Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Remedios Varo

María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga

Spain

1908 – 1963 (54 years old)

Spanish-Mexican Surrealist master celebrated for her jewel-like, intricately rendered paintings uniting medieval alchemy, sacred geometry, astronomy, and mystic journeying.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Robert Schuman

Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman

Luxembourg

1886-06-29 – 1963-09-04 (77 years old)

Founding Father of the European Union; created the supranational architecture that made war between France and Germany materially impossible.

Scy-Chazelles, Moselle, France

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Art

Georges Braque

France

1882 – 1963 (81 years old)

Towering French twentieth-century painter who co-founded Cubism alongside Pablo Picasso between 1908 and 1914, invented the technique of papier collé (collage), and painted the celebrated Birds ceiling in the Louvre.

Varengeville-sur-Mer (Seine-Maritime), France

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

United States

23 February 1868 – 27 August 1963 (95 years old)

Preeminent African American sociologist, historian, and civil rights pioneer who co-founded the NAACP, edited The Crisis, and authored the monumental masterwork The Souls of Black Folk.

Accra, Ghana

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Politics

Cissie Gool

Zainunnisa Gool

South Africa

1897-11-06 – 1963-07-01 (65 years old)

Pioneering Cape Town political titan known as the 'Jewel of District Six', the first Black woman in South Africa to earn a law degree and first Black woman elected to the City Council.

Cape Town, South Africa

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Politics

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha

أحمد حلمي عبد الباقي

Lebanon

1883 – 29 June 1963 (80 years old)

Prime Minister of the All-Palestine Government proclaimed in Gaza in 1948 and founder of the Arab Bank and the National Bank of Palestine.

Jerusalem, Palestine

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Medgar Evers

Medgar Wiley Evers

United States

2 July 1925 – 12 June 1963 (37 years old)

American civil rights activist and World War II veteran who served as the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, assassinated by a white supremacist outside his home hours after President Kennedy's civil rights address.

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

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Philosophy & Thought

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Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid

أحمد لطفي السيد

Egypt

1872 – 1963 (91 years old)

Titan of modern Arab political philosophy known as 'Ustadh al-Jil' (The Teacher of the Generation), founding rector of Cairo University who translated Aristotle into Arabic and championed secular constitutionalism.

Cairo, Egypt

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Ahmed Lutfi al-Sayyid

أحمد لطفي السيد

Egypt

1872 – 1963 (91 years old)

Venerated as the 'Professor of the Generation' (Ustadh al-Jil), he was the intellectual architect of liberal Egyptian nationalism, first rector of Cairo University, and translator of Aristotle.

Cairo, Egypt

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Music

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Bobby Jaspar

Robert L. Jaspar

Belgium

1926 – 1963 (37 years old)

Brilliant Belgian cool jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist who conquered the Parisian jazz scene with Chet Baker and moved to New York in 1956, playing with Miles Davis, Donald Byrd, and J.J. Johnson.

Hartsdale (New York), United States

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Rajendra Prasad

डॉ. राजेंद्र प्रसाद

India

1884 – 1963 (78 years old)

First President of the Republic of India and President of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the Constitution of India, who served for twelve years setting the democratic conventions of the presidency.

Patna (Bihar), India

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Music

Benny Moré

Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez

Cuba

1919-08-24 – 1963-02-19 (43 years old)

Greatest and most beloved popular singer in Cuban history, 'El Bárbaro del Ritmo', whose phenomenal natural vocal range, charisma, and 21-piece Banda Gigante defined the golden age of mambo, bolero, and son.

Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cienfuegos, Cuba

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Politics

Abd al-Karim Qasim

عبد الكريم قاسم

Iraq

21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963 (48 years old)

Nationalist leader who overthrew the Hashemite monarchy in the 14 July 1958 revolution to establish the Republic of Iraq.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi

محمد بن عبد الكريم الخطابي

Morocco

1882 – 1963 (81 years old)

Legendary Amazigh leader of the Rif Republic who routed the Spanish imperial army at the Battle of Annual (1921), pioneering modern guerrilla mobile tactics studied by Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara.

Cairo, Egypt

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Abdelkrim al-Khattabi

محمد بن عبد الكريم الخطابي

Morocco

c. 1882 – 1963 (81 years old)

Visionary Moroccan Amazigh resistance leader who crushed Spanish imperial armies at the Battle of Annual in 1921, founded the Republic of the Rif, and pioneered modern mobile guerrilla warfare tactics studied by Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara.

Cairo, Egypt

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Art