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Hissรจne Habrรฉ
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Hissรจne Habrรฉ

ุญุณูŠู† ุญุจุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ Chad
1942 โ€“ 2021 (79 years old)

President of Chad (1982โ€“1990) backed by France and the US who defeated Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan forces in the Toyota War, but presided over brutal mass political atrocities that made him the first former head of state convicted of crimes against humanity by an African court.

Dakar, Senegal
Charles Robert Watts
Arts & Music
24
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Charles Robert Watts

Charlie Watts
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1941 โ€“ 2021 (80 years old)

Incomparable English drummer who provided the unshakeable rhythmic backbone and swinging jazz-inflected groove for The Rolling Stones for fifty-eight continuous years (1963โ€“2021), universally revered for quiet dignity and impeccable tailoring.

Devon, United Kingdom
Shinichi Chiba
Arts & Music
21
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Shinichi Chiba

ๅƒ่‘‰ ็œŸไธ€
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1939 โ€“ 2021 (82 years old)

Iconic Japanese martial arts actor and action cinema pioneer renowned globally for starring in The Street Fighter (1974), founding the Japan Action Club, and playing swordsmith Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill: Volume 1.

Kimitsu, Japan
Gerd Mรผller
Sports & Athletics
48
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Gerd Mรผller

Gerhard Mรผller
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
3 November 1945 โ€“ 15 August 2021 (75 years old)

Gerd Mรผller was the most lethal and clinical penalty-box goalscorer in football history, whose predatory instincts, low center of gravity, and explosive turning speed netted 68 goals in 62 games for West Germany and 563 goals for Bayern Munich. He scored the winning goal in the 1974 World Cup final and led Bayern Munich to three consecutive European Cups (1974โ€“1976).

Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, Germany
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Arts & Music
24
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Gianluigi Gelmetti

Gianluigi Gelmetti
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
1945 โ€“ 2021 (75 years old)

Master Italian orchestral conductor and opera director who studied under Sergiu Celibidache and Franco Ferrara, serving as chief conductor of the Rome Opera, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, acclaimed for his Rossini interpretations.

Monaco, Monaco
Bill Davis
Politics
3
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Bill Davis

Brampton Billy
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
30 July 1929 โ€“ 8 August 2021 (92 years old)

Beloved Ontario premier whose fourteen-year moderate leadership built Ontario's community college system, TVO, and brokered the 1981 Patriation of the Constitution.

Brampton, Canada
Joe Michael Hill
Arts & Music
26
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Joe Michael Hill

Dusty Hill
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1949 โ€“ 2021 (72 years old)

Iconic, chest-length-bearded bassist, co-lead vocalist, and secondary songwriter for Texas blues-rock power trio ZZ Top for over fifty uninterrupted years, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Houston, Texas, United States
Nathan Jonas Jordison
Arts & Music
29
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Nathan Jonas Jordison

Joey Jordison
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1975 โ€“ 2021 (46 years old)

Virtuosic and influential American heavy metal drummer and co-founder of masked metal titans Slipknot (designated "#1"), voted the greatest drummer of the past 25 years by Rhythm magazine for his blistering blast beats and double-bass speed.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Toshihide Maskawa
Sciences & Discovery
27
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Toshihide Maskawa

็›Šๅท ๆ•่‹ฑ
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1940 โ€“ 2021 (81 years old)

Japanese theoretical physicist awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for formulating the Cabibboโ€“Kobayashiโ€“Maskawa (CKM) matrix with Makoto Kobayashi in 1973, which predicted the existence of three generations of quarks to explain CP violation.

Kyoto, Japan
Kurt Westergaard
Arts & Music
27
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Kurt Westergaard

Kurt Westergaard
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark
1935 โ€“ 2021 (86 years old)

Danish newspaper cartoonist and free speech symbol whose caricature of the Prophet Muhammad for Jyllands-Posten in 2005 sparked worldwide diplomatic crises, riots, and violent assassination attempts that forced him to live under 24-hour armed security.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Religion
0
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Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya

Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Belgian Congo
1939-10-07 โ€“ 2021-07-11 (81 years old)

Courageous Cardinal-Archbishop of Kinshasa and world-renowned biblical scholar who presided over the 1991 Sovereign National Conference and served for decades as the fearless moral conscience of the Congolese people.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ali Omar Ermes
Arts & Music
12
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Ali Omar Ermes

ุนู„ูŠ ุนู…ุฑ ุงู„ุฑู…ูŠุต
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Libya
1945 โ€“ 2021 (76 years old)

Internationally acclaimed Libyan visual artist and master calligrapher whose monumental canvases transforming Arabic letters into abstract philosophical compositions hang in the British Museum and Smithsonian.

London, United Kingdom
Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni
Arts & Music
28
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Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni

Raffaella Carrร 
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
1943 โ€“ 2021 (78 years old)

Electric Italian television presenter, singer, dancer, and feminist pop icon celebrated across Italy, Spain, and Latin America for joyful disco anthems like "A far l'amore comincia tu", her platinum bob, and liberating sexual empowerment on European television.

Monte Argentario, Tuscany, Italy
Richard Donner
Arts & Music
27
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Richard Donner

Richard Donner
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1930 โ€“ 2021 (91 years old)

Trailblazing American filmmaker who created the modern superhero genre with Superman (1978) and directed era-defining blockbusters including The Omen, The Goonies, and the Lethal Weapon franchise.

Los Angeles, California, United States
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