdom
Charles Simic
Literature & Poetry
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Charles Simic

Dušan Simić
🇷🇸 Serbia
1938 – 2023 (84 years old)

Serbian-born American poet, translator, and essayist who won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The World Doesn't End and served as the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Dover, United States
Karl Alexander Müller
Sciences & Discovery
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Karl Alexander Müller

Karl Alexander Müller
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1927 – 2023 (95 years old)

Swiss solid-state physicist who, alongside J. Georg Bednorz at IBM Research Zurich, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramic perovskite materials in 1986, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics just one year later.

Zurich, Switzerland
Carlos Roberto de Oliveira
Sports & Athletics
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Carlos Roberto de Oliveira

Roberto Dinamite
🇧🇷 Brazil
1954 – 2023 (68 years old)

Legendary Brazilian footballer who remains the all-time top goalscorer in the history of the Brazilian Championship (Campeonato Brasileiro) with 190 goals, scoring 708 goals for Vasco da Gama, and serving as the club's president.

Duque de Caxias, Brazil
Russell Earl Banks
Literature & Poetry
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Russell Earl Banks

Russell Banks
🇺🇸 United States
1940 – 2023 (82 years old)

American novelist, short story writer, and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist whose realist fiction, including Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, and Cloudsplitter, probed working-class struggles and racial injustice.

Lake Placid, United States
Gianluca Vialli
Sports & Athletics
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Gianluca Vialli

Gianluca Vialli
🇮🇹 Italy
1964 – 2023 (58 years old)

Beloved Italian football striker and manager who formed the "Goal Twins" partnership with Roberto Mancini at Sampdoria, captained Juventus to Champions League glory in 1996, won European trophies managing Chelsea, and guided Italy to triumph at Euro 2020.

London, United Kingdom
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