This article pays tribute to the many influential individuals who passed away in 2023, spanning various fields such as politics, entertainment, fashion, and literature. It highlights the lives and legacies of notable figures like Alexei Navalny, Maggie Smith, and OJ Simpson, among others.
This year saw the loss of many notable figures who found international fame in worlds as varied as pop culture, politics, sports and literature. They included the singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson, fashion designer Roberto Cavalli and actor James Earl Jones of Star Wars and Lion King fame.
Political figures who died included Alex Salmond, who led Scotland to the brink of independence in 2014, while the movie world lost Roger Corman, one of the most prolific producers in the history of film. Here we remember the lives of ten other well-known people whose deaths made headlines in The Irish Times, and around the world, this year. Among those who died were Putin critic Alexei Navalny, actor Maggie Smith and criminal OJ Simpson. Alexei Navalny, who died on February 16th aged 47, was one of the most prominent domestic critics of Russian president Vladimir Putin. He died in a penal colony in the Arctic Circle where he had been serving multiple sentences on charges his supporters say were trumped up to silence him.One of the casualties of 12 months of war in the Middle East was the rule of international law. He was jailed after returning in 2021 from Germany where he was recuperating from a nerve-agent poisoning in Siberia that he blamed on the Kremlin. He was given three prison terms after his return and was moved to a different prison with harsher conditions each time. Late last year, he was feared dead after he disappeared for three weeks during his transfer to the penal colony 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Despite increasingly difficult conditions, which included solitary confinement, he maintained a presence on social media, while members of his team published investigations into Russia’s corrupt elite from exile. The Kremlin had tried to cut him off further by arresting several of his lawyers last year on charges of being part of an extremist group
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