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Sir Sidney L. Poitier
Arts & Music
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Sir Sidney L. Poitier

Sidney Poitier
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1927 โ€“ 2022 (94 years old)

Trailblazing Bahamian-American actor, film director, and diplomat who became the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field, breaking racial barriers in Hollywood and fighting for civil rights.

Los Angeles, United States
Messaoud Bellemou
Arts & Music
6
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Messaoud Bellemou

ู…ุณุนูˆุฏ ุจู„ู…ูˆ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1947 โ€“ 2022 (75 years old)

Visionary instrumentalist hailed as the 'Father of Modern Pop-Rai' who introduced the trumpet, saxophone, and modern percussion into traditional Bedouin pastoral music in the 1960s.

Aรฏn Tรฉmouchent, Algeria
Betty Marion White
Arts & Music
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Betty Marion White

Betty White
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1922 โ€“ 2021 (99 years old)

Beloved "First Lady of Television" whose historic eight-decade career included pioneering work as a television producer, immortal comic performances as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls, dying just weeks shy of her 100th birthday.

Los Angeles, California, United States
Ali Mustafa al-Misrati
Literature & Poetry
21
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Ali Mustafa al-Misrati

ุนู„ูŠ ู…ุตุทูู‰ ุงู„ู…ุตุฑุงุชูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
August 18, 1926 โ€“ December 29, 2021 (95 years old)

Venerable Libyan literary patriarch, historian, and anti-colonial statesman whose over forty books documented the folklore, literary biography, and political history of modern Libya across nearly a century.

Tripoli, Libya
Joan Didion
Literature & Poetry
26
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Joan Didion

Joan Didion
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1934 โ€“ 2021 (87 years old)

Preeminent American essayist, novelist, and pioneer of New Journalism renowned for her razor-sharp prose dissecting California culture, American politics, and her peerless memoir of grief, The Year of Magical Thinking.

New York City, United States
Vicente Fernรกndez Gรณmez
Arts & Music
25
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Vicente Fernรกndez Gรณmez

Vicente Fernรกndez
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1940 โ€“ 2021 (81 years old)

Revered as "El Rey de la Mรบsica Ranchera" (The King of Ranchera Music) and "Chente", Mexican cultural titan whose operatic baritone, charro suits, and immortal anthems like "Volver, Volver" and "El Rey" sold over 50 million records and earned 4 Grammy Awards.

Tlajomulco de Zรบรฑiga, Jalisco, Mexico
Carmen Salinas Lozano
Arts & Music
24
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Carmen Salinas Lozano

Carmen Salinas
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1939 โ€“ 2021 (82 years old)

Iconic Mexican character actress, comedian, producer, and politician whose six-decade career spanned classic Golden Age cinema, over thirty telenovelas, producing the smash theatrical musical Aventurera, and serving in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies.

Mexico City, Mexico
Jacques Tits
Sciences & Discovery
23
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Jacques Tits

Jacques Tits
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1930 โ€“ 2021 (91 years old)

Distinguished Belgian-French mathematician and Collรจge de France professor awarded the 2008 Abel Prize alongside John G. Thompson for creating the theory of "buildings" and BN-pairs, revolutionizing geometric group theory and the classification of finite simple groups.

Paris, France
Abdel Karim el Kabli
Arts & Music
8
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Abdel Karim el Kabli

ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ูƒุฑูŠู… ุงู„ูƒุงุจู„ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Sudan
1932 โ€“ 2021 (89 years old)

Legendary Sudanese musical virtuoso, poet, and cultural diplomat whose performances of classical Arabic qasidas and Sudanese folk songs championed pan-African unity and peace.

Tampa, United States
Sir Antony Sher
Arts & Music
19
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Sir Antony Sher

Antony Sher
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa
1949 โ€“ 2021 (72 years old)

Extraordinary South African-British stage actor and two-time Olivier Award winner acclaimed as one of the supreme Shakespearean performers of modern times, famous for his athletic, crutch-wielding 1984 Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
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