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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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Eric Dane

1972 – 2026 · Actor

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

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Carlos Horacio Salinas

1956 – 2026 · Professional footballer (attacking midfielder / forward); later lived with Mutual de Ex Jugadores del Club assistance after retirement hardship

“Boca's Intercontinental hero who scored the Karlsruhe goal.”

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Science

Don Wilhelms

1930 – 2026 · USGS planetary and lunar geologist; Apollo astronaut geology trainer; lunar geologic mapper; author; Mariner 9 television experiment co-investigator (geology team)

“Lunar mapper who taught Apollo crews to read the Moon.”

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Jorge Messi

1958 – 2026 · Sports agent / businessman; formerly chemical technician and metallurgical/steel industry employee (Acindar); youth football coach

“Father, first coach and agent who walked Lionel Messi from Rosario youth pitches to world football.”

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Business

Klaus-Michael Kühne

1937 – 2026 · German billionaire businessman; honorary chairman and majority owner of Kuhne + Nagel; major shareholder of Hapag-Lloyd and Lufthansa; philanthropist (Kuhne Foundation)

“Logistics patriarch who built a global freight empire and left it to a Swiss foundation.”

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Dash Crofts

1938 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter; musician (vocals, guitar, mandolin, drums, piano)

“Seals & Crofts harmony and mandolin; Summer Breeze still softens the room.”

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Andy Williams (The Butcher)

1977 – 2026 · Musician (rhythm guitar); professional wrestler

“Founding ETID guitarist and AEW's The Butcher; Buffalo metal and tag-team brotherhood to the end.”

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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.”

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Science

David Baltimore

1938 – 2025 · Molecular biologist, virologist, immunologist, university administrator, science-policy leader, mentor

“Nobel virologist who proved RNA can make DNA and remade biology.”

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Bill Dundee

1943 – 2026 · Professional wrestler; author; booker/promoter; occasional manager; circus trapeze artist (youth); talk radio / public-access guest; podcast host

“Memphis Superstar. Circus flyer turned territory legend. Forever Lawler's greatest rival and partner.”

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Jorge Ramírez Gallego

1940 – 2026 · Footballer (centre-forward / striker); later youth coach / talent scout for Deportivo Cali; private-company team coach

“Deportivo Cali's all-time scorer who made the Azucareros champions.”

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Latimore

1939 – 2026 · Blues and R&B singer; songwriter; pianist; session musician

“Blues Hall of Famer whose baritone made Let's Straighten It Out a forever conversation.”

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Keiko Kishi

1932 – 2026 · Actress; writer (essayist, novelist); journalist / reporter; UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador

“International star of postwar Japanese film who chose courage over comfort, from Machiko-maki fame to Paris and the page.”

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Jean-François Leroy

1956 – 2026 · Photojournalist; magazine editor; festival director / co-founder of Visa pour l'Image; photography agent; company president (Images-Évidence from 2009)

“He made Perpignan a beacon: go and see, never look away.”

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Dory Funk Jr.

1941 – 2026 · Professional wrestler; trainer; promoter; booker; PWF chairman (All Japan); school owner (Funking Conservatory)

“Never quit: NWA world champion, Hall of Famer, and Ocala's master teacher.”

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Politics

Alberto Iribarne

1950 – 2026 · Lawyer; Peronist politician; Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights; diplomat; former National Deputy; constitutional convention delegate; university lecturer; author/compiler

“Peronist lawyer who steered Justice under Kirchner and later represented Argentina in Uruguay.”

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Jon Cypher

1932 – 2026 · Actor; singer (opera in four languages); limerick author; marriage and family counselor; Disclosure Project / peace-in-space advocate

“From Cinderella's prince to Hill Street's chief: singer, actor, good journey.”

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Craig Douglas

1941 – 2026 · Singer (pop / rock and roll); known as the Singing Milkman

“Isle of Wight Singing Milkman whose Only Sixteen topped Britain in 1959.”

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Academia

Shirley Strum Kenny

1934 – 2026 · English scholar (Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama); university president; academic administrator

“Gave Stony Brook a heart and a beautiful campus.”

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Academia

Sir Anthony Kenny

1931 – 2026 · Philosopher; historian of philosophy; university administrator; former Roman Catholic priest (laicized)

“Devout agnostic who made the great philosophers lucid.”

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Franco Fontana

1933 – 2026 · Photographer; colour fine-art photographer; advertising and editorial photographer

“What remains of me when I go? Colour.”

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Politics

Kay Granger

1943 – 2026 · U.S. Representative (TX-12, 1997-2025); Mayor of Fort Worth (1991-1995); teacher; insurance businesswoman; House Appropriations Chair (2023-2024)

“Fort Worth's first woman mayor who rose to Appropriations chair, serving Texas with grit and care.”

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Literature

John Crowley

1942 – 2026 · Novelist (fantasy, SF, historical fiction); short-story writer; essayist; documentary screenwriter; Yale creative writing lecturer; co-founder Straight Ahead Pictures

“Fantasy novelist of Little, Big who blurred dream and history into living story.”

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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.”

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Film

Francesc Garrido

1969 – 2026 · Actor (stage, film, television)

“Essential Catalan actor of stage and screen, magnetic and discreet, aged 56.”

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Johnny Young

1947 – 2026 · Singer; songwriter; musician; record producer; disc jockey; television presenter and producer; radio presenter; entrepreneur (Lewis-Young Productions; Johnny Young Talent Schools)

“Goodnight Australia: joy, songs, and Young Talent Time.”

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Architecture

Elia Zenghelis

1937 – 2026 · Greek architect; co-founder of Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA); architectural educator; later partner, Gigantes Zenghelis Architects

“OMA co-founder and legendary teacher who proved architecture can invent cities and make you happy.”

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Academia

Konrad H. Jarausch

1941 – 2026 · German-American historian; Lurcy Professor Emeritus of European Civilization, UNC Chapel Hill; former co-director, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam

“Transatlantic historian who taught Germans and Americans to face a shattered past and rebuild civil society.”

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Dave Marsh

1950 – 2026 · Music journalist; author; radio host; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee member

“Detroit rock critic who wrote Springsteen into history and argued for justice as hard as he argued about records.”

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Frankie Miller

1930 – 2026 · Country singer-songwriter; later auto salesman; late-career recording artist

“Family man first: Texas voice of Blackland Farmer, Bronze Star veteran, friend to legends.”

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Monty Roberts

1935 – 2026 · Horse trainer; author; natural horsemanship pioneer (Join-Up / Equus); educator; live demonstrator

“Taught the world to listen to horses; Join-Up pioneer and friend of Queen Elizabeth II.”

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Laura Cardoso

1927 – 2026 · Actress (radio, television, theatre, film); former voice actress

“Pioneer of Brazilian TV whose Isaura, Guiomar and Doroteia still echo.”

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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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Science

Mary Tsingou

1928 – 2026 · Physicist; mathematician; scientific computing pioneer; computer programmer

“Coded the experiment that launched nonlinear science; later given her name in FPUT.”

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Glória Menezes

1934 – 2026 · Actress (TV, film, theatre)

“Pioneer of Brazilian telenovelas whose Laurinha, Ana Preta and Rosa still echo.”

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Ben Jones

1941 – 2026 · Actor; U.S. Representative; writer/memoirist; businessman (Cooter's Place); musician (Cooter's Garage Band); political commentator

“Cooter of Hazzard County and Georgia congressman who kept the General Lee running for fans.”

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O.J. Brigance

1969 – 2026 · Professional American and Canadian football linebacker and special-teams player; Ravens director / senior adviser of player development; ALS advocate; author

“Super Bowl Raven. Grey Cup Stallion. 19 years fighting ALS with grace.”

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Media

Philippe Bouvard

1929 – 2026 · Journalist; radio and television presenter and producer; humorist; writer; press executive; theatre manager (Gaite-Bobino 1990-2006)

“Father of Les Grosses Tetes. 60 years on RTL. Wit that never retired.”

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Jacques Doucet

1940 – 2026 · French-language baseball play-by-play sportscaster; sports journalist; author; official scorer (early Expos/Jarry Park); Baseball Quebec ambassador

“Voice of the Expos. Over 5,500 games in French. Canada's Vin Scully.”

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Janie Bradford

1939 – 2026 · Songwriter; Motown receptionist then Jobete Music writer relations executive; HAL Awards founder/producer; scholarship fund executive director; Twinn Records co-founder

“Motown's early lyric voice; Money's couplet; HAL's family keeper.”

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