Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Vilmos Zsigmond

United States

c. 1931 – 2016 (85 years old)

Vilmos Zsigmond was a Hungarian-American cinematographer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Arts & Music

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Gilberto Mendes

Brazil

c. 1923 – 2016 (93 years old)

Gilberto Mendes was a 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde composer, and one of the pioneering fathers of the company New Consonant Music.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Brasília, Brazil

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Arts & Music

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Tony Lane

United States

c. 1945 – 2016 (71 years old)

Anthony Samuel Lane was an American graphic artist best known for his album art for various musicians and bands. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Arts & Music

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Gilbert Kaplan

United States

c. 1942 – 2016 (74 years old)

Gilbert Edmund Kaplan was an American businessman and financial publisher. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Arts & Music

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Brian Johns

Australia

c. 1937 – 2016 (79 years old)

Brian Francis Johns was an Australian company director and journalist, who was managing director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) from 1987 to 1992, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from 1995 to 2000.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Canberra, Australia

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Arts & Music

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Lennie Bluett

United States

c. 1920 – 2016 (96 years old)

Lennie Bluett was an American film actor, pianist, dancer and singer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Arts & Music

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George Alexandru

Switzerland

c. 1958 – 2016 (58 years old)

George Alexandru was a Romanian film and theater actor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to arts.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Sciences & Discovery

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Jean Pedersen

United States

c. 1935 – 2016 (81 years old)

Jean J. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Sciences & Discovery

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John Coleman Moore

United States

c. 1924 – 2016 (92 years old)

John Coleman Moore was an American mathematician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Sciences & Discovery

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Jacques Deny

France

c. 1917 – 2016 (99 years old)

Jacques Deny was a French mathematician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Dale Bumpers

United States

c. 1926 – 2016 (90 years old)

Dale Leon Bumpers was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 38th governor of Arkansas (1971–1975) and in the United States Senate (1975–1999). Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Politics

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Howard Pawley

Howard Pawley

Canada

21 November 1934 – 30 December 2015 (81 years old)

Manitoba premier whose courageous defense of constitutional French-language rights for Franco-Manitobans stood firm against intense political backlash.

Windsor, Canada

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Hocine Aït Ahmed

حسين آيت أحمد

Algeria

1926 – 2015 (89 years old)

Legendary Algerian statesman, chief of the Organisation Spéciale, diplomat of the Bandung Conference, and lifelong champion of pluralist democracy and human rights.

Aït Ahmed (Ain El Hammam, Kabylie), Algeria

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Arts & Music

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Taleb Rabah

طالب رابح

Algeria

1930 – 2015 (85 years old)

Revered pioneer of modern Kabyle folk music, who spent decades as an immigrant factory worker in France singing the struggles and dignity of Algerian emigrants.

Aïn El Hammam (Tizi Ouzou), Algeria

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Literature & Poetry

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Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Marjorie King

Great Britain

1928-10-21 – 2015-12-01 (87 years old)

Celebrated novelist and poet acclaimed as the 'Mother of Kenyan Literature', whose 1986 masterwork 'Coming to Birth' won the Sinclair Prize and captured the birth of independent Kenya.

Siaya, Kenya

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Literature & Poetry

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Fatima Mernissi

فاطمة المرنيسي

Morocco

1940 – 2015 (75 years old)

World-renowned Moroccan sociologist and feminist author whose groundbreaking books Beyond the Veil and The Forgotten Queens of Islam revolutionized the understanding of gender in the Muslim world.

Rabat, Morocco

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Literature & Poetry

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Fatema Mernissi

فاطمة المرنيسي

Morocco

1940 – 2015 (75 years old)

World-renowned Moroccan sociologist and author whose landmark books 'Beyond the Veil' and 'The Veil and the Male Elite' reexamined Islamic history, patriarchy, and women's rights.

Rabat, Morocco

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Sports & Athletics

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Jonah Tali Lomu

Jonah Tali Lomu

New Zealand

1975 – 2015 (40 years old)

New Zealand rugby union player for the All Blacks, universally acknowledged as rugby's first truly global superstar whose raw power transformed the sport.

Auckland, New Zealand

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