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Burmese politician and artist (1981–2022)

Burmese political prisoner (1969–2022)

American basketball player and coach (1916–2017)

New Zealand children's writer (1936–2012)

American physicist and astronaut (1951–2012)

Spanish publisher, novelist and essayist (1936–2012)

American jazz guitarist, columnist, and educator (1946–2005)

Portuguese guitarist and composer (1925–2004)

American writer and photographer (1909–2001)

Abrahamic new religious movement originating in 1930s Jamaica

Public observance in honor of children

Slovak Greek Catholic bishop

Swedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373)

Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church saint

Historical Italian Dominican tertiary

Christian monk and theologian

Bishop of La Mans

Blessed María Pilar López de Maturana Ortiz de Zárate, also known by her religious name Margarita María, was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Mercedarian Missionaries of Bérriz. The religious made several international trips in order to serve in the missions as her order often dabbled in and undertook these trips despite a serious ulcer that transcended into stomach cancer but nevertheless she continued to promote the charism of the missions.