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Photos: Global tributes to Nelson Mandela

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South African artist John Adams works on a giant painting of <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/11/world/africa/nelson-mandela---fast-facts'>Nelson Mandela</a> in a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela, an anti-apartheid icon and Nobel peace laureate, turns 95 on Thursday, July 18. He has been hospitalized since June 8 for a recurring lung infection -- a legacy of the 27 years he endured in prison before becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president. Click through the gallery for other artistic tributes to "the world's most famous political prisoner."

South African artist John Adams works on a giant painting of Nelson Mandela in a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela, an anti-apartheid icon and Nobel peace laureate, turns 95 on Thursday, July 18. He has been hospitalized since June 8 for a recurring lung infection -- a legacy of the 27 years he endured in prison before becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president. Click through the gallery for other artistic tributes to "the world's most famous political prisoner."