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Robert Stanfield
Politics
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Robert Stanfield

The Best PM Canada Never Had
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
11 April 1914 โ€“ 16 December 2003 (89 years old)

Revered gentleman statesman who served eleven years as Premier of Nova Scotia, building universities and Industrial Estates, and led the federal PC party with quiet dignity.

Halifax, Canada
Mohamed Choukri
Literature & Poetry
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Mohamed Choukri

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุดูƒุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1935 โ€“ 2003 (68 years old)

Rifian Moroccan literary icon who grew up illiterate on the streets of Tangier, learned to read and write at age twenty in prison, and authored the raw international autobiographical masterpiece 'For Bread Alone' (Al-Khubz al-Hafi).

Tangier, Morocco
Mohamed Kacimi
Arts & Music
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Mohamed Kacimi

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ู‚ุงุณู…ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1942 โ€“ 2003 (60 years old)

Major figure of modern Moroccan contemporary art whose large-scale monumental canvases, raw pigments, and poetic writings championed human freedom and human rights.

Rabat, Morocco
Politics
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Alija Izetbegoviฤ‡

Alija Izetbegoviฤ‡
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina
1925-08-08 โ€“ 2003-10-19 (78 years old)

First President of the independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina who led the nation through the 1992โ€“1995 Bosnian War and Siege of Sarajevo, and co-signed the Dayton Peace Agreement.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lรกszlรณ Papp
Sports & Athletics
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Lรกszlรณ Papp

Papp Lรกszlรณ
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ Hungary
25 March 1926 โ€“ 16 October 2003 (77 years old)

Lรกszlรณ Papp was an extraordinary Hungarian southpaw boxer who became the first man in the history of the Olympic Games to win three consecutive Olympic boxing gold medals (London 1948, Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956). Later permitted by the communist government to turn professional in Vienna, he captured the European middleweight title and retired undefeated as a pro (27-0-2).

Budapest, Hungary
Mohamed Basri
Resistance & Human Rights
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Mohamed Basri

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ุจุตุฑูŠ (ุงู„ูู‚ูŠู‡ ุงู„ุจุตุฑูŠ)
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
c. 1927 โ€“ 2003 (76 years old)

Legendary commander of the Moroccan Liberation Army (ALN) who led armed urban and mountain guerrilla resistance against the French protectorate, spending thirty years in exile as a leftist opposition leader.

Casablanca, Morocco
Moktar Ould Daddah
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Moktar Ould Daddah

ุงู„ู…ุฎุชุงุฑ ูˆู„ุฏ ุฏุงุฏุงู‡
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania
1924 โ€“ 2003 (78 years old)

First President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960โ€“1978) who built the national capital of Nouakchott from the desert sands, united Arab-Berber and Afro-Mauritanian populations, and established national currency (Ouguiya).

Boutilimit, Mauritania
Hatem El Mekki
Arts & Music
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Hatem El Mekki

ุญุงุชู… ุงู„ู…ูƒูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia
1918 โ€“ 2003 (85 years old)

Master painter and national graphic designer who designed post-independence Tunisia's banknotes, coins, and hundreds of official postage stamps, and pioneered political cartooning.

Carthage, Tunisia
Lalla Fatima Zohra
Humanitarian & Peace
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Lalla Fatima Zohra

ู„ุงู„ุฉ ูุงุทู…ุฉ ุงู„ุฒู‡ุฑุงุก
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1927 โ€“ 2003 (76 years old)

Pioneering Moroccan royal humanitarian and women's rights leader, eldest daughter of Sultan Moulay Abdelaziz, who presided over the National Union of Moroccan Women (UNFM) for three decades.

Fez, Morocco
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