Arts
Painters, sculptors, dancers and designers whose work outlives them. 253 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Akhtar Hossain1945 – 2026 · Children's literature writerBangla Academy-honoured children's writer who gave young readers rhymes, stories and a share of Bangladesh's national story.
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Soorya Krishnamoorthy1951 – 2026 · Cultural organiserISRO engineer who built Soorya into a year-round home for Indian art.
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Thawee Buranaket (Ja Thawee)1932 – 2026 · National ArtistNational Artist who cast Phra Buddha Chinnarat replicas and kept Phitsanulok folk heritage alive.
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Grazia Daddario1932 – 2026 · ActressBari actress, poet and dialect-theatre voice who brought her city to Italian screens.
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Peter Petrel1940 – 2026 · Singer (SchlagerThe voice of How Do You Do?, forever torn between Schlager and jazz.
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Karal Ann Marling1943 – 2026 · Cultural historianMinnesota scholar who made American popular culture and everyday images a serious art history.
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Mark Boley† 2026 · Special-effects makeup artistColumbus wig master and Hollywood hair artist who made wonder look effortless.
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Tanella Boni1954 – 2026 · PoetIvorian poet-philosopher who wrote dignity, women and Africa into the open.
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Tanchum Portnoy1951 – 2026 · Composer of Jewish liturgical musicComposer of the widely sung Eitz Chaim Torah-service melody.
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Walter Kershaw1940 – 2026 · MuralistRochdale muralist who painted Britain's walls decades before street art had a name.
6 candles · 1 tributes- RRonald Lee Rae1937 – 2026 · Artist and stained glass craftsman
Saginaw craftsman who shaped light in glass and loved the open road.
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Constantin Floros1930 – 2026 · MusicologistGreek-German musicologist who joined Mahler, Berg and Byzantine chant in one lifelong reading of musical meaning.
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André Brasilier1929 – 2026 · PainterPrix de Rome painter of dreamlike horses, seas, and music; Hermitage retrospective 2005.
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Tim O'Donnell1948 – 2026 · Television writerNewsman turned sitcom writer who helped make Growing Pains, Dave's World and Clueless.
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Pat Oliphant1935 – 2026 · Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonistHe drew presidents as they really were, with a penguin in the corner to have the last word.
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Todd Meadows2000 – 2026 · Commercial fishermanWashington fisherman and Deadliest Catch deckhand who died at sea at 25.
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Ebo Taylor1936 – 2026 · GuitaristGhanaian highlife and afrobeat pioneer whose guitar carried tradition into the wider world.
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Kianna Underwood1992 – 2026 · Actress and voice actressNickelodeon actress who voiced Fuchsia on Little Bill and appeared on All That.
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Fortune Ruzungude† 2026 · ActorAmakhosi pioneer who made Zimbabwe laugh as Foromani in Sinjalo.
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Edil Aidarbekov1947 – 2026 · ArchitectThe Kyrgyz architect who helped give his newly independent country its flag.
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Jost Hochuli1933 – 2026 · Typographer and book designerA typographer of quiet precision who taught the world to look closely at letters.
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Andrei Medvedev1952 – 2026 · ConductorConductor and composer who carried the Leningrad variety orchestra tradition into a new century.
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Ana Lupez1944 – 2026 · VedetteMendoza-born vedette who fled persecution and became the star of Barcelona de Noche.
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Sanjulián1941 – 2026 · Illustrator and painterBarcelona painter whose oils gave Vampirella, Conan and a generation of horror covers their faces.
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Tommaso Lisi1935 – 2026 · Poet and teacherPoet of Coreno Ausonio who spent a lifetime writing to his father and mother.
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Cristina Siscar1947 – 2026 · WriterArgentine writer of exile, mourning and carefully made short fiction.
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Ken Bostic† 2026 · Television weather presenter and radio broadcasterA Rutherford County voice who brought the weather home to the Carolinas.
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Christian Bussmann1942 – 2026 · Film architect and production designerProduction designer who built the worlds of German film and taught new designers at Babelsberg.
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Betty McGuire1926 – 2026 · ActressBroadway trouper and Growing Pains grandmother who kept performing past 90.
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Jim Knipfel1965 – 2026 · JournalistThe Slackjaw columnist who wrote his way through blindness with wit, nerve and no complaints.
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Olivier Mourgue1939 – 2026 · Industrial and furniture designerFrench designer of the Djinn chairs from 2001: A Space Odyssey, who made the future soft, colourful and practical.
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Messan Hilaire Locoh-Donou† 2026 · ArchitectA Togolese architect who helped give Lomé its modern skyline and trained generations of architects.
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Shalva Bedoyev1940 – 2026 · PainterOssetian-born Russian painter and teacher who became a People's Artist of Russia.
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Masako Watanabe1929 – 2026 · MangakaShojo manga pioneer whose Glass Castle and Saint Rosalind thrilled generations, still drawing at 91.
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Oscar Reynert Olsen1925 – 2026 · IllustratorA Stavanger-born artist whose free, colourful line filled newspapers, books, stamps and galleries for seven decades.
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Scott Froschauer† 2026 · SculptorThe artist who turned street signs into messages of hope.
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Phil Ponder† 2026 · Watercolor artist and former Nashville Metro Council memberThe artist who drew Nashville's skyline, brick by brick, for more than forty years.
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John Murray "Hippie Jack" Stoddart Jr.1951 – 2026 · documentary photographerPhotographer, festival founder and humanitarian of Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau.
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Shakuntala Nagarkar1960 – 2026 · Lavani dancer and Sangeet Bari artistLavani empress of Sangeet Bari whose gaze, ghungroos and grit carried a folk form into new rooms.
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Sjoerd Kuyper1952 – 2026 · Children's and youth authorDutch children's author of Het zakmes and the Robin books.
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Andrei Mazandarani† 2026 · DJPerth DJ who co-founded Death Disco and filled dancefloors for decades.
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Tatiana Loginova1944 – 2026 · CinematographerBelarusfilm's first woman feature cinematographer, framed in light and viewpoint.
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Graciela Taquini1941 – 2026 · Video artistPioneer of Argentine video art who kept shaking what was fixed until the end.
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Off-Broadway manager who kept the work and the artists moving.
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Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime1934 – 2026 · Chaná language speakerLast Chaná speaker who broke silence so Lanték would outlive him.
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Rodrigo Cass1983 – 2026 · Contemporary artistSão Paulo artist who made concrete, color, and quiet ritual speak.
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Helmut Wiesinger1952 – 2026 · ActorAustrian stage actor who gave more than 100 roles to Landestheater Niederosterreich.
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Georg Westenfelder1935 – 2026 · Organ builderGerman organ builder who made Lintgen a cross-border centre of the craft.
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