Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Junichiro Tanizaki

谷崎潤一郎

Japan

1886 – 1965 (79 years old)

Japanese novelist celebrated for The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, and In Praise of Shadows, master of traditional Japanese aesthetics and subtle erotic obsessions.

Kyoto, Japan

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Syngman Rhee

이승만 / 李承晚

South Korea

1875 – 1965 (90 years old)

First President of South Korea who led the Republic of Korea through the Korean War and secured the US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty.

Seoul, South Korea

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Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II

United States

1900 – 1965 (65 years old)

Governor of Illinois, two-time Democratic presidential nominee, and US Ambassador to the UN who dramatically confronted the Soviets with U-2 spy photos during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Bloomington, Illinois, United States

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Ludwik Witold Rajchman

Poland

1881 – 1965 (83 years old)

Médecin et bactériologiste polonais, directeur de la santé à la Société des Nations et premier inspirateur et fondateur de l'UNICEF en 1946.

Chenu, Sarthe, France

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Irene Parlby

Mary Irene Marryat Parlby

Great Britain

1868 – 1965 (97 years old)

Aristocratic English immigrant who became president of the United Farm Women of Alberta, the second female cabinet minister in the British Empire, and a signatory of the historic Persons Case petition.

Alix (Alberta), Canada

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Bernard Mannes Baruch

Bernard Baruch

United States

1870 – 1965 (94 years old)

Financier américain et conseiller de sept présidents, auteur du Plan Baruch en 1946 proposant le contrôle international complet et l'interdiction de l'arme atomique.

Flushing, Queens, New York, United States

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Science

James Collip

Canada

20 November 1892 – 19 June 1965 (72 years old)

Eminent Canadian biochemist whose chemical expertise purified pancreatic extracts, making insulin safe for human clinical administration in 1922.

London, Canada

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Philosophy & Thought

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Religious Figures & Theologians

Martin Buber

מרטיን בובר

Austria

1878 – 1965 (87 years old)

Jewish-Austrian philosopher whose 1923 existential masterpiece I and Thou founded dialogical personalism, contrasting authentic human communion (I-Thou) with utilitarian objectification (I-It).

Jerusalem, Israel

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Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi

محمد البشير الإبراهيمي

Algeria

1889 – 1965 (75 years old)

Towering linguistic master of Arabic prose and second president of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema, who championed national sovereignty and Arab-Islamic heritage against colonial acculturation.

Algiers, Algeria

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Mary Breckinridge

United States

1881 – 1965 (84 years old)

Visionary founder of the Frontier Nursing Service who brought modern nurse-midwifery on horseback to remote Appalachian communities, drastically reducing infant mortality.

Lexington, United States

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Frances Perkins (née Fannie Coralie Perkins)

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Frances Perkins (née Fannie Coralie Perkins)

Frances Perkins

United States

1880 – 1965 (85 years old)

Première femme ministre aux États-Unis (secrétaire au Travail de FDR), architecte sociale du New Deal, créatrice de la Sécurité sociale et du salaire minimum.

Newcastle, Maine, United States

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I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson

Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson

Sierra Leone

1894-02-06 – 1965-05-10 (71 years old)

Militant Pan-Africanist organizer, journalist, and trade unionist who established the West African Youth League and mobilized mass anti-colonial consciousness across West Africa.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

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Sciences & Discovery

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Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena

Guillermo González Camarena

Mexico

1917 – 1965 (48 years old)

Mexican electrical engineer who invented the chromoscopic adapter for television equipment in 1940, creating an early color television transmission system later adopted by NASA on Voyager missions.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Muhammad Mahmud al-Zubayri

محمد محمود الزبيري

Yemen

1910 – 1 April 1965 (55 years old)

Revered as the 'Father of the Yemeni Revolution', visionary poet and statesman who led the struggle against the reactionary Mutawakkilite Imamate.

Sana'a, Yemen

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King Farouk of Egypt

فاروق الأول

Egypt

February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965 (45 years old)

Last reigning King of Egypt and the Sudan (reigned 1936-1952) whose glamorous yet tumultuous reign witnessed World War II, the Abdeen Palace incident of 1942, and the 1952 Free Officers Revolution.

Cairo, Egypt

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