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2020...   US composer Charles Wuorinen

British physicist Freeman Dyson

Music producer Andrewn Weatherall

Bulgarian artist Christo

British guitarist Peter Green

  Swedish actor Max Von Sydow

Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas

Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda

Somali musician Manu Dibango

African musician Ahmed Ismail Hussein 

Jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz

Argentine philosopher Mario Bunge

Rock'n'roll pioneer Little Richard

Swedish novelist Per Olov Enquist

Classical composer Krysztof Penderecki 

Jazz bassist Henry Grimes

Electronic music pioneer Richard Teitelbaum

French actor Michel Piccoli

Zhensheng Li, photographer of Mao's Cultural Revolution

Jazz pianist Keith Tippett 

Art historian Frank Popper

Afghan poet Sulaiman Layeq

Reggae pioneer Toots Hibbert

French singer Juliette Greco

Jazz bassist Gary Peacock 

Argentinian cartoonist Quino

Irish poet Derek Mahon

Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen

British actor Sean Connery

Jazz trumpetist Toshinori Kondo 

Soccer player Diego Maradona

Ambient composer Harold Budd

British novelist John LeCarre

Korean filmmaker Kim Kiduk

Rock guitarist Leslie West 

Classical violinist Ivry Gitlis

Soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone

Film director Alan Parker

Pioneering programmer Arianna Rosenbluth

Somali human rights activists Hawa Abdi 

MF Doom

Jazz keyboardist Lyle Mays

Social scientist Ezra Vogel

French philosopher Bernard Stiegler

2021...  

 Jazz cellist David Darling

Rock producer Phil Spector

Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Jazz keyboardist Chick Corea

Orchestra conductor James Levine

 Jazz drummer Milford Graves

US novelist Larry McMurtry

French poet Philippe Jaccottet

New-age composer Constance Demby

Rock composer Jim Steinman

  Georgian puppeteer Rezo Gabriadze

 Indian actor Dilip Kumar

US director Monte Hellman

 Classical music composer Louis Andriessen

 US director Richard Donner 

Italian essayist Roberto Calasso

 Ethiopian humanitarian Abebech Gobena, the "Mother Teresa" of Africa

US singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith

Rock drummer Charlie Watts

Sleep scientist Allan Hobson 

German architect Helmut Jahn

Reggae/dub producer Lee "Scratch" Perry

French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier

Italian songwriter Franco Battiato

Spanish poet Francisco Brines 

Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis

Musical composer Stephen Sondheim

Avantgarde composer Alvin Lucier

2019:Chinese communist Li Rui, who criticized Xi

Pianist and conductor Andre Previn

Rock drummer Hal Blaine

Rock guitarist Dick Dale

Singer-songwriter Scott Walker 

French filmmaker Agnes Varda

Southafrican geneticist Sydney Brenner

US poet William Merwin

Nils Nilsson, pioneer of A.I.

 Spanish novelist Rafael Ferlosio 

Conceptual artist Carolee Schneemann

Australian poet Les Murray

 Chinese architect Ieoh Ming Pei

Opera director Franco Zeffirelli

Bossanova guitarist Joao Gilberto 

New Orleans musician Art Neville

US novelist Toni Morrison

Rock singer-songwriters Mark Hollis

Filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas

Italian writer Nanni Balestrini

 Jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman

Charlie Cole, Tiannamen Square photojournalist

Ric Ocasek of the Cars

Rock drummer Ginger Baker

Art historian Douglas Crimp

 Italian cyclist Felice Gimondi

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to Walk in space

2018:Rock singer Mark Smith of the Fall

Jazz composer Muhal Richard Abrams

John Barlow, Internet Pioneer

Pakistani human-rights activist Asma Jahangir

Italian sculptor Mauro Staccioli

Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest physicists 

Cecil Taylor, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all times

 Japan's anime director Isao Takahata

Tom Rapp, singer-songwriter of the Pearls Before Swine

Czech director Milos Forman

Afghan photographer Shah Marai

Italian director Ermanno Olmi

US novelist Tom Wolfe

US writer Philip Roth

 German composer

 Dieter Schnebel (

Rock drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum

Bioartist Louis Bec

Avantgarde composer Glenn Branca

 Trinidadian writer VS Naipaul

Playwright Neil Simon

Choreographer Lindsay Kemp

Soul singer Aretha Franklin 

Argentinian activist Chicha Mariani

Italian geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza

French singer Charles Aznavour

Chinese novelist Jin Yong

Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee

Jazz saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett

Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci

Pakistani poet Fehmida Riaz 

Israeli writer Amos Oz

 Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen

Robot inventor Ben Skora

Chilean poet Nicanor Parra

Idomybes: per dešimt pastarųjų metų pasaulis neteko stai tokiu garsių zmoniu:

Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)

Oscar Niemeyer (Brazil) Elliott Carter (USA)

Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)

Ravi Shankar (India)

Rita Levi-Montalcini (Italy) Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) Neil Armstrong (USA)

Chris Marker (France)

Dave Brubeck (USA)

Irish poet Seamus Heaney Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe

Rock musician Kevin Ayers Indian math wizard Shakuntala Devi

Computer scientist Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse and organizer of the "mother of all demos" Classical composer John Tavener

British biochemist and double Nobel Prize winner Frederick Sanger

South African politician Nelson Mandela

Indian anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar Rock musician Lou Reed  Inventor Ray Dolby Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima

British sculptor Anthony Caro

Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd Rock keyboardist Ray Manzarek of the Doors Polish poet Tadeusz Rozewicz

Jazz musician Charlie Haden

Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez

South African novelist Nadine Gordimer

Argentine poet Juan Gelman

French filmmaker Alain Resnais

Italian conductor Claudio Abbado

US conductor Lorin Maazel US folksinger Pete Seeger Jazz musician Ornette Coleman

German writer Guenter Grass

Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira

Rock musician Daevid Allen

 Blues musician B.B. King

Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, one of the two greatest politicians of the second half of the 20th century (Deng Xiao Ping being the other one)

Opera tenor Jon Vickers

John Holland, inventor of genetic algorithms Finnish philosopher Jaakko Hintikka

Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen

Italian writer Umberto Eco

Classical music composer Pierre Boulez

Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami

US philosopher Hilary Putnam

Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid

Jazz composer Paul Bley

Computer scientist Ray Tomlinson, inventor of email

Classical music composer Einojuhani Rautavaara

Polish film director Andrzej Wajda

Classical music composer Peter Marxwell Davies

Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz

Rock composer Paul Kantner

Classical music composer Karel Husa

British poet Geoffrey Hill

 Avantgarde composer Pauline Oliveros

Italian playwright Dario Fo

Dutch football player Johan Cruyff

Rock singer Alan Vega of duo Suicide

Jazz composer Gato Barbieri

Rock keyboardist Keith Emerson

Astronomer Vera Rubin

Italian filmmaker Ettore Scola

US boxer Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali

US writer Edgar-Lawrence Doctorow

Sufi singer Amjad Sabri

Avantgarde composer Tony Conrad

Irish novelist William Trevor

Computer scientist Marvin Minsky

Classical music conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt

 Classical music conductor Neville Marriner

Hindustani composer Veena Sahasrabuddhe

Computer scientist Wesley Clark, who built the first neural network

Rock producer George Martin

Rock composer David Bowie

Rock guitarist Greg Lake

Rock singer Gilli Smyth

Pop composer Prince

Indian tabla player Shankar Ghosh

Chinese opera star Mei Baojiu

Congolese musician Papa Wemba

Urdu poet Nida Fazli

US painter Ellsworth Kelly

US playwright Edward Albee

Muhammad Abdelaziz, leader of Morocco's occupied territory West Sahara

US film director Michael Cimino

Pakistani philanthropist AbdulSattar Edhi

Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail (first Arab Nobel science winner)

Funk-rock keyboardist Bernie Worrell

Indian sarangi player Sabri Khan

Antiwar activist Tom Hayden

2017:Derek Walcott, poet

 David Axelrod, US rock producer and composer

Jazz musician Misha Mengelberg

Rock musician David Peel

 Chinese scholar Zhou Youguang

Jaki Liebezeit, German rock drummer

Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artists

Finnish musician Mika Vainio

 German chancellor Helmut Kohl

Computer scientist Robert Taylor, father of the Internet

Mind philosopher Hubert Dreyfus

Jacque Fresco, founder of Venus Project

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Film director Jonathan Demme

 Chinese dissident Xiaobo Liu

Avantgarde composer Pierre Henry

Jazz pianist Geri Allen

Rock singer Chris Cornell

Performance artist Vito Acconci

US painter James Rosenquist

 Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani

US filmmaker Jerry Lewis

US playwright Sam Shepard

 French actress Jeanne Moreau

Lotfi Zadeh, father Fuzzy Logic

Artificial Intelligence pioneer Hans Berliner, who built the first backgammon program to beat a world champion

 Rock and electronic music composer Holger Czukay

 Rocker Tom Petty

Stanislav Petrov, one of the many unsung heroes of the Cold War, who in 1983 prevented a nuclear war

Rock pioneer Fats Domino

Irish novelist William Trevor

Leonard Baum, the mathematician who in 1966 popularized the Hidden Markov Models widely used in Artificial Intelligence

Chuck Berry, inventor of rock'n'roll

British artist Gustav Metzger

 Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman

Neuroscientist Marian Diamond