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Osvaldo Pugliese
Music
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Osvaldo Pugliese

Osvaldo Pedro Pugliese
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina
1905-12-02 โ€“ 1995-07-25 (89 years old)

Legendary tango pianist, composer, and orchestra director famed for his heavy, hypnotic syncopation in La Yumba, who operated his orchestra as an egalitarian cooperative and is revered as a patron saint of musicians.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mohamed El-Mawgi
Arts & Music
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Mohamed El-Mawgi

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ู…ูˆุฌูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1923 โ€“ 1995 (72 years old)

Towering composer who launched the golden career of Abdel Halim Hafez with Safini Marra and composed classical orchestral milestones for Umm Kulthum including Lel Sabr Hodood and Es'al Rouhak.

Cairo, Egypt
Atef El-Tayeb
Arts & Music
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Atef El-Tayeb

ุนุงุทู ุงู„ุทูŠุจ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1947 โ€“ 1995 (47 years old)

Master filmmaker who revolutionized Egyptian cinema in the 1980s as the pioneer of Neo-Realism, directing monumental social masterworks including The Bus Driver and The Innocent.

Cairo, Egypt
Harry Gwala
Politics
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Harry Gwala

Themba Harry Gwala
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa
1920-07-30 โ€“ 1995-06-20 (74 years old)

Fierce anti-apartheid revolutionary known as 'The Lion of Pietermaritzburg', who spent over twenty years on Robben Island, losing the use of both arms yet remaining an unshakeable leader.

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Sheikh Imam
Arts & Music
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Sheikh Imam

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ุฅู…ุงู…
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
July 2, 1918 โ€“ June 7, 1995 (76 years old)

Blind Egyptian folk singer and oud virtuoso whose acoustic songs of defiance, performed alongside poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, formed the musical soundtrack to popular rebellions and democratic movements across the Arab world.

Giza, Egypt
Kreลกimir ฤ†osiฤ‡
Sports & Athletics
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Kreลกimir ฤ†osiฤ‡

Kreลกimir ฤ†osiฤ‡
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia
26 November 1948 โ€“ 25 May 2095 (46 years old)

Kreลกimir ฤ†osiฤ‡ was a revolutionary Croatian basketball center who became the first player in history to play all five positions on the floor, inventing the modern point-center role. An All-American at Brigham Young University who rejected lucrative NBA contracts to return home to Zadar, he won two World Championships, three European Championships, and Olympic gold in Moscow 1980.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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