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Jack Dempsey
Sports & Athletics
47
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Jack Dempsey

William Harrison Dempsey
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
24 June 1895 โ€“ 31 May 1983 (87 years old)

William Harrison 'Jack' Dempsey, 'The Manassa Mauler', was an explosive American heavyweight boxing champion who became one of the greatest cultural icons of the Roaring Twenties. Renowned for his ferocious aggression, bobbing-and-weaving 'Dempsey Roll', and devastating punching power, he drew boxing's first million-dollar gates and reigned as world champion from 1919 to 1926.

New York City, United States
Pitseolak Ashoona
Arts & Music
3
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Pitseolak Ashoona

Pitseolak Ashoona
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
c. 1904 โ€“ 1983 (79 years old)

Pioneering Cape Dorset graphic artist whose vibrant drawings and stonecut prints, capturing traditional nomadic Inuit life before settlement, created an artistic dynasty and won the Order of Canada.

Kinngait (Cape Dorset, Nunavut), Canada
King Idris I
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
37
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King Idris I

ุงู„ู…ู„ูƒ ุฅุฏุฑูŠุณ ุงู„ุฃูˆู„
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Libya
March 12, 1889 โ€“ May 25, 1983 (94 years old)

Foundational Libyan monarch and leader of the Senussi order who unified Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan into the independent United Kingdom of Libya in 1951 under United Nations auspices, guiding the country into the modern era.

Medina, Saudi Arabia
King Idris I of Libya
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
61
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King Idris I of Libya

ุฅุฏุฑูŠุณ ุงู„ุฃูˆู„ ุงู„ุณู†ูˆุณูŠ (ู…ู„ูƒ ู„ูŠุจูŠุง)
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Libya
1889 โ€“ 1983 (94 years old)

First and only King of the United Kingdom of Libya (1951โ€“1969), leader of the Senussi Sufi order, who proclaimed Libyan independence on December 24, 1951, uniting Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan.

Medina, Saudi Arabia
Albert Claude
Science
1
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Albert Claude

Albert Claude
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1899 โ€“ 1983 (83 years old)

Belgian-American cytologist who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Christian de Duve and George Palade for developing cell fractionation and the first electron micrographs of intact biological cells.

Neufchรขteau (Luxembourg Province), Belgium
Amal Dunqul
Literature & Poetry
15
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Amal Dunqul

ุฃู…ู„ ุฏู†ู‚ู„
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
June 23, 1940 โ€“ May 21, 1983 (42 years old)

Legendary Egyptian modernist poet hailed as 'The Prince of Refusal' (Amir al-Rafd), whose stark, prophetic verses and iconic masterpiece 'Do Not Reconcile' (La Tusaleh) became the supreme poetic manifesto against political compromise and oppression.

Qal'at al-Jabal, Qena, Egypt
Music
1
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Bobby Benson

Bernard Olabinjo Benson
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria
1922-04-11 โ€“ 1983-05-14 (61 years old)

Foundational pioneer of modern Nigerian entertainment and highlife who composed the classic 'Taxi Driver' and established the legendary Caban Bamboo nightclub in Lagos.

Ikorodu, Nigeria
Politics
1
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Aminu Kano

Aminu Kano
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria
1920-08-09 โ€“ 1983-04-17 (62 years old)

Champion of the northern masses (Talakawa) and founder of NEPU and PRP who waged a lifelong campaign for democratic humanism, women's liberation, and the abolition of feudal taxes.

Kano, Nigeria
Corrie ten Boom
Resistance & Human Rights
42
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Corrie ten Boom

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
15 April 1892 โ€“ 15 April 1983 (91 years old)

Dutch watchmaker who, along with her family, harbored hundreds of Jews and resistance fighters in a secret room inside their Haarlem house during the Nazi occupation, surviving Ravensbrรผck concentration camp.

Placentia, California, United States
Ulf von Euler
Science
1
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Ulf von Euler

Ulf Svante von Euler
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden
1905-02-07 โ€“ 1983-03-09 (78 years old)

Physiologist and pharmacologist awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering noradrenaline as the key sympathetic neurotransmitter and isolating prostaglandins.

Solna, Sweden
Music
1
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Grand Kalle

Joseph Athanase Kabasele Tshamala
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Democratic Republic of the Congo
1930-12-16 โ€“ 1983-02-11 (52 years old)

Revered musician acclaimed as the father of modern Congolese music who founded African Jazz and composed 'Indรฉpendance Cha Cha', the universal soundtrack of African liberation in 1960.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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