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Coluche (Michel Colucci)
Humanitarian & Peace
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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
Anna Pauline Murray
Humanitarian & Peace
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Anna Pauline Murray

Pauli Murray
🇺🇸 United States
1910 – 1985 (74 years old)

Juriste révolutionnaire, cofondatrice de NOW et première femme prêtre épiscopalienne afro-américaine, dont les écrits juridiques ont inspiré Ruth Bader Ginsburg et Thurgood Marshall.

Brooklyn, New York, United States
Yusuf Dadoo
Humanitarian & Peace
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Yusuf Dadoo

Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
🇿🇦 South Africa
1909 – 1983 (74 years old)

Physician and leader of the South African Indian Congress who signed the 1947 'Three Doctors' Pact' forging the historic alliance between Black and Indian freedom fighters.

London, United Kingdom
Michael Scott
Humanitarian & Peace
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Michael Scott

Guthrie Michael Scott
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1907 – 1983 (76 years old)

Anglican priest and civil rights champion who served as the official petitioner for the Herero people at the United Nations, bringing Namibian independence to the world stage.

London, United Kingdom
Vinoba Bhave
Humanitarian & Peace
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Vinoba Bhave

विनायक नरहरि भावे
🇮🇳 India
1895 – 1982 (87 years old)

Disciple spirituel du Mahatma Gandhi, apôtre de la non-violence et fondateur du mouvement Bhoodan pour le don pacifique des terres.

Paunar, Maharashtra, India
Colin Winter
Humanitarian & Peace
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Colin Winter

Colin O'Brien Winter
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1928 – 1981 (53 years old)

Anglican Bishop of Damaraland who supported the 1971 Namibian contract workers' general strike and was expelled by South African authorities, continuing resistance in exile.

London, United Kingdom
Roy Ottoway Wilkins
Humanitarian & Peace
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Roy Ottoway Wilkins

Roy Wilkins
🇺🇸 United States
1901 – 1981 (80 years old)

Directeur exécutif historique de la NAACP (1955-1977), stratège constitutionnel et politique déterminant pour l'adoption des lois sur les droits civiques et le droit de vote.

New York City, New York, United States
Ángel Sanz Briz
Humanitarian & Peace
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Ángel Sanz Briz

Ángel Sanz Briz
🇪🇸 Spain
28 September 1910 – 11 June 1980 (69 years old)

Ángel Sanz Briz was a Spanish diplomat who served as Chargé d'Affaires in Budapest during World War II. Appalled by the Holocaust unfolding around him, he exploited an archaic 1924 Spanish royal decree to issue protective passports to Hungarian Jews, multiplying Spanish-protected safe houses and saving more than 5,200 Jews from deportation to Auschwitz.

Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Lilian Ngoyi
Humanitarian & Peace
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Lilian Ngoyi

Lilian Masediba Ngoyi
🇿🇦 South Africa
1911 – 1980 (68 years old)

Revered as 'Mother of the Black Resistance' who led the historic 1956 Women's March of 20,000 women against apartheid pass laws to the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

Soweto, South Africa
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