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Jón Leifs
Music
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Jón Leifs

Jón Leifs
🇮🇸 Iceland
1899-05-01 – 1968-07-30 (69 years old)

Pioneering Icelandic modernist composer who forged an uncompromising, thunderous musical idiom depicting volcanic eruptions, geysers, and avalanches in works like Hekla and the Saga Symphony.

Reykjavík, Iceland
Henry Dale
Sciences & Discovery
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Henry Dale

Sir Henry Hallett Dale
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1875 – 1968 (93 years old)

English pharmacologist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine for identifying acetylcholine as the neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic and voluntary nervous systems, and formulated 'Dale's Principle' of neuronal transmission.

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Corneille Heymans
Science
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Corneille Heymans

Corneille Jean François Heymans
🇧🇪 Belgium
1892 – 1968 (76 years old)

Belgian physiologist and pharmacologist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the respiratory chemoreceptors in the carotid sinus and aortic body that regulate human breathing.

Sint-Amandsberg (Ghent), Belgium
Nína Tryggvadóttir
Art
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Nína Tryggvadóttir

Jónína Tryggvadóttir
🇮🇸 Iceland
1913-03-16 – 1968-06-18 (55 years old)

Foremost Icelandic female modernist painter and stained glass artist who achieved international renown within the New York School of Abstract Expressionism and European tachisme.

Reykjavík, Iceland
Z. K. Matthews
Politics
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Z. K. Matthews

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews
🇿🇦 South Africa
1901-10-20 – 1968-05-11 (66 years old)

Towering scholar and ANC Cape leader who in 1953 first conceived the idea of the Congress of the People and the historic 'Freedom Charter', later serving as Botswana's Ambassador to the UN.

Gaborone, Botswana
Politics
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Soraya Tarzi

ملکه ثریا طرزی
🇸🇾 Syria
1899-11-24 – 1968-04-20 (68 years old)

Iconic Queen Consort of Afghanistan who championed female emancipation, founded Afghanistan's first girls' school (Masturat) and women's hospital, and famously unveiled herself in public in 1928.

Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Cheikh Hamada
Arts & Music
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Cheikh Hamada

الشيخ حمادة
🇩🇿 Algeria
1889 – 1968 (79 years old)

The supreme patriarch of traditional Bedouin music and Gasba reed-flute poetry from the Dahra mountains, who profoundly influenced modern Algerian music from Chaabi to Raï.

Mostaganem, Algeria
Art
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Amelia Peláez

Amelia Peláez del Casal
🇨🇺 Cuba
1896-01-05 – 1968-04-08 (72 years old)

Vanguard Cuban modernist painter whose distinctive still lifes with heavy black outlines, colonial architectural arabesques, and luminous stained-glass palettes redefined 20th-century Latin American art.

Havana, Cuba
Felix Couchoro
Literature & Poetry
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Felix Couchoro

Felix Couchoro
🇧🇯 Benin
1900-01-30 – 1968-04-05 (68 years old)

Pioneering West African novelist whose 1929 novel 'L'Esclave' was the second published novel in French by a Black African, celebrated for chronicling popular social realities.

Lome, Togo
Moses Levy
Arts & Music
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Moses Levy

موشي ليفي
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1885 – 1968 (83 years old)

Master colorist and engraver born to a British father and Tunisian Jewish mother, whose radiant portrayals of Tunisian beaches, souks, and street life placed him at the summit of Mediterranean expressionism.

Viareggio, Italy
Lev Landau
Sciences & Discovery
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Lev Landau

Лев Давидович Ландау
🌐 Azerbaijan
1908 – 1968 (60 years old)

Legendary Soviet theoretical physicist whose genius spanned superfluidity, superconductivity, Fermi liquid theory, and plasma physics, authoring the monumental Course of Theoretical Physics.

Moscow, Russia
Arnulf Øverland
Literature & Poetry
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Arnulf Øverland

Ole Peter Arnulf Øverland
🇳🇴 Norway
1889-04-27 – 1968-03-25 (78 years old)

Prominent Norwegian poet and moral conscience who penned the anti-fascist warning 'Du må ikke sove' in 1937, survived Grini and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, and lived in Grotten.

Oslo, Norway
Cinema
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Alice Guy-Blaché

Alice Ida Antoinette Guy
🇫🇷 France
1873 – 1968 (94 years old)

Visionary French cinema pioneer recognized as the world's very first female film director and one of the first filmmakers in history to direct a narrative fiction film with La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy, 1896).

Mahwah (New Jersey), United States
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