Notable deaths of 2023

Rock guitarist Jeff Beck	Rock musician David Crosby	Rock musician Tom Verlaine	British novelist Fay Weldon	Serbian poet Charles Simic	British historian Paul Johnson
Pop composer Burt Bacharach	Paul Berg, founding father of biotech	Roger Schank, pioneer of Artificial Intelligence	Uruguayan architect Rafael Vinoly	Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe	Croatian novelist Dubravka Ugresic
Computer scientist Gordon Moore	Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto	Rock singer Mark Stewart	British novelist Martin Amis	Rock singer Tina Turner	US novelist Cormac McCarthy
John Goodenough, inventor of the lithium-ion battery	Czech novelist Milan Kundera	British singer Sinead O'Connor	Rock guitarist Robbie Robertson	Classical composer Kaija Saariaho	Colombian painter Fernando Botero
Charles Feeney, a billionaire who donated all his money	US poet Louise Gluck	Jazz composer Carla Bley	Classical composer David Del Tredici	Slovak filmmaker Juraj Jakubisko	Jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal
Classical composer Akira Nishimura	Film director Otar Iosseliani	British writer DM Thomas	Syrian writer Khaled Khalifa	British writer A.S. Byatt	Russian conductor Yuri Temirkanov
Composer and painter Steve Roden	British embryologist Ian Wilmut