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Zizinho
Sports & Athletics
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,750

Zizinho

Thomaz Soares da Silva
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
14 September 1921 โ€“ 8 February 2002 (80 years old)

Thomaz Soares da Silva, celebrated as Zizinho or 'Mestre Ziza', was the preeminent Brazilian football idol of the 1940s and 1950s, universally cited by Pelรฉ as his childhood inspiration and the greatest player he ever saw. Renowned for his exquisite passing, two-footed dribbling, and tactical mastery, he was voted the Best Player of the 1950 World Cup.

Niterรณi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vava
Sports & Athletics
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Vava

Edvaldo Izidio Neto
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
1934 โ€“ 2002 (67 years old)

Two-time FIFA World Cup champion striker 'Peito de Aco' (Steel Chest) who scored in two different World Cup finals (1958 and 1962), a feat shared only with Pele, Paul Breitner, Zinedine Zidane, and Kylian Mbappe.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nikolay Basov
Sciences & Discovery
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Nikolay Basov

ะะธะบะพะปะฐะน ะ“ะตะฝะฝะฐะดะธะตะฒะธั‡ ะ‘ะฐัะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Soviet Union
1922 โ€“ 2001 (78 years old)

Soviet physicist who co-invented the maser and laser principles through quantum electronics, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Aleksandr Prokhorov and Charles Townes.

Moscow, Russia
Didi
Sports & Athletics
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,940

Didi

Valdir Pereira
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
8 October 1928 โ€“ 12 May 2001 (72 years old)

Valdir Pereira, known to football history as Didi, was the majestic cerebral playmaker who served as the midfield architect of Brazil's back-to-back World Cup victories in 1958 and 1962. Voted the Best Player of the 1958 World Cup ahead of teenage Pelรฉ, he invented the famous 'folha seca' (dry leaf) curving dipping free-kick technique that baffled goalkeepers worldwide.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Claude Shannon
Sciences & Discovery
17
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 985

Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
30 April 1916 โ€“ 24 February 2001 (84 years old)

American mathematician and engineer who unified Boolean algebra with electrical circuits to create digital circuit design, and single-handedly founded mathematical Information Theory and the 'bit'.

Medford (Massachusetts), United States
Emil Zรกtopek
Sports & Athletics
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,890

Emil Zรกtopek

Emil Zรกtopek
๐ŸŒ Czechoslovakia
19 September 1922 โ€“ 22 November 2000 (78 years old)

Emil Zรกtopek was a legendary Czechoslovak long-distance runner whose astonishing triple gold medal triumph at the 1952 Helsinki Olympicsโ€”winning the 5,000m, 10,000m, and the Marathon in his first-ever attempt at the distanceโ€”remains an unmatched feat in Olympic history. Known as 'The Czech Locomotive' for his pained grimacing style, he pioneered modern interval training.

Prague, Czech Republic
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Statesmanship & Statesmen
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

เทƒเท’เถปเท’เถธเทเท€เท เถปเถญเทŠเท€เถญเทŠเถญเทš เถฉเถบเทƒเทŠ เถถเถซเทŠเถฉเทเถปเถฑเทเถบเถš
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐ British Ceylon
1916 โ€“ 2000 (84 years old)

Sri Lankan statesman who made world history on July 21, 1960, by becoming the first democratically elected female prime minister in modern world history, serving three terms.

Nittambuwa, Sri Lanka
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