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Public figure / Physician / Civil rights leader / Osteopathic medicine / Educator

William G. Anderson

1927 – 2026 · Osteopathic physician and surgeon; Albany Movement founder/president; first African American AOA president (1994-1995); educator; author

“Albany Movement leader and first Black AOA president who healed patients and challenged a segregated nation.”

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Public figure / Business / Philanthropy / Arts patron / Education

Martha Rivers Ingram

1935 – 2026 · Businesswoman; chairman and CEO of Ingram Industries (from 1995); arts philanthropist; civic leader; author

“Nashville's First Lady of the Arts who built halls, saved a symphony, and led a billion-dollar company.”

🕯 46 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 3

Singer / Operatic soprano / National opera pioneer / Educator / Cultural icon

Guo Lanying

1929 – 2026 · Operatic soprano; Jin/Shanxi bangzi performer; Chinese national-opera pioneer; folk vocal educator; NPC deputy; People's Artist

“People's Artist whose My Motherland and White-Haired Girl voice became China's shared song memory.”

🕯 48 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3

Film / Entertainment / Animal advocacy

Andrea Eastman

1940 – 2026 · Casting director (Paramount head of casting); talent agent/manager; ICM SVP; animal advocate and sanctuary founder

“Godfather casting pioneer and ICM trailblazer who spent her later years rescuing horses and dogs.”

🕯 84 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 4

Politics / Human rights / Scientist / Belarusian opposition

Alexander Milinkevich

1947 – 2026 · Physicist; deputy mayor of Hrodna; 2006 united democratic presidential candidate; For Freedom leader; Free Belarusian University chancellor; Tsikhanouskaya adviser

“Physicist and Sakharov laureate who united Belarus's democrats and never stopped arguing for a European, fearless country.”

🕯 71 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 5

Science / Theoretical chemistry / Nobel laureate / Caltech professor

Rudolph A. Marcus

1923 – 2026 · Theoretical chemist, university professor, mentor; Marcus theory of electron transfer; co-developer of RRKM unimolecular reaction-rate theory

“Nobel chemist who explained how electrons jump between molecules.”

🕯 239 · ✍️ 24 · 📷 4

Musician / Folk arts / Luthier / Old-time fiddler

Violet Hensley

1916 – 2026 · Luthier (fiddle maker/repairer); old-time fiddler; folk performer; teacher of fiddle making and playing

“Ozarks Whittlin' Fiddler who carved 73 fiddles and debuted at the Opry at 99.”

🕯 40 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3

Physician / Surgical oncologist / Health equity / Patient navigation

Harold P. Freeman

1933 – 2026 · Surgical oncologist; health equity advocate; pioneer of patient navigation; ACS president (1988-89); President's Cancer Panel chair; NCI disparities center founding director

“Father of patient navigation who proved poverty, not destiny, decides who survives cancer.”

🕯 46 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 3

Art / Assemblage / Black Arts Movement

Betye Saar

1926 – 2026 · Assemblage artist; collage and installation artist; printmaker; early costume/jewelry designer; educator (UCLA, Otis); visual storyteller of race, gender, memory, spirit

“Assemblage pioneer who armed Aunt Jemima and remade racist kitsch into Black feminist power.”

🕯 82 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 1

Sport

Livio 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.”

🕯 44 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Music

Connie Francis

1937 – 2025 · Singer; musician; actress; author

“First woman to top the Hot 100; Who's Sorry Now to Pretty Little Baby; voice, resilience, 200 million records.”

🕯 126 · ✍️ 23 · 📷 1

Civil rights / Politics / Religion

Jesse Jackson

1941 – 2026 · Baptist minister; civil rights activist; LGBTQ advocate; politician; 1984/1988 Dem. presidential candidate; Rainbow PUSH founder; D.C. shadow senator; CNN host

“Civil rights leader who told America: I am somebody. Keep hope alive.”

🕯 197 · ✍️ 24 · 📷 3

Civil rights / Politics

John Lewis

1940 – 2020 · Civil rights leader; SNCC chair (1963-66); Atlanta City Council; U.S. Rep. for Georgia's 5th district (1987-2020); author

“Apostle of nonviolence who made good trouble for justice.”

🕯 86 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 1

Academia / Diplomacy / Religion

James T. Laney

1927 – 2026 · Methodist minister; Candler dean (1969-77); Emory president (1977-93); U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1993-96); Korea peace advocate

“Led Emory's quantum jump and sought peace on the Korean peninsula.”

🕯 39 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2

Musician / Playback singer / Cultural icon (Odisha)

Pranab Patnaik

1938 – 2026 · Playback singer; Odissi, folk, bhajan, semi-classical and ghazal vocalist; AIR and Doordarshan artist

“Golden Voice of Odia song, forever on the airwaves.”

🕯 90 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

Actor / Producer / Activist

Sally Kirkland

1941 – 2025 · Actress; producer; acting teacher; health activist; ordained minister (MSIA); painter

“Oscar-nominated force of nature who turned grit, glamour and Anna into lasting indie legend.”

🕯 68 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3

Writer / Poet / Novelist / YA author

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

1954 – 2026 · Poet; novelist; short-story writer; YA and children's author; painter; UTEP creative writing professor; former Catholic priest; radio co-host

“Border poet who made lonely boys feel seen, and made El Paso a universe of love.”

🕯 83 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Musician / Art punk / DIY indie

David Fair

1952 – 2026 · Musician; Half Japanese co-founder; librarian; visual artist; children's author; occasional filmmaker

“He lived a beautiful life of love, kindness, and creativity.”

🕯 59 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 3

Actor / Writer / Theatre

Phyllida Law

1932 – 2026 · Actress (stage, film, television); writer (memoirs); sometime costume designer

“Scottish actress of silken voice and sly wit, mother of two great actors, forever of the stage.”

🕯 94 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 4

Television writer-producer / Stand-up comedian / Film cameo actor / Cultural comedy figure

Marty Nadler

1945 – 2026 · Television writer-producer; stand-up comedian; film/TV cameo actor; studio audience warm-up comic

“Comic's comic who wrote the laughs and shared the stage.”

🕯 85 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 2

Actress / Cultural icon / Ghanaian theatre and film pioneer / Television drama

Grace Nortey

1937 – 2026 · Actress (theatre, television, film); former radio host

“Maame Gyata: five decades of fierce Ghanaian screen truth.”

🕯 44 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Actor / Voice actor / Dubbing / Italian cinema / Poliziottesco / Italy

Elio Zamuto

1941 – 2026 · Actor; voice actor (doppiatore); dubbing director (direttore del doppiaggio)

“Italian Magnum: voice of Selleck, Creed, and the poliziottesco.”

🕯 44 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Sport / Baseball / MLB / Philadelphia Phillies / World Series / United States

Larry Christenson

1953 – 2026 · MLB pitcher (Phillies 1973-1983); later institutional investment executive; Phillies alumnus and charity supporter

“LC: smile on, teammates kept close.”

🕯 91 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1

Journalism / Literary criticism / Biography / Poetry / Radio / Germany / Robert Musil / DDR literature

Karl Corino

1942 – 2026 · Broadcast journalist; literature critic; writer; poet; biographer; editor

“Musil's detective: Transit voice for DDR letters, no forged marble left standing.”

🕯 71 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 2

Acting / Television / Theatre / Culinary writing / Environmental advocacy / Germany

Andreas Hoppe

1960 – 2026 · Actor (theatre, film, television); author; environmental campaigner

“Ciao Kopper: heart on the right side.”

🕯 65 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 1

Art / Satire / Cartooning / Illustration / Children's literature / Germany

Hans Traxler

1929 – 2026 · Painter; cartoonist; illustrator; satirist; children's book author; Pardon/Titanic co-founder

“He made Kohl a pear and Frankfurt laugh.”

🕯 91 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Arts / theatre / scenic design / Broadway

Anna Louizos

1957 – 2026 · Scenic designer; art director; costume designer (selected); founder of Broadway Design Exchange

“She built our homes on Broadway stages.”

🕯 57 · ✍️ 6 · 📷 2

Sports / American football / NFL coach

Kippy Brown

1955 – 2026 · American football QB; college and NFL coach (RB, WR, OC, interim HC, XFL HC); Super Bowl XLVIII Seahawks WR coach

“Great man, great mentor: Memphis pioneer QB and Seahawks Super Bowl XLVIII WR coach.”

🕯 54 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 1

Actor / Theatre director / Playwright / Poet

Manel Dueso

1953 – 2026 · Actor; theatre director; playwright; poet; acting coach; occasional TV screenwriter and casting/acting director

“Catalan stage free spirit who cofounded Sala Beckett and kept writing until the end.”

🕯 60 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 1

Politics / European Union / Germany

Klaus Hänsch

1938 – 2026 · SPD politician; MEP 1979-2009; President of the European Parliament 1994-1997; political scientist; author

“Former EP President who brought Klartext from Erkrath to Strasbourg and made Commissioner hearings public.”

🕯 47 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 2

Literature / Biography / Scholarship

Laura Claridge

b. 1952 · Biographer; author; literary scholar; former tenured English professor, U.S. Naval Academy; cultural critic

“Biographer who restored complexity to Rockwell, Post, Lempicka, and Blanche Knopf.”

🕯 61 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Public figure / Comedy / Activism / Literature / Belgium / Francophone culture

Noël Godin

1945 – 2026 · Writer, critic, actor, anarchist comedian, pie thrower (entarteur / L'Entarteur)

“Entartons les pompeux cornichons: Belgium's anarchist pie thrower who pied the powerful.”

🕯 65 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Arts / theatre / musical comedy / operetta / People's Artist of Russia

Aleksandr Pashchenko

1945 – 2026 · Singer, actor, and stage director (musical comedy / operetta); People's Artist of Russia

“From scenery crew to People's Artist, he gave Orenburg nearly 700 roles and his whole heart.”

🕯 75 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 3

Arts / entertainment / film / television / stunts / martial arts / acting

James Lew

1952 – 2026 · Martial artist; stuntman; stunt coordinator; actor; fight choreographer; occasional writer-director

“Emmy-winning stunt artist who made Hollywood's heroes look fearless.”

🕯 42 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 2

Business / Soft drinks / Coca-Cola / Entrepreneurship / Author

Brian Dyson

1935 – 2026 · Business executive; soft-drink leader; first CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises; former Vice Chairman and COO of The Coca-Cola Company; author; athlete

“Coca-Cola leader who launched Diet Coke, weathered New Coke, and taught the world work is rubber, the rest is glass.”

🕯 34 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3

Religion / Theology / Catholicism / Opus Dei / Spain / Ecumenism

Pedro Rodríguez García

1933 – 2026 · Roman Catholic priest (Opus Dei); theologian (ecclesiology, ecumenism); Navarra professor and former dean; Palabra founder-editor

“Priest-theologian who found Trent's catechism manuscript and served Vatican II's reception.”

🕯 78 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Arts / Film and television / Fox / Westerns / sitcoms

Nina Shipman

1938 – 2026 · Film and television actress; educational-television host; author of an actors' commercial handbook

“Fox starlet, Western guest star, Nell Shipman's granddaughter. Screen craft across three decades.”

🕯 34 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 1

Sports / Football / Aston Villa / Stoke City / Plymouth Argyle / winger

Harry Burrows

1941 – 2026 · Professional footballer (winger/forward); fabric-business partner; publican; postmaster; FA coach; charity-match guest; Abbots Bromley Stags president

“Cannonball left foot. Villa League Cup pioneer. Stoke terrace legend.”

🕯 40 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3

Sports / Ice hockey / NHL / Montreal Canadiens / left wing / Stanley Cup

André Pronovost

1936 – 2026 · Professional ice hockey left wing; later restaurant manager; junior coach; Canadiens / Old Timers alumnus

“Four Cups with Montreal. Forever a proud Shawiniganais.”

🕯 79 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Sports / Football / Athletico Paranaense / Corinthians / Brazil / Paraná

Jackson Nascimento

1924 – 2026 · Professional footballer (midfielder / meia-esquerda); coach; Athletico director; lawyer; federal prosecutor (Procurador Federal)

“Furacão 1949 idol, Athletico's second-highest scorer, lived 102 years for the club.”

🕯 47 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3

Music / Greek laiko-pop / singing / television

Giorgos Mazonakis

1972 – 2026 · Greek modern folk-pop / laiko-pop singer; television personality (judge, coach, host); occasional actor

“The night's own voice of Greek laiko-pop.”

🕯 47 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Journalism / Media

Chiche Gelblung

1944 – 2026 · Journalist; magazine editor; war correspondent; photographer; radio and TV host; digital news founder

“Curious, combative, never retired: Argentina's Chiche kept asking until the last broadcast.”

🕯 40 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 3

Olympic athlete and sports executive

Bill Schmidt

1947 – 2026 · Olympic javelin thrower; Gatorade sports marketing VP; 1984 LA Olympics sports VP; Oakley CEO; Pegasus founder; UT adjunct; author

“From Southview coal camp to Munich bronze and Be Like Mike: the last U.S. men's Olympic javelin medalist.”

🕯 47 · ✍️ 4 · 📷 4

Actor

Roney Facchini

1953 – 2026 · Actor in theatre, television and cinema; stage director, producer and presenter

“From Rá-Tim-Bum's Luís to 30+ plays: a São Paulo actor of craft, humour and heart.”

🕯 72 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 2

Music

Nicolas Simion

1959 – 2026 · Jazz saxophonist, composer, bandleader, producer and educator (tenor sax, bass clarinet, taragot, flute)

“He carried Transylvanian song into the language of jazz.”

🕯 74 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 2

Architecture

Kenneth Treister (FAIA)

1930 – 2026 · Architect, sculptor, photographer, author, lecturer, architectural historian

“Miami architect and sculptor of the Holocaust Memorial's Sculpture of Love and Anguish.”

🕯 49 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 1

Music

Jonathan Cooper

1950 – 2026 · Violinmaker (luthier), fiddler, instrument dealer and appraiser, mentor

“He made fiddles meant to sing for centuries, one at a time.”

🕯 36 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 4

Dance

Indu Mitha

1929 – 2026 · Bharatanatyam dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer

“She kept Bharatanatyam alive in Pakistan, in Urdu, for nearly seventy years.”

🕯 97 · ✍️ 7 · 📷 1