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A former marine biology teacher who studied animation, Hillenburg began his TV career at Nickelodeon, where he created and ran the wildly popular TV series that has run for 20 years and spawned two feature films, a Broadway musical, video games, and a myriad of merchandise.

“[Nedim] Yasar, who was born in Turkey and arrived in Denmark at the age of four, had led the Copenhagen-based criminal gang Los Guerreros – a notorious gang with links to the drugs trade, according to police. He quit the gang in 2012” and had just published a book titled Roots: A Gangster’s Way Out. He was shot as he was leaving a launch party at a Copenhagen bookstore.

An admired historian — his 1966 book The Icon and the Axe is perhaps the most admired book on Russian culture ever published in English — he was appointed Librarian of Congress by Ronald Reagan and remained in the post for 28 years, expanding the institution and prodigiously raising funds, though he retired amid heavy criticism in 2015.

Florence Waters had been reported missing last Monday; her body was discovered outdoors on Thursday evening. An artist in her own right, Waters had contributed articles to the Telegraph on books and film as well as visual arts, and she was previously the paper’s online arts editor.

John Allen Chau’s very presence on the island posed a danger to the Sentinelese, since they may not have developed immunity to the common microbes he carried with him. He also threatened their way of life: In recent years, given the growing consensus that modern visitors tend to erode the cultures of isolated tribes, the Indian navy has enforced a “no contact” policy with the Sentinelese and other tribes in the area, patrolling the waters to prevent infiltration by anthropologists and adventure-seekers alike.

In a film-making career that stretched back to the early 60s, Bertolucci became a key figure of the extraordinary Italian new wave (alongside, and the equal of, Antonioni, Fellini, and Pasolini) but – uniquely – made a successful transition to large-scale Hollywood film-making with 1987’s The Last Emperor, which won nine Oscars, including best picture and best director for Bertolucci.

Jay was “one of the most compelling figures in magic,” and he also appeared in Magnolia, Boogie Nights, and Deadwood.

McMaster’s parents, uncle, and brother were all central to Irish theatre life for decades – and so was she, before she married and moved to San Francisco, where she continued to act, direct, and produce. “With her passing, the curtain has finally dropped on a significant chapter in Irish theatre history.”

The British director of movies that never had mass appeal, though many won critical acclaim and became cult classics, “developed his own distinctive film-making style, usually involving puzzle-like, non-linear storytelling, lyrical visual imagery and challenging themes such as sex, death, horror and mental breakdown.”

The musician turned 77 this year, a similar age to many of the artists who recently have announced retirement such as Neil Diamond, Joan Baez, Elton John, Ozzy Osbourne, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Paul Simon. Even though Dylan hasn’t so much as hinted at ending his career, it’s difficult not to take his line as some sort of protest when he sings‚ “I ain’t dead yet.”