A 1975 portrait of the late conductor, harpsichordist, and scholar Raymond Leppard. The Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption
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Literary critic and author Harold Bloom addresses an audience in New York on March 9, 2003. Mark Mainz/Getty Images hide caption
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Actor/comedian Rip Taylor tosses confetti on the Tonight Show on Sept. 27, 1994. Margaret Norton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images hide caption
Ginger Baker, performing with Cream in 1966. David Redfern/Redferns hide caption
This 1972 file image shows singer and actress Diahann Carroll. Carroll passed away Friday at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. She was 84. Jean-Jacques Levy/AP hide caption
Kim Shattuck, photographed during an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 2013. Mark Sullivan/WireImage/Getty Images hide caption
Georgian composer Giya Kancheli, in an undated photo. Kancheli died Wednesday at age 84. Rossetti-Phocus/Courtesy of ECM Records hide caption
Jessye Norman performs in 1991 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Frans Schellekens/Redferns hide caption
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José José sings at Teatro Metropolitan in March 2014 in Mexico City. The artist died Sept. 28, 2019 at age 71. Medios y Media/Getty Images hide caption
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In this 2007 photo, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Wilson, the diplomat who disputed prewar intelligence on Iraq and endured retribution, died on Friday. He was 69. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
Cokie Roberts covers the 2012 presidential race in Manchester, N.H. The longtime political reporter and analyst at ABC News and NPR died on Sept. 17 at the age of 75. Donna Svennevik/Walt Disney Television via Getty hide caption
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Robert Hunter, performing at Red Rocks Amphitheater on Aug. 9, 2002. Larry Hulst/Getty Images hide caption
Cokie Roberts, a longtime political reporter and analyst at ABC News and NPR, died on Tuesday. Heidi Gutman/Walt Disney Television via Getty hide caption
Cokie Roberts died on Tuesday of complications from breast cancer. NPR hide caption
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John Cohen, onstage with the New Lost City Ramblers in New York City in 2006. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images hide caption
Ric Ocasek of The Cars, performing at the group's induction ceremony into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. Ocasek died Sunday. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images For the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hide caption
From left to right: Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Juanita Abernathy, and Mary Moultrie, a nurse's aide during a march in support of the 100-day strike in Charleston, S.C. in 1969. AP hide caption
The singer and songwriter Eddie Money, who died Friday in Los Angeles. Kevin Foley/Courtesy of the Money family hide caption
Philip "P.J." Thomas was a captain and harbor pilot who along with his three children died when Hurricane Dorian roared through Grand Bahama island on Sept. 1. Fort Schuyler Shipmates hide caption
Singer, songwriter and visual artist Daniel Johnston performs in Austin, Texas, in 2005. Johnston died on Wednesday. Jana Birchum/Getty Images hide caption
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T. Boone Pickens founded the company that became Mesa Petroleum and later began a hedge fund focused on energy investments. He died Wednesday at age 91. Larry W. Smith/Getty Images hide caption
Photographer Robert Frank holds a camera in 1954. His photo book, The Americans, changed the way people saw photography and the way they saw the U.S. Frank died on Monday at the age of 94. Fred Stein Archive/Getty Images hide caption