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Gianluca Vialli
Sports & Athletics
29
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Gianluca Vialli

Gianluca Vialli
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
1964 โ€“ 2023 (58 years old)

Beloved Italian football striker and manager who formed the "Goal Twins" partnership with Roberto Mancini at Sampdoria, captained Juventus to Champions League glory in 1996, won European trophies managing Chelsea, and guided Italy to triumph at Euro 2020.

London, United Kingdom
Michael Snow
Art
4
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Michael Snow

Michael Snow
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
10 December 1928 โ€“ 5 January 2023 (94 years old)

Legendary Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose structural film Wavelength and iconic public sculptures Walking Woman and Flight Stop reshaped global conceptual art.

Toronto, Canada
Music
4
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Ian Tyson

Ian Dawson Tyson
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1933 โ€“ 2022 (89 years old)

Legendary folk and western singer-songwriter who co-founded the 1960s folk duo Ian & Sylvia, composed the timeless anthem Four Strong Winds, and ranched in the Alberta foothills for decades.

Longview (Alberta), Canada
Pelรฉ
Sports & Athletics
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Pelรฉ

Edson Arantes do Nascimento
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
23 October 1940 โ€“ 29 December 2022 (82 years old)

Pelรฉ is universally revered as one of the greatest football players in the history of the sport, and the only player ever to win three FIFA World Cups (1958, 1962, 1970). Renowned for his incandescent brilliance, acrobatic athleticism, and more than 1,200 career goals, he transformed the sport into 'The Beautiful Game' (O Jogo Bonito) and became a transcendent cultural icon for Brazil and the globe.

Sรฃo Paulo, Brazil
Arata Isozaki
Arts & Music
29
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Arata Isozaki

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1931 โ€“ 2022 (91 years old)

Visionary Japanese architect, urban planner, and 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate who bridged Eastern and Western architectural thought, designing the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Palau Sant Jordi for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Oita, Japan
Terence Edward Hall
Arts & Music
30
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Terence Edward Hall

Terry Hall
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1959 โ€“ 2022 (63 years old)

Inimitable deadpan frontman of the seminal British 2 Tone ska band The Specials, whose socially conscious anthems "Ghost Town" and "A Message to You, Rudy" defined early-1980s British youth culture, later forming Fun Boy Three.

London, United Kingdom
Siniลกa Mihajloviฤ‡
Sports & Athletics
32
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Siniลกa Mihajloviฤ‡

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๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia
1969 โ€“ 2022 (53 years old)

Legendary Serbian footballer and manager regarded as one of the greatest free-kick specialists in football history, who won the 1991 European Cup with Red Star Belgrade and scored an all-time record 28 Serie A free-kick goals.

Rome, Italy
Angelo Badalamenti
Arts & Music
29
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Angelo Badalamenti

Angelo Badalamenti
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1937 โ€“ 2022 (85 years old)

Grammy-winning American film composer whose haunting, dreamlike, and darkly romantic musical partnership with director David Lynch produced the iconic scores for Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and The Straight Story.

Lincoln Park, New Jersey, United States
Dominique Lapierre
Humanitarian & Peace
47
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Dominique Lapierre

Dominique Lapierre
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1931 โ€“ 2022 (91 years old)

Celebrated French author and philanthropist who co-wrote monumental international historical bestsellers Is Paris Burning? and Freedom at Midnight with Larry Collins, and dedicated half of his royalties from City of Joy to rescue children with leprosy and tuberculosis in the slums of Kolkata.

Ramatuelle, Var, France
Jiang Zemin
Statesmanship & Statesmen
30
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Jiang Zemin

ๆฑŸๆณฝๆฐ‘
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1926 โ€“ 2022 (96 years old)

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989โ€“2002) and President of China (1993โ€“2003) who guided China's reintegration with the global economy following the 1989 Tiananmen crisis, oversaw the return of Hong Kong, and secured China's entry into the World Trade Organization.

Shanghai, China
Irene Cara Escalera
Arts & Music
25
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Irene Cara Escalera

Irene Cara
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1959 โ€“ 2022 (63 years old)

Oscar and Grammy-winning American singer and actress of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage who defined 1980s cinematic pop music by starring in and singing the title track of Fame, and co-writing and singing "Flashdance... What a Feeling".

Largo, Florida, United States
Hebe de Bonafini
Resistance & Human Rights
63
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Hebe de Bonafini

Hebe Marรญa Pastor de Bonafini
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina
4 December 1928 โ€“ 20 November 2022 (93 years old)

Hebe de Bonafini was a world-renowned Argentine human rights crusader and long-serving president of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Transformed into an unyielding militant following the forced disappearance of her two sons and daughter-in-law during Argentina's military dictatorship, she wore the iconic white headscarf every Thursday in front of the presidential palace, demanding truth, justice, and the prosecution of junta perpetrators.

La Plata, Argentina
Jason David Frank
Arts & Music
28
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Jason David Frank

Jason David Frank
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1973 โ€“ 2022 (49 years old)

Accomplished martial artist and actor who became a worldwide pop-culture icon as Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger and White Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, starring across ten television series over twenty-five years.

Houston, Texas, United States
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