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รngel Sanz Briz
Humanitarian & Peace
6
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รngel Sanz Briz

รngel Sanz Briz
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
28 September 1910 โ€“ 11 June 1980 (69 years old)

รngel Sanz Briz was a Spanish diplomat who served as Chargรฉ d'Affaires in Budapest during World War II. Appalled by the Holocaust unfolding around him, he exploited an archaic 1924 Spanish royal decree to issue protective passports to Hungarian Jews, multiplying Spanish-protected safe houses and saving more than 5,200 Jews from deportation to Auschwitz.

Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
Aleksandr Oparin
Sciences & Discovery
2
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Aleksandr Oparin

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russian Empire
1894 โ€“ 1980 (86 years old)

Russian biochemist who proposed the foundational 'primordial soup' theory of the origin of life, postulating that organic molecules arose abiogenetically under early Earth's reducing atmosphere.

Moscow, Russia
Jesse Owens
Sports & Athletics
43
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 3,850

Jesse Owens

James Cleveland Owens
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
12 September 1913 โ€“ 31 March 1980 (66 years old)

Jesse Owens was a legendary American track and field icon whose four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games single-handedly shattered Adolf Hitler's Nazi myth of Aryan racial supremacy. The grandson of slaves who set three world records in 45 minutes as an Ohio State student in 1935, his triumphs in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, and long jump stand as an eternal monument to human equality.

Tucson, Arizona, United States
ร“scar Romero
Resistance & Human Rights
7
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ร“scar Romero

ร“scar Arnulfo Romero y Galdรกmez
๐ŸŒ El Salvador
15 August 1917 โ€“ 24 March 2020 (62 years old)

Saint ร“scar Romero was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador who became the world's most eloquent 'voice of the voiceless' by defending impoverished peasants and exposing death-squad assassinations, torture, and state repression during El Salvador's descent into civil war. Assassinated at the altar while celebrating Holy Mass in March 1980, he was canonized by Pope Francis in 2018 as a universal beacon of human dignity.

San Salvador, El Salvador
Mohammad Hatta
Statesmanship & Statesmen
1
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Mohammad Hatta

Mohammad Hatta (Bung Hatta)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Dutch East Indies
1902 โ€“ 1980 (77 years old)

Founding Father and first Vice President of Indonesia 'Bung Hatta' who co-proclaimed Indonesian independence alongside Sukarno on August 17, 1945, led the delegation to the 1949 Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference, and founded the Indonesian cooperative economic movement.

Jakarta, Indonesia
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