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Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry (1969) died at the end of October 2023. The actor was found dead in the jacuzzi of his Los Angeles home at the age of 54. Perry went on to fame and eternity for giving life to the character of Chandler in the series 'Friends' for 10 seasons. The iconic character became one of the most beloved by fans of the series.
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger (b. 1923) was one of the most important statesmen of the twentieth century for the country. Between 1973 and 1977 he held the position for which he became best known, Nixon's Secretary of State after Gerald Ford. He was an expert in 'realpolitik' and international relations. His role in ending the Vietnam War earned him the Nobel Peace Prize, although not without controversy. In November 2023 he died at the age of 100.
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Suzanne Somers
Suzanne Somers (1946) was one of the best-known performers of the 1970s. She began her acting career in 1968. Her roles started out small and often went uncredited, however, in 1977 she got her chance. She signed for the new ABC Network sitcom, Three's Company. In it she played one of its protagonists, Chrissy Snow, a role she kept for five of the eight seasons of the sitcom. She passed away in October after a 23-year battle with breast cancer.
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Michael Gambon
The British-Irish actor Michael Gambon (1940) went down in the history of popular cinema when he played the famous wizard and Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. But that was only one of his many roles that decorated a whole career dedicated to cinema. Appointed Sir by Queen Elizabeth II, theater was also one of his great passions and he repeatedly played many of the characters of Shakespear's classic plays.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (1939), was one of the most recognized voices in the world of Soul and Rock. She was born in Tennessee and began to gain popularity in the late 50's when she formed a duo with Iker Turner, who was her husband for 16 years. Throughout her career, she was awarded eight Grammys. In 2018, she was given one of the highest recognitions for great artistic careers, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After retiring, she spent her last years of life in Switzerland before passing away in May.
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Sinéad O'Connor
In the 1990s, Sinéad O'Connor emerged as one of the world's best-known voices, propelled to fame by her hit 'Nothing Compares 2 U'. She released ten albums and reached number one on the Billboard Music Awards in 1990. Her tumultuous life was shadowed by a difficult childhood marked by abuse and the tragic loss of one of her sons at the age of 18.
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Maryanne Trump
Maryanne Trump (1937) known for her career as a jurist, in which she excelled as a judge of the Court of Appeals, a position to which she was nominated by President Bill Clinton. In 1983, she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a judge of the Federal District Court in New Jersey. She was the older sister of former President Donald Trump.
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Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter (b. 1927) was the wife of former President Jimmy Carter. As first lady of the state of Georgia and later of the United States, Carter worked to create and shape what she considered to be "a more caring society," according to a Carter Center biography.
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Sir Bobby Charlton
Sir Bobby Charlton (1937), one of the legends who changed soccer forever. Charlton was born into a mining family in England and soon began a long sporting career, which he dedicated almost entirely to Manchester United. With the English national team he won the 1966 World Cup, the same year in which he received his Ballon d'Or. Not only were his results were brilliant, but also his behavior: in twenty years of career, he was only sanctioned on two occasions.
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Andrés García
Andrés García (b. 1941) dominated the big screen of Latin cinema throughout his 40-year acting career. Born in the Dominican Republic, he soon became a Mexican by adoption. In Mexico, during the 1960s, Andres Garcia was part of the cast of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. With the end of the golden age of cinema, he moved on to another great Latin genre: telenovelas. Andres Garcia is remembered for his roles as a seducer.
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Angus Cloud
Angus Cloud (1998) was one of the youngest celebrity losses in 2023. The young actor who died at the age of 25 rose to fame for his starring role in the series Euphoria, in which he played a drug dealer and friend of the main character of the series. He was born in California and of Irish origins.
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Dianne Feinstein
The daughter of a San Francisco surgeon of Polish Jewish origin, Feinstein attended Stanford University and graduated in 1955. She began her political career in the 1960s and joined the Democratic Party. She then began to become the first woman to hold positions such as Chair of the Board of Governors and Mayor of the City of San Francisco. In 1992 she became the first woman to represent the state of California in the Senate. In 2012, with 7.86 million votes in her favor, she was the most supported Senator to hold office in the history of the Senate.
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Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi, born in 1936 and one of the most influential figures in Italian politics, understood from a young age the importance of controlling communication and entertainment channels for gaining power. As the leader of the Forza Italia party, he served as the Italian Prime Minister three times, leaving an indelible mark on the country's politics and society. Despite his conviction for fraud, his popularity remained largely unaffected.
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Paco Rabanne
Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo, born in 1934 and better known as Paco Rabanne, is a Spanish-French fashion designer renowned for his innovative fragrances and avant-garde fashion designs. He revolutionized the fashion world by integrating groundbreaking elements with traditional fabrics, often incorporating plastics and metals into his garments, which many have described as 'avant-garde.
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Coco Lee
Coco Lee (1975) died this 2023 after several mental health problems. She went down in history for being the voice of the Disney animated film 'Mulan,' as well as becoming one of the most recognized Asian singers on the world stage.
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Lisa Marie Presley
Lisa Marie Presley (1968), only daughter of the King of Rock 'n Roll, Elvis Presley. She inherited much of her father's fortune and also dedicated herself to the world of music. She went through a hard life, in which she suffered drug addiction. She was married on four occasions to four different men. In her musical career she released three studio albums.
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Harry Belafonte
The New York singer of Jamaican origin became one of the most popular voices of Caribbean music. He managed to make famous genres such as calypso in the 1950s. He revived folk songs such as "Day-O" in 1956, which then went around the world. The iconic song got a second life in the late 1980s for its appearance in movies like Beetlejuice.
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Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero, considered one of the most important Hispanic artists in the world and the greatest Colombian artist of all time. Inventor of Boteroism, the artist coined portraits of women and men with round and voluptuous forms, surrounded by colorful backgrounds and decorations. He was also a sculptor, and recreated his own pictorial style in sculpture.
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Mohamed Al-Fayed
Born in Egypt, he moved to Great Britain in the 1960s and began a prolific career in business. The entrepreneur acquired House of Fraser, owner of Harrods, and the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. The man went from selling soft drinks on the street in his homeland to becoming a major businessman. He was the father of Dodi Fayed, Lady Di's friend who died with her in a car accident in Paris.
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Steve Harwell
Steve Harwell (1967), singer of the group Smash Mouth. The band's refreshing rock style brought them to fame in the 2000s. The pinnacle of Harwell and his band's musical career was when several of their songs were incorporated into the soundtrack of the movie 'Shrek'. Following this, Smash Mouth gained worldwide recognition.
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Richard Roundtree
Roundtree rose to fame when he landed the role of John Shaft, a film noir hero of the 1970s, a franchise that pioneered productions with a renewed funk style for action movies. From then on he became an actor with recurring appearances in a variety of action films. Roundtree was much loved for what he meant to a whole generation.
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Jane Birkin
At the age of 19, Jane began her acting career. In 1968, Birkin decided to move to France, where she settled until her death. There she met the singer Serge Gainsbourg, with whom she lived an intense love story that appeared on the covers of many French magazines. As a result of this story, Jane Birkin starred in the theme song 'Je t'aime moi non plus', a song for which she achieved fame in France and premiered in 1979.
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Carmen Sevilla
Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress, singer and dancer. She reached her greatest moment of fame in the 70s in Spanish and Hispanic cinema. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean and collaborated in a good number of productions of the golden age of Mexican cinema. Among her most renowned works are 'Violetas imperiales' (1952), 'Gitana tenías que ser' (1953), 'La fierecilla domada' (1956), 'La venganza' (1958), 'Rey de reyes' (1961) and 'El techo de cristal' (1971).
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Andre Braugher
Braugher was a two-time Emmy winner and starred in the crime comedy 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'. Braugher's career began with the 1989 film 'Glory', where he played the role of a soldier belonging to a black Union regiment during the American Civil War.