Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Primo Levi

Primo Michele Levi

Italy

31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987 (67 years old)

Italian chemist, anti-fascist partisan, and Auschwitz survivor whose lucidity in If This Is a Man and The Drowned and the Saved provided humanity's supreme philosophical and moral analysis of the concentration camp universe.

Turin, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Henri Jean Cochet

France

1901 – 1987 (85 years old)

French tennis player, world No. 1 from 1928 to 1931, seven-time Grand Slam singles champion celebrated for his effortless half-volley mastery.

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

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Sciences & Discovery

2,931

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Louis de Broglie

Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie

France

1892 – 1987 (94 years old)

French aristocratic physicist who discovered the wave nature of matter, founding wave mechanics.

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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Arts & Music

3,475

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Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola

United States

1928 – 1987 (58 years old)

American Pop Art icon whose silk-screens of Campbell's soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, and consumer culture redefined the boundaries of art.

Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, United States

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Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton

Maurice Harold Macmillan

United Kingdom

1894 – 1986 (92 years old)

British Conservative Prime Minister who restored British prosperity ('You've never had it so good'), delivered the 'Wind of Change' speech, and rebuilt the Special Relationship with the US.

Horsted Keynes (West Sussex), United Kingdom

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Ella Baker

Ella Josephine Baker

United States

13 December 1903 – 13 December 1986 (83 years old)

Visionary African American civil rights and human rights activist who served as a primary strategist of the modern movement, mentoring young organizers and nurturing the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

New York City, New York, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Resistance & Human Rights

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Samora Machel

Samora Moisés Machel

Mozambique

1933-09-29 – 1986-10-19 (53 years old)

Founding President of Mozambique who stood as an uncompromising bulwark against the white-minority regimes of Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa.

Mbuzini, Lebombo Mountains, South Africa

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Arts & Music

3,355

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore

United Kingdom

1898 – 1986 (88 years old)

English sculptor renowned for his monumental undulating bronze figures of reclining women and mother-and-child motifs.

Perry Green, Much Hadham, United Kingdom

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Chiune Sugihara

杉原千畝

Japan

1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986 (86 years old)

Japanese vice-consul in Lithuania who defied direct orders from Tokyo to handwrite thousands of transit visas, saving more than 6,000 Polish and Lithuanian Jews from Nazi extermination.

Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Coluche (Michel Colucci)

Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci

France

28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986 (41 years old)

Michel Colucci, known as Coluche, was a beloved French satirical comedian and actor who won the César Award for Best Actor in 1984. In September 1985, outraged by European agricultural surpluses coexisting with domestic hunger, Coluche launched 'Les Restos du Cœur' (Restaurants of the Heart), a nationwide volunteer network providing millions of free meals to the impoverished.

Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo

Literature & Poetry

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentina

24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986 (86 years old)

Argentine literary wizard whose metaphysical labyrinths, infinite libraries, and philosophical parables in Ficciones (The Library of Babel, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius) and El Aleph revolutionized postmodern world literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Namgyal Wangdi (Tenzing Norgay)

བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས

Nepal

circa – 1986 (71 years old)

Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, became the first individual confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Darjeeling, India

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Henri Pauli Toivonen

Finland

1956 – 1986 (29 years old)

Finnish rally driver, celebrated as one of the fastest and most thrilling talents of the legendary and ferocious Group B rally era.

Corte, France

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Arts & Music

Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

United States

15 November 1887 – 6 March 1986 (98 years old)

Iconic American modernist painter renowned for her revolutionary close-up paintings of enlarged flowers, soaring New York skyscrapers, and evocative desert landscapes of Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

Santa Fe (New Mexico), United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Ding Ling

丁玲

Qing Empire

1904 – 1986 (81 years old)

Chinese modernist and feminist writer who shocked readers with Miss Sophia's Diary in 1928 and won the 1951 Stalin Prize for The Sun Shines Over the Sanggan River.

Beijing, China

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Olof Palme

Sven Olof Joachim Palme

Sweden

1927-01-30 – 1986-02-28 (59 years old)

Global moral champion of international peace, nuclear disarmament, and self-determination for developing nations; expanded the world-famous Swedish welfare state.

Stockholm, Sweden

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