Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Philosophy & Thought

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Saul Aaron Kripke

Saul Kripke

United States

1940 – 2022 (81 years old)

Towering American philosopher and logician widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, who created Kripke semantics for modal logic as a teenager and revolutionized metaphysics and the philosophy of language with Naming and Necessity (1972).

Hawthorne, New York, United States

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Arts & Music

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

France

1930 – 2022 (91 years old)

Radical French-Swiss filmmaker and critic who pioneered the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) with masterpieces including Breathless, Contempt, and Pierrot le Fou, dismantling classical cinematic conventions and revolutionizing modern cinema.

Rolle, Switzerland

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Literature & Poetry

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Javier Marías Franco

Javier Marías

Spain

1951 – 2022 (70 years old)

Preeminent contemporary Spanish novelist, translator, and member of the Royal Spanish Academy, celebrated for hypnotic, philosophical masterpieces of secrecy and betrayal including A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, and Your Face Tomorrow.

Madrid, Spain

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Arts & Music

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William Klein

William Klein

United States

1926 – 2022 (96 years old)

Radical American-born French photographer and filmmaker whose revolutionary, raw, grainy street photography (Life Is Good & Good for You in New York, 1956), fashion imagery, and satirical cinema (Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?) upended photographic convention.

Paris, France

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Politics

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Alex Campbell

Alex Campbell

Canada

1 December 1933 – 8 September 2022 (88 years old)

Prince Edward Island premier who took office at age 32 and oversaw the historic 1969 Comprehensive Development Plan that revolutionized island education, farming, and tourism.

Summerside, Canada

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor

Elizabeth II

Great Britain

1926 – 2022 (96 years old)

Queen of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms whose historic seventy-year reign (1952–2022) was the longest of any British monarch, serving as an enduring symbol of stability through seven decades of global transformation.

Windsor, United Kingdom

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Sciences & Discovery

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Frank Donald Drake

Frank Drake

United States

1930 – 2022 (92 years old)

American radio astronomer and astrophysicist considered the father of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), who formulated the iconic "Drake Equation" and designed the 1974 Arecibo Message and Pioneer Plaque with Carl Sagan.

Aptos, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Russia

1931-03-02 – 2022-08-30 (91 years old)

Awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his pivotal role in peacefully ending the Cold War, facilitating the reunification of Germany, and dismantling Soviet totalitarianism.

Moscow, Russia

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Literature & Poetry

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Hadrawi

Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame

Somalia

1943-01-01 – 2022-08-18 (79 years old)

Universally acclaimed as the greatest Somali poet of modern times, known as the 'Somali Shakespeare', who endured five years in solitary confinement for his anti-dictatorship allegories.

Hargeisa, Somalia

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Arts & Music

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Rolf Kühn

Rolf Kühn

Germany

1929 – 2022 (92 years old)

Visionary German jazz clarinetist and composer whose virtuosity bridged Benny Goodman-style swing, American hard bop in New York with John Coltrane, and revolutionary European free jazz alongside his pianist brother Joachim Kühn.

Berlin, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Bachir Yellès

بشير يلس

Algeria

1921 – 2022 (100 years old)

Centenarian master painter, foundational director of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, and lead artistic coordinator of the monumental Maqam Echahid (Martyrs' Memorial) in Algiers.

Algiers, Algeria

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Arts & Music

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Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen

Germany

1941 – 2022 (81 years old)

German film director who directed the claustrophobic World War II submarine masterpiece Das Boot, earning six Oscar nominations, before becoming a major Hollywood blockbuster auteur with The NeverEnding Story, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, and Troy.

Los Angeles, United States

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Arts & Music

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Anne Celeste Heche

Anne Heche

United States

1969 – 2022 (53 years old)

Vibrant American actress whose versatile talents shone in 1990s hits including Donnie Brasco, Volcano, Six Days Seven Nights, and Wag the Dog, who broke ground for LGBTQ+ visibility in Hollywood through her public relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Arts & Music

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Jean-Jacques Sempé

Jean-Jacques Sempé

France

1932 – 2022 (89 years old)

Poetic French cartoonist and illustrator whose delicate, pastel watercolor drawings captured human foibles and joy, world-famous for co-creating the beloved Le Petit Nicolas children's series with René Goscinny and drawing 113 covers for The New Yorker.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Dame Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John

Great Britain

1948 – 2022 (73 years old)

Four-time Grammy-winning British-Australian singer, actress, and cancer advocate who achieved worldwide cultural immortality starring as Sandy Olsson opposite John Travolta in Grease, and dominated 1980s pop with "Physical".

Melbourne, Australia

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Arts & Music

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Issey Miyake

三宅 一生

Japan

1938 – 2022 (84 years old)

Visionary Japanese fashion designer and Hiroshima survivor who revolutionized contemporary haute couture with his micro-pleating technology "Pleats Please", created Steve Jobs' iconic black turtlenecks, and blended technology with wearable art.

Tokyo, Japan

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Fidel Valdez Ramos

Fidel Ramos

Philippines

1928 – 2022 (94 years old)

12th President of the Philippines (1992–1998) and West Point-educated general who broke with Ferdinand Marcos during the 1986 People Power Revolution, restored political stability, and oversaw rapid economic growth known as the "Tiger Economy of Asia".

Taguig, Philippines

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri

أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري

Egypt

1951 – 2022 (71 years old)

Egyptian physician and terrorist ideologue who led the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, served as Osama bin Laden's strategic deputy in planning the September 11 attacks, and served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from 2011 until his death in 2022.

Kabul, Afghanistan

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