Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96.

As his Hollywood career boomed, Boseman was privately undergoing “countless surgeries and chemotherapy” to battle colon cancer, his family said in a statement announcing his death at age 43 on Friday. He’d been diagnosed at stage 3 in 2016 but never spoke publicly about it.

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul,” who stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer. She transitioned Thursday at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit.