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Fanny Blankers-Koen
Sports & Athletics
9
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Fanny Blankers-Koen

Francina Elsje Blankers-Koen
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
26 April 1918 โ€“ 25 January 2004 (85 years old)

Francina 'Fanny' Blankers-Koen, 'The Flying Housewife', was an iconic Dutch athlete who shattered gender stereotypes by winning four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympic Games as a 30-year-old mother of two. Named 'Female Athlete of the Century' by the IAAF in 1999, she set 12 world records across sprinting, hurdles, long jump, and high jump.

Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
Otto Graham
Sports & Athletics
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,050

Otto Graham

Otto Everett Graham Jr.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
6 December 1921 โ€“ 17 December 2003 (82 years old)

Otto Everett Graham Jr., 'Automatic Otto', is regarded as the most successful championship quarterback in American football history, having led the Cleveland Browns to the league championship game in all ten seasons of his professional career (1946โ€“1955), winning seven titles (four AAFC and three NFL). He still holds the all-time NFL record for career yards per pass attempt (8.63).

Sarasota, Florida, United States
Mohamed Choukri
Literature & Poetry
6
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Mohamed Choukri

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุดูƒุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1935 โ€“ 2003 (68 years old)

Rifian Moroccan literary icon who grew up illiterate on the streets of Tangier, learned to read and write at age twenty in prison, and authored the raw international autobiographical masterpiece 'For Bread Alone' (Al-Khubz al-Hafi).

Tangier, Morocco
Lรกszlรณ Papp
Sports & Athletics
11
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Lรกszlรณ Papp

Papp Lรกszlรณ
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ Hungary
25 March 1926 โ€“ 16 October 2003 (77 years old)

Lรกszlรณ Papp was an extraordinary Hungarian southpaw boxer who became the first man in the history of the Olympic Games to win three consecutive Olympic boxing gold medals (London 1948, Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956). Later permitted by the communist government to turn professional in Vienna, he captured the European middleweight title and retired undefeated as a pro (27-0-2).

Budapest, Hungary
Moktar Ould Daddah
Statesmanship & Statesmen
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Moktar Ould Daddah

ุงู„ู…ุฎุชุงุฑ ูˆู„ุฏ ุฏุงุฏุงู‡
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania
1924 โ€“ 2003 (78 years old)

First President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960โ€“1978) who built the national capital of Nouakchott from the desert sands, united Arab-Berber and Afro-Mauritanian populations, and established national currency (Ouguiya).

Boutilimit, Mauritania
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
Humanitarian & Peace
10
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Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

ุตุฏุฑ ุงู„ุฏูŠู† ุขุบุง ุฎุงู†
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1933 โ€“ 2003 (70 years old)

Haut-Commissaire des Nations unies pour les rรฉfugiรฉs de 1966 ร  1977, qui transforma le HCR en une agence mondiale secourant des millions de rรฉfugiรฉs en Asie, Afrique et Amรฉrique latine.

Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland
Mohammed Dib
Literature & Poetry
6
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Mohammed Dib

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุฏูŠุจ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1920 โ€“ 2003 (82 years old)

One of Algeria's most prolific and poetic writers, whose realist 'Algerian Trilogy' (La Grande Maison, L'Incendie, Le Mรฉtier ร  tisser) exposed the raw social misery and peasant awakening under colonial rule.

Yvelines, France
Bernard Katz
Sciences & Discovery
4
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Bernard Katz

Sir Bernard Katz
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช German Empire
1911 โ€“ 2003 (92 years old)

German-born British biophysicist who was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering that neurotransmitters are released at synapses in discrete packets or 'quanta' via calcium-mediated synaptic vesicles.

London, United Kingdom
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