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Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed

راشد بن سعيد آل مكتوم
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
11 June 1912 – 7 October 1990 (78 years old)

Visionary Ruler of Dubai (1958-1990) and co-founder of the UAE who dredged Dubai Creek and built Port Rashid and Jebel Ali, fathering modern Dubai.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Patrick White
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Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1912-05-28 – 1990-09-30 (78 years old)

Sole Australian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1973), celebrated for epic, psychological masterpieces such as 'Voss', 'The Tree of Man', and 'The Eye of the Storm'.

Sydney, Australia
Willy Vandersteen
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Willy Vandersteen

Willebrord Jan Frans Maria Vandersteen
🇧🇪 Belgium
1913 – 1990 (77 years old)

Flemish comic strip titan revered as 'the Bruegel of the comic strip' who created Suske en Wiske (Bob et Bobette), De Rode Ridder, and Bessy, selling hundreds of millions of albums across the Low Countries.

Kalmthout (Antwerp), Belgium
Mário Pinto de Andrade
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Mário Pinto de Andrade

Mario Coelho Pinto de Andrade
🇦🇴 Angola
1928-08-21 – 1990-08-26 (62 years old)

Eminent Angolan sociologist, literary scholar, and revolutionary theorist who co-founded the MPLA, served as its first acting president, and compiled landmark anthologies of Black African poetry.

Luanda, Angola
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Morley Callaghan

Morley Edward Callaghan
🇨🇦 Canada
1903 – 1990 (87 years old)

Eminent Toronto novelist and master of the psychological short story who famously boxed Ernest Hemingway and associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris, chronicled in That Summer in Paris.

Toronto (Ontario), Canada
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Germain Ayache

جيرمان عياش
🇲🇦 Morocco
1915 – August 1990 (75 years old)

Pioneering Moroccan Jewish historian and professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat whose ground-breaking archival research demolished colonial historiography and established the modern academic study of the Rif War.

Rabat, Morocco
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Morteza Neydavoud

مرتضی نی‌داوود
🇮🇷 Iran
1900 – 31 July 1990 (90 years old)

Master Jewish-Iranian tar virtuoso who composed the immortal freedom anthem 'Morghe Sahar' and documented the complete classical Radif.

San Francisco, California, United States
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Kashim Ibrahim

Kashim Ibrahim
🇳🇬 Nigeria
1910-01-01 – 1990-07-25 (80 years old)

Distinguished Kanuri statesman and scholar who served as the first indigenous Governor of Northern Nigeria, holding legendary stature for personal rectitude and dedication to education.

Maiduguri, Nigeria
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Paul Gondjout

Paul Gondjout
🇬🇦 Gabon
1912-06-04 – 1990-07-01 (78 years old)

Foundational Gabonese magistrate and political leader who co-founded the Bloc Démocratique Gabonais (BDG) and served as the first President of the National Assembly.

Libreville, Gabon
Joseph Murumbi
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Joseph Murumbi

Joseph Anthony Zuzarte Murumbi
🇰🇪 Kenya
1911-06-18 – 1990-06-22 (79 years old)

Second Vice-President of Kenya, diplomat, and Africa's greatest private collector of traditional art, manuscripts, and textiles, whose collection founded the Kenya National Archives gallery.

Nairobi, Kenya
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