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Sadok Khalfallah
Medicine
2
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Sadok Khalfallah

ุงู„ุตุงุฏู‚ ุฎู„ู ุงู„ู„ู‡
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1918 AD โ€“ 2001 (83 years old)

Foundational figure in modern Tunisian surgery who trained the nation's first generation of independent surgical specialists and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis.

Tunis, Tunisia
Didi
Sports & Athletics
48
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Didi

Valdir Pereira
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
8 October 1928 โ€“ 12 May 2001 (72 years old)

Valdir Pereira, known to football history as Didi, was the majestic cerebral playmaker who served as the midfield architect of Brazil's back-to-back World Cup victories in 1958 and 1962. Voted the Best Player of the 1958 World Cup ahead of teenage Pelรฉ, he invented the famous 'folha seca' (dry leaf) curving dipping free-kick technique that baffled goalkeepers worldwide.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Moe Koffman
Music
0
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Moe Koffman

Moe Koffman
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
28 December 1928 โ€“ 28 March 2001 (72 years old)

Virtuoso Toronto jazz flutist whose 1957 instrumental recording "The Swingin' Shepherd Blues" was an international number-one hit, and longtime member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass.

Vaughan, Canada
Claude Shannon
Sciences & Discovery
38
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Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
30 April 1916 โ€“ 24 February 2001 (84 years old)

American mathematician and engineer who unified Boolean algebra with electrical circuits to create digital circuit design, and single-handedly founded mathematical Information Theory and the 'bit'.

Medford (Massachusetts), United States
Politics
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Kojo Botsio

Kojo Botsio
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana
1916-02-21 โ€“ 2001-02-06 (84 years old)

Key founding figure of the Convention People's Party (CPP), close confidant of Kwame Nkrumah, and Foreign Minister who co-organized the historic 1958 All-African Peoples' Conference.

Accra, Ghana
Al Waxman
Art
0
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Al Waxman

The King of Kensington
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
2 March 1935 โ€“ 18 January 2001 (65 years old)

Cherished Toronto actor and director who immortalized neighborhood spirit as Larry King in King of Kensington and Lt. Samuels on Cagney & Lacey.

Toronto, Canada
Politics
0
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Laurent-Dรฉsirรฉ Kabila

Laurent-Desire Kabila
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Democratic Republic of the Congo
1939-11-27 โ€“ 2001-01-16 (61 years old)

Revolutionary leader known as 'Mzee' who fought Mobutu's dictatorship for three decades from the Fizi mountains, toppling the regime in 1997 and restoring the name 'Democratic Republic of the Congo'.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Politics
0
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Charles Helou

ุดุงุฑู„ ุญู„ูˆ
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
25 September 1913 โ€“ 7 January 2001 (87 years old)

President of Lebanon (1964-1970), distinguished diplomat and journalist who continued Chehabist modernization and signed the 1969 Cairo Agreement.

Baabda, Lebanon
Cheikh El Arbi Temsamani
Arts & Music
17
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Cheikh El Arbi Temsamani

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ุงู„ุนุฑุจูŠ ุงู„ุชู…ุณู…ุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
c. 1920 โ€“ 2001 (81 years old)

The supreme guardian and maestro of the classical Moroccan Andalusian musical tradition (Al-Ala) whose Tetouan orchestra set the international benchmark for Andalusian orchestral perfection.

Tetouan, Morocco
Emil Zรกtopek
Sports & Athletics
35
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Emil Zรกtopek

Emil Zรกtopek
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic
19 September 1922 โ€“ 22 November 2000 (78 years old)

Emil Zรกtopek was a legendary Czechoslovak long-distance runner whose astonishing triple gold medal triumph at the 1952 Helsinki Olympicsโ€”winning the 5,000m, 10,000m, and the Marathon in his first-ever attempt at the distanceโ€”remains an unmatched feat in Olympic history. Known as 'The Czech Locomotive' for his pained grimacing style, he pioneered modern interval training.

Prague, Czech Republic
Science
0
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Louis Nรฉel

Louis Eugรจne Fรฉlix Nรฉel
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1904 โ€“ 2000 (95 years old)

French physicist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his foundational discoveries of antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism, and who transformed Grenoble into a premier international scientific research hub.

Thonon-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie), France
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Arts & Music
0
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Stefaniya Stanyuta

ะกั‚ัั„ะฐะฝั–ั ะœั–ั…ะฐะนะปะฐัžะฝะฐ ะกั‚ะฐะฝัŽั‚ะฐ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ Belarus
1905-05-13 โ€“ 2000-11-06 (95 years old)

Revered actress and national matriarch of Belarusian theater and cinema who served the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre for over 70 years, portraying the wisdom and resilience of Belarusian women.

Minsk, Belarus
Bibi Titi Mohammed
Politics
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Bibi Titi Mohammed

Bibi Titi Mohammed
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ Tanzania
1926-06-01 โ€“ 2000-11-05 (74 years old)

Trailblazing nationalist leader and singer known as the Mother of Tanzanian Nationalism, who recruited over 200,000 women into TANU, providing the mass grassroots foundation for independence.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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