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Mohamed Hassan El Joundi
Arts & Music
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Mohamed Hassan El Joundi

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุญุณู† ุงู„ุฌู†ุฏูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1938 โ€“ 2017 (79 years old)

Giant of Arab stage and screen whose commanding voice and towering performancesโ€”notably as Abu Jahl in Moustapha Akkad's epic 'The Message'โ€”made him an immortal dramatic icon.

Marrakech, Morocco
Lorenzo Servitje
Humanitarian & Peace
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Lorenzo Servitje

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
c. 1919 โ€“ 2017 (98 years old)

Lorenzo Servitje Sendra, was a Mexican accountant and businessman, who co-founded Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest bakery company, in 1945 with four partners, Jaime Jorba, Jaime Sendra, Alfonso Velasco and Josรฉ T. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Mexico City, Mexico
Buchi Emecheta
Literature & Poetry
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Buchi Emecheta

Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria
1944 โ€“ 2017 (72 years old)

Nigerian-born British novelist celebrated for The Joys of Motherhood, Second Class Citizen, and The Bride Price, whose fiction dissected the double burdens of colonial racism and patriarchal traditions.

East Finchley (London), United Kingdom
Emma Tennant
Literature & Poetry
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Emma Tennant

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
c. 1938 โ€“ 2017 (79 years old)

Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom
Eddie Long
Humanitarian & Peace
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Eddie Long

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
c. 1954 โ€“ 2017 (63 years old)

Eddie Lee Long was an American pastor who served as the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Washington, D.C., United States
Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai
Literature & Poetry
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Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
c. 1918 โ€“ 2017 (99 years old)

Partaw-i Shah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hubb-i 'Ali Hunzai, known also as 'Allamah Hunzai,, 'Allamah Sahib, or by his epithets, Baba-yi Burushaski, Lisan al-Qawm and Hakim al-Qalam, was a 20th and 21st century theologian, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar, poet and linguist known for his work on Islamic theology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, poetry and the Burushaski language. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland
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