Remembered
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Aretha Franklin
1942 – 2018
Singer, Songwriter, Activist, Pianist, Composer, Record producer
Aretha Louise Franklin ( ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Regarded as the "Queen of Soul", she was tw…
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1924 – 2018
Politician, Poet, Journalist, Writer
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian statesman and a poet who served as the prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and pr…
Golam Sarwar
1943 – 2018
Journalist
Golam Sarwar (1 April 1943 – 13 August 2018) was a Bangladeshi journalist and writer. He is considered the "LightHouse of journalism" in Bangladesh. He served a…
V. S. Naipaul
1932 – 2018
Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Essayist, Short story writer, Travel writer
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidad-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in Engli…
M. Karunanidhi
1924 – 2018
Politician, Writer, Screenwriter
Muthuvel Karunanidhi was an Indian politician, screenwriter and writer who served multiple terms as chief minister of Tamil Nadu. A leader of the Dravida Munnet…
Kamrul Hasan Bhuiyan
1952 – 2018
Researcher, Writer
Kamrul Hassan Bhuiyan (24 July 1952 – 6 August 2018) was a Bangladeshi major in the Bangladesh Army. He was a freedom fighter, liberation war researcher and wri…
A. H. M. Moazzem Hossain
1948 – 2018
Journalist, Newspaper editor
A. H. M. Moazzem Hossain (1 January 1948 – 2 August 2018) was a Bangladeshi journalist and editor. He was best known as the founding editor of The Financial Exp…
Halima Khatun
1933 – 2018
Academic, Writer
Halima Khatun (25 August 1933 – 3 July 2018) was a Bangladeshi activist, writer and academic. She took part in the Bengali language movement in 1952 along with…
Anthony Bourdain
1956 – 2018
Cook, Writer, Novelist, Chef, Television presenter, Essayist
Anthony Michael Bourdain ( bor-DAYN; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian. He starred in programs focu…
Philip Roth
1933 – 2018
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Science fiction writer, University teacher, Writer
Philip Milton Roth (; March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New…
Tazin Ahmed
1975 – 2018
Director, Journalist, Playwright, Actor
Tazin Ahmed (30 July 1975 – 22 May 2018) was a Bangladeshi journalist, actress, playwright, director, and theater person. She won the 2003 Bachasas Award for th…
Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam
— – 2018
Academic, Educator
Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam (1 May 1927 – 9 May 2018) was a Bangladeshi academic. In 2011, he was appointed a National Professor of Bangladesh. He was awarded Ekushey…
Belal Chowdhury
1938 – 2018
Poet, Writer
Belal Chowdhury (12 November 1938 – 24 April 2018) was a Bangladeshi poet. He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984, the Mazharul Islam Poetry A…
Avicii
1989 – 2018
Record producer, Disc jockey, Remixer, Musician, Fashion model, Composer
Tim Bergling (8 September 1989 – 20 April 2018), known professionally as Avicii, was a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer. His musical style was primarily…
Barbara Bush
1925 – 2018
Politician, President
Barbara Bush (née Pierce; June 8, 1925 – April 17, 2018) was the first lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993, as the wife of George H. W. Bush, the 41st p…
Miloš Forman
1932 – 2018
Film director, Film producer, Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter, Film actor
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professo…
Peter Grünberg
1939 – 2018
Physicist, University teacher, Teacher, Researcher
Peter Andreas Grünberg (German: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈɡʁyːnbɛʁk] ; 18 May 1939 – 7 April 2018) was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery…
Kakon Bibi
— – 2018
Freedom fighter
Noorjahan Kakon Bibi Bir Protik (Bengali: কাঁকন বিবি, Khasi: Kaket Hanchiata) was a Bangladeshi freedom fighter and secret agent of the Bangladesh Liberation Wa…
Stephen Hawking
1942 – 2018
Theoretical physicist, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Mathematician, Pedagogue, Science writer
Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the…
Ferdousi Priyabhashini
1947 – 2018
Sculptor
Ferdousi Priyabhashini (19 February 1947 – 6 March 2018) was a Bangladeshi sculptor. She was the first one to publicly announce herself as Birangona, a term coi…