Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Hadi Thayeb

Switzerland

c. 1923 – 2014 (91 years old)

Teuku Mohammad Hadi Thayeb was a senior Indonesian diplomat and politician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Zbigniew Messner

Poland

c. 1930 – 2014 (84 years old)

Zbigniew Stefan Messner was a Polish communist politician and economist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

Warsaw, Poland

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Rynn Berry

United States

c. 1946 – 2014 (68 years old)

Rynn Berry was an American author and scholar on vegetarianism and veganism, as well as a pioneer in the animal rights and vegan movements.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Amiri Baraka

United States

c. 1935 – 2014 (79 years old)

Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Marc Yor

France

c. 1950 – 2014 (64 years old)

Marc Yor was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Dale T. Mortensen

United States

c. 1940 – 2014 (74 years old)

Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Jean-Jacques Moreau

France

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

Jean Jacques Moreau was a French mathematician and mechanician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Paris, France

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Resistance & Human Rights

D. Harold McNamara

United States

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

Delbert Harold McNamara, Ph.D. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Resistance & Human Rights

Jacques Lazarus

France

c. 1917 – 2014 (97 years old)

Jacques Lazarus was a French military officer who was a leader of the Jewish resistance in France during World War II.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Paris, France

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Joy Chatel

United States

c. 1948 – 2014 (66 years old)

Joy Chatel, also known as Mama Joy, was a cosmetologist, community organizer and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Philosophy & Thought

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Robert Ascher

United States

c. 1932 – 2014 (82 years old)

Robert Ascher was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnomathematician, and experimental filmmaker. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Alvin Aubert

United States

c. 1931 – 2014 (83 years old)

Alvin Bernard Aubert was an American academic, poet, playwright, editor, literary critic, and scholar who championed African-American culture and rural life along the southern Mississippi River.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Philosophy & Thought

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E. J. Lowe

Great Britain

c. 1951 – 2014 (63 years old)

Edward Jonathan Lowe, usually cited as E. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

London, United Kingdom

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Philosophy & Thought

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Augusto Graziani

Italy

c. 1934 – 2014 (80 years old)

Augusto Graziani was an Italian economist, Professor in Political Economy at University la Sapienza, most known for his contribution to monetary economics in founding monetary circuit theory.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to philosophy.

Rome, Italy

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Annamária Kinde

Switzerland

c. 1957 – 2014 (57 years old)

Annamária Kinde was a Romanian journalist, poet and editor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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M'hamed Benguettaf

Switzerland

c. 1939 – 2014 (75 years old)

M'hamed Benguettaf was an Algerian actor and playwright.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Arts & Music

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