Quoted from: lilypond-user@gnu.org

I just wanted to let you know that Janus Nowacki, one of the founders
of the TeX Gyre font suite, has recently died:
http://www.gust.org.pl/news/jmn-obit-en
And his personal website (in Polish): https://jmn.pl/

The TeX Gyre font project was started in 2006 to provide high-quality,
free-licensed replacements for existing URW fonts:
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/nfp11.pdf