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Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer
🇫🇷 France
14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 (90 years old)

Albert Schweitzer was an Alsatian polymath, Lutheran theologian, virtuoso organist, and medical missionary who established the Lambaréné Hospital in equatorial Africa. Renowned for his moral philosophy of 'Reverence for Life' (Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben), he was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize and devoted his Nobel funds to constructing a leper colony.

Maurice Pate
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Maurice Pate

Maurice Pate
🇺🇸 United States
1894 – 1965 (70 years old)

Premier directeur exécutif de l'UNICEF (1947-1965), qui exigea que l'agence nourrisse les enfants de tous les pays sans discrimination politique, y compris ceux des anciens pays ennemis.

Herbert Clark Hoover
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Herbert Clark Hoover

Herbert Hoover
🇺🇸 United States
1874 – 1964 (90 years old)

31e président des États-Unis et organisateur humanitaire légendaire surnommé le « Grand Humanitaire », qui sauva des dizaines de millions d'Européens et de Russes de la famine.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Carlos Saavedra Lamas
🇦🇷 Argentina
1 November 1878 – 5 May 1959 (80 years old)

Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine jurist, diplomat, and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1932–1938) who drafted the historic 1933 Anti-War Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation. He mediated the end of the devastating Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay and served as President of the Assembly of the League of Nations, becoming the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936.

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