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Month: January 2017

The most gentlemanly of gentlemen, British actor Sir John Hurt, dies from cancer aged 77

Gentlemanly John Hurt dies of pancreatic cancer three days after his 77th birthday

Jazz and album cover photographer Chuck Stewart dies at 89

Chuck Stewart loved jazz and photography, taking some of the most iconic album covers of jazz musicians

Spanish rebel Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a master of anatomical drawings

Spanish Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, loved to draw

25 January: Burns Night – a celebration of romanticist Robert Burns

Robert Burns was Scotland’s greatest poet and is celebrated with a dinner of haggis

Calls for non-violent leader Bacha Khan to be commemorated in Afghanistan

2018 will mark the anniversary of the death of peace activist Bacha Khan and people are calling for his message on non-violence to be heard

Harry Belafonte releases a new album to celebrate his 90th birthday

Harry Belafonte is still making music at 90

Moonwalker, Eugene Cernan, dies aged 82

The 12th – and last – man to walk on the moon during the 1969-1972 American space mission – has died aged 82

Singapore’s Philip Yeo – Neither Civil Nor Servant

Philip Yeo, of Singapore, is an unconventional public servant with 50 years in public administration

At 91 Peter Brook has had theatre in his blood for 84 years

British theatre and film director explores the themes of spirituality, religious tolerance, and ‘the empty space’

‘Giving while living’ philanthropist Charles Feeney gives away the last of his fortune

Charles Feeney promised in 2011 to give away his fortune by the end of 2016 – and he has fulfilled that promise

Pakistan’s classical singer Ustad Fateh Ali Khan dies aged 82

Bridging the India-Pakistan divide, and generational boundaries, classical singer Ustad Fateh Ali Khan dies aged 82

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