Photo collage above: Top row, from left, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, singer Ronnie Spector, actor Sidney Poitier, Queen Elizabeth, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev. Bottom row, from left, actress Angela Lansbury, singer Jerry Lee Lewis, Pakistani doctor who championed women’s health and rights Nafis Sadik, Soviet cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, revered Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and NBA star Bill Russell.
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