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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Gitta Sereny
Humanitarian & Peace
5
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Gitta Sereny

Gitta Sereny
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
1921 โ€“ 2012 (91 years old)

Austrian-British investigative author and humanitarian journalist who worked with war-traumatized children following World War II and authored masterwork psychological explorations into the roots of human evil, including 'Into That Darkness'.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Teรณfilo Stevenson
Sports & Athletics
11
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Teรณfilo Stevenson

Teรณfilo Stevenson Lawrence
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บ Cuba
29 March 1952 โ€“ 11 June 2012 (60 years old)

Teรณfilo Stevenson was a monumental Cuban heavyweight boxer who became one of only three men in history to win three Olympic boxing gold medals (Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980). Renowned for his devastating right hand and textbook athletic grace, he famously rejected a $5 million offer from American promoters to turn professional and fight Muhammad Ali, proclaiming: 'What is a million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?'

Havana, Cuba
Andrew Huxley
Sciences & Discovery
5
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Andrew Huxley

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom
1917 โ€“ 2012 (94 years old)

English biophysicist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the ionic mechanism of nerve impulses and co-discovered the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction, serving as Master of Trinity College and President of the Royal Society.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ahmed Ben Bella
Statesmanship & Statesmen
3
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Ahmed Ben Bella

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุจู„ุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1916 โ€“ 2012 (95 years old)

Founding historic leader of the FLN, decorated WWII hero, and the first President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (1963โ€“1965), celebrated for self-management socialism and anti-imperialist solidarity.

Algiers, Algeria
Fang Lizhi
Resistance & Human Rights
16
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Fang Lizhi

ๆ–นๅŠฑไน‹
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
12 February 1936 โ€“ 6 April 2012 (76 years old)

Fang Lizhi was a premier Chinese astrophysicist and university educator whose open advocacy for human rights, academic freedom, and democratic reform earned him the title of 'China's Sakharov'. His stirring campus lectures inspired the 1986 student democracy protests and laid the philosophical foundations for the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement, after which he spent a year sheltered inside the US Embassy in Beijing before entering exile.

Tucson, Arizona, United States
Socrates
Sports & Athletics
6
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Socrates

Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
1954 โ€“ 2011 (57 years old)

Visionary Brazilian midfield maestro and qualified medical doctor who captained Brazil's enchanting 1982 World Cup team and led the revolutionary 'Corinthians Democracy' movement against Brazil's military dictatorship.

Ribeirao Preto (Sao Paulo), Brazil
Joe Frazier
Sports & Athletics
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,780

Joe Frazier

Joseph William Frazier
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
12 January 1944 โ€“ 7 November 2011 (67 years old)

Joseph William 'Smokin' Joe' Frazier was a relentless, ferocious heavyweight boxing champion who became the first man to defeat Muhammad Ali in the 1971 'Fight of the Century'. Armed with an unstoppable bobbing-and-weaving forward attack and the most lethal left hook in boxing history, the 1964 Olympic gold medalist reigned as undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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