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Andrei Sakharov
Resistance & Human Rights
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,420

Andrei Sakharov

ะะฝะดั€ะตะน ะ”ะผะธั‚ั€ะธะตะฒะธั‡ ะกะฐั…ะฐั€ะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
21 May 1921 โ€“ 14 December 1989 (68 years old)

Andrei Sakharov was a brilliant Soviet theoretical nuclear physicist and key developer of the Soviet thermonuclear weapon (RDS-37), who underwent a profound ethical transformation to become the USSR's most prominent civil rights dissident. Awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his relentless defense of political prisoners, intellectual freedom, and nuclear disarmament, he was exiled to Gorky for speaking out against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan before being rehabilitated under Perestroika.

Moscow, Russia
Hassan Fathy
Sciences & Discovery
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Hassan Fathy

ุญุณู† ูุชุญูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1900 โ€“ 1989 (89 years old)

Visionary Egyptian architect and pioneer of sustainable vernacular architecture who rejected Western concrete boxes in favor of indigenous mud-brick (adobe), Nubian vaults, and passive solar cooling, author of 'Architecture for the Poor'.

Cairo, Egypt
Ignacio Ellacurรญa
Resistance & Human Rights
13
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,040

Ignacio Ellacurรญa

Ignacio Ellacurรญa Beascoechea
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
9 November 1930 โ€“ 16 November 1989 (59 years old)

Ignacio Ellacurรญa was a brilliant Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and Rector of the Central American University (UCA) who developed the 'philosophy of liberation' and relentlessly championed a negotiated peace to end the Salvadoran Civil War. Targeted for his defense of the poor and condemnation of military atrocities, he was massacred alongside five fellow Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter by the US-trained Atlacatl Battalion in November 1989.

San Salvador, El Salvador
Kateb Yacine
Literature & Poetry
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Kateb Yacine

ูƒุงุชุจ ูŠุงุณูŠู†
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1929 โ€“ 1989 (60 years old)

Algerian literary giant who revolutionized modern Maghrebi literature with his polyphonic masterpiece 'Nedjma' (1956) and pioneered revolutionary popular street theater in Algerian Arabic and Amazigh.

Algiers, Algeria
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sports & Athletics
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 3,050

Sugar Ray Robinson

Walker Smith Jr.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
3 May 1921 โ€“ 12 April 1989 (67 years old)

Sugar Ray Robinson is widely considered by boxing historians and fellow fighters to be the greatest all-around boxer of all time, for whom the concept of 'pound-for-pound' was originally coined. Over a 25-year career spanning 200 professional fights (174 wins, 109 knockouts), he compiled a staggering 91-fight unbeaten streak and became the first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times.

Los Angeles, California, United States
Mouloud Mammeri
Literature & Poetry
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mouloud Mammeri

ู…ูˆู„ูˆุฏ ู…ุนู…ุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1917 โ€“ 1989 (71 years old)

Eminent Algerian anthropologist, linguist, and author of 'The Opium and the Stick', whose pioneering codification of Tamazight grammar and Kabyle poetry sparked the Berber Spring of 1980.

Beni Yenni (Tizi Ouzou), Algeria
Roy Eldridge
Arts & Music
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Roy Eldridge

David Roy Eldridge
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1911 โ€“ 1989 (78 years old)

American jazz trumpet virtuoso known as 'Little Jazz', whose blistering upper-register fireworks and harmonic daring served as the vital bridge between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie.

Valley Stream, United States
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalรญ i Domรจnech, 1st Marquess of Dalรญ de Pรบbol
Arts & Music
13
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalรญ i Domรจnech, 1st Marquess of Dalรญ de Pรบbol

Salvador Dalรญ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
11 May 1904 โ€“ 23 January 1989 (84 years old)

Legendary Spanish surrealist painter whose flamboyant theatricality, flawless technical draftsmanship, and hallucinatory dreamscapesโ€”like The Persistence of Memory and melting watchesโ€”made him one of the 20th century's most indelible icons.

Figueres (Catalonia), Spain
Luis Barragan
Arts & Music
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Luis Barragan

Luis Ramiro Barragรกn Morfรญn
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1902 โ€“ 1988 (86 years old)

Mexican architect who won the 1980 Pritzker Architecture Prize, world-famous for his poetic emotional architecture utilizing vivid color walls, tranquil water features, and dramatic sunlight.

Mexico City, Mexico
Kid Chocolate
Sports & Athletics
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,950

Kid Chocolate

Eligio Sardiรฑas Montalvo
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บ Cuba
6 January 1910 โ€“ 8 August 1988 (78 years old)

Eligio Sardiรฑas Montalvo, universally celebrated as Kid Chocolate, was Cuba's first-ever world boxing champion and one of the most stylish, graceful, and dazzling pugilists of the twentieth century. Reining as World Junior Lightweight and Featherweight Champion in the 1930s, his sublime footwork, feints, and hand speed inspired Sugar Ray Robinson, who openly adopted Chocolate's rhythmic boxing style.

Havana, Cuba
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