Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph Powell

United States

1924 – 1966 (41 years old)

American jazz pianist who translated the lightning bebop syntax of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to the keyboard, laying the foundation for all modern jazz piano.

New York City, United States

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Arts & Music

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Mohamed Iguerbouchane

محمد إيغربوشن

Algeria

1907 – 1966 (58 years old)

Internationally renowned Algerian symphonic composer who composed over 100 orchestral suites and film scores, integrating Berber melodies and North African polyphony with classical European orchestration.

Algiers, Algeria

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Military

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Andrew McNaughton

Andy McNaughton

Canada

18 June 1887 – 11 July 1966 (79 years old)

Canadian general and electrical engineer whose scientific artillery counter-battery methods won Vimy Ridge, and who commanded the Canadian Army in WWII.

Ottawa, Canada

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Sciences & Discovery

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Georges Lemaître

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître

Belgium

1894 – 1966 (71 years old)

Belgian Catholic priest, astronomer, and cosmologist who proposed the Big Bang theory of the universe.

Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

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Arts & Music

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Hans Arp

Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp

France

1886 – 1966 (79 years old)

French-German sculptor, painter, and poet who co-founded Zurich Dada and pioneered biomorphic abstraction and the artistic embrace of chance.

Basel, Switzerland

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Politics

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Évariste Kimba

Évariste Kimba Mutombo

Belgian Congo

1926-07-16 – 1966-06-02 (39 years old)

Distinguished diplomat and journalist who was appointed Prime Minister of the DRC by President Kasa-Vubu in 1965, tragically executed by public hanging in Kinshasa on Pentecost Thursday 1966.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Art

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Wäinö Aaltonen

Wäinö Waldemar Aaltonen

Finland

1894-03-08 – 1966-05-30 (72 years old)

Foremost monumental sculptor of independent Finland whose heroic bronze statues include the dynamic running monument to Paavo Nurmi, the Hämeensilta bridge figures, and the Aleksis Kivi memorial.

Helsinki, Finland

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Literature & Poetry

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Carlos Luis Fallas

Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja

Costa Rica

1909-01-21 – 1966-05-07 (57 years old)

Acclaimed working-class author and communist labor organizer whose explosive 1941 novel 'Mamita Yunai' exposed the brutal exploitation of United Fruit Company banana workers in Central America.

San José, Costa Rica

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Shaikh Abdullah bin Isa Al Khalifa

عبدالله بن عيسى آل خليفة

Bahrain

1883-01-01 – 1966-04-23 (83 years old)

Visionary statesman and educator who served as President of the Education Council, founded Al-Hidaya Al-Khalifia School in 1919, and represented Bahrain at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

Riffa, Bahrain

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Arts & Music

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Nandalal Bose

নন্দলাল বসু

India

1882 – 1966 (83 years old)

Pioneering modern Indian artist who decorated the original manuscript of the Constitution of India and created the iconic linocut of Mahatma Gandhi on the Dandi Salt March.

Santiniketan (West Bengal), India

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Arts & Music

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Carlo Carrà

Carlo Dalmazzo Carrà

Italy

1881 – 1966 (85 years old)

Italian painter who was a leading figure of Italian Futurism before joining Giorgio de Chirico to pioneer Metaphysical painting and a monumental classical revival.

Milan, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Sutan Sjahrir

Sutan Sjahrir

Indonesia

1909 – 1966 (57 years old)

First Prime Minister of independent Indonesia (1945–1947), intellectual leader of the underground anti-fascist resistance during the Japanese occupation, who secured international diplomatic recognition for the young republic at the United Nations.

Jakarta, Indonesia

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Literature & Poetry

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Anna Akhmatova

Анна Андреевна Ахматова

Russia

1889 – 1966 (76 years old)

Supreme Russian modernist poet of the Silver Age and leader of Acmeism whose poem Requiem bore witness to the terror of Stalin's Great Purge.

Komarovo (Saint Petersburg), Russia

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Arts & Music

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Gino Severini

Gino Severini

Italy

1883 – 1966 (82 years old)

Italian artist who connected Paris Cubism with Italian Futurism, famous for kaleidoscopic nightclub dancers, fractured war trains, and later classical frescoes.

Paris, France

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

Chester William Nimitz

United States

1885 – 1966 (80 years old)

Fleet Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet who orchestrated the victory at Midway and directed the Central Pacific drive to victory in WWII.

San Bruno (California), United States

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Sciences & Discovery

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Homi Jehangir Bhabha

होमी जहांगीर भाभा

India

1909 – 1966 (56 years old)

Indian nuclear physicist widely acclaimed as the father of the Indian nuclear program, who formulated India's three-stage nuclear power strategy and founded TIFR.

Chamonix, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

India

1909 – 1966 (56 years old)

Visionary Indian nuclear physicist acclaimed as the 'Father of the Indian Nuclear Programme', who formulated the relativistic electron-positron scattering formula (Bhabha Scattering) and designed India's three-stage nuclear power strategy.

Chamonix (Haute-Savoie), France

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Politics

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Festus Okotie-Eboh

Festus Samuel Okotie-Eboh

Nigeria

1912-07-18 – 1966-01-15 (53 years old)

Flamboyant and influential Federal Minister of Finance of Nigeria's First Republic who established the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

Sapele, Nigeria

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