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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
Salah Jahin
Literature & Poetry
16
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Salah Jahin

صلاح جاهين
🇪🇬 Egypt
December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986 (55 years old)

Iconic Egyptian colloquial poet, satirist, newspaper cartoonist, and screenwriter whose philosophical 'Rubaiyat' (Quatrains) and anthems of the 1952 Revolution defined the emotional ethos of modern Egypt.

Cairo, Egypt
Bessie Head
Literature & Poetry
3
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Bessie Head

Bessie Amelia Emery
🇿🇦 South Africa
1937-07-06 – 1986-04-17 (48 years old)

Visionary novelist whose profound works 'Maru', 'When Rain Clouds Gather', and 'A Question of Power' illuminated racial prejudice, mental trauma, and village community in Botswana.

Serowe, Botswana
Jean Genet
Humanities
1
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Jean Genet

جان جينيه
🇫🇷 France
1910 – 1986 (75 years old)

Celebrated French avant-garde playwright and political activist who spent his final decades in Morocco, requesting in his will to be buried forever in the cliffside Spanish cemetery of Larache overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Larache, Morocco
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
Arts & Music
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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe
🇺🇸 United States
15 November 1887 – 6 March 1986 (98 years old)

Iconic American modernist painter renowned for her revolutionary close-up paintings of enlarged flowers, soaring New York skyscrapers, and evocative desert landscapes of Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

Santa Fe (New Mexico), United States
Music
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Gholam-Hossein Banan

غلام‌حسین بنان
🇮🇷 Iran
1 May 1911 – 27 February 1986 (74 years old)

Supreme master vocalist of Iranian classical music whose velvety baritone and exquisite tahrir trills defined the golden era of Radio Iran's 'Golha'.

Karaj, Iran
Slimane Ben Slimane
Politics
1
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Slimane Ben Slimane

سليمان بن سليمان
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1905 – 1986 (81 years old)

Pioneering physician and founding member of the Neo-Destour Political Bureau who was repeatedly exiled to Sahara prison camps, later founding the Tunisian Peace Committee.

Tunis, Tunisia
Tommy Douglas
Politics
1
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Tommy Douglas

Thomas Clement Douglas
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1904 – 1986 (81 years old)

Revered Baptist minister and democratic socialist leader who headed the first social democratic government in North America in Saskatchewan and established universal, publicly funded healthcare (Medicare).

Ottawa, Canada
Mahieddine Bachtarzi
Arts & Music
11
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Mahieddine Bachtarzi

محي الدين باشتارزي
🇩🇿 Algeria
1897 – 1986 (88 years old)

Towering father of modern Algerian theater and lyric tenor who founded the first Arab dramatic troupe in Algeria in 1923, directing over 400 theatrical productions.

Algiers, Algeria
Jaroslav Seifert
Literature & Poetry
1
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Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert
🇨🇿 Kingdom of Bohemia
1901-09-23 – 1986-01-10 (84 years old)

Beloved lyric poet of Prague and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1984) who championed artistic freedom, co-founded Poetism, and signed Charter 77 in defiance of totalitarian censorship.

Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
Juan Rulfo
Literature & Poetry
27
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Juan Rulfo

Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno
🇲🇽 Mexico
1917 – 1986 (68 years old)

Mexican author whose sparse output of one novel, Pedro Paramo, and one short-story collection, The Burning Plain, stands among the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world literature.

Mexico City, Mexico
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