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Canada 12
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India 11
Spain 9
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Australia 8
ArtsYves Brunier
1941 – 2026 · puppeteer; actor; author; marionnettiste; mascot designer; art critic; artistic director
“The man inside Casimir, France's gentle orange dinosaur.”
🕯 71 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2
ArtsMary Tyler Moore
1936 – 2017 · Actress; producer; activist
“She turned the world on with her smile.”
🕯 206 · ✍️ 19 · 📷 6
ArtsSir Richard Alston
1948 – 2026 · Choreographer; dancer (early career); artistic director; teacher
“Musical contemporary classicist; Strider to Rambert to The Place; knighted for Services to Dance.”
🕯 41 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 4
ArtsAngela Lansbury
1925 – 2022 · Actress; singer (stage, film, television, voice)
“Broadway queen, TV sleuth, and Mrs Potts forever.”
🕯 162 · ✍️ 18 · 📷 6
ArtsJames Van Der Beek
1977 – 2026 · Actor; producer; writer
“He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace.”
🕯 192 · ✍️ 19 · 📷 5
ArtsDonald Sutherland
1935 – 2024 · Actor
“He loved what he did and did what he loved. A life well lived.”
🕯 275 · ✍️ 16 · 📷 4
ArtsJohn Irvin
1940 – 2026 · Film and television director; documentarian
“A director with balls behind the camera.”
🕯 50 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 5
ArtsLen Brown
1941 – 2026 · Writer; editor; Topps Creative Director / Director of New Product Development; comic book scripter; radio DJ / country music host; trading-card and pop-culture book author
“Co-creator of Mars Attacks. Topps creative soul for 41 years. For the kids. Country roots forever.”
🕯 75 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 5
ArtsDavid Lynch
1946 – 2025 · Film director; screenwriter; actor; painter; musician; animator, author, furniture designer, photographer, sound designer
“Eagle Scout. Missoula, Montana. Keep your eye on the donut.”
🕯 183 · ✍️ 20 · 📷 4
ArtsJames Earl Jones
1931 – 2024 · Actor (stage, film, television); voice actor
“The voice of Vader and Mufasa; a stage giant forever.”
🕯 221 · ✍️ 19 · 📷 7
ArtsIlan Dar
1937 – 2026 · Actor (stage, film, television); theatre director; translator; voice actor
“Israeli stage and screen giant; forever Ilan of Krovim Krovim.”
🕯 78 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 6
ArtsSliman Mansour
1947 – 2026 · Painter, sculptor, author, cartoonist, art educator, cultural organizer
“He painted sumud so a homeland could be carried and remembered.”
🕯 96 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2
Mary Heilmann
1940 – 2026 · Abstract painter; ceramicist/sculptor (early); furniture maker (from 2002); teacher (Stony Brook; School of Visual Arts)
“Color, chairs, and the ocean. A painter's painter.”
🕯 59 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 0
ArtsJohn Pickles
† 2026 · Music industry entrepreneur; founder of The Music Factory Entertainment Group, Mastermix DJ service, and commercial force behind Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers; described by Mastermix as songwriter
“Yorkshire music entrepreneur who took DJ megamixes to three UK number ones with Jive Bunny.”
🕯 94 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 4
ArtsBarry Cleavin
1939 – 2026 · Fine art printmaker (intaglio/etching, lithography, later digital/inkjet); university teacher (senior lecturer / Head of Printmaking, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts 1978-1990); arts advo
“NZ master printmaker who made doubt, bones and Hereweka speak in ink.”
🕯 67 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 1
ArtsAnnette Saint-Pierre
1925 – 2026 · Educator; writer; publisher; professor of Canadian / Franco-Western literature; heritage advocate
“Educator and publisher who made Franco-Manitoban literature visible and saved Gabrielle Roy's house.”
🕯 91 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 4
ArtsR. Sarath
† 2026 · Film director; screenwriter; documentary filmmaker; retired Deputy Director (Visual Communication), Information and Public Relations Department, Government of Kerala
“National Award Malayalam director who put conscience, mural heritage, and social drama on screen.”
🕯 32 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1
ArtsGrace Chang
1933 – 2026 · Singer, actress, dancer; later Peking-opera / Jingju practitioner (stage name Ge Lan / Ko Lan)
“Mambo Girl of Cathay's golden age, whose voice outlived the screen.”
🕯 65 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1
ArtsChita Rivera
1933 – 2024 · Actress, dancer, and singer; Broadway musical theatre star
“Broadway's electric dancer: Anita, Velma, Spider Woman, forever.”
🕯 94 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 5
ArtsJay Maisel
1931 – 2026 · Photographer, teacher, author; commercial and editorial photographer; workshop mentor
“He taught generations to look: light, color, gesture.”
🕯 86 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1
ArtsJean-François Leroy
1956 – 2026 · Photojournalist; magazine editor; festival director / co-founder of Visa pour l'Image; photography agent; company president (Images-Évidence from 2009)
“He made Perpignan a beacon: go and see, never look away.”
🕯 91 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2
ArtsFranco Fontana
1933 – 2026 · Photographer; colour fine-art photographer; advertising and editorial photographer
“What remains of me when I go? Colour.”
🕯 68 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3
ArtsJules Feiffer
1929 – 2025 · Cartoonist, satirist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, graphic novelist, children's book author and illustrator, art instructor
“Pulitzer and Oscar satirist who drew America's neuroses for decades.”
🕯 57 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3
ArtsWill Murray
1953 – 2026 · Novelist; journalist; comic-book writer; pulp historian; literary executor (Lester Dent estate)
“Kept Doc Savage alive and co-created Squirrel Girl; pulp historian who bridged fan to pro.”
🕯 89 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 2
ArtsJuan Tamariz
1942 – 2026 · Magician; close-up and card magic pioneer; television personality; author and theorist of magic; magic educator
“Spain's joyful master of cards: he made wonder feel like play, and made magicians rethink magic.”
🕯 86 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 3