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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Dennis Ritchie
Sciences & Discovery
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Dennis Ritchie

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie
🇺🇸 United States
1941 – 2011 (70 years old)

Foundational American computer scientist at Bell Labs who created the C programming language and co-developed the Unix operating system, establishing the architectural bedrock of modern digital technology.

Berkeley Heights, United States
Al Davis
Sports & Athletics
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Al Davis

Allen Davis
🇺🇸 United States
1929 – 2011 (82 years old)

Legendary football executive and principal owner of the Oakland Raiders for nearly five decades, whose famous motto 'Just win, baby' and outlaw Silver and Black spirit defined the franchise.

Oakland, United States
Charles Napier
Arts & Music
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Charles Napier

Charles Whitcomb Napier
🇺🇸 United States
1936 – 2011 (75 years old)

Prolific, square-jawed American character actor with an unmistakable booming voice, famous for memorable roles in The Blues Brothers, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and The Silence of the Lambs.

Arvin, United States
Bert Jansch
Arts & Music
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Bert Jansch

Herbert Jansch
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1943 – 2011 (67 years old)

Legendary Scottish folk musician and acoustic guitarist whose intricate clawhammer fingerstyle technique profoundly influenced Jimmy Page, Neil Young, and Nick Drake.

London, United Kingdom
Steve Jobs
Sciences & Discovery
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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs
🇺🇸 United States
1955 – 2011 (56 years old)

Visionary American entrepreneur, industrial designer, and co-founder of Apple Inc. who revolutionized personal computing, animated films at Pixar, digital music with the iPod, and smartphones with the iPhone.

Palo Alto, United States
Ralph M. Steinman
Sciences & Discovery
16
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Ralph M. Steinman

Ralph Marvin Steinman
🇨🇦 Canada
1943 – 2011 (68 years old)

Canadian immunologist at Rockefeller University who discovered dendritic cells, revolutionizing immunology and receiving the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine posthumously.

Hawthorne, United States
Tatyana Lioznova
Arts & Music
15
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Tatyana Lioznova

Татьяна Михайловна Лиознова
🇷🇺 Russia
1924 – 2011 (87 years old)

Master Soviet film director who created Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), the twelve-part television masterpiece that became the most popular and culturally influential spy drama in Russian history.

Moscow, Russia
Politics
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Aristides Pereira

Aristides Maria Pereira
🇨🇻 Cape Verde
1923-11-17 – 2011-09-21 (87 years old)

Founding father and first President of independent Cape Verde (1975–1991) who co-founded the PAIGC with Amílcar Cabral and peacefully ushered in multiparty democracy in 1991.

Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Margaret Ogola
Literature & Poetry
5
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Margaret Ogola

Margaret Atieno Ogola
🇰🇪 Kenya
1958-06-12 – 2011-09-21 (53 years old)

Renowned pediatrician and author whose epic 1994 debut novel 'The River and the Source' won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.

Nairobi, Kenya
Paulette Dubost
Arts & Music
16
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Paulette Dubost

Paulette Marie Emma Deplanque
🇫🇷 France
1910 – 2011 (100 years old)

Centenarian French actress whose vibrant 80-year screen career encompassed over 250 films, immortalized as Lisette the chambermaid in Jean Renoir's masterpiece The Rules of the Game.

Arpajon, France
Mohamed Harmel
Politics
5
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Mohamed Harmel

محمد حرمل
🇹🇳 Tunisia
1929 – 2011 (81 years old)

Historic leader of the Tunisian Left who headed the Tunisian Communist Party and the Ettajdid Movement for four decades, championing progressive social justice, secularism, and human rights.

Tunis, Tunisia
Asnaketch Worku
Music
3
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Asnaketch Worku

Asnaketch Worku
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
1935-01-01 – 2011-09-14 (76 years old)

Pioneering Ethiopian cultural icon known as the 'Lady with the Krar', the first professional dramatic actress in Ethiopia and an incomparable master of traditional harp ballads.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Rudolf Mössbauer
Sciences & Discovery
17
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Rudolf Mössbauer

Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
🇩🇪 Germany
1929 – 2011 (82 years old)

German experimental physicist who discovered recoilless nuclear resonance absorption of gamma rays (the Mössbauer effect), awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics at age thirty-two.

Gräfelfing, Germany
Richard Hamilton
Arts & Music
12
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Richard Hamilton

Richard William Hamilton
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1922 – 2011 (89 years old)

English painter and collage artist hailed as the father of Pop Art for his 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? and designer of The Beatles' White Album.

Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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