Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star, died aged 100 on January 4 . She starred with Julie Andrews in the classic "Mary Poppins"
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Alexei Navalny, one of the staunchest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died on February 6 in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence
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Jacob Rothschild, a financier and philanthropist, died at 87 on February 26. He was a member of the renowned Rothschild banking dynasty
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Peter Higgs, Nobel prize-winning physicist, died aged 94 on April 8. Higgs is credited for proposing the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang
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OJ Simpson, football superstar and Hollywood actor whose televised murder trial - he was acquitted - left a nation rivetted, died on April 10. He was 76
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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline protege of the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died in a Helicopter crash at 63 on May 19
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Ratan Tata, one of India's most influential business leaders and chairman of the Tata Group, died at 86 on October 9
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Liam Payne, former One Direction singer, died at 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina on October 16
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Rohit Bal, one of India's most celebrated fashion designers, died at 63 after a long illness on November 1
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Quincy Jones, a 28-time Grammy winner and twice Academy Award awardee, died aged 91 on November 3