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Mary Tyler Moore

1936 – 2017 · Actress; producer; activist

“She turned the world on with her smile.”

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James Van Der Beek

1977 – 2026 · Actor; producer; writer

“He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace.”

🕯 192 · ✍️ 19 · 📷 5

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Len 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

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David 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

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James Earl Jones

1931 – 2024 · Actor (stage, film, television); voice actor

“The voice of Vader and Mufasa; a stage giant forever.”

🕯 221 · ✍️ 19 · 📷 7

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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

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Chita Rivera

1933 – 2024 · Actress, dancer, and singer; Broadway musical theatre star

“Broadway's electric dancer: Anita, Velma, Spider Woman, forever.”

🕯 94 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 5

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Jay Maisel

1931 – 2026 · Photographer, teacher, author; commercial and editorial photographer; workshop mentor

“He taught generations to look: light, color, gesture.”

🕯 86 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

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Jules 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

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Will 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.”

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