Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Knowlton Nash

Canada

18 November 1927 – 24 May 2014 (86 years old)

Distinguished Canadian newsman who served as CBC's Washington correspondent during the Cold War and chief news anchor of The National for a decade.

Toronto, Canada

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Sir John Arthur Brabham

Australia

1926 – 2014 (88 years old)

Australian racing driver who was a three-time Formula One World Champion and the only person to win the F1 World Championship driving a car of his own construction.

Gold Coast, Australia

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Farley Mowat

Farley McGill Mowat

Canada

1921 – 2014 (92 years old)

Passionate environmentalist and crusading author whose forty-four books, including People of the Deer and Never Cry Wolf, sold twenty-five million copies worldwide and revolutionized wolf conservation.

Port Hope (Ontario), Canada

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Tahar Chaibi

الطاهر الشايبي

Tunisia

1946 – 2014 (68 years old)

Affectionately revered as 'Tahartou', Chaibi was the supreme winger in the history of Club Africain, leading them to four league titles and scoring the decisive goal against Morocco in 1969.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Politics

Herb Gray

Right Honourable Herb Gray

Canada

25 May 1931 – 21 April 2014 (82 years old)

Beloved Windsor statesman who served continuously in Parliament for nearly 40 years across thirteen consecutive election victories, serving as Deputy Prime Minister.

Ottawa, Canada

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Alistair MacLeod

Canada

20 July 1936 – 20 April 2014 (77 years old)

Revered Canadian author whose lyrical fiction, set among Cape Breton coal miners and Gaelic descendants, earned the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Margaree, Canada

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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Rubin Carter

United States

6 May 1937 – 20 April 2014 (76 years old)

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter was a fearsome American middleweight boxing contender known for his devastating power punches, who spent nineteen years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey, by an all-white jury. Vindicated and released by a federal judge in 1985, Carter became an internationally renowned human rights advocate and champion of the wrongfully convicted.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Gabo)

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Gabo)

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombia

6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014 (87 years old)

Preeminent titan of Latin American magical realism and 1982 Nobel laureate whose monumental epic One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) chronicled the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo and the Buendía dynasty.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Politics

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Justin Bomboko

Justin Marie Bomboko Lokumba Is Elenge

Congo

1928-09-22 – 2014-04-10 (85 years old)

Foundational statesman and diplomat celebrated as 'Le Patriarche', who served as the first Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Congo in 1960, securing the nation's admission to the United Nations.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Kumba Ialá

Guinea-Bissau

1953 – 2014 (61 years old)

President of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2003, founder of the Social Renewal Party (PRS), and beloved educator.

Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

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Arts & Music

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Cherifa

شريفة (وردية بوشمل)

Algeria

1926 – 2014 (88 years old)

Pioneering Algerian singer and composer who revolutionized female Berber vocal music in the 1940s, authoring the timeless classic 'Abeḥri' and preserving the ancestral Achwiq oral tradition.

Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria

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Juan Balboa Boneke

Guinea

1938 – 2014 (75 years old)

Profound Bubi novelist and poet whose evocative works 'Requiem por un libertador', 'El reencuentro', and poetic volumes gave unforgettable voice to the pain of political exile, tyranny, and African identity.

Rebola, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea

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Cinema

Alain Resnais

Alain Pierre Marie Jean Georges Resnais

France

1922 – 2014 (91 years old)

Visionary French filmmaker and cornerstone of the Left Bank cinema group whose Holocaust documentary Nuit et Brouillard (1956) and modern classics Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad revolutionized cinematic memory.

Paris, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Eckart Höfling

Germany

c. 1937 – 2014 (77 years old)

Eckart Höfling was a German Catholic priest who worked combating poverty in Brazil.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Berlin, Germany

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Mavis Gallant

Canada

11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014 (91 years old)

Internationally revered Canadian master of short fiction whose sharp wit and psychological nuance graced the pages of The New Yorker for half a century.

Paris, France

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Cheikh Mohamed Laâroussi

محمد العروسي

Morocco

1934 – 2014 (80 years old)

The undisputed king of northern Moroccan Taktouka Jabaliya folk music, whose joyful violin playing, infectious rhythms, and humorous social lyrics delighted Moroccans for sixty years.

Fez, Morocco

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