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Ileana Cotrubaș

1939 – 2026 · Operatic soprano; teacher / coach; author

“She sought truth in song, not polish: Mimì and Violetta for the ages.”

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Writer

Robin Morgan

1941 – 2026 · Poet; writer; radical feminist activist; journalist; lecturer; former child actor; former editor-in-chief of Ms.; Women's Media Center co-founder and WMC Live host

“Poet and Sisterhood editor who made radical feminism audible, global, and impossible to ignore.”

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Science

Krishna AchutaRao

† 2026 · Climate scientist; Professor, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi; IPCC WG-I lead author; former Dean (Faculty), IIT Delhi

“Climate attribution scientist who linked ocean warming and India's extremes to human influence.”

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Mark Rydell

1929 – 2026 · Film director; producer; actor

“Actor's director who drew Oscars from Fonda and Hepburn and whispered greatness into Midler.”

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Miguel Zavaleta

1955 – 2026 · Singer, songwriter, keyboardist, bandleader; occasional actor

“Sueter's voice who made Amanece en la ruta immortal.”

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Husky Kihal

1961 – 2026 · Actor (cinema, television, theatre); also scenariste and realisateur of short films

“Henri Fournier of Astrid et Raphaelle, who made the morgue human.”

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Brian Fallon

1933 – 2026 · Art critic; literary editor; essayist; author of books on Irish art and culture; former chief critic of The Irish Times; founder of Irish Times Weekend

“Irish Times critic who made art feel spoken, not rarefied.”

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Literature

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

1941 – 2026 · Poet; essayist; feminist critic; scholar of modernist and contemporary poetry; professor emerita

“Feminist poet-critic whose life poem Drafts remade the American long poem.”

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Gene Bertoncini

1937 – 2026 · Jazz guitarist; educator; studio musician; nylon-string specialist

“Nylon-string jazz poet whose architectural ear made standards glow with quiet fire.”

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Fashion

Giorgio 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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Lloyd Robertson

1934 – 2026 · Television and radio news anchor; journalist; senior editor; documentary / newsmagazine host (W5); memoirist

“Canada's trusted anchor: that's the kind of day it's been.”

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Abdullah Ibrahim

1934 – 2026 · Pianist; composer; bandleader; multi-instrumentalist; educator/academy founder (M7); Cape jazz pioneer

“Cape Town's piano voice; exile anthem maker; Mandela's Mozart.”

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Francesco 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.”

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Vincent Pastore

1946 – 2026 · Actor; occasional reality-TV personality; radio/podcast host; sauce entrepreneur; rock-band frontman

“Bronx-born Big Pussy of The Sopranos: tough on screen, kind-hearted brother off it.”

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Frank McDonald

1950 – 2026 · Author; journalist; environmentalist; former Environment Correspondent (1986) and Environment Editor (2000-2015) of The Irish Times

“Irish Times editor who defended Dublin and the climate.”

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Erni Mangold

1927 – 2026 · Actress (stage, film, TV); stage director; acting professor

“Austrian stage and screen force who made blunt truth and late-career brilliance her trademark.”

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Michael Mendl

1944 – 2026 · Actor (theatre, film, television); occasional voice / Horspiel / synchron; documentary advocate

“Beloved German character actor who gave Willy Brandt, a wartime general, and a pope their human faces.”

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Tommy John

1943 – 2026 · MLB pitcher; broadcaster; minor-league manager/coach; motivational speaker; suicide-prevention advocate

“The Bionic Man: 288 wins, 26 seasons, and the elbow surgery that gave pitchers second lives.”

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Siim Kallas

1948 – 2026 · Politician; economist; central banker; European Commissioner / Vice-President; Reform Party co-founder; journalist/editor; radio quiz host

“Architect of the kroon who carried Estonia into Europe.”

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Peter Katsambanis

1965 – 2026 · Politician (Liberal); solicitor / lawyer; Administrative Appeals Tribunal member; chief of staff / adviser

“Greek Australian Liberal who served Victoria and both houses of the WA Parliament.”

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Sir Billy Boston

1934 – 2026 · Professional rugby league footballer (wing, centre); publican (Griffin Hotel); rugby league ambassador

“Rugby league's first knight: Tiger Bay powerhouse who became Everybody's Hero in Wigan.”

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Edith Barr

1936 – 2026 · Singer (musica criolla / Peruvian Creole music); television host; occasional film performer

“Peru's Flor Morena who carried criolla song from La Victoria to the Waldorf and the Pope.”

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Jimmy Batten

1955 – 2026 · Professional boxer (British light-middleweight champion); actor; stand-up comedian; karaoke host/singer; boxing trainer; doorman

“British light-middleweight champion who went the distance with Roberto Duran and never stopped smiling.”

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Bill Rasmussen

1932 – 2026 · Sports broadcaster; television executive; entrepreneur; co-founder and first president-CEO / early chairman of ESPN; author; Parkinson's advocate; public speaker

“ESPN's founder who turned a traffic-jam brainstorm into the world's first 24-hour sports network.”

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Zhu Rongji

1928 – 2026 · Politician; Premier of China; electrical engineer; technocrat; former Governor of the People's Bank of China; former Mayor and Party Secretary of Shanghai

“China's iron-faced reform premier who steered WTO entry and said he would walk a minefield for the people.”

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Jerry Stovall

1941 – 2026 · College and NFL football player; college football coach; college athletics administrator; sports foundation executive

“LSU's Mr. Everything: Heisman runner-up, Hall of Famer, Pro Bowler, and Tiger coach of faith and class.”

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Steve Gollschewski

† 2026 · Police officer; Queensland Police Commissioner (21st); former Deputy Commissioner; former State Disaster Coordinator

“Queensland's 21st top cop who steered floods, COVID and reform, and fought cancer with resolve.”

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Literature

Peter Nadas

1942 – 2026 · Writer, playwright, essayist, photographer, journalist

“Hungarian novelist of memory and the body; author of A Book of Memories and Parallel Stories.”

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Royalty

Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV

1992 – 2026 · Omukama (King) of Tooro; cultural monarch; youth and HIV advocate; environmental campaigner

“Boy king who grew into Tooro's Lion: culture, youth, and courage to the last Empango.”

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Literature

Resil Mojares

1943 – 2026 · Historian; literary critic; essayist; fictionist; cultural historian; Professor Emeritus, University of San Carlos; National Artist of the Philippines for Literature (2018)

“Visayan Titan of Letters who made Cebuano memory a national archive.”

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Eberhard Vogel

1943 – 2026 · Footballer (left winger / striker); football manager / coach; DFV youth coach; scout; trained locksmith; sports teacher (DHfK)

“Oberliga record man who said no to Santos and stayed East.”

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Fabio 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.”

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Camilo Escalona

1955 – 2026 · Chilean politician; multiple-time president of the Socialist Party of Chile (PS); President of the Senate (2012-2013); senator and deputy; author

“Socialist organizer who returned from exile to rebuild Chile's democracy, and led his party and Senate with steel resolve.”

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Art

Keyvan Khosrovani

1938 – 2026 · Iranian architect, lighting designer, fashion designer, LGBT activist, couturier to Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi

“Architect and couturier who dressed an empress in Iranian crafts, and kept building beauty in exile.”

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Religion

Enzo 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.”

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Enos Mafokate

1944 – 2026 · Show jumper; equestrian; riding instructor; founder of Soweto Equestrian Centre / Enos Mafokate Equestrian Foundation; animal-welfare advocate; sports ambassador

“Kgosi ya Dipere who opened the arena and then the Soweto gates.”

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He Yong

1969 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter; guitarist; Chinese rock / self-styled punk musician; composer; poet

“Beijing rock pioneer who asked if there was hope, then sang the Bell and Drum Towers home.”

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Art

Geles Cabrera

1926 – 2026 · Sculptor; museum founder and director (Museo Escultórico); art educator (UNAM Preparatory School No. 5, about 37 years); dancer (studied classical and folk dance); cultural self-manager

“Mexico's pioneering woman sculptor who carved a museum of her own and taught bodies to move in stone.”

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Ruben Rada

1943 – 2026 · Musician, singer, composer, percussionist (tamboriles); actor; television host and coach (La Voz Uruguay / Kids); children's entertainer (Rubenrá)

“Uruguay's candombe beat pioneer who made Montevideo swing the world with drums, humour and heart.”

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Ivan Gudelj

1960 – 2026 · Professional footballer (defensive midfielder / versatile midfielder-defender); football coach and HNS instructor; youth national-team coach

“Hajduk legend and Yugoslavia's youngest captain, who turned a broken career into a life of faith and teaching.”

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Raif Dizdarevic

1926 – 2026 · Yugoslav-Bosnian politician; diplomat; WWII Yugoslav Partisan; memoirist

“Partisan diplomat who led Yugoslavia's Presidency in crisis and stayed in besieged Sarajevo.”

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Ritu Khullar

† 2026 · Jurist; Chief Justice of Alberta; Chief Justice of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories; former labour, human rights, administrative and constitutional lawyer; law t

“Alberta's Chief Justice and Charter advocate who made history as Canada's first South Asian woman provincial chief justice.”

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Don Nelson

1940 – 2026 · NBA player; NBA head coach; general manager; basketball innovator

“Five-time Celtics champ and Hall of Fame coach who invented Nellie Ball and remade the modern NBA.”

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Gracindo Junior

1943 – 2026 · Actor; television director; theatre director/producer; screenwriter/lyricist; former radio actor/DJ

“Globo pioneer and Casarão heir who kept Brazilian stages and screens honest for six decades.”

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Lau Siu-ming

1931 – 2026 · Dancer; choreographer; dance educator; actor (film and television); acting mentor

“Ming Sir: Europe-trained dance pioneer and Ghost Story tree demon who taught Hong Kong how to move and act.”

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