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Kuku Kohli

1949 – 2026 · Film director, producer, screenwriter, editor; industry association officer

“The director who put Ajay Devgn on two bikes and launched a Hindi film star.”

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Jan Frycz

1954 – 2026 · Actor (theatre, film, television); also Polish-language dubbing

“Krakow actor who made supporting roles unforgettable, from Lupa's stage to Dario.”

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Academia

Ivan T Berend

1930 – 2026 · Historian and economist; rector, Karl Marx University (now Corvinus), 1973-1979; president, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1985-1990; UCLA history professor, 1990-2015.

“He survived Dachau at 14 and spent a long life teaching how Central Europe's economies rose, failed, and changed.”

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Georgy Matyukhin

1934 – 2026 · economist, academic, professor, central banker, former intelligence officer

“First Bank of Russia chairman, who built a two-tier system as the Soviet Union ended.”

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Entertainment

Bob Saget

1956 – 2022 · Stand-up comedian; actor; director; television host

“America's TV dad who also told the dirtiest jokes.”

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Chris Cornell

1964 – 2017 · Singer; songwriter; musician; guitarist

“Four-octave voice of Seattle grunge who kept reinventing hard rock.”

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Antonino 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.”

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Royalty

PK Kerala Varma

1936 – 2026 · Traditional ruler (Zamorin / Samoothiri of Kozhikode), pharmacologist, pharmaceutical entrepreneur, exporter

“Zamorin of Kozhikode who made medicines, shared family rule, and chose a public cremation.”

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David Johansen

1950 – 2025 · Singer; songwriter; actor; radio host

“Proto-punk Doll who kept reinventing New York, from glam chaos to Hot Hot Hot.”

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Athlete / Boxer

Ismael Laguna

1943 – 2026 · Professional boxer; later public symbol of Panamanian boxing and namesake of a Colón gym and youth academy

“The Tiger of Colón. Twice world lightweight champion, never stopped, never forgotten.”

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Comics

Shinichi Abe

1950 – 2026 · Manga artist, gekiga artist, novelist

“Garo artist who turned Asagaya love and later illness into private manga that outlived the silence.”

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Television writer / Playwright / Producer

Vadim Popov

1940 – 2026 · Politician, agricultural manager, former minister, parliamentarian

“Twice Speaker of Belarus's lower house, he asked that Belarusians live with dignity.”

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Literature

Tony Harrison

1937 – 2025 · Poet; translator; playwright; librettist; film-poet

“Public poet of Leeds: verse for page, stage and screen.”

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Comedy

Great Gidayu

1958 – 2026 · Japanese comedian, musician, guitar-manzai performer, rakugo performer, actor; Takeshi Gundan member; TAP talent

“Takeshi Army's Benkei: guitar, rakugo, and laughter through dialysis.”

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Art

Lucien Smith

1989 – 2026 · Multidisciplinary artist (painting, film, photography, sculpture, NFTs); nonprofit founder; restaurateur

“From Rain Paintings to Serving the People and FOOD, he turned early market fame into community.”

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Jim Geoghan

1947 – 2026 · Television writer, television producer, playwright, former stand-up comedian

“From Bronx club stages to the Tipton Hotel, he kept children laughing and parents trusting the half hour.”

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Writer / Playwright / Public intellectual

Slobodan Snajder

1948 – 2026 · Writer; playwright; novelist; essayist; publicist; columnist; former theatre director

“Writer of Croatian Faust and The Brass Age who would not let history go quiet.”

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Science / Paleontology

Yoshikazu Hasegawa

1930 – 2026 · Vertebrate paleontologist; university professor; museum director

“He showed Japan its first plesiosaur and spent a life reading fossil bones.”

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Television / Film

James Gandolfini

1961 – 2013 · Actor; producer (documentaries / Attaboy Films / HBO projects)

“Tony Soprano who redefined TV antiheroes, and a Jersey son who never forgot home.”

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Politics / Feminism

Yvette Roudy

1929 – 2026 · Politician; feminist activist; translator; journalist; minister; member of parliament; mayor

“France's first women's rights minister. She made abortion reimbursable and wrote equality into working life.”

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Bruce Davis

1943 – 2026 · Film executive; author; academic (theater department chair); Academy historian

“Academy executive who guarded Oscar for 22 years and wrote how the statue got its name.”

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Sport

Silvia Ederra

1983 – 2026 · Handball player (pivot, line player); later a student of business and marketing

“Pivot of Estella who made the six-metre line a life's work, and came back when her body said she could.”

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Literature

Peter Gill

1939 – 2026 · Playwright, theatre director, actor

“Cardiff-born writer and director who made ordinary lives the centre of British theatre.”

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Kirk Douglas

1916 – 2020 · Actor; filmmaker and producer; philanthropist; author

“Spartacus legend who broke the blacklist and lived to 103.”

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Business

Guus Kouwenhoven

1942 – 2026 · Businessman; hotelier; timber trader; arms dealer (convicted); luxury-car importer

“Dutch timber baron convicted over Liberia's war, who never served the sentence.”

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Freddy Cannon

1936 – 2026 · Singer; musician; early rock and roll recording artist

“Boom Boom of rock and roll, whose Palisades Park still sounds like summer.”

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Nanda Malini

1943 – 2026 · Sri Lankan singer, playback vocalist, concert artist, and music teacher

“A voice of social purpose, she sang Sri Lanka's hard truths in a white sari.”

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Theatre

Nina Popova

1945 – 2026 · Actress (theatre, film, television)

“Sixty years on one Moscow stage, and Zhenya in the first Soviet television serial.”

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Television

Hal Williams

1934 – 2026 · Actor

“Smitty, Lester, and a lifetime of grace on screen.”

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Elco Brinkman

1948 – 2026 · Politician; civil servant; jurist; researcher; businessperson; corporate director; nonprofit director; trade association executive

“Dutch minister and CDA leader who coined the caring society and never reached the premiership.”

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Edythe Harrison

1934 – 2026 · Civic leader; arts founder and fundraiser; Virginia House of Delegates member; 1984 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate; educator; former local television personality

“Professional volunteer who founded Virginia Opera and opened a statewide door for Virginia women.”

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Angie Stone

1961 – 2025 · Singer-songwriter; rapper; actress; record producer

“Hip-hop pioneer and neo-soul voice forever.”

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Nuno Cardoso

1961 – 2026 · Civil and transport engineer; invited assistant (FEUP); president of Águas do Douro e Paiva; mayor of Porto (1999-2002); later independent local candidate

“Engineer-mayor who steered Porto through 2001 and helped draw the Metro.”

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Tung Chee-hwa

1937 – 2026 · Shipping executive and businessman; first Chief Executive of Hong Kong (1997-2005); CPPCC vice-chairman (2005-2023); founder of CUSEF and Our Hong Kong Foundation

“Hong Kong's first Chief Executive, a shipping heir who led the city through the 1997 handover.”

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