Pradeep Rawat dead at age 74
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died on August 4, 2026, aged 74. Born in Jabalpur on January 21, 1952, he began his screen career in…
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Andrzej Morozowski dead at age 69
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Janet Howell dead at age 82
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Kath Pettingill dead at age 91
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Sam Nusum dead at age 82
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Kailash Chandra Pant dead at age 90
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Franco Baresi dead at age 66
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died on July 31, 2026, aged 66. Born in Travagliato on May 8, 1960,…
Vishwa Nath Sharma dead at age 96, Indian military officer, chief of the army staff
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Jakob Butturff dead at age 32
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Vicki Wickham dead at age 87
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died on July 31, 2026, aged 87. Born in England in…
Scott Hylands dead at age 83
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died on July 31, 2026, aged 83. Born Scott Hylands Douglas in Vancouver, he began his…
Marģers Vestermanis dead at age 100
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died on July 30, 2026, aged…
Magic Weisner dead at age 27
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Jiří Nykodým dead at age 81, Czech lawyer, judge of the Constitutional Court
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 81. A graduate of the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague,…
Igor Sharapov dead at age 65, Russian trumpeter, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 65. Born in Leningrad on June 19, 1961, he went on to become a soloist…
Ivan Edeshko dead at age 81
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died on July 30, 2026, at age 81. Born Ivan Ivanovich Edeshko on March 25, 1945, in Stsiatski in the…
Kazimira Prunskienė dead at age 83, Lithuanian politician, prime minister and minister of agricultu…
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Beto Cabrera dead at age 92
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Seppo Sairanen dead at age 74
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 74. Born in Pori on…
Iga Cembrzyńska dead at age 87
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 87. Born Maria Elżbieta Cembrzyńska in Radom…
Timoteo Hikmat Beylouni dead at age 80, Syrian-born Venezuelan Syriac Catholic hierarch, bishop of…
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 80. Born…
Sokrat Khanyan dead at age 96, poet, literary critic
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 96. Born on January 22, 1930, in Ağbulaq, he was also known as a…
Donatille Mukabalisa dead at age 66, Rwandan politician, MP and senator
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Pur Bahadur Gurung dead at age 37, Climbed 4 eight thousanders of Pakistan in 12 days, Climbed K2 i…
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died on…
Václav Větvička dead at age 88
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died on July 30, 2026, at age 88. Born in Prague on January 13, 1938, he was also described as a…
Nirmal Purja dead at age 43
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 43, after an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Born on July 25,…
Abubakar Alhaji dead at age 89, Nigerian diplomat and politician, minister of finance
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 89. A long-serving administrator, he held senior posts in…
Manolo Solo dead at age 62
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 62. Born…
Tadeusz Gapiński dead at age 78
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 78. Born in Łódź on January 7, 1948, he was a Polish former association football player whose…
Nadhira Al Harthy dead at age 48, First Omani woman to summit Mount Everest, Nanga Parbat
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 48. Also known…
Eugene Benson dead at age 98
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 98. Born in Northern Ireland in 1928, he went on to build a…
K. Jamuna Rani dead at age 88
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 88. Born on…
Geoffrey Arrand dead at age 82
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 82. Geoffrey William Arrand was born on 24 July 1944 and…
Johanna Fernández dead at age 55
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died on July 30, 2026, aged 55. A Dominican-American scholar based in New York City,…
Simone Forti dead at age 91
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died on July 29, 2026, aged 91. Born in Florence on March 25,…
Francis Teke Lysinge dead at age 87, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mamfe
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died on July 29, 2026, aged 87. Born on December 28, 1938, in Cameroon,…
Cristino Centurión dead at age 72
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died on July 29, 2026, aged 72. Born in Formosa Province, Argentina, he began his career in…