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Nour El-Sherif
Arts & Music
11
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Nour El-Sherif

ู†ูˆุฑ ุงู„ุดุฑูŠู
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1946 โ€“ 2015 (69 years old)

Legendary Egyptian actor and producer who starred in nearly 200 films including Al-Massir and Naji al-Ali, using his own production company to launch the careers of Egypt's greatest realist directors.

Cairo, Egypt
Mahmoud Guinea
Arts & Music
19
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Mahmoud Guinea

ุงู„ู…ุนู„ู… ู…ุญู…ูˆุฏ ุบูŠู†ูŠุง
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1951 โ€“ 2015 (64 years old)

Revered master (Maรขlem) of Moroccan Gnawa music from Essaouira whose transcendent guembri playing and global collaborations with Pharoah Sanders introduced African-Moroccan spiritual trance to the world.

Essaouira, Morocco
Politics
5
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Flora MacDonald

Flora Isabel MacDonald
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
3 June 1926 โ€“ 26 July 2015 (89 years old)

First woman to serve as Secretary of State for External Affairs, who managed the 'Canadian Caper' in Iran and dedicated her retirement to humanitarian work in Afghanistan.

North Sydney, Canada
Literature & Poetry
2
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Corsino Fortes

Corsino Antรณnio Fortes
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ป Cape Verde
1933-02-14 โ€“ 2015-07-24 (82 years old)

Major 20th-century Cape Verdean poet and diplomat whose monumental trilogy 'A Cabeรงa Calva de Deus' ('The Bald Head of God') forged an epic, sculptural poetic language for island identity.

Mindelo, Sรฃo Vicente, Cape Verde
Jon Vickers
Music
5
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Jon Vickers

The God of Opera
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
29 October 1926 โ€“ 10 July 2015 (88 years old)

Saskatchewan-born dramatic tenor hailed as one of the supreme opera singers of the 20th century for his volcanic interpretations of Tristan, Otello, and Peter Grimes.

Prince Albert, Canada
Omar Sharif
Arts & Music
19
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Omar Sharif

ุนู…ุฑ ุงู„ุดุฑูŠู
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
April 10, 1932 โ€“ July 10, 2015 (83 years old)

World-renowned Egyptian actor whose magnetic charisma, starting with Youssef Chahine's 'The Blazing Sun' in 1954, propelled him to international superstardom in David Lean's epics 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago'.

Cairo, Egypt
Sir Nicholas George Winton
Humanitarian & Peace
40
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Sir Nicholas George Winton

Nicholas George Wertheim
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
19 May 1909 โ€“ 1 July 2015 (106 years old)

Sir Nicholas Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Operating the Czech Kindertransport, he secured foster families in Britain and forged transit permits, keeping his heroic rescue a complete secret for fifty years until his wife discovered his notebook in their attic.

Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Ron Clarke
Sports & Athletics
35
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Ron Clarke

Ronald William Clarke
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia
21 February 1937 โ€“ 17 June 2015 (78 years old)

Ronald William 'Ron' Clarke was an Australian long-distance running phenomenon who broke seventeen official world records across distances from two miles to the one-hour run during the 1960s. Chosen to light the Olympic cauldron as a promising teenager at the 1956 Melbourne Games, his relentless pace revolutionized world distance running, and he later served as Mayor of the Gold Coast.

Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Amar Laskri
Arts & Music
7
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Amar Laskri

ุนู…ุงุฑ ุงู„ุนุณูƒุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1942 โ€“ 2015 (73 years old)

Eminent film director whose 1971 war film 'Patrouille ร  l'est' (Patrol to the East) is celebrated as one of the greatest masterpieces of Algerian revolutionary cinema.

Algiers, Algeria
Sophie El Goulli
Arts & Music
8
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Sophie El Goulli

ุตูˆููŠ ุงู„ู‚ู„ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1931 โ€“ 2015 (84 years old)

Pioneering art historian, novelist, and poet who founded the academic study of Tunisian visual arts history, documented the Tunis School of painting, and directed the Cinรฉmathรจque Tunisienne.

Tunis, Tunisia
Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi
Literature & Poetry
17
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Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi

ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ุฑุญู…ู† ุงู„ุฃุจู†ูˆุฏูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1938 โ€“ 2015 (77 years old)

Affectionately celebrated as 'Al-Khal' (The Maternal Uncle), he was Egypt's premier vernacular poet who spent thirty years traveling across the Arab world to record the million-verse oral epic Sirat Bani Hilal.

Ismailia, Egypt
Art
4
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Theodosia Okoh

Theodosia Salome Okoh
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana
1922-06-13 โ€“ 2015-04-19 (92 years old)

Distinguished Ghanaian artist who designed the national flag of Ghana in 1957, creating the iconic red, gold, green, and black star layout adopted across Africa.

Accra, Ghana
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