Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Humanitarian & Peace

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Niki Goulandris

Greece

c. 1925 – 2019 (94 years old)

Niki Goulandris was a Greek philanthropist and an accomplished botanical painter. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Athens, Greece

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Humanitarian & Peace

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James Jackson Hough

United States

c. 1946 – 2019 (73 years old)

James Jackson "Jack" Hough was an American businessman and philanthropist from Gainesville, Georgia. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Arts & Music

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Cheb Azzeddine

الشاب عزدين

Algeria

1958 – 2019 (60 years old)

Uncompromising Rai rebel and folk bard from Chlef whose raw, uncensored lyrics tackled youth unemployment, state bureaucracy, and underground migration.

Chlef, Algeria

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Sports & Athletics

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Matti Nykänen

Matti Ensio Nykänen

Finland

1963-07-17 – 2019-02-04 (55 years old)

Greatest ski jumper in sporting history who won four Olympic gold medals—including an unprecedented clean sweep of all three jumping events at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics—and 46 World Cups.

Jyväskylä, Finland

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Politics

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Mustapha Filali

مصطفى الفيلالي

Tunisia

1921 – 2019 (97 years old)

Key independence leader and first Minister of Agriculture who enacted agrarian land recovery from colonial settlers and remained an esteemed moral conscience of Tunisian democracy.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Walter Craig

Canada

c. 1954 – 2019 (65 years old)

Walter L. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Ottawa, Canada

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Sciences & Discovery

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Fumiko Yonezawa

Japan

c. 1939 – 2019 (80 years old)

Fumiko Yonezawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Tokyo, Japan

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Sciences & Discovery

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Yu Min

China

c. 1927 – 2019 (92 years old)

Yu Min was a prominent Chinese nuclear physicist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Beijing, China

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Literature & Poetry

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Bai Hua

China

c. 1931 – 2019 (88 years old)

Bai Hua was a Chinese novelist, playwright and poet. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Beijing, China

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Raymond G. Perelman

United States

c. 1918 – 2019 (101 years old)

Raymond G. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Sciences & Discovery

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Roger Cuvillier

France

c. 1923 – 2019 (96 years old)

Roger Cuvillier was a French inventor and engineer, who invented the Pan Cinor, the first optical compensation zoom lens.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Susanne Neumann

Germany

c. 1960 – 2019 (59 years old)

Susanne "Susi" Neumann was a German author, chairwoman of a labour union, and cleaner. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Berlin, Germany

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Literature & Poetry

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Francine du Plessix Gray

United States

c. 1931 – 2019 (88 years old)

Francine du Plessix Gray was a French-American Pulitzer Prize–nominated writer and literary critic.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Philosophy & Thought

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Mardi Dungey

Australia

c. 1967 – 2019 (52 years old)

Mardi Helen Dungey was an Australian macroeconomist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Canberra, Australia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Sue Povey

Great Britain

c. 1943 – 2019 (76 years old)

Professor Susan Povey FMedSci, was a British geneticist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

London, United Kingdom

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Sir Michael Atiyah

Great Britain

c. 1930 – 2019 (89 years old)

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

London, United Kingdom

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Philosophy & Thought

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Viktoria Suchantseva

Ukraine

c. 1950 – 2019 (69 years old)

Viktoria Suchantseva was a Ukrainian philosopher, aesthetician, culturologist, poet and writer, founder of Ukrainian philosophy of music school of thought.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Philosophy & Thought

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Patrick Malrieu

France

c. 1946 – 2019 (73 years old)

Patrick Malrieu was a French industrial executive and a Breton music historian.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Paris, France

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