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Paul Grรผninger
Humanitarian & Peace
7
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Paul Grรผninger

Paul Grรผninger
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
27 October 1891 โ€“ 22 February 1972 (80 years old)

Paul Grรผninger was a Swiss police commander in the Canton of St. Gallen who saved approximately 3,600 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria following the 1938 Anschluss. Defying strict Swiss federal orders to close the border, Grรผninger falsified entry dates and documents to grant refugees legal status, sacrificing his career, pension, and reputation in poverty before posthumous rehabilitation.

St. Gallen, Switzerland
Vikram Sarabhai
Sciences & Discovery
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Vikram Sarabhai

Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1919 โ€“ 1971 (52 years old)

Visionary Indian physicist and industrialist recognized as the 'Father of the Indian Space Programme', who founded the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and launched satellite television education for rural villages.

Ahmedabad (Gujarat), India
Pedro Rodriguez
Sports & Athletics
2
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Pedro Rodriguez

Pedro Rodriguez de la Vega
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1940 โ€“ 1971 (31 years old)

Mexico's greatest racing driver, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, two Formula One Grands Prix, and multiple World Sportscar Championships in the Gulf-Porsche 917, celebrated as the peerless rainmaster of his generation.

Mexico City, Mexico
Louis Daniel Armstrong
Arts & Music
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 995

Louis Daniel Armstrong

Louis Armstrong
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
4 August 1901 โ€“ 6 July 1971 (69 years old)

Founding father of jazz whose brilliant cornet/trumpet virtuosity, rhythmic swing, gravelly baritone vocals, and joyful charisma transformed jazz from collective folk improvisation into an individual soloist's art in West End Blues and What a Wonderful World.

Queens (New York City), United States
Igor Tamm
Sciences & Discovery
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Igor Tamm

ะ˜ะณะพั€ัŒ ะ•ะฒะณะตะฝัŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะขะฐะผะผ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russian Empire
1895 โ€“ 1971 (75 years old)

Soviet theoretical physicist who co-developed the electrodynamic theory of Cherenkov radiation and co-invented the Tokamak magnetic fusion confinement system with Andrei Sakharov.

Moscow, Russia
Jilali Gharbaoui
Arts & Music
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Jilali Gharbaoui

ุงู„ุฌูŠู„ุงู„ูŠ ุงู„ุบุฑุจุงูˆูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1930 โ€“ 1971 (41 years old)

Tragic genius celebrated as Morocco's first purely non-figurative abstract painter, whose electrifying gestural brushstrokes and violent search for light anticipated European Informel painting.

Fez, Morocco
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Arts & Music
15
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 960

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

ะ˜ะณะพั€ัŒ ะคั‘ะดะพั€ะพะฒะธั‡ ะกั‚ั€ะฐะฒะธะฝัะบะธะน
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
17 June 1882 โ€“ 6 April 1971 (88 years old)

Russian-born composer whose groundbreaking ballets for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russesโ€”The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Springโ€”exploded traditional rhythm and harmony, redefining 20th-century music.

New York City, United States
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