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James Pineo Grant
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James Pineo Grant

James P. Grant
🇨🇳 China
1922 – 1995 (72 years old)

Directeur exécutif de l'UNICEF (1980-1995), père de la « Révolution pour la survie de l'enfant » qui sauva environ 25 millions d'enfants grâce aux vaccins et à la réhydratation orale.

Valhalla, New York, United States
Helen Joseph
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Helen Joseph

Helen Beatrice May Fennell
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1905 – 1992 (87 years old)

Courageous anti-apartheid leader who co-organized the 1956 Women's March and became the first person in South Africa placed under strict house arrest by the apartheid regime.

Johannesburg, South Africa
Giorgio Perlasca
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Giorgio Perlasca

Giorgio Perlasca
🇮🇹 Italy
31 January 1910 – 15 August 1992 (82 years old)

Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman who, trapped in Budapest during the winter of 1944–1945, posed as the Spanish consul-general to rescue more than 5,200 Hungarian Jews from the Arrow Cross death squads and Nazi extermination camps. He invented safe-conduct passes, hid families in Spanish-protected safe houses, and physically dragged Jews off cattle trains bound for Auschwitz.

Padua, Veneto, Italy
Colin W. Bell
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Colin W. Bell

Colin Bell
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1903 – 1988 (85 years old)

Dirigeant humanitaire quaker anglo-américain, directeur de la Friends Ambulance Unit en Chine et secrétaire exécutif de l'AFSC pendant la guerre froide.

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States
Coluche (Michel Colucci)
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Coluche (Michel Colucci)

Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci
🇫🇷 France
28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986 (41 years old)

Michel Colucci, known as Coluche, was a beloved French satirical comedian and actor who won the César Award for Best Actor in 1984. In September 1985, outraged by European agricultural surpluses coexisting with domestic hunger, Coluche launched 'Les Restos du Cœur' (Restaurants of the Heart), a nationwide volunteer network providing millions of free meals to the impoverished.

Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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