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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Aly Bellagha
Arts & Music
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Aly Bellagha

ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ุจู„ุงุบุฉ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1924 โ€“ 2001 (77 years old)

Renowned painter and master wood craftsman of the Tunis School who elevated traditional North African artisanal iconography into sophisticated modernist assemblages and carvings.

Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
Carrie Best
Media
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Carrie Best

Carrie Mae Best
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1903 โ€“ 2001 (98 years old)

Trailblazing Black Nova Scotian journalist who founded The Clarion in 1946, publicizing Viola Desmond's arrest, and hosted the radio program The Quiet Corner for twenty-five years.

New Glasgow (Nova Scotia), Canada
Nikolay Basov
Sciences & Discovery
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Nikolay Basov

ะะธะบะพะปะฐะน ะ“ะตะฝะฝะฐะดะธะตะฒะธั‡ ะ‘ะฐัะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Soviet Union
1922 โ€“ 2001 (78 years old)

Soviet physicist who co-invented the maser and laser principles through quantum electronics, awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Aleksandr Prokhorov and Charles Townes.

Moscow, Russia
Soad Hosny
Arts & Music
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Soad Hosny

ุณุนุงุฏ ุญุณู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
January 26, 1943 โ€“ June 21, 2001 (58 years old)

Incomparable Egyptian screen superstar adored as 'The Cinderella of Egyptian Cinema' (Sindirella al-Shasha), whose radiant exuberance, comedic brilliance, and dramatic depth in over eighty films defined modern Egyptian popular culture.

6th of October City, Egypt
Khalifa al-Fakhri
Literature & Poetry
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Khalifa al-Fakhri

ุฎู„ูŠูุฉ ุงู„ูุงุฎุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Libya
1942 โ€“ June 18, 2001 (59 years old)

Exquisite Libyan short-story writer and prose stylist whose melancholic, poetic narratives explored the existential solitude of man, the nostalgia for childhood, and the fragile dignity of the vulnerable.

Benghazi, Libya
Politics
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Faisal Husseini

ููŠุตู„ ุงู„ุญุณูŠู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Iraq
17 July 1940 โ€“ 31 May 2001 (60 years old)

Beloved Palestinian statesman and leader in Jerusalem who led the Palestinian delegation to Madrid and established Orient House as the de facto capital.

Jerusalem, Palestine
Sadok Khalfallah
Medicine
3
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Sadok Khalfallah

ุงู„ุตุงุฏู‚ ุฎู„ู ุงู„ู„ู‡
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1918 AD โ€“ 2001 (83 years old)

Foundational figure in modern Tunisian surgery who trained the nation's first generation of independent surgical specialists and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis.

Tunis, Tunisia
Didi
Sports & Athletics
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Didi

Valdir Pereira
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
8 October 1928 โ€“ 12 May 2001 (72 years old)

Valdir Pereira, known to football history as Didi, was the majestic cerebral playmaker who served as the midfield architect of Brazil's back-to-back World Cup victories in 1958 and 1962. Voted the Best Player of the 1958 World Cup ahead of teenage Pelรฉ, he invented the famous 'folha seca' (dry leaf) curving dipping free-kick technique that baffled goalkeepers worldwide.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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