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SportLivio Berruti
1939 – 2026 · Sprinter; Olympic champion; advertising and corporate communications (Zegna; Fiat)
“Rome 1960: the Angel who broke the American hold on the Olympic 200.”
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Actor / Voice actor / Dubbing / Italian cinema / Poliziottesco / ItalyElio Zamuto
1941 – 2026 · Actor; voice actor (doppiatore); dubbing director (direttore del doppiaggio)
“Italian Magnum: voice of Selleck, Creed, and the poliziottesco.”
🕯 44 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1
SportPierfranco Vianelli
1946 – 2026 · Amateur then professional road cyclist (1969 to 1973); later bicycle constructor and shopkeeper.
“Brescian amateur who won Olympic road gold in Mexico City in 1968, then built bicycles at home.”
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MusicAntonino Fogliani
1976 – 2026 · Conductor; festival music director; orchestral conducting teacher
“He kept rare bel canto alive, from Pesaro to Bad Wildbad, with a joy that reached the last row.”
🕯 74 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2
FashionValentino
1932 – 2026 · Fashion designer; founder of Valentino S.p.A.; creative director until retirement (final haute couture 2008)
“Italian couturier of Valentino red and jet-set chic who dressed Jackie, Liz, and Diana.”
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SportFranco Baresi
1960 – 2026 · Italian footballer (central defender and sweeper); later coach and AC Milan executive and honorary vice-president
“Baresi is forever. Number 6, forever Rossoneri.”
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ArtsFranco Fontana
1933 – 2026 · Photographer; colour fine-art photographer; advertising and editorial photographer
“What remains of me when I go? Colour.”
🕯 68 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3
FashionGiorgio Armani
1934 – 2025 · Fashion designer; founder and longtime creative and business head of Giorgio Armani S.p.A. / Armani Group
“Master of soft power dressing who made Italian elegance feel modern, calm, and human.”
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MusicFrancesco Guccini
1940 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter (cantautore); writer/novelist; occasional actor; comics writer; dialectologist; former Italian teacher (Dickinson College Bologna)
“Storyteller of everyday life, from Via Emilia to the West.”
🕯 69 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 3
PoliticsFabio Mussi
1948 – 2026 · Politician; party official; journalist; Minister of University and Research (2006-2008); Deputy; Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies
“Piombino worker's son who said no to the PD and kept a left gaze.”
🕯 84 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 5
ReligionEnzo Bianchi
1943 – 2026 · Catholic lay monk; founder and first prior of Bose Monastic Community; biblical writer / essayist / preacher; founder of Edizioni Qiqajon; later member/founder figure of Casa della Madia fraternity
“Founder of Bose who kept teaching the Gospel after exile.”
🕯 72 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3
MusicLuciano Pavarotti
1935 – 2007 · Operatic tenor
“Nessun dorma.”
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