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Every year, comes January I reflect on the year that´s passed, and I do the In Memoriam video series.
This year, we said goodbye to a lot of big figures of culture.
In this list we honor them and may they rest in peace:
| David Lynch | 78 | American film director | Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive |
| Dame Joan Plowright | 95 | English actress | Enchanted April, A Taste of Honey, 101 Dalmatians |
| Marianne Faithfull | 78 | English singer | As Tears Go By |
| Gene Hackman | 95 | American actor | The French Connection, Mississippi Burning, Unforgiven |
| Roberta Flack | 88 | American singer | Killing Me Softly with His Song |
| Michelle Trachtenberg | 39 | American actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harriet the Spy, Gossip Girl |
| David Johansen | 75 | American musician, singer and actor | New York Dolls |
| Richard Chamberlain | 90 | American actor | Dr. Kildare, The Thorn Birds, Sh?gun |
| Val Kilmer | 65 | American actor | Top Gun, The Doors, Batman Forever |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 89 | Peruvian writer | Nobel Prize laureate |
| Jorge Bergoglio | 88 | Argentine Roman Catholic prelate | Pope Francis |
| George Wendt | 76 | American actor | Cheers, Forever Young, Elf |
| Phil Robertson | 79 | American businessman and TV personality | Duck Dynasty |
| Loretta Swit | 87 | American actress | M*A*S*H, Freebie and the Bean, Race with the Devil |
| Sly Stone | 82 | American Hall of Fame musician | Sly and the Family Stone |
| Julian McMahon | 56 | Australian actor | Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four, Home and Away, Charmed |
| Diogo Jota | 28 | Portuguese footballer | Liverpool, Portugal national team |
| Michael Madsen | 67 | American actor | Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Donnie Brasco |
| Malcolm-Jamal Warner | 54 | American actor and musician | The Cosby Show, Malcolm & Eddie, The Resident |
| Ozzy Osbourne | 76 | English Hall of Fame musician | Black Sabbath |
| Loni Anderson | 79 | American actress | WKRP in Cincinnati, All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Night at the Roxbury |
| Terence Stamp | 87 | English actor | Billy Budd, Superman II, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| Graham Greene | 73 | Canadian actor | Dances With Wolves, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Green Mile |
| Giorgio Armani | 91 | Italian fashion designer | Armani |
| Rick Davies | 81 | English musician and songwriter | Supertramp |
| Brian Wilson | 82 | American Hall of Fame musician | The Beach Boys |
| Robert Redford | 89 | American actor and film director | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men |
| Claudia Cardinale | 87 | Italian actress | Once Upon a Time in the West, The Leopard, 8½ |
| Dame Jane Goodall | 91 | English zoologist and primatologist | Jane Goodall Institute |
| Diane Keaton | 79 | American actress | Annie Hall, The Godfather, Something’s Gotta Give |
| Ace Frehley | 74 | American Hall of Fame guitarist | Kiss, Frehley´s Comet |
| June Lockhart | 100 | American actress | Lost in Space, Lassie, Petticoat Junction |
| Lenny Wilkens | 88 | American Hall of Fame basketball player | Hawks, Sonics, Cavs |
| Jimmy Cliff | 81 | Jamaican Hall of Fame reggae singer-songwriter | The Harder They Come, Rebel in Me |
| Peter Greene | 60 | American actor | Pulp Fiction, The Mask, Clean, Shaven |
| Rob Reiner | 78 | American actor and film director | All in the Family, This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally |
| Perry Bamonte | 65 | English Hall of Fame rock musician | The Cure, Love Amongst Ruin |
| Brigitte Bardot | 91 | French actress | And God Created Woman, Contempt, La Vérité |
| Isiah Whitlock Jr. | 71 | American actor | The Wire, Da 5 Bloods, Your Honor |
| Sam Moore | 89 | American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter | Sam & Dave |
| Wayne Osmond | 73 | American singer songwriter | The Osmonds |
| Garth Hudson | 87 | Canadian Hall of Fame musician and keyboardist | The Band |
| Charlie Kirk | 31 | American conservative activist | Turning Point USA |
| Connie Francis | 87 | American pop singer | Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool, “Pretty Little Baby”, “My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own” |
| Hulk Hogan | 71 | American Hall of Fame professional wrestler and actor | WWF, WCW, Rocky III |
| Sam Rivers | 48 | American bassist | Limp Bizkit |
| Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | 75 | American actor | Licence to Kill, Mortal Kombat, The Man in the High Castle |
| John Sykes | 65 | English guitarist and songwriter | Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake |
| Boris Spassky | 88 | Russian chess grandmaster | World champion (1969–1972) Bobby Fischer rival |
| Peter Yarrow | 86 | American singer and songwriter | Peter, Paul and Mary |
May they all rest in peace.