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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Mouloud Feraoun
Literature & Poetry
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Mouloud Feraoun

ู…ูˆู„ูˆุฏ ูุฑุนูˆู†
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1913 โ€“ 1962 (49 years old)

Beloved Kabyle Algerian novelist and educator who captured the dignity, poverty, and soul of Berber mountain life in 'The Poor Man's Son' (Le Fils du pauvre), murdered alongside five educator colleagues by the fascist OAS.

Tizi Hibel (Tizi Ouzou), Algeria
Otto Loewi
Sciences & Discovery
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Otto Loewi

Otto Loewi
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช German Empire
1873 โ€“ 1961 (88 years old)

German-American pharmacologist who was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Medicine for proving that nerve impulses are transmitted chemically across synapses, famously conceiving his Nobel-winning frog heart experiment in an Easter dream.

Woods Hole (Massachusetts), United States
Selim Hassan
Sciences & Discovery
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Selim Hassan

ุณู„ูŠู… ุญุณู†
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1886 โ€“ 1961 (75 years old)

Pioneering Egyptian archaeologist who became the first Egyptian professor of Egyptology at Cairo University, directed the epic excavations of the Giza Pyramids and Great Sphinx, and authored the 16-volume 'Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt'.

Cairo, Egypt
Ahmed Rafiq al-Mahdawi
Literature & Poetry
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Ahmed Rafiq al-Mahdawi

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุฑููŠู‚ ุงู„ู…ู‡ุฏูˆูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
c. 1898 โ€“ 1961 (63 years old)

Venerated national poet of Libya who wielded his verse as a weapon against Italian fascist colonialism, endured decades of exile, and championed national unity in the independent United Kingdom of Libya.

Benghazi, Libya
Cheikh Raymond
Arts & Music
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Cheikh Raymond

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ุฑูŠู…ูˆู† (ุฑูŠู…ูˆู† ู„ูŠุฑูŠุณ)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1912 โ€“ 1961 (48 years old)

Revered Algerian Jewish virtuoso of the Andalusian Malouf tradition, master of the oud, whose concert orchestra united Jewish and Muslim musicians in the shared sacred heritage of Constantine.

Constantine, Algeria
Mohammed V of Morocco
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Mohammed V of Morocco

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ุฎุงู…ุณ ุจู† ูŠูˆุณู
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Sultanate of Morocco
1909 โ€“ 1961 (51 years old)

Sultan and King of Morocco revered as the 'Father of the Nation', who heroically protected Moroccan Jews from the Vichy Nazi regime, demanded full sovereignty in the 1947 Tangier Speech, and led the Revolution of the King and the People to triumph in 1956.

Rabat, Morocco
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