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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.”

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Jon Small

† 2026 · Drummer; music-video director and producer; concert-film director/producer; founder of Picture Vision

“Drummer who became the eye behind Walk This Way and Billy Joel's landmark concert films.”

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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.”

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Business

Bruce Lunsford

1947 – 2026 · Attorney; CPA; healthcare entrepreneur; private investor; politician; thoroughbred owner-breeder; film producer; philanthropist

“Kentucky builder who raced Art Collector and nearly unseated Mitch McConnell.”

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Academia

Robert Alexy

1945 – 2026 · German jurist and legal philosopher; Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (from 1986); Senior Professor from 2019

“Made principles optimization commands and insisted law claim correctness.”

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Klaus Wanger

1941 – 2026 · Politician; businessman (Hoval; Rheindata AG); bank board vice chair (LLB)

“Landtag president who backed Liechtenstein's 2003 constitution.”

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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.”

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Ilan Dar

1937 – 2026 · Actor (stage, film, television); theatre director; translator; voice actor

“Israeli stage and screen giant; forever Ilan of Krovim Krovim.”

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Architecture

Frank Gehry

1929 – 2025 · Architect; designer (furniture, jewelry, products); educator

“Pritzker-winning architect who reshaped cities with Bilbao, Disney Hall, and fearless form.”

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Public figure

Nancy Kissinger

1934 – 2026 · Foreign policy specialist; Rockefeller aide and international-studies director; philanthropist; public figure as wife and traveling partner of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

“Foreign policy specialist and philanthropist who was Henry Kissinger's trusted partner for nearly fifty years.”

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Business

Sir Roger Jones

1943 – 2026 · Pharmacist; pharmaceutical entrepreneur; public servant; former WDA chairman; BBC national governor for Wales

“Welsh pharmacist-entrepreneur who built Penn Pharma, led the WDA, and never stopped fishing for Wales.”

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Győző Martos

1949 – 2026 · Footballer (right-back / defender); sports administrator (Volán SC executive president; Volán FC president; Budapest Football Association president; MLSZ federal inspector); FTC Baráti Kör board membe

“Fradi right-back who marked Blohin and wore the crest at two World Cups.”

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Richard Tesařík

1945 – 2026 · Singer, lyricist, percussionist, bandleader; occasional actor / musical theatre

“Czech reggae pioneer and Yo Yo Band voice who put Kladno, Karviná and Rybitví on the pop map.”

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Wilfried Wesemael

1950 – 2026 · Professional road cyclist (1973-1982); track amateur champion; Olympic track cyclist (1972); frituur operator (WilFrit / Wil Frit)

“Tour de Suisse winner who became Aalst's WilFrit, serving fries as hard as he rode.”

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Sliman Mansour

1947 – 2026 · Painter, sculptor, author, cartoonist, art educator, cultural organizer

“He painted sumud so a homeland could be carried and remembered.”

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Sudivya Kumar

1970 – 2026 · Politician; Jharkhand cabinet minister; MLA (Giridih); previously contractor (CCL / DVC); JMM organiser

“JMM strategist and Giridih MLA who rose from contractor to cabinet as Hemant's Sonu Bhaiya.”

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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.”

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Rihards Pīks

1941 – 2026 · Film cinematographer and director; Culture Minister of Latvia; Foreign Minister of Latvia; Saeima deputy (7th and 8th); Member of the European Parliament; film-school founder/teacher; party board memb

“Cinema craftsman who briefly held Latvia's foreign helm at EU dawn.”

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Science

Richard E. Stearns

1936 – 2026 · Computer scientist, mathematician, complexity theorist, professor, department chair, game theorist

“Co-founder of computational complexity who made hardness a science.”

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Charles Floyd Hatcher

1939 – 2026 · U.S. Representative (D-GA-2); Georgia state representative; attorney; U.S. Air Force veteran; USDA presidential appointee (Clinton era); community volunteer

“Southwest Georgia peanut champion who treated public service as friendship.”

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Science

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

1938 – 2026 · Physician (pediatrician / pediatric endocrinology background); psycho-oncology clinician; medical educator; author; integrative / relationship-centered care pioneer

“Physician-patient who taught medicine to listen: curing is not the same as healing.”

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John 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.”

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Barry 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.”

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Annette 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.”

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Hugh Curran

1943 – 2026 · Professional football striker; briefly football manager (Banbury United); hotelier; publican (four Red Lion pubs); Thornhill park-and-ride supervisor (Oxford, after 2005)

“Fast, airborne striker. Scotland's Wembley goal. Wolves and Norwich great.”

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R. 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.”

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Matt Suhey

1958 – 2026 · American football fullback; later investor / commodities (Chicago Board of Trade); water and heavy-equipment business interests

“Lead blocker. Loyal friend. Super Bowl XX champion.”

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Film/TV

Christy Knowings

1980 – 2026 · American actress, comedian, singer/musician, dancer, model, writer

“All That scene-stealer whose Brenda Stone and Whateverrr energy still makes 90s kids laugh.”

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Alphonso Smith

1985 – 2026 · American football cornerback (NFL); college football star (Wake Forest); later high school coach; Wake Forest sideline reporter; marketing director

“Wake Forest ballhawk who set the ACC interceptions record and never stopped smiling.”

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Arthur Marshall

1969 – 2026 · American football wide receiver (NFL); kick and punt returner; later real-estate / contracting businessman; community coach

“Undrafted Georgia star who threw an 81-yard NFL touchdown and never forgot Hephzibah.”

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Literature

Edward Field

1924 – 2026 · Poet; novelist; memoirist; anthologist; poetry reader/teacher; documentary narration writer; WWII navigator

“Village poet who stood up, friend, for a century.”

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Charles Josselin

1938 – 2026 · Politician; economist; French Socialist Party figure; minister; deputy; senator; MEP; departmental president; mayor

“Breton socialist who renamed the Côtes-d'Armor and beat Big Oil.”

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David Z

1948 – 2026 · Record producer; audio engineer; songwriter; guitarist; drum-machine / studio innovator

“Architect of the Minneapolis Sound; Funkytown snare to Kiss and She Drives Me Crazy.”

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Jimmy Rimmer

1948 – 2026 · Professional football goalkeeper; later goalkeeping coach and caretaker manager (Swansea City); goalkeeping coach (China national team, Dalian Shide; Canada)

“Two European Cups, one England cap; the keeper who put the team first.”

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Mark Volman

1947 – 2025 · Musician; vocalist; guitarist; songwriter; music-business professor

“Happy Together harmonies, Flo & Eddie mischief, and teaching the next roomful of musicians.”

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Literature

Didier Decoin

1945 – 2026 · Novelist; screenwriter (film and television); journalist; Académie Goncourt member and former president; former SGDL president; SCAM co-founder

“Goncourt storyteller; Cotentin sea; high idea of language.”

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Journalism

Stephen Walker

† 2026 · Journalist; political correspondent; investigative documentary maker; author; biographer; speaker / event host; media trainer (BBC Northern Ireland; not the filmmaker of the same name)

“BBC NI truth-teller; Hume and Trimble's biographer; Sky Blue to the end.”

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Entertainment

Chuck Norris

1940 – 2026 · Martial artist; actor; screenwriter; author; fitness spokesperson; philanthropist

“Martial arts champion, Walker, Texas Ranger, and internet legend who kicked open American action cinema.”

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Otto Jelinek

1940 – 2026 · Pair figure skater (Olympian, world champion); Ice Capades professional; businessman; Progressive Conservative MP and federal cabinet minister; Deloitte Central Europe chair; Colliers International CE

“World pairs champion who fled Prague, then returned as gold medallist, minister, and ambassador.”

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S. R. Janakiraman

1928 – 2026 · Carnatic vocalist, musicologist, teacher, author/translator; former Principal, Teachers' College of Music (Music Academy, Chennai); former Head of Musicology, Sri Venkateswara College of Music, Tirupa

“Last student of Tiger Varadachariar; Carnatic musicology's December-season voice.”

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Grace 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.”

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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.”

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Musician

Pepe Habichuela

1944 – 2026 · Spanish flamenco guitarist; accompanist; recording artist; Habichuela dynasty patriarch

“Habichuela dynasty master: Morente's partner, Ketama's root, guitar that never lost the jondo.”

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Filmmaker

Georgina Lightning

1963 – 2026 · First Nations (Samson Cree / Maskwacis Plains Cree) film director, screenwriter, actress, producer, cultural consultant, Indigenous media advocate; co-founder of Tribal Alliance Productions

“Samson Cree filmmaker who made media that matters and opened the feature door for Indigenous women directors.”

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Joe Morgan (manager)

1930 – 2026 · Baseball manager, coach, scout, and former MLB infielder/outfielder (Walpole Joe / Red Sox manager; not the Hall of Fame second baseman)

“Walpole Joe of Morgan Magic: the snowplow skipper who made Fenway believe again.”

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Entertainment

Eric Dane

1972 – 2026 · Actor

“McSteamy who became an ALS advocate, fighting with humor, heart, and love for his daughters.”

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