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JANUARY

Israel

Ariel Sharon, former prime minister

Portugal

Eusebio, soccer player


United States

Phil Everly, musician

FEBRUARY


Spain

Paco de Lucia, Flamenco guitarist


United States

Shirley Temple, child actress


United States

Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor

MARCH


Spain

Adolfo Suarez, former prime minister


United States

L'Wren Scott, fashion designer


France

Alain Resnais, filmmaker

APRIL


United Kingdom

Bob Hoskins, actor


Colombia

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author


United Kingdom

Peaches Geldof, journalist and TV personality

MAY


United States

Maya Angelou, author


Poland

Wojciech Jaruzelski, former head of state


Switzerland

H.R. Giger, Alien creator and artist

JUNE


United States

Bobby Womack, Soul music legend


United States

Casey Kasem, radio icon

JULY


United States

James Garner, actor


South Africa

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning author and activist


Spain

Alfredo Di Stefano, Real Madrid soccer player

AUGUST


Brazil

Eduardo Campos, politician


United States

Lauren Bacall, actress


United States

Robin Williams, actor

SEPTEMBER


Argentina

Gustavo Cerati, singer-songwriter



United States

Joan Rivers, comedian


OCTOBER


Zambia

Michael Sata, president


United States

Ben Bradlee, Washington Post editor


Haiti

Jean-Claude Duvalier, ex-dictator

NOVEMBER


United Kingdom

P. D. James, novelist


Lebanon

Sabah, singer and actress


United States

Marion Barry, former Washington D.C. mayor


Japan

Ken Takakura, actor

DECEMBER

United Kingdom

Joe Cocker, musician

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