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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Slimane Azem
Arts & Music
18
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Slimane Azem

โต™โตโต‰โตŽโดฐโต โต„โดฐโตฃโดปโตŽ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1918 โ€“ 1983 (64 years old)

Immense Kabyle poet, composer, and satirist who recorded over 200 songs, becoming the beloved voice of the Algerian working-class diaspora through his allegorical animal fables and nostalgia.

Moissac, France
Garrincha
Sports & Athletics
42
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Garrincha

Manuel Francisco dos Santos
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
28 October 1933 โ€“ 20 January 1983 (49 years old)

Manuel Francisco dos Santos, beloved worldwide as Garrincha ('the Little Bird'), was an Argentine and Brazilian football folk hero renowned as the most mesmerizing dribbler in the history of the sport. Born with physical deformities including a deformed spine and crooked legs, he triumphed over all physical limitations to win the 1958 and 1962 World Cups, single-handedly carrying Brazil to the 1962 trophy after Pelรฉ's injury.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Literature & Poetry
4
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Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1897 โ€“ 1982 (85 years old)

French literary titan who co-founded Surrealism with Andrรฉ Breton, became the legendary bard of the French Resistance with Le Crรจve-cล“ur and Les Yeux d'Elsa, and devoted his life's poetry to his muse Elsa Triolet.

Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, France
รsmundur Sveinsson
Art
1
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รsmundur Sveinsson

รsmundur Sveinsson
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ Iceland
1893-05-20 โ€“ 1982-12-09 (89 years old)

Master Icelandic modernist sculptor whose monumental, stylized public works celebrating workers, Icelandic sagas, and space technology decorate parks across Reykjavรญk.

Reykjavรญk, Iceland
Vinoba Bhave
Humanitarian & Peace
39
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Vinoba Bhave

เคตเคฟเคจเคพเคฏเค• เคจเคฐเคนเคฐเคฟ เคญเคพเคตเฅ‡
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1895 โ€“ 1982 (87 years old)

Disciple spirituel du Mahatma Gandhi, apรดtre de la non-violence et fondateur du mouvement Bhoodan pour le don pacifique des terres.

Paunar, Maharashtra, India
Literature & Poetry
2
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Baba Moustapha

Mahamat Baba Moustapha
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ Chad
1949-01-01 โ€“ 1982-11-06 (33 years old)

Preeminent Chadian dramatist and intellectual whose brilliant satirical plays, including 'Le Commandant Chaka' (1979) and 'Makareri', pleaded for national reconciliation before his tragic death at age thirty-three.

N'Djamena, Chad
Cinema
5
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Jacques Tati

Jacques Tatischeff
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1907 โ€“ 1982 (75 years old)

Genius of visual comedy and sound design who created the pipe-smoking, trench-coated character Monsieur Hulot, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with Mon Oncle (1958), and built the architectural epic Playtime.

Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), France
Salah Garmadi
Literature & Poetry
6
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Salah Garmadi

ุตุงู„ุญ ุงู„ู‚ุฑู…ุงุฏูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1933 AD โ€“ 1982 (49 years old)

Daring avant-garde bilingual poet, linguist, and left-wing dissident who co-founded the influential journal Perspectives and challenged traditional linguistic orthodoxies in collections like Al-Lahma al-Hayya.

Tunis, Tunisia
Youssef Wahbi
Arts & Music
16
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Youssef Wahbi

ูŠูˆุณู ูˆู‡ุจูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1898 โ€“ 1982 (84 years old)

Monumental 'Dean of Arab Theater' who studied under Italian master actor Chiantoni, founded the legendary Ramses Theatrical Troupe in 1923, and was granted the rank of Bey by King Farouk for elevating Arabic drama.

Cairo, Egypt
Music
1
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Jakov Gotovac

Jakov Gotovac
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia
1895-10-11 โ€“ 1982-10-16 (87 years old)

Preeminent opera composer and conductor whose comic masterpiece 'Ero the Joker' (Ero s onoga svijeta) became the most internationally performed Croatian opera in history, acclaimed in over 80 world theaters.

Zagreb, Croatia
Hans Selye
Science
1
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Hans Selye

Hans Selye
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
26 January 1907 โ€“ 16 October 1982 (75 years old)

Austrian-Canadian endocrinologist at Universitรฉ de Montrรฉal who formulated the biological concept of "stress" and the General Adaptation Syndrome.

Montreal, Canada
Music
1
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Glenn Gould

Glenn Herbert Gould
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1932 โ€“ 1982 (50 years old)

World-renowned eccentric piano prodigy whose historic 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations revolutionized classical recording, and who abandoned the concert stage in 1964 to pioneer studio audio art.

Toronto, Canada
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