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Anรญbal Troilo
Music
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Anรญbal Troilo

Anรญbal Carmelo Troilo
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina
1914-07-11 โ€“ 1975-05-18 (60 years old)

Immortal bandoneon virtuoso and orchestra director known affectionately as 'Pichuco' or 'El Bandoneรณn Mayor de Buenos Aires', composer of Sur and Barrio de tango, whose birthday is National Bandoneon Day.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Religion
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Huot Tat

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ Cambodia
1891-02-27 โ€“ 1975-04-18 (84 years old)

Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia and intellectual partner of Chuon Nath who modernized Buddhist monastic universities, executed by the Khmer Rouge on April 18, 1975, at the beginning of their genocide.

Oudong, Cambodia
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

เฐธเฐฐเฑเฐตเฑ‡เฐชเฐฒเฑเฐฒเฐฟ เฐฐเฐพเฐงเฐพเฐ•เฑƒเฐทเฑเฐฃเฐจเฑ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1888 โ€“ 1975 (86 years old)

Second President of India and preeminent philosopher of comparative religion who interpreted Indian Advaita Vedanta to the Western academic world, celebrated nationwide on Teachers' Day.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India
Chiang Kai-shek
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Chiang Kai-shek

่”ฃไธญๆญฃ (่”ฃไป‹็Ÿณ)
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1887 โ€“ 1975 (87 years old)

Leader of the Republic of China for nearly half a century, who led the Northern Expedition, fought Imperial Japan in World War II, and retreated to Taiwan in 1949, laying the foundation for Taiwan's economic takeoff.

Daxi District (Taoyuan), Taiwan
Mohammed Racim
Arts & Music
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Mohammed Racim

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๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1896 โ€“ 1975 (78 years old)

Peerless Algerian artist who revived and revolutionized Islamic miniature painting and manuscript illumination, blending traditional Persian-Ottoman aesthetics with Western perspective to depict the pre-colonial glory of Algiers.

Algiers, Algeria
Herbert Chitepo
Politics
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Herbert Chitepo

Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผ Zimbabwe
1923-06-15 โ€“ 1975-03-18 (51 years old)

First Black barrister in Southern Rhodesia and National Chairman of ZANU who conceived and directed the armed liberation struggle (Second Chimurenga) until his assassination in Lusaka in 1975.

Harare, Zimbabwe
J. M. Kariuki
Politics
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J. M. Kariuki

Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya
1929-03-21 โ€“ 1975-03-02 (45 years old)

Charismatic populist Member of Parliament and author of 'Mau Mau Detainee' who famously warned against Kenya becoming 'a nation of 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars' before his assassination.

Ol Kalou, Kenya
Carl Lutz
Humanitarian & Peace
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Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
30 March 1895 โ€“ 12 February 1975 (79 years old)

Carl Lutz was a Swiss diplomat who served as Vice-Consul in Budapest from 1942 to 1945. Credited with leading the largest single civilian rescue operation of the Holocaust, Lutz issued Swiss protective letters (Schutzbriefe) and placed seventy-six residential buildings under Swiss diplomatic protection, saving more than 62,000 Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps.

Bern, Switzerland
Pierre Dac
Humour
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Pierre Dac

Andrรฉ Isaac
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1893 โ€“ 1975 (81 years old)

Beloved French humorist who created modern French absurdist humor ('le loufoque'), founded the satirical newspaper L'Os ร  Moelle (1938), and served as the courageous satirical voice of the BBC Free French on Radio Londres.

Paris, France
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