After an 18-month battle for liver cancer, cultural icon David Bowie passed away on Sunday, Jan. 10, two days after his 69th birthday. Here is a snapshot of the mourning and tributes that followed.
Bowie dominated the news in London on Jan. 12, following the announcement of his death on Sunday. | APCrowds gather in his birthplace of Brixton, South London on Monday night to celebrate the life. | REUTERSA fan sings Bowie songs to crowds outside the Ritzy cinema in Brixton. | AFP-JIJIA man holds a 10 Brixton Pounds note, which is decorated with an image of David Bowie. | REUTERSTwo young fans in the crowd wear Bowie merchandise and Ziggy Stardust face makeup in his honor. | AFP-JIJIThe statue of Sir Henry Tate, an English philanthropist, is decorated with the same facial painting. | AFP-JIJIAn ad for the cosmetic range of David Bowie’s wife Iman has also been embellished a la Ziggy Stardust in Brixton, south London. | APAnother woman with her face painted like Ziggy Stardust pays her respects outside a house believed to be the childhood home of David Bowie in Brixton, south London. | AFP-JIJIA woman with a Ziggy Stardust tattoo gets emotional as she visits the same mural. | REUTERSFans in New York also commemorate the icon at a makeshift memorial outside his New York apartment building on Jan. 11. | AFP-JIJIBianca Soto wipes a tear from her eye while she pays her respects at the New York memorial. | APFans in Los Angeles leave tributes by his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. | REUTERSFans leave flowers at a bandstand named after David Bowie where he once performed in Beckenham, South London, Jan. 11. | REUTERSFlowers are left beneath a plaque marking the location of the cover photo for Bowie’s 'Ziggy Stardust' album in central London, Jan. 13. | AFP-JIJICrowds gather during a wake outside David Bowie's former home in Berlin on Monday. | AFP-JIJIShoppers look at a CD stand dedicated to David Bowie at a Tower Records store in Shibuya, Tokyo on Tuesday. | APBowie fans pose as they wait to hear collaborators Tony Visconti and Mick Woodmansey perform Bowie's 1970 album 'The Man Who Sold The World' at Toronto's Opera House concert venue, Jan. 12. | NATHAN DENETTE/ THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA APGlenn Gregory, left, drummer Mick Woodmansey, and fellow collaborator with David Bowie, Tony Visconti, right, perform as the group Holy Holy, at a tribute show to Bowie. | NATHAN DENETTE/ THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP
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