Arts
Painters, sculptors, dancers and designers whose work outlives them. 265 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Liang Shaoji† 2026 · Conceptual artistA conceptual artist who made living silkworms partners in meditations on nature and time.
45 candles · 3 tributes
James Lew1952 – 2026 · Martial artistEmmy-winning stunt artist who made Hollywood's heroes look fearless.
42 candles · 4 tributes
Michael Wright1956 – 2026 · Actor (film and television)Pure artist whose Eddie King still sings in every room.
41 candles · 9 tributes
Sir Richard Alston1948 – 2026 · ChoreographerMusical contemporary classicist; Strider to Rambert to The Place; knighted for Services to Dance.
40 candles · 7 tributes
Lucien Smith1989 – 2026 · Multidisciplinary artist (paintingFrom Rain Paintings to Serving the People and FOOD, he turned early market fame into community.
40 candles · 7 tributes
Alla Akhundova1939 – 2026 · PoetShe taught wartime Baku children to share bread and Soviet readers to keep reading.
36 candles · 5 tributes
Libor Balák1961 – 2026 · PainterBrno painter of prehistory; Burian's heir in line, not in manner. May, Foglar, mammoth hunters, Antropark.
35 candles · 7 tributes
Nina Shipman1938 – 2026 · Film and television actressFox starlet, Western guest star, Nell Shipman's granddaughter. Screen craft across three decades.
34 candles · 4 tributes
R. Sarath† 2026 · Film directorNational Award Malayalam director who put conscience, mural heritage, and social drama on screen.
32 candles · 7 tributes
Guim Cifré† 2026 · Music promoterHe kept Barcelona's jazz rooms alive for the next set.
26 candles · 6 tributes
Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat1925 – 2026 · Sattriya artistMajuli's Burabhakat who kept Sattriya alive for a century.
19 candles · 7 tributes
Laurence Curry1975 – 2026 · ActorDenver actor, dancer and teacher who played Obama on stage and moved everyone he worked with.
11 candles · 1 tributes
Matt Howarth1954 – 2026 · Comic book writer and artistBugtown's restless creator, who fused comics with strange music. It may stop, but it never ends.
11 candles · 1 tributes
Reimo Wukounig1943 – 2026 · PainterA Carinthian painter who turned a wounded childhood into fearless, uncompromising art.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Michael Forest1929 – 2026 · Actor and voice actorActor who played Apollo on Star Trek and lent his voice to hundreds of films.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Horst Johanning† 2026 · Theatre director and managerBonn theatre maker who led the Contra-Kreis-Theater for more than four decades.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Liam Lynch† 2026 · PhotographerSouth African rock photographer who framed Fokofpolisiekar's early years.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Vladimír Kopecký1931 – 2026 · PainterCzech painter and glass artist who taught a generation to value expression over polish.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Guy Kapulnik† 2026 · ActorActor, pilot and adventurer who moved between the stage, the sea and the skies
10 candles · 1 tributes
JJ Pionke1978 – 2026 · LibrarianLibrarian and disability justice advocate who remade accessibility as library practice.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Domingo Buesa Conde1952 – 2026 · HistorianHistorian of Aragon who made Romanesque valleys and medieval kings speak to everyone.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Thérèse Brenet1935 – 2026 · Composer and pedagoguePrix de Rome composer and long-serving Paris Conservatoire teacher.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Marcelle Benoit1921 – 2026 · Musicologist and music historianShe gave the musicians of Versailles back their names.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Kalju Kruusa1973 – 2026 · Poet and translatorEstonian poet and translator whose playful, musical verse opened Estonian to the poetry of the world.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Lua Blanco1987 – 2026 · Actress and singerRebelde's Roberta, a bossa nova granddaughter who sang for a generation.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Mahesh Tinaikar1964 – 2026 · Rock guitaristFounding guitarist of Rock Machine and Indus Creed, who showed Indian rock could fill stadiums.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Denys Zacharopoulos1952 – 2026 · Art historianAthens-born art historian who co-curated documenta IX and built bridges between Greek artists and the world.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Jean-Paul Desprat1947 – 2026 · HistorianHistorian-novelist of Henri IV, the Girondins and the Grand Siecle who kept faith with Aveyron.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Cyrus Ebrahimzadeh1937 – 2026 · ActorSix decades of Iranian stage, screen, and radio, remembered for craft and generosity.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Gemma Hoskins† 2026 · TeacherBaltimore teacher who refused to let Sister Cathy's case be forgotten.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Pierre Constant1933 – 2026 · ActorActor, acrobat and opera director who kept walking the wire into his nineties.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Jim Sockwell1942 – 2026 · PotterAmerican potter and marquetry craftsman, juried in both crafts by the Southern Highland Craft Guild.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Daria Alyoshkina1982 – 2026 · Paper-cut artist and sculptorUkrainian artist who turned the folk craft of paper cutting into monumental lace seen around the world.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Steve Holsey† 2026 · Journalist and entertainment columnistLet the music play!
9 candles · 1 tributes
Robert A. M. Stern1939 – 2025 · American architectArchitect, Yale dean and historian who shaped RAMSA and New York's skyline.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Kayyrgül Sartbaeva1936 – 2026 · Opera singerKyrgyz soprano and People's Artist of the USSR whose voice carried her nation's opera for half a century.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Süleyman Saim Tekcan1940 – 2026 · PainterMaster of Turkish printmaking, teacher of generations, and painter of horses who gave the world the Tekcan technique.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Randy See1991 – 2026 · ModelThe first Mr. Chinatown Philippines, a model, actor and host mourned by the pageant and fashion world.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Maarten Spanjer1952 – 2026 · ActorDutch actor and writer, the disguised driver of Taxi and the young rider of Spetters.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Nasima Khan1944 – 2026 · Film and television actressA first light of Dhaka cinema, from Jago Hua Savera onward.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Erlinda Villalobos† 2026 · ActressA lifelong character actress who gave dignity to the faces in the background.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Carl Abbott† 2026 · ArchitectLast of the Sarasota School, he made houses that opened themselves to light, land and water.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Álvaro Pava† 2026 · Singer of tropical musicA Barranquilla voice that carried cumbia from the Caribbean coast to Mexico.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Gioacchino Scrugli† 2026 · Choral conductor and singerFounder and for 37 years the voice and director of Nuoro's Coro Barbagia.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Jean-Pierre Péroncel-Hugoz1940 – 2026 · Journalist and essayistLe Monde correspondent and essayist who chronicled the Arab world for half a century.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Philippe Huet1942 – 2026 · JournalistLe Havre journalist and Grand prix de littérature policière novelist of Norman noir.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Lucia Laguna1941 – 2026 · Painter / contemporary artistBrazilian painter who turned Rio's suburban window views into layered contemporary landscapes.
8 candles · 1 tributes
María Elena Llorente1946 – 2026 · Prima ballerinaCuban prima ballerina and National Dance Award maître who carried Giselle and Swan Lake worldwide.
8 candles · 1 tributes