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*[[Johnny Nash]], 80, American singer-songwriter ("[[I Can See Clearly Now]]"). | *[[Johnny Nash]], 80, American singer-songwriter ("[[I Can See Clearly Now]]"). | ||
*[[Eddie Van Halen]], 65, Dutch-American musician ([[Van Halen]]) and songwriter ("[[Beat It]]" (guitar solo), "[[Jump (Van Halen song)|Jump]]"). | *[[Eddie Van Halen]], 65, Dutch-American musician ([[Van Halen]]) and songwriter ("[[Beat It]]" (guitar solo), "[[Jump (Van Halen song)|Jump]]"). |
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- Bunny Lee, 79, Jamaican reggae producer.
- Johnny Nash, 80, American singer-songwriter ("I Can See Clearly Now").
- Eddie Van Halen, 65, Dutch-American musician (Van Halen) and songwriter ("Beat It" (guitar solo), "Jump").
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd, 70, American actor (Clockers, Bulworth, Ray), shot.
- Kenzō Takada, 81, Japanese-French fashion designer and painter, founder of Kenzo, COVID-19.
- Quino, 88, Argentine cartoonist (Mafalda).
- Juliette Gréco, 93, French actress and singer ("La Javanaise").
- Michael Lonsdale, 89, French actor (Hibernatus, The Day of the Jackal, Moonraker).
- Winston Groom, 77, American novelist (Forrest Gump).
- Roy C, 81, American southern soul singer-songwriter ("Impeach the President").
- Toots Hibbert, 77, Jamaican singer (Toots and the Maytals) and songwriter ("54-46 That's My Number", "Pressure Drop").
- Shere Hite, 77, American-born German feminist.
- Dame Diana Rigg, 82, English actress (The Avengers, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Game of Thrones).
- Simeon Coxe, 82, American musician (Silver Apples).
- Ronald Bell, 68, American saxophonist (Kool & the Gang) and songwriter ("Ladies' Night", "Celebration").
- Cini Boeri, 96, Italian architect and designer.
- Gary Peacock, 85, American jazz double-bassist.
- Jiří Menzel, 82, Czech director, actor and screenwriter.
- David Graeber, 59, American anthropologist and author (Bullshit Jobs, Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Utopia of Rules).
- Stuart Christie, 74, Scottish anarchist and writer.
- Hal Singer, 100, American saxophonist.
- Edmond Kiraz, 96, French-Armenian cartoonist and illustrator.
- Trini Lopez, 83, American singer ("If I Had a Hammer").
- Salome Bey, 80, American-born Canadian singer.
- Bernard Stiegler, 68, French philosopher (Technics and Time, 1).
- Sir Alan Parker, 76, English film director (Midnight Express, Pink Floyd – The Wall, Mississippi Burning).
- CP Lee, 70, English musician (Gerry and the Holograms).
- Dame Olivia de Havilland, 104, French-British-American actress (Gone with the Wind, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte).
- Peter Green, 73, English blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac, composer of Albatross").
- Dobby Dobson, 78, Jamaican reggae singer and record producer.
- Brigid Berlin, 80, American artist and Warhol superstar.
- Zizi Jeanmaire, 96, French ballet dancer.
- J. J. Lionel, 72, Belgian musician ("La danse des canards").
- Kevin Rafferty, 73, American film director (The Atomic Cafe).
- Esparbec, 79–80, French pornographic author.
- Ennio Morricone, 91, Italian film composer ("Man with a Harmonica" and the theme to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly").
- Carl Reiner, 98, American actor, film director and writer (The Jerk, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Man with Two Brains).
- Johnny Mandel, 94, American composer ("Suicide Is Painless").
- Milton Glaser, 91, American graphic designer, creator of the I ❤ NY slogan.
- Joel Schumacher, 80, American film director (Phone Booth, 8mm).
- Zeev Sternhell, 85, Polish-born Israeli historian and political scientist (The Birth of Fascist Ideology).
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 55, Spanish novelist (The Shadow of the Wind).
- Dame Vera Lynn, 103, British singer ("We'll Meet Again", "It Hurts to Say Goodbye").
- Jean Raspail, 94, French author (The Camp of the Saints).
- Marion Hänsel, 71, French-born Belgian film director and screenwriter (Dust).
- Bruce Jay Friedman, 90, American author and screenwriter (Black Humor: Anthology).
- Christo, 84, Bulgarian-born American artist (Valley Curtain).
- Irm Hermann, 77, German actress (Katzelmacher, The Merchant of Four Seasons, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant).
- Mory Kanté, 70, Guinean singer and kora player ("Yé ké yé ké").
- Michel Piccoli, 94, French actor (Contempt, La Grande Bouffe, Themroc).
- Monique Mercure, 89, Canadian actress (Naked Lunch), cancer.
- Betty Wright, 66, American soul and R&B singer ("Clean Up Woman"), cancer.
- Little Richard, 87, American composer and singer ("Tutti Frutti").
- Richard Sala, 61, American cartoonist.
- Michael McClure, 87, American poet and writer, complications from a stroke.
- Jean Erdman, 104, American dancer and choreographer.
- Sweet Pea Atkinson, 74, American singer (Was (Not Was)), heart attack.
- Florian Schneider, 73, German electronic musician (Kraftwerk), cancer.
- Millie Small, 73, Jamaican singer ("My Boy Lollipop"), stroke.
- Aldir Blanc, 73, Brazilian songwriter.
- Dave Greenfield, 71, English keyboardist (The Stranglers).
- Tony Allen, 79, Nigerian drummer (Never Expect Power Always).
- Maj Sjöwall, 84, Swedish author (Martin Beck).
- Germano Celant, 80, Italian art historian, curator and critic.
- Per Olov Enquist, 85, Swedish author (The Book about Blanche and Marie).
- Hamilton Bohannon, 78, American percussionist, songwriter and record producer ("Let's Start the Dance").
- Shirley Knight, 83, American actress (Dutchman).
- Philippe Nahon, 81, French actor (High Tension, I Stand Alone, Calvaire).
- Henry Grimes, 84, American jazz musician.
- Giuseppi Logan, 84, American jazz musician.
- Christophe, 74, French singer-songwriter ("Aline").
- Eddie Cooley, 87, American songwriter ("Fever").
- Lee Konitz, 92, American jazz composer and alto saxophonist.
- Ryo Kawasaki, 73, Japanese jazz fusion guitarist and composer.
- Andy González, 69, American jazz and Latin dance bassist.
- André Stordeur, 79, Belgian electronic musician.
- Onaje Allan Gumbs, 70, American pianist.
- Hal Willner, 64, American music producer (Dead City Radio)
- Allen Garfield, 80, American actor (Greetings, Hi Mom! and The Conversation).
- Honor Blackman, 94, English actress (The Cat and the Canary) and singer .
- Patrick Gibson, French drummer (Gibson Brothers).
- Pentti Linkola, 87, Finnish deep ecologist and writer (Can Life Prevail?).
- Vaughan Mason, 69, American music producer ("Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll", "Break 4 Love").
- Sergio Rossi, 84, Italian shoe designer (Sergio Rossi).
- Bill Withers, 81, American singer-songwriter ("Lean on Me", "Use Me", "Ain't No Sunshine").
- Juan Giménez, 76, Argentine comic book artist (Heavy Metal, Métal hurlant).
- Cristina, 61, American singer (Disco Clone").
- Krzysztof Penderecki, 86, Polish composer (Polymorphia) and conductor.
- Liesbeth List, 78, Dutch singer, actress and television personality.
- Bob Andy, 75, Jamaican singer and songwriter ("Feel Like Jumping", "Life").
- Stuart Gordon, 72, American film director (Re-Animator).
- Manu Dibango, 86, Cameroonian saxophonist ("Soul Makossa").
- Mike Longo, 83, American jazz pianist ("Like a Thief In the Night").
- Lucia Bosè, 89, Italian actress (Toute la mémoire du monde).
- Alfio Contini, 91, Italian cinematographer (Zabriskie Point, The Night Porter, Ripley's Game).
- Eric Weissberg, 80, American folk musician ("Dueling Banjos").
- Gabi Delgado-López, 61, Spanish-born German musician ("Der Mussolini").
- Giovanni Romanini, 74, Italian comics artist and cartoonist (Satanik, Diabolik, Alan Ford).
- Kenny Rogers, 81, ("Just Dropped In", "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"), songwriter and actor.
- Victor Olaiya, 89, Nigerian musician (Mofe Muyan).
- Suzy Delair, 102, French actress (Atoll K)
- Vittorio Gregotti, 92, Italian architect.
- Genesis P-Orridge, 70, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, "United/Zyklon B Zombie", 20 Jazz Funk Greats).
- René Follet, 88, Belgian illustrator, comics writer and artist.
- Tonie Marshall, 68, French actress (A Slightly Pregnant Man) and film director (Venus Beauty Institute, The Missionaries).
- Charles Wuorinen, 81, American composer.
- Mal Sharpe, 83, American television and radio personality, complications from heart surgery.
- Max von Sydow, 90, Swedish-born French actor (The Seventh Seal, Death Watch).
- McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist (Trident).
- Ulay, 76, German performance artist.
- Freeman Dyson, 96, British-born American physicist and mathematician.
- Clive Cussler, 88, American adventure novelist.
- David Roback, 61, American guitarist and songwriter ("Fade into You") .
- José Mojica Marins, 83, Brazilian film director ("Coffin Joe").
- Flavio Bucci, 72, Italian actor (Closed Circuit).
- Andrew Weatherall, 56, British music producer (Screamadelica), disc jockey and musician (The Sabres of Paradise, Two Lone Swordsmen).
- Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz pianist and composer (Pat Metheny Group).
- Claire Bretécher, 79, French cartoonist, co-founder of L'Écho des savanes.
- Pierre Guyotat, 80, French writer (Eden, Eden, Eden).
- Dyanne Thorne, 83, American actress (Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS)
- Kirk Douglas, 103, American actor (Spartacus).
- George Steiner, 90, French-American literary critic and essayist ("Night Words", In Bluebeard's Castle).
- Harold Beane, 73, American guitarist (Isaac Hayes, Funkadelic).
- Toni Smith, American R&B singer ("Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)").
- Andy Gill, 64, English post-punk guitarist (Gang of Four) and record producer.
- Monique van Vooren, 92, Belgian-born American actress (Flesh for Frankenstein).
- Sonny Grosso, 89, German-born American police detective, actor and television producer (The French Connection).
- Jimmy Heath, 93, American jazz saxophonist (Heath Brothers).
- Joe Shishido, 86, Japanese actor (Youth of the Beast, Branded to Kill, A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness).
- Adolfo Natalini, 78, Italian architect (Superstudio).
- Terry Jones, 77, Welsh comic actor, screenwriter and film director (Monty Python).
- John Karlen, 86, American actor (Daughters of Darkness).
- Steve Martin Caro, 71, American singer ( "Walk Away Renée" and "Pretty Ballerina").
- Roger Scruton, 75, British philosopher and author (Sexual Desire, How to Be a Conservative).
- Ivan Passer, 86, Czech film director (Born to Win, Cutter's Way, Silver Bears) and screenwriter.
- Buck Henry, 89, American actor (Eating Raoul), screenwriter (The Graduate, Catch-22, Candy) and director (Heaven Can Wait).
- Neda Arnerić, 66, Serbian actress (Shaft in Africa, Venom, The End of the War).
- Wolfgang Dauner, 84, German jazz fusion pianist (The Oimels).
- Rene Daalder, 75, Dutch director (Massacre at Central High)
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, 52, American author (Prozac Nation).
- John Baldessari, 88, American conceptual artist (Painting for Kubler).
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