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Lorenzo Servitje
Humanitarian & Peace
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Lorenzo Servitje

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
c. 1919 โ€“ 2017 (98 years old)

Lorenzo Servitje Sendra, was a Mexican accountant and businessman, who co-founded Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest bakery company, in 1945 with four partners, Jaime Jorba, Jaime Sendra, Alfonso Velasco and Josรฉ T. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Mexico City, Mexico
Buchi Emecheta
Literature & Poetry
37
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Buchi Emecheta

Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria
1944 โ€“ 2017 (72 years old)

Nigerian-born British novelist celebrated for The Joys of Motherhood, Second Class Citizen, and The Bride Price, whose fiction dissected the double burdens of colonial racism and patriarchal traditions.

East Finchley (London), United Kingdom
Emma Tennant
Literature & Poetry
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Emma Tennant

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
c. 1938 โ€“ 2017 (79 years old)

Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

London, United Kingdom
Eddie Long
Humanitarian & Peace
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Eddie Long

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
c. 1954 โ€“ 2017 (63 years old)

Eddie Lee Long was an American pastor who served as the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Washington, D.C., United States
Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai
Literature & Poetry
24
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Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
c. 1918 โ€“ 2017 (99 years old)

Partaw-i Shah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hubb-i 'Ali Hunzai, known also as 'Allamah Hunzai,, 'Allamah Sahib, or by his epithets, Baba-yi Burushaski, Lisan al-Qawm and Hakim al-Qalam, was a 20th and 21st century theologian, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar, poet and linguist known for his work on Islamic theology, metaphysics, hermeneutics, poetry and the Burushaski language. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to literature.

Geneva, Switzerland
James Fairfax
Humanitarian & Peace
25
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James Fairfax

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia
c. 1934 โ€“ 2017 (83 years old)

James Oswald Fairfax was an Australian company director, philanthropist, and a member of the Fairfax family, an Australian family prominent in the newspaper publisher industry.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Canberra, Australia
Henry Foner
Resistance & Human Rights
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Henry Foner

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
c. 1920 โ€“ 2017 (97 years old)

Henry Joseph Foner was a 20th-century Jewish-American social activist and president for more than two decades of the Joint Board, Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union (FLM).. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to resistance.

Washington, D.C., United States
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