Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Resistance & Human Rights

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Mohamed Chaabani

محمد شعباني

Algeria

1934 – 1964 (29 years old)

Brilliant young guerrilla strategist who succeeded Si El Haouès at age twenty-five to command Wilaya VI, liberating massive tracts of the Algerian Sahara before independence.

Algiers, Algeria

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Arts & Music

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Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl)

Gerardo Murillo Cornado

Mexico

1875 – 1964 (88 years old)

Mexican painter and volcanologist who adopted the Nahuatl name 'Dr. Atl' (Water), father of modern Mexican landscape painting and mentor to Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Literature & Poetry

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Thakin Kodaw Hmaing

သခင်ကိုယ်တော်မှိုင်း

Historical Burma

1876-03-23 – 1964-07-23 (88 years old)

Revered as 'Sayagyi' (Great Master), patriarch of 20th-century Burmese literature and intellectual mentor to Aung San whose satirical layggyo poems and peace activism won the 1954 International Stalin Peace Prize.

Yangon, Myanmar

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Arts & Music

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Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi

Italy

1890 – 1964 (73 years old)

Italian painter and printmaker celebrated for his meditative, poetic still lifes of bottles, jars, and vases, rendered with exquisite tonal subtlety and architectural balance.

Bologna, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Plaek Phibunsongkhram

แปลก พิบูลสงคราม (จอมพล ป.)

Siam

1897 – 1964 (66 years old)

Third Prime Minister of Thailand who renamed Siam to 'Thailand' in 1939, introduced national cultural mandates (including Pad Thai and Western attire), and modernized Thai national identity.

Bang Khen (Bangkok), Thailand

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Mohamed Ben Larbi Alaoui

محمد بن العربي العلوي

Morocco

1884 – 1964 (80 years old)

Venerated as the 'Shaykh al-Islam' of Morocco, this reformist scholar of the Qarawiyyin served as Minister of Justice and became the intellectual patron and protector of the Moroccan national liberation struggle.

Fez, Morocco

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Literature & Poetry

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Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Finland

1888-09-16 – 1964-06-03 (75 years old)

First Finnish author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1939) for his deep understanding of his country's peasantry and the exquisite art with which he portrayed their life and nature.

Hämeenkyrö, Finland

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Politics

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Louis Hunkanrin

Louis Laurent Hunkanrin

Benin

1886-11-25 – 1964-05-28 (77 years old)

Indomitable Dahomean nationalist and investigative journalist who exposed colonial atrocities, organized strikes, and spent over twenty-five years in colonial exile and prisons.

Porto-Novo, Benin

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Jawaharlal Nehru

जवाहरलाल नेहरू

India

1889-11-14 – 1964-05-27 (74 years old)

Architect of modern India's secular democracy, scientific institutions (IITs, atomic program), and foreign policy pioneer of the Non-Aligned Movement.

New Delhi, India

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Arts & Music

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Mikhail Larionov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov

Russia

1881 – 1964 (82 years old)

Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and scenographer who pioneered Neo-Primitivism and formulated the revolutionary Rayonist manifesto in Moscow.

Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

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Literature & Poetry

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E. J. Pratt

Ned Pratt

Canada

4 February 1882 – 26 April 1964 (82 years old)

Towering Newfoundland-born poet whose heroic epics The Titanic, Brébeuf and his Brethren, and Towards the Last Spike defined the Canadian mythos.

Toronto, Canada

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Science

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Alice Wilson

Alice Wilson

Canada

26 August 1881 – 15 April 1964 (82 years old)

Trailblazing Canadian geologist and paleontologist who mapped over 14,000 square kilometers of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence Lowlands and broke gender barriers in earth science.

Cobourg, Canada

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Sciences & Discovery

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Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson

United States

1907 – 1964 (56 years old)

American marine biologist and conservationist whose landmark book Silent Spring launched the global environmental movement.

Rockville, Maryland, United States

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Arts & Music

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Mahmoud Said

محمود سعيد

Egypt

1897 – 1964 (67 years old)

Aristocratic Egyptian judge and master painter celebrated as the 'Father of Modern Egyptian Painting', who combined European classical glazing with sensual Alexandrian Mediterranean light, author of 'The Whirling Dervishes'.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Politics

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Ernest Boka

Ernest Boka

Côte d'Ivoire

1927-12-07 – 1964-04-06 (36 years old)

Brilliant legal scholar and statesman who became Côte d'Ivoire's first Minister of National Education and first President of the Supreme Court, remembered for his judicial independence.

Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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General Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

United States

1880 – 1964 (84 years old)

Five-star General of the Army who liberated the Philippines ('I shall return'), accepted Japan's surrender on the USS Missouri, and led the Inchon landing.

Norfolk (Virginia), United States

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Art

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Kofi Antubam

Kofi Antubam

Ghana

1922-04-14 – 1964-04-03 (41 years old)

Pioneering Ghanaian modern artist and cultural theorist who served as official state artist to Kwame Nkrumah, designing the parliamentary mace, Presidential seat, and state regalia.

Accra, Ghana

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Sciences & Discovery

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Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

United States

1894 – 1964 (69 years old)

MIT mathematical child prodigy who founded cybernetics, feedback systems, and automated control theory.

Sandwich, New Hampshire, United States

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