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Dame Cicely Mary Saunders

Cicely Saunders

United Kingdom

1918 – 2005 (87 years old)

Infirmière, assistante sociale et médecin britannique, fondatrice du mouvement moderne des soins palliatifs et de l'Hospice St Christopher à Londres.

Southwark, London, United Kingdom

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Beyers Naude

Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé

South Africa

1915 – 2004 (89 years old)

Afrikaner Dutch Reformed minister who rejected the theological justification for apartheid, founded the Christian Institute, and stood as a moral beacon of reconciliation.

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Denis Eugene Hurley

Denis Hurley

South Africa

1915 – 2004 (88 years old)

Archevêque catholique de Durban et figure morale majeure de la lutte contre l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud, défenseur intrépide des opprimés pendant cinquante ans.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Brazil

1948 – 2003 (55 years old)

Diplomate brésilien de l'ONU d'exception, Haut-Commissaire aux droits de l'homme et médiateur au Kosovo et au Timor oriental, tué lors de l'attentat de l'hôtel Canal à Bagdad.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

صدر الدين آغا خان

France

1933 – 2003 (70 years old)

Haut-Commissaire des Nations unies pour les réfugiés de 1966 à 1977, qui transforma le HCR en une agence mondiale secourant des millions de réfugiés en Asie, Afrique et Amérique latine.

Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland

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Walter Sisulu

Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu

South Africa

1912 – 2003 (90 years old)

Architect of the modern African National Congress who mentored Nelson Mandela, co-founded the ANC Youth League, and served twenty-six years on Robben Island.

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Piero Corti

Piero Corti

Italy

1925 – 2003 (77 years old)

Médecin pédiatre italien, cofondateur et bâtisseur avec Lucille Teasdale de l'hôpital de Lacor en Ouganda, sanctuaire de santé et de paix en Afrique équatoriale.

Gulu, Uganda

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Carlo Urbani

Carlo Urbani

Italy

1956 – 2003 (46 years old)

Médecin épidémiologiste italien et président de MSF Italie, premier à identifier le SRAS en 2003, alertant l'OMS et sauvant des millions de vies au prix de la sienne.

Castelplanio, Ancona, Italy

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Philip Francis Berrigan

Philip Berrigan

United States

1923 – 2002 (79 years old)

Ancien officier de la Seconde Guerre mondiale devenu prêtre joséphite et apôtre intransigeant du désarmement nucléaire et des droits civiques.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Stewart Meacham

Stewart Meacham

United States

1910 – 2000 (89 years old)

U.S. Quaker Peace Leader, Secretary of Education for Peace at the AFSC and builder of major citizen coalitions against the Vietnam War.

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States

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René Gerónimo Favaloro

René Favaloro

Argentina

1923 – 2000 (77 years old)

Chirurgien cardiaque argentin de génie, créateur du pontage aorto-coronarien moderne, qui refusa de s'enrichir aux États-Unis pour soigner gratuitement son peuple.

Jacinto Aráuz, La Pampa, Argentina

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James Leonard Farmer Jr.

James Farmer

United States

1920 – 1999 (79 years old)

L'un des « Big Four » du mouvement des droits civiques américains, fondateur du CORE (1942) et architecte légendaire des Freedom Rides de 1961 contre la ségrégation.

Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States

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Trevor Huddleston

Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston

United Kingdom

1913 – 1998 (84 years old)

Anglican archbishop and prophetic anti-apartheid leader whose 1956 book 'Naught for Your Comfort' galvanized global Christian outrage against South African racism.

Johannesburg, South Africa

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Martha Gellhorn

Martha Ellis Gellhorn

United States

1908 – 1998 (89 years old)

Trailblazing war correspondent whose sixty-year reporting career championed ordinary civilian victims of war from the Spanish Civil War to Dachau and Vietnam.

London, United Kingdom

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Feng Shan Ho

何鳳山

China

1901 – 1997 (96 years old)

Chinese Consul General in Vienna known as the 'Chinese Schindler' who issued thousands of visas to Austrian Jews, saving them from the Holocaust against orders.

Yiyang, China

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Ho Feng-Shan

何鳳山 (He Fengshan)

China

10 September 1901 – 28 September 1997 (96 years old)

Dr. Ho Feng-Shan was a Chinese diplomat who served as Consul-General of the Republic of China in Vienna from 1938 to 1940. In direct defiance of his ambassador's orders, Ho issued thousands of life-saving visas to Austrian Jews desperate to escape Nazi persecution following the Anschluss and Kristallnacht, allowing them to flee Europe to Shanghai and other destinations.

Yiyang, Hunan, China

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Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu

Turkey

26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 (87 years old)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. Devoting her life to serving the 'poorest of the poor' in the slums of Calcutta, she established hospices for the destitute and dying, leprosy clinics, and orphanages worldwide, receiving the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and canonization as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Lucille Teasdale-Corti

Lucille Teasdale

Canada

1929 – 1996 (67 years old)

Chirurgienne canadienne héroïque, cofondatrice avec son mari de l'hôpital Lacor en Ouganda, soignant les blessés sous les guerres civiles et le SIDA au péril de sa vie.

Gulu, Uganda

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