Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Ian Tyson

Ian Dawson Tyson

Canada

1933 – 2022 (89 years old)

Legendary folk and western singer-songwriter who co-founded the 1960s folk duo Ian & Sylvia, composed the timeless anthem Four Strong Winds, and ranched in the Alberta foothills for decades.

Longview (Alberta), Canada

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Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood

Vivienne Swire

Great Britain

1941 – 2022 (81 years old)

Rebellious British fashion designer, environmental activist, and punk icon who co-created the visual aesthetic of the 1970s punk movement at 430 Kings Road and transformed global high fashion with historical subversive elegance.

Tintwistle, United Kingdom

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Pelé

Edson Arantes do Nascimento

Brazil

23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022 (82 years old)

Pelé is universally revered as one of the greatest football players in the history of the sport, and the only player ever to win three FIFA World Cups (1958, 1962, 1970). Renowned for his incandescent brilliance, acrobatic athleticism, and more than 1,200 career goals, he transformed the sport into 'The Beautiful Game' (O Jogo Bonito) and became a transcendent cultural icon for Brazil and the globe.

São Paulo, Brazil

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Arata Isozaki

磯崎新

Japan

1931 – 2022 (91 years old)

Visionary Japanese architect, urban planner, and 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate who bridged Eastern and Western architectural thought, designing the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Palau Sant Jordi for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Oita, Japan

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Maxwell Alexander Fraser

Maxi Jazz

Great Britain

1957 – 2022 (65 years old)

Revered British musician, Buddhist, and frontman of the groundbreaking electronic band Faithless whose spoken-word poetic delivery anchored worldwide dance anthems "Insomnia" and "God Is a DJ".

London, United Kingdom

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Terence Edward Hall

Terry Hall

Great Britain

1959 – 2022 (63 years old)

Inimitable deadpan frontman of the seminal British 2 Tone ska band The Specials, whose socially conscious anthems "Ghost Town" and "A Message to You, Rudy" defined early-1980s British youth culture, later forming Fun Boy Three.

London, United Kingdom

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Siniša Mihajlović

Синиша Михајловић

Croatia

1969 – 2022 (53 years old)

Legendary Serbian footballer and manager regarded as one of the greatest free-kick specialists in football history, who won the 1991 European Cup with Red Star Belgrade and scored an all-time record 28 Serie A free-kick goals.

Rome, Italy

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Angelo Badalamenti

United States

1937 – 2022 (85 years old)

Grammy-winning American film composer whose haunting, dreamlike, and darkly romantic musical partnership with director David Lynch produced the iconic scores for Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and The Straight Story.

Lincoln Park, New Jersey, United States

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Dominique Lapierre

France

1931 – 2022 (91 years old)

Celebrated French author and philanthropist who co-wrote monumental international historical bestsellers Is Paris Burning? and Freedom at Midnight with Larry Collins, and dedicated half of his royalties from City of Joy to rescue children with leprosy and tuberculosis in the slums of Kolkata.

Ramatuelle, Var, France

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Christine Anne Perfect McVie

Christine McVie

Great Britain

1943 – 2022 (79 years old)

English singer, songwriter, and keyboardist who served as the musical anchor of Fleetwood Mac, writing and singing the band's most enduring hits including "Don't Stop", "Songbird", "Everywhere", and "Little Lies".

London, United Kingdom

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Jiang Zemin

江泽民

China

1926 – 2022 (96 years old)

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2002) and President of China (1993–2003) who guided China's reintegration with the global economy following the 1989 Tiananmen crisis, oversaw the return of Hong Kong, and secured China's entry into the World Trade Organization.

Shanghai, China

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Irene Cara Escalera

Irene Cara

United States

1959 – 2022 (63 years old)

Oscar and Grammy-winning American singer and actress of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage who defined 1980s cinematic pop music by starring in and singing the title track of Fame, and co-writing and singing "Flashdance... What a Feeling".

Largo, Florida, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Resistance & Human Rights

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Germany

1929 – 2022 (93 years old)

Towering German poet, essayist, and public intellectual of the post-war Group 47 generation who served as Germany's critical conscience for six decades, founding literary journal Kursbuch and writing The Sinking of the Titanic.

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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Hebe de Bonafini

Hebe María Pastor de Bonafini

Argentina

4 December 1928 – 20 November 2022 (93 years old)

Hebe de Bonafini was a world-renowned Argentine human rights crusader and long-serving president of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Transformed into an unyielding militant following the forced disappearance of her two sons and daughter-in-law during Argentina's military dictatorship, she wore the iconic white headscarf every Thursday in front of the presidential palace, demanding truth, justice, and the prosecution of junta perpetrators.

La Plata, Argentina

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Jason David Frank

United States

1973 – 2022 (49 years old)

Accomplished martial artist and actor who became a worldwide pop-culture icon as Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger and White Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, starring across ten television series over twenty-five years.

Houston, Texas, United States

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