Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Statesmanship & Statesmen

Junichiro Tanizaki

谷崎潤一郎

Japan

1886 – 1965 (79 years old)

Japanese novelist celebrated for The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, and In Praise of Shadows, master of traditional Japanese aesthetics and subtle erotic obsessions.

Kyoto, Japan

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Syngman Rhee

이승만 / 李承晚

Joseon Korea

1875 – 1965 (90 years old)

First President of South Korea who led the Republic of Korea through the Korean War and secured the US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty.

Seoul, South Korea

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Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II

United States

1900 – 1965 (65 years old)

Governor of Illinois, two-time Democratic presidential nominee, and US Ambassador to the UN who dramatically confronted the Soviets with U-2 spy photos during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Bloomington, Illinois, United States

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Ludwik Witold Rajchman

Poland

1881 – 1965 (83 years old)

Médecin et bactériologiste polonais, directeur de la santé à la Société des Nations et premier inspirateur et fondateur de l'UNICEF en 1946.

Chenu, Sarthe, France

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Bernard Mannes Baruch

Bernard Baruch

United States

1870 – 1965 (94 years old)

Financier américain et conseiller de sept présidents, auteur du Plan Baruch en 1946 proposant le contrôle international complet et l'interdiction de l'arme atomique.

Flushing, Queens, New York, United States

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Philosophy & Thought

Martin Buber

מרטיን בובר

Austria-Hungary

1878 – 1965 (87 years old)

Jewish-Austrian philosopher whose 1923 existential masterpiece I and Thou founded dialogical personalism, contrasting authentic human communion (I-Thou) with utilitarian objectification (I-It).

Jerusalem, Israel

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Mary Breckinridge

United States

1881 – 1965 (84 years old)

Visionary founder of the Frontier Nursing Service who brought modern nurse-midwifery on horseback to remote Appalachian communities, drastically reducing infant mortality.

Lexington, United States

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Frances Perkins (née Fannie Coralie Perkins)

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Frances Perkins (née Fannie Coralie Perkins)

Frances Perkins

United States

1880 – 1965 (85 years old)

Première femme ministre aux États-Unis (secrétaire au Travail de FDR), architecte sociale du New Deal, créatrice de la Sécurité sociale et du salaire minimum.

Newcastle, Maine, United States

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Sciences & Discovery

Resistance & Human Rights

Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena

Guillermo González Camarena

Mexico

1917 – 1965 (48 years old)

Mexican electrical engineer who invented the chromoscopic adapter for television equipment in 1940, creating an early color television transmission system later adopted by NASA on Voyager missions.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Malcolm X

Malcolm Little (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)

United States

19 May 1925 – 21 February 1965 (39 years old)

Electrifying African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who championed Black empowerment, international anti-imperialist solidarity, and the fundamental right to self-defense.

Hartsdale, New York, United States

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Great Britain

1874-11-30 – 1965-01-24 (90 years old)

Rallied the British Empire and the free world when standing alone against Nazi hegemony, cementing Allied victory and warning of the Soviet 'Iron Curtain'.

London, Great Britain

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Maurice Pate

United States

1894 – 1965 (70 years old)

Premier directeur exécutif de l'UNICEF (1947-1965), qui exigea que l'agence nourrisse les enfants de tous les pays sans discrimination politique, y compris ceux des anciens pays ennemis.

Centerville, Massachusetts, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Thomas Stearns Eliot

T.S. Eliot

United States

26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965 (76 years old)

Titan of 20th-century poetry and 1948 Nobel laureate whose landmark epic The Waste Land ('April is the cruellest month') and spiritual Four Quartets articulated the disillusionment, fragmentation, and redemption of the modern post-war world.

Kensington (London), Great Britain

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Literature & Poetry

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

بدر شاكر السياب

Kingdom of Iraq

1926 – 1964 (37 years old)

Iraqi poet celebrated as the father of modern Arabic free verse (shi'r hurr), whose revolutionary 1960 collection Rain Song transformed twentieth-century Arabic poetic meter and mythology.

Al-Zubayr (Basra), Iraq

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Arts & Music

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Sam Cooke

Samuel Cook

United States

1931 – 1964 (33 years old)

'King of Soul' whose golden voice, songwriting brilliance, and civil rights anthem 'A Change Is Gonna Come' shaped Black music.

Glendale, California, United States

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Sciences & Discovery