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Piermario Morosini
Sports & Athletics
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Piermario Morosini

Piermario Morosini
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
1986 โ€“ 2012 (25 years old)

Talented Italian professional footballer and youth international midfielder whose tragic collapse on the pitch in 2012 united Italian sports in grief and prompted mandatory cardiac screening and automated external defibrillators across professional leagues.

Bergamo, Italy
Afewerk Tekle
Art
4
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Afewerk Tekle

Afewerk Tekle
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia
1932-10-22 โ€“ 2012-04-10 (79 years old)

Ethiopia's most internationally celebrated painter and stained-glass master whose colossal 150-square-meter stained-glass work 'Total Liberation of Africa' graces Africa Hall.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
History
4
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Raymond Aubrac

Raymond Samuel (dit Aubrac)
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1914 โ€“ 2012 (97 years old)

Heroic French civil engineer and top internal resistance leader who co-founded Libรฉration-Sud with his wife Lucie Aubrac, was arrested with Jean Moulin at Caluire, and escaped in a daring armed rescue.

Salernes (Var), France
Fang Lizhi
Resistance & Human Rights
53
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Fang Lizhi

ๆ–นๅŠฑไน‹
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
12 February 1936 โ€“ 6 April 2012 (76 years old)

Fang Lizhi was a premier Chinese astrophysicist and university educator whose open advocacy for human rights, academic freedom, and democratic reform earned him the title of 'China's Sakharov'. His stirring campus lectures inspired the 1986 student democracy protests and laid the philosophical foundations for the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement, after which he spent a year sheltered inside the US Embassy in Beijing before entering exile.

Tucson, Arizona, United States
Jim Marshall
Sciences & Discovery
14
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Jim Marshall

James Charles Marshall
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1923 โ€“ 2012 (88 years old)

English pioneer of guitar amplification known as 'The Father of Loud' whose iconic Marshall amplifiers and 'Marshall stacks' created the signature roaring overdrive tone of rock and roll for Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Led Zeppelin.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Claude Miller
Arts & Music
12
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Claude Miller

Claude Miller
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1942 โ€“ 2012 (69 years old)

Acclaimed French film director and screenwriter who emerged from the French New Wave as Franรงois Truffaut's production manager before directing psychological masterpieces including 'Garde ร  vue' and 'The Best Way to Walk'.

Paris, France
Earl Scruggs
Arts & Music
12
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Earl Scruggs

Earl Eugene Scruggs
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1924 โ€“ 2012 (88 years old)

Legendary American banjo virtuoso whose syncopated, lightning-fast three-finger picking style ('Scruggs style') transformed the 5-string banjo and established the sound of bluegrass music.

Nashville, United States
Khelifi Ahmed
Arts & Music
16
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Khelifi Ahmed

ุฎู„ูŠููŠ ุฃุญู…ุฏ (ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ู…ุนู…ุฑ)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1921 โ€“ 2012 (91 years old)

Legendary Algerian singer who brought the ancient Saharan Bedouin vocal art of 'Aiyai' from the desert tents of the Zibans to national glory, celebrated for his immortal epic 'Hiziya'.

Algiers, Algeria
Literature & Poetry
0
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Lassi Nummi

Lauri Juhani Yrjรถnpoika Nummi
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland
1928 โ€“ 2012 (83 years old)

One of modern Finland's most revered poets whose meditative, musical verses in 'Landscape of China' and 'Tai vastaranta' explored classical Asian philosophy, light, and the spiritual mystery of existence.

Helsinki, Finland
Domitila Barrios de Chungara
Social
2
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Domitila Barrios de Chungara

Domitila Barrios Cuenca de Chungara
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ด Bolivia
1937-05-07 โ€“ 2012-03-13 (74 years old)

Legendary indigenous Bolivian labor leader from the Siglo XX tin mines whose courageous hunger strikes brought down Hugo Banzer's dictatorship and whose testimony 'Let Me Speak!' made global feminist history.

Cochabamba, Bolivia
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