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Moses Malone
Sports & Athletics
16
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Moses Malone

Moses Eugene Malone
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
23 March 1955 โ€“ 13 September 2015 (60 years old)

Moses Eugene Malone was a relentless American basketball center and three-time NBA Most Valuable Player who perfected the art of offensive rebounding, earning the title 'Chairman of the Boards'. The first modern player to jump straight from high school to professional basketball, he led the Philadelphia 76ers to the 1983 NBA championship with his famous playoff prediction 'Fo', Fo', Fo''.

Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Sir Nicholas George Winton
Humanitarian & Peace
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,750

Sir Nicholas George Winton

Nicholas George Wertheim
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
19 May 1909 โ€“ 1 July 2015 (106 years old)

Sir Nicholas Winton was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Operating the Czech Kindertransport, he secured foster families in Britain and forged transit permits, keeping his heroic rescue a complete secret for fifty years until his wife discovered his notebook in their attic.

Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Ron Clarke
Sports & Athletics
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,050

Ron Clarke

Ronald William Clarke
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia
21 February 1937 โ€“ 17 June 2015 (78 years old)

Ronald William 'Ron' Clarke was an Australian long-distance running phenomenon who broke seventeen official world records across distances from two miles to the one-hour run during the 1960s. Chosen to light the Olympic cauldron as a promising teenager at the 1956 Melbourne Games, his relentless pace revolutionized world distance running, and he later served as Mayor of the Gold Coast.

Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Boris Nemtsov
Resistance & Human Rights
19
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,480

Boris Nemtsov

ะ‘ะพั€ะธั ะ•ั„ะธะผะพะฒะธั‡ ะะตะผั†ะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
9 October 1959 โ€“ 27 February 2015 (55 years old)

Boris Nemtsov was a charismatic Russian physicist, former First Deputy Prime Minister, and the foremost leader of Russia's democratic opposition against authoritarian rule. A tireless anti-corruption crusader who documented state theft and opposed military intervention in Ukraine, he was assassinated on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge within sight of the Kremlin walls in February 2015.

Moscow, Russia
Assia Djebar
Literature & Poetry
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Assia Djebar

ุขุณูŠุง ุฌุจุงุฑ (ูุงุทู…ุฉ ุงู„ุฒู‡ุฑุงุก ุฅูŠู…ู„ุงูŠู†)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1936 โ€“ 2015 (78 years old)

Foremost Algerian novelist, essayist, and filmmaker who gave voice to Algerian women silenced by colonialism and patriarchy, becoming the first writer from North Africa elected to the Acadรฉmie Franรงaise in 2005.

Cherchell, Algeria
Kenji Goto
Resistance & Human Rights
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,310

Kenji Goto

ๅพŒ่—ค ๅฅไบŒ (Goto Kenji)
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
23 October 1967 โ€“ 30 January 2015 (47 years old)

Kenji Goto was a renowned Japanese freelance video journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author who dedicated his career to documenting the suffering of innocent civilians, refugees, and children in the world's most perilous conflict zones, from Sierra Leone and Rwanda to Iraq and Syria. In October 2014, he bravely entered ISIS-controlled Syria in an attempt to rescue a captured friend, where he was captured and executed in January 2015.

near Raqqa, Syria
Abdelwahab Meddeb
Philosophy & Thought
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Abdelwahab Meddeb

ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ูˆู‡ุงุจ ุงู„ู…ุคุฏุจ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1946 โ€“ 2014 (68 years old)

Tunisian-French poet, novelist, and philosopher who produced the renowned radio broadcast 'Cultures d'Islam' and authored the acclaimed critical treatise 'The Malady of Islam'.

Paris, France
Alfredo Di Stรฉfano
Sports & Athletics
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,890

Alfredo Di Stรฉfano

Alfredo Stรฉfano Di Stรฉfano Laulhรฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina
4 July 1926 โ€“ 7 July 2014 (88 years old)

Alfredo Di Stรฉfano was an extraordinary Argentine-Spanish footballer whose unmatched versatility, endurance, and leadership turned Real Madrid into the undisputed kings of European football. Winning five consecutive European Cups between 1956 and 1960 and scoring in every single final, he is widely regarded as the most complete footballer who ever lived.

Madrid, Spain
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