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Mansour Rahbani

ู…ู†ุตูˆุฑ ุงู„ุฑุญุจุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
1925 โ€“ 13 January 2009 (84 years old)

Monumental Lebanese composer, poet, and dramatist of the Rahbani Brothers whose epic philosophical musicals spanned half a century.

Antelias, Lebanon
Arts & Music
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Elie Azagury

ุฅูŠู„ูŠ ุฃุฒุงุบูˆุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1918 โ€“ 2009 (91 years old)

Recognized as Morocco's first registered indigenous modern architect, pioneer of post-colonial modernist design who played a leading role in the reconstruction of Agadir following the 1960 earthquake.

Casablanca, Morocco
Keng Vannsak
Linguistics
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Keng Vannsak

แž€แŸแž„ แžœแŸ‰แžถแž“แŸ‹แžŸแžถแž€แŸ‹
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ Cambodia
1925-09-19 โ€“ 2008-12-18 (83 years old)

Brilliant, radical linguist, philosopher, and playwright who invented the first mechanical Khmer typewriter keyboard in 1952, enabling modern communications and administration in the Khmer language.

Montmorency, Paris, France
Jรธrn Utzon
Art
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Jรธrn Utzon

Jรธrn Oberg Utzon
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark
1918-04-09 โ€“ 2008-11-29 (90 years old)

Visionary Danish architect who received the 2003 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his breathtaking design of the Sydney Opera House, recognized as an architectural wonder of the modern world.

Hellebรฆk, Denmark
Mikael Imru
Politics
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Mikael Imru

Mikael Imru
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia
1929-11-10 โ€“ 2008-10-26 (78 years old)

Progressive aristocrat and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Ethiopia during the pivotal revolutionary transition of 1974, known for his dedication to land reform.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Muslim Magomayev
Music
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Muslim Magomayev

Mรผslรผm Maqomayev
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Azerbaijan
1942-08-17 โ€“ 2008-10-25 (66 years old)

Legendary baritone vocalist of immense charisma and vocal range, dubbed the 'Soviet Sinatra', whose performances of Italian opera, Russian ballads, and Azerbaijani songs captivated millions.

Baku, Azerbaijan
Leo Major
Military
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Leo Major

The Quebec Rambo
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
23 January 1921 โ€“ 12 October 2008 (87 years old)

Legendary French-Canadian soldier, the only Canadian awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in two separate wars, who single-handedly liberated the Dutch city of Zwolle in 1945.

Pointe-Claire, Canada
Ali Sidqi Abd al-Qadir
Literature & Poetry
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Ali Sidqi Abd al-Qadir

ุนู„ูŠ ุตุฏู‚ูŠ ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู‚ุงุฏุฑ
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Libya
1924 โ€“ 2008 (83 years old)

Foundational pioneer of modern free-verse poetry in Libya, dubbed the 'Poet of Youth and Love', whose vibrant, optimistic verses broke classical neoclassical constraints in North African literature.

Tripoli, Libya
Hassan Skalli
Arts & Music
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Hassan Skalli

ุญุณู† ุงู„ุตู‚ู„ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1931 โ€“ 2008 (77 years old)

Dean of Moroccan stage actors, co-founder of the historic Maรขmora theater troupe in 1952, and celebrated actor of monumental national television series and cinema classics.

Rabat, Morocco
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Resistance & Human Rights
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดั€ ะ˜ัะฐะตะฒะธั‡ ะกะพะปะถะตะฝะธั†ั‹ะฝ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
11 December 1918 โ€“ 3 August 2008 (89 years old)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a monumental Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose epic exposรฉ of the Soviet forced-labor camp system, The Gulag Archipelago, shattered Western illusions regarding totalitarian communism and altered the moral course of twentieth-century history. Awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, he survived eight years in the Gulag and internal exile before being stripped of his Soviet citizenship and expelled in 1974.

Moscow, Russia
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