Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Sir Nicholas Browne

Great Britain

c. 1948 – 2014 (66 years old)

Sir Nicholas Walker Browne, KBE, CMG was a British diplomat. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

London, United Kingdom

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Manibhushan Bhattacharya

India

c. 1939 – 2014 (75 years old)

Manibhushan Bhattacharya was a major poet who transformed the language of Bengali poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

New Delhi, India

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Neal Barrett Jr.

United States

c. 1930 – 2014 (84 years old)

Neal Barrett Jr. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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William Feindel

Canada

c. 1919 – 2014 (95 years old)

William Howard Feindel was a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Ottawa, Canada

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Zoltán Pál Dienes

Switzerland

c. 1917 – 2014 (97 years old)

Zoltán Pál Dienes, anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes, was a Hungarian mathematician whose ideas on education have been popular in some countries. He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Philosophy & Thought

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Taissa S. Hauser

United States

c. 1943 – 2014 (71 years old)

Taissa S. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Philosophy & Thought

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Joel Barkan

United States

c. 1942 – 2014 (72 years old)

Joel David Barkan was an American political scientist with a particular expertise in political development in Africa. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Riad Barmada

United States

c. 1930 – 2014 (84 years old)

Riad Barmada was a Syrian-American orthopaedic surgeon and professor. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Hadi Thayeb

Switzerland

c. 1923 – 2014 (91 years old)

Teuku Mohammad Hadi Thayeb was a senior Indonesian diplomat and politician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Zbigniew Messner

Poland

c. 1930 – 2014 (84 years old)

Zbigniew Stefan Messner was a Polish communist politician and economist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

Warsaw, Poland

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Rynn Berry

United States

c. 1946 – 2014 (68 years old)

Rynn Berry was an American author and scholar on vegetarianism and veganism, as well as a pioneer in the animal rights and vegan movements.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Amiri Baraka

United States

c. 1935 – 2014 (79 years old)

Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Marc Yor

France

c. 1950 – 2014 (64 years old)

Marc Yor was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Dale T. Mortensen

United States

c. 1940 – 2014 (74 years old)

Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Jean-Jacques Moreau

France

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

Jean Jacques Moreau was a French mathematician and mechanician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Resistance & Human Rights

D. Harold McNamara

United States

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

Delbert Harold McNamara, Ph.D. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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