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Who died on 7 January?
Celebrities who died on 7 January
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Hirohito
Emperor of Japan from 1926 until 1989
Neil Peart
Canadian drummer
Brian Sicknick
American police officer
Tommy Lasorda
American baseball player and coach
Russell Banks
American author
France Gall
French singer
Jack Dromey
British politician
Peter Sutherland
Irish international businessman
Nat Hentoff
American music critic
Lani Guinier
American activist, lawyer and academic
Run Run Shaw
Hong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist
Michael Apted
British television and film director and producer
Jim Anderton
New Zealand politician
Trevor Howard
English film, stage and television actor
Dee Booher
American professional wrestler and actress
Elizabeth Wurtzel
American writer and journalist
Colin Seeley
British motorcycle racer
John Joubert
British composer of South African descent
Rod Taylor
Australian actor
Laurence Boissier
Swiss author, artist, interior and designer
Amanda Asay
Canadian forestry scientist and baseball player
Bronko Nagurski
American football player, professional wrestler
Heinrich Harrer
Austrian writer, photographer, geographer and mountain climber
Mohammad Mahdi Karami
22-year-old Iranian man who was executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran for his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests
Anatoly Kvashnin
former chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the Russian Federation
Mohammad Mahdi Karami
22-year-old Iranian man who was executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran for his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests
Jussi Kylätasku
Finnish author
Emilio Ghione
Italian actor, film director and author
Anna Mae Hays
United States Army general
Juan Rulfo
Mexican writer
Stéphane Blet
French pianist
Lowell Perry
American politician
Eberhard Zeidler
Canadian architect
Adam Rich
American actor
Biserka Cvejić
Serbian mezzo-soprano
George Mullin
American baseball player
Moshe Arens
Israeli diplomat, member of Knesset, and professor of aeronautics
Bernard Maris
Jewish-French economist, writer and journalist
Clydie King
American singer
George Perles
American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
Modeste M'bami
Cameroonian footballer
Reynaldo Umali
Filipino politician
Ana Lucrecia Taglioretti
Paraguayan violinist
Owen Bradley
American record producer
John Mendelsohn
American doctor
Naomi Replansky
American poet
Jan Blommaert
Belgian academic
Vincenzo Cerundolo
Italian medical researcher