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Oct 30, 2021 · Rossano Rubicondi died at the age of 49 following a reported year-long illness on Friday. News of his death was broken by Italian TV presenter Simona Ventura on Friday evening.
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Jan 6, 2022 · Nino Castelnuovo (28 Oct 1936 – 6 Sept 2021): Italian actor whose star-making role remained his most prominent, as the lovestruck mechanic Guy in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
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Electronic music producer and queer icon Sophie Xeon (known mononymously as SOPHIE) died in January this year after an accidental fall from a third-storey balcony. Sophie was known for her use of synths and an elektron monomachine layered with vocals and wave sounds, which, paired with her emotive lyrics, created her unique and mystical sound. A re...
Virgil Abloh passed away in November this year after a private struggle with cancer. The creative powerhouse was best known for his label Off-White and being the first Black artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton. Abloh was always closely associated with US rap-culture after beginning as a collaborator with Kanye West, now known as Ye. The ...
Celebrated author, professor and activist bell hooks died towards the end of 2021 at her home in Kentucky, US. Born Gloria Jean Watkins in humble circumstances, hooks went through the segregated education system of the American south in the 1950s and 1960s. Going to achieve academic success, hooks penned 40 books including "Ain’t I a Woman? Black W...
Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of the classic French New Wave film "Breathless," died this year aged 88. Known for his craggy looks, Belmondo worked through the 1960s and 1970s starring in Moderato Cantabile and Two Women, where he played Sophia Loren’s love interest. Maintaining popularity in French cinema into the late 1980s, Belmondo specialised in pl...
At the time of his death in 2021, musical theatre grandee Stephen Sondheim has won six Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, five Olivier Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sondheim was renowned for his musical scores and was credited with reshaping American musical theatre in the second half of the 20th century. His intellige...
Star of “Peaky Blinders,” “Harry Potter” and “the Queen,” Helen McCrory died earlier this year after a battle with cancer. Prior to a successful TV career McCrory was a well-known stage actress, portraying iconic characters such as Lady Macbeth and Euripides’ Medea with her instantly recognisable and passionate stage presence. McCrory and her husba...
Almudena Grandes was a passionate anti-fascist who penned six novels which highlighted the suffering and struggles of anti-Francoists in Spain. Grandes was a radical who challenge the right-wing revisionism of 2000s Spain, determined to expose the atrocities of the Franco-era. The author was also a passionate feminist and wrote erotica which portra...
Alongside Tupac and Notorious BIG in the rap hall of fame, DMX died of a heart attack this year aged 50. The rapper was committed to making music for his peers and after an early life of street-crime, DMX seemed embodied the edgy lifestyle of his music. However, his penchant for adopting stray dogs and assertions he was a devout Christian created a...
Known for portraying the sharp-tongued, heavy drinking matriarchs Lucille Bluth in “Arrested Development”, and Mallory Archer in "Archer" Jessica Walter enjoyed a career that spanned three decades. Starting off in the 1960s in shows like “Naked City” and “Route 66”, Walter won herself an Emmy in 1975 for her role as a San Francisco police detective...
Despite launching postmodern French theory in the US, philosophy professor Lotringer is perhaps better known for his starring role in his wife’s memoir about her infatuation with another man. "I Love Dick", which was later made into a series by Amazon, depicts Lotringer’s cuckolding by his wife, Chris Kraus, whilst the pair are on sabbatical in Cal...
Jan 1, 2022 · Rossano Rubicondi — the Italian actor and model who's better known in America as Ivana Trump's fourth husband 23 years her junior — died on Oct. 29 at 49.
Oct 30, 2021 · ITALIAN actor and Ivana Trump's fourth husband Rossano Rubicondi has died after reportedly suffering from an "illness" for the past year. The 49-year-old's death was announced on an...
Roger Bradfield was born on 22 September 1924 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA. He was married to Joan Mary Jurgens. He died on 31 December 2021 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Dec 28, 2021 · Sarah Harding, Sean Lock, Helen McCrory, Michael K Williams and Nikki Grahame are among those who died this year.
