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Ho Feng-Shan
Humanitarian & Peace
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Ho Feng-Shan

何鳳山 (He Fengshan)
🇨🇳 China
10 September 1901 – 28 September 1997 (96 years old)

Dr. Ho Feng-Shan was a Chinese diplomat who served as Consul-General of the Republic of China in Vienna from 1938 to 1940. In direct defiance of his ambassador's orders, Ho issued thousands of life-saving visas to Austrian Jews desperate to escape Nazi persecution following the Anschluss and Kristallnacht, allowing them to flee Europe to Shanghai and other destinations.

Yiyang, Hunan, China
Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)
Humanitarian & Peace
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Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
🇹🇷 Turkey
26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 (87 years old)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. Devoting her life to serving the 'poorest of the poor' in the slums of Calcutta, she established hospices for the destitute and dying, leprosy clinics, and orphanages worldwide, receiving the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and canonization as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India
History
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Eric Gairy

Eric Gairy
🇬🇷 Grenada
1922 – 1997 (75 years old)

Trade union leader and first Prime Minister of independent Grenada who led the country to national sovereignty in 1974.

St. George's, Grenada
Politics
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Ali Yata

علي يعتة
🇲🇦 Morocco
1920 – 1997 (76 years old)

Historic leader of the Moroccan left who headed the Moroccan Communist Party (later Party of Progress and Socialism - PPS) from 1945 to 1997, editor of Al-Bayan, and respected parliamentarian.

Casablanca, Morocco
Jean-Claude Lauzon
Art
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Jean-Claude Lauzon

Jean-Claude Lauzon
🇨🇦 Canada
29 September 1953 – 10 August 1997 (43 years old)

Fiery and brilliant Quebec auteur whose poetic, visceral masterpiece Léolo competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and redefined international cinema.

Laval, Canada
Oscar Kambona
Politics
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Oscar Kambona

Oscar Salathiel Kambona
🇹🇿 Tanzania
1928-08-13 – 1997-07-04 (68 years old)

Charismatic first Foreign Minister of Tanzania and Secretary-General of TANU who pacified the 1964 army mutiny and chaired the OAU Liberation Committee.

Songea, Tanzania
Politics
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Stanley Knowles

Stanley Howard Knowles
🇺🇸 United States
18 June 1908 – 9 June 1997 (88 years old)

Beloved parliamentarian known as the 'Conscience of Parliament' who represented Winnipeg North Centre for nearly forty years, winning indexed pensions.

Winnipeg, Canada
Amos Tutuola
Literature & Poetry
27
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Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola
🇳🇬 Nigeria
1920 – 1997 (76 years old)

Nigerian writer whose bizarre, intoxicating 1952 mythological novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard became the first African novel in English to achieve worldwide international fame.

Abeokuta (Ogun State), Nigeria
Henry Barakat
Arts & Music
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Henry Barakat

هنري بركات
🇪🇬 Egypt
June 11, 1914 – May 27, 1997 (82 years old)

Venerable Egyptian film director whose lyrical, emotionally poignant direction of over eighty films—most notably 'The Nightingale's Prayer' and 'The Sin'—defined the Golden Age of Egyptian Cinema, nominated for the Berlin Golden Bear and Academy Award.

Cairo, Egypt
John Carew Eccles
Science
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John Carew Eccles

Sir John Carew Eccles
🇦🇺 Australia
1903-01-27 – 1997-05-02 (94 years old)

Distinguished neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the brain's synapses.

Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
John Eccles
Sciences & Discovery
27
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John Eccles

Sir John Carew Eccles
🇦🇺 Australia
1903 – 1997 (94 years old)

Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the ionic mechanisms of synaptic inhibition, proving that hyperpolarizing chloride ion influx generates inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs).

Contra (Tenero-Contra, Ticino), Switzerland
Sociology
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Fernand Dumont

Fernand Dumont
🇨🇦 Canada
1927 – 1997 (69 years old)

Eminent Quebec sociologist, philosopher, and intellectual giant whose foundational works, including Le Lieu de l'homme and Genèse de la société québécoise, provided the intellectual compass for the Quiet Revolution.

Sainte-Pétronille (Quebec), Canada
Literature & Poetry
1
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Dulce María Loynaz

Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz
🇨🇺 Cuba
1902-12-10 – 1997-04-27 (94 years old)

Exquisite lyric poet and author of the lyrical novel 'Jardín' who was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1992, renowned for hermetic intimacy, metaphysical grace, and unwavering aristocratic dignity.

Havana, Cuba
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