Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Shadi Abdel Salam

شادي عبد السلام

Egypt

March 15, 1930 – October 8, 1986 (56 years old)

Genius Egyptian film director, production designer, and costume creator whose 1969 masterpiece 'The Night of Counting the Years' (Al-Mummia) is universally recognized by film critics as one of the greatest Arab films ever made.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Philosophy & Thought

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Subhi Mahmassani

صبحي المحمصاني

Lebanon

1909 – 10 September 1986 (77 years old)

Preeminent Lebanese legal philosopher and judge whose 'Philosophy of Jurisprudence in Islam' became the standard international comparative law text.

Beirut, Lebanon

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Politics

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Urho Kekkonen

Urho Kaleva Kekkonen

Finland

1900-09-03 – 1986-08-31 (85 years old)

Longest-serving President of Finland (1956–1982) who masterminded Finland's delicate Cold War neutrality (the Paasikivi–Kekkonen Line) and hosted the historic 1975 Helsinki Accords.

Helsinki, Finland

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Arts & Music

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore

Great Britain

1898 – 1986 (88 years old)

English sculptor renowned for his monumental undulating bronze figures of reclining women and mother-and-child motifs.

Perry Green, Much Hadham, United Kingdom

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History

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Daniel Fignolé

Daniel Fignolé

Haiti

1913 – 1986 (72 years old)

Legendary labor leader, mathematics professor, founder of the MOP, and provisional President of Haiti in 1957.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Bernard Fonlon

Bernard Nsokika Fonlon

Cameroon

1924-11-19 – 1986-08-26 (61 years old)

Eminent philosopher and statesman revered as the 'Socrates of Cameroon' who earned his doctorate from Oxford and the Sorbonne, founded the bilingual review 'ABBIA', and drafted the bilingual federal education policy.

Nso, North West Region, Cameroon

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Literature & Poetry

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Milton Acorn

The People's Poet

Canada

30 March 1923 – 20 August 1986 (63 years old)

Fierce Prince Edward Island working-class poet who was crowned "The People's Poet" by his fellow writers and won the Governor General's Award.

Pleasant Valley, Canada

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History

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Philomé Obin

Philomé Obin

Haiti

1892 – 1986 (94 years old)

Master painter and founder of the Cap-Haïtien School of Haitian painting, muralist of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.

Cap-Haïtien, Haiti

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Chiune Sugihara

杉原 千畝

Japan

1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986 (86 years old)

Japanese vice-consul in Lithuania who defied direct orders from Tokyo to handwrite thousands of transit visas, saving more than 6,000 Polish and Lithuanian Jews from Nazi extermination.

Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

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Literature & Poetry

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Jaime Saenz

Jaime Saenz Guzmán

Bolivia

1921-10-29 – 1986-07-25 (64 years old)

Iconic cult Bolivian poet and novelist whose mystical, nocturnal works, including 'Felipe Delgado' and 'La noche', transformed the city of La Paz into an esoteric literary universe.

La Paz, Bolivia

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Music

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Yusuf Omar

يوسف عمر

Iraq

1918 – 15 July 1986 (68 years old)

Supreme tradition bearer of the authentic Baghdadi Maqam, revered for his resonant vocal power and unmatched knowledge of rare branches.

Baghdad, Iraq

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Music

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Fethia Khaïri

فتحية خيري

Tunisia

1918 – 1986 (68 years old)

Pioneering musical and theatrical star of 1930s and 1940s Tunisia whose expressive vocal interpretations and theatrical leadership blazed trails for women in Maghrebi performing arts.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Music

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Assi Rahbani

عاصي الرحباني

Lebanon

4 May 1923 – 21 June 2086 (63 years old)

Visionary Lebanese composer and playwright, elder of the Rahbani Brothers, who with his brother Mansour and wife Fairuz created modern Arab musical theatre.

Antelias, Lebanon

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Coluche (Michel Colucci)

Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci

France

28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986 (41 years old)

Michel Colucci, known as Coluche, was a beloved French satirical comedian and actor who won the César Award for Best Actor in 1984. In September 1985, outraged by European agricultural surpluses coexisting with domestic hunger, Coluche launched 'Les Restos du Cœur' (Restaurants of the Heart), a nationwide volunteer network providing millions of free meals to the impoverished.

Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentina

24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986 (86 years old)

Argentine literary wizard whose metaphysical labyrinths, infinite libraries, and philosophical parables in Ficciones (The Library of Babel, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius) and El Aleph revolutionized postmodern world literature.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Sports & Athletics

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Namgyal Wangdi (Tenzing Norgay)

བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས

Nepal

circa – 1986 (71 years old)

Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, became the first individual confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Darjeeling, India

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Sports & Athletics

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Henri Pauli Toivonen

Henri Pauli Toivonen

Finland

1956 – 1986 (29 years old)

Finnish rally driver, celebrated as one of the fastest and most thrilling talents of the legendary and ferocious Group B rally era.

Corte, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Salah Jahin

صلاح جاهين

Egypt

December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986 (55 years old)

Iconic Egyptian colloquial poet, satirist, newspaper cartoonist, and screenwriter whose philosophical 'Rubaiyat' (Quatrains) and anthems of the 1952 Revolution defined the emotional ethos of modern Egypt.

Cairo, Egypt

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