Historical Archives & Public Figures

الطاهر الشايبي

Tunisia

1946 – 2014 (68 years old)

Affectionately revered as 'Tahartou', Chaibi was the supreme winger in the history of Club Africain, leading them to four league titles and scoring the decisive goal against Morocco in 1969.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Politics

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Herb Gray

Right Honourable Herb Gray

Canada

25 May 1931 – 21 April 2014 (82 years old)

Beloved Windsor statesman who served continuously in Parliament for nearly 40 years across thirteen consecutive election victories, serving as Deputy Prime Minister.

Ottawa, Canada

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Literature & Poetry

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Alistair MacLeod

Canada

20 July 1936 – 20 April 2014 (77 years old)

Revered Canadian author whose lyrical fiction, set among Cape Breton coal miners and Gaelic descendants, earned the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Margaree, Canada

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Sports & Athletics

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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Rubin Carter

United States

6 May 1937 – 20 April 2014 (76 years old)

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter was a fearsome American middleweight boxing contender known for his devastating power punches, who spent nineteen years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey, by an all-white jury. Vindicated and released by a federal judge in 1985, Carter became an internationally renowned human rights advocate and champion of the wrongfully convicted.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Gabo)

Literature & Poetry

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (Gabo)

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombia

6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014 (87 years old)

Preeminent titan of Latin American magical realism and 1982 Nobel laureate whose monumental epic One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) chronicled the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo and the Buendía dynasty.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Arts & Music

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Cherifa

شريفة (وردية بوشمل)

Algeria

1926 – 2014 (88 years old)

Pioneering Algerian singer and composer who revolutionized female Berber vocal music in the 1940s, authoring the timeless classic 'Abeḥri' and preserving the ancestral Achwiq oral tradition.

Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria

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Cinema

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Alain Resnais

Alain Pierre Marie Jean Georges Resnais

France

1922 – 2014 (91 years old)

Visionary French filmmaker and cornerstone of the Left Bank cinema group whose Holocaust documentary Nuit et Brouillard (1956) and modern classics Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad revolutionized cinematic memory.

Paris, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Eckart Höfling

Germany

c. 1937 – 2014 (77 years old)

Eckart Höfling was a German Catholic priest who worked combating poverty in Brazil.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Berlin, Germany

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Literature & Poetry

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Mavis Gallant

Canada

11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014 (91 years old)

Internationally revered Canadian master of short fiction whose sharp wit and psychological nuance graced the pages of The New Yorker for half a century.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Cheikh Mohamed Laâroussi

محمد العروسي

Morocco

1934 – 2014 (80 years old)

The undisputed king of northern Moroccan Taktouka Jabaliya folk music, whose joyful violin playing, infectious rhythms, and humorous social lyrics delighted Moroccans for sixty years.

Fez, Morocco

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Sports & Athletics

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Tom Finney

Sir Thomas Finney

Great Britain

1922 – 2014 (91 years old)

English winger affectionately known as the 'Preston Plumber' who remained devoted to Preston North End for his entire career and scored 30 goals for England.

Preston, United Kingdom

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Stewart W. Bainum Sr.

United States

c. 1920 – 2014 (94 years old)

Stewart William Bainum Sr. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Philosophy & Thought

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Mohamed Guessous

محمد جسوس

Morocco

1938 – 2014 (76 years old)

Pioneering academic universally hailed as the 'Father of Moroccan Sociology', Princeton PhD graduate who established the Department of Sociology at Mohammed V University in Rabat.

Rabat, Morocco

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Humanitarian & Peace

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J. Mack Robinson

United States

c. 1924 – 2014 (90 years old)

J. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to humanitarian.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Ștefan Stoica

Switzerland

c. 1977 – 2014 (37 years old)

Ştefan Stoica was a Romanian politician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Meine Pit

Netherlands

c. 1932 – 2014 (82 years old)

Meine Pit was a Dutch politician, he served at different times as a member of the Senate of the Netherlands, and States-Provincial of Gelderland between 1976 and 1999 for the Labour Party.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to leadership.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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