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298 of music's most celebrated musicians. Virtuoso instrumentalists and bandleaders whose playing shaped genres from jazz to rock.

Richard Harris

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Richard Harris

Ireland

Richard Harris earned an Oscar nomination for his breakthrough role in This Sporting Life 1963 and later introduced a new generation to his work as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films. He performed in Unforgiven 1992 and Gladiator 2000. Harris died of Hodgkin's disease in London in 2002 at age 72.

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1680 1990