Giancarlo Ferretti dead at age 84
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Francesco Guccini dead at age 86
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Didier Decoin dead at age 81
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Zoltán Melis dead at age 78
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Egon Rusch dead at age 97
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Bae In-gyu dead at age 36
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Cozell McQueen dead at age 64
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Ken Mitchell dead at age 85, novelist, poet
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Pepe Habichuela dead at age 82
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Bruno Campanella dead at age 83
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Dory Funk Jr. dead at age 85
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Michael Conaghan dead at age 81, Irish politician, TD and lord mayor of Dublin
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Jim Toman dead at age 64, American baseball player and coach, brain cancer
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Tristam Nada dead at age 68
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Pradeep Rawat dead at age 74
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 74. Born in Jabalpur on January…
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 69. Born in Warsaw on June 13, 1957, he studied theatre at the Warsaw…
Andrzej Morozowski dead at age 69
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 69. Born in Warsaw on June 13, 1957, he studied theatre at the Warsaw…
Jarosław Stolicki dead at age 63
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 63. He was a professor of the humanities and taught at Jagiellonian University, where he…
Victor Niederhoffer dead at age 82
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 82. Born in Brooklyn on December 10, 1943, he was also known as a statistician,…
Daniele Amati dead at age 94
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 94. Born in Rome on August 11, 1931, he earned his…
Klaus Hänsch dead at age 87, German politician, member and president of the European Parliament
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 87. Born on December 15, 1938,…
Peter Gill dead at age 86, theatre director, actor
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 86. Born in Cardiff on 7 September 1939, he was educated at St…
Liam O’Neill dead at age 70, Irish sports administrator, president of the GAA
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 70. From County…
John Damore dead at age 92
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died on August 4, 2026, at age 92. Born in Riverside, Illinois, on October…
Nils Eklund dead at age 99
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 99. Born Nils Ernst Gustaf Eklund on…
D. Y. Patil dead at age 90, Indian politician, governor of Tripura, and West Bengal
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 90. Born Dnyandeo Yashwantrao Patil on…
Alfonso Lizarazo dead at age 85, Colombian television host and politician, senator
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 85. Born Alfonso Lizarazo Sánchez in Bucaramanga, he…
Georgios Marsellos dead at age 89
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 89. Born in Athens on October 12,…
Joseph C. Paradi dead at age 85
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 85. He was a senior professor of chemical…