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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Michel Simon

Franรงois Michel Simon
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland
1895 โ€“ 1975 (80 years old)

Monumental Swiss-born French actor with a gargoyle face and immense poetic tenderness who starred in Jean Vigo's L'Atalante, Jean Renoir's Boudu sauvรฉ des eaux, and Claude Berri's The Two of Us (Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant).

Lancy (Geneva), Switzerland
Steve Prefontaine
Sports & Athletics
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Steve Prefontaine

Steve Roland Prefontaine
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
25 January 1951 โ€“ 30 May 1975 (24 years old)

Steve 'Pre' Prefontaine was a charismatic American middle- and long-distance runner whose aggressive, front-running racing philosophy, rock-star swagger, and fierce battle for athlete financial autonomy ignited the 1970s American running boom. At the time of his tragic death in a car accident at age twenty-four, he held every American outdoor track record from 2,000 meters to 10,000 meters.

Eugene, Oregon, United States
Ezzard Charles
Sports & Athletics
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Ezzard Charles

Ezzard Mack Charles
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
7 July 1921 โ€“ 28 May 1975 (53 years old)

Ezzard Mack Charles, 'The Cincinnati Cobra', was an extraordinary American boxer celebrated as one of the greatest light-heavyweights and heavyweights in the history of the sport. Outboxing Joe Louis in 1950 to become the undisputed World Heavyweight Champion, he defended his title eight times and pushed Rocky Marciano to the absolute brink in two of boxing's most savage championship wars.

Chicago, Illinois, United States
Anรญbal Troilo
Music
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Anรญbal Troilo

Anรญbal Carmelo Troilo
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท Argentina
1914-07-11 โ€“ 1975-05-18 (60 years old)

Immortal bandoneon virtuoso and orchestra director known affectionately as 'Pichuco' or 'El Bandoneรณn Mayor de Buenos Aires', composer of Sur and Barrio de tango, whose birthday is National Bandoneon Day.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Literature & Poetry
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Roque Dalton

Roque Antonio Dalton Garcรญa
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ป El Salvador
1935 โ€“ 1975 (39 years old)

Internationally celebrated revolutionary poet and razor-sharp satirist whose groundbreaking works 'Taberna y otros lugares' and 'Poema de amor' reinvented Latin American political poetry with irony, wit, and tenderness.

Quezaltepeque, El Salvador
Huot Tat
Religion
1
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Huot Tat

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญ Cambodia
1891-02-27 โ€“ 1975-04-18 (84 years old)

Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia and intellectual partner of Chuon Nath who modernized Buddhist monastic universities, executed by the Khmer Rouge on April 18, 1975, at the beginning of their genocide.

Oudong, Cambodia
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

เฐธเฐฐเฑเฐตเฑ‡เฐชเฐฒเฑเฐฒเฐฟ เฐฐเฐพเฐงเฐพเฐ•เฑƒเฐทเฑเฐฃเฐจเฑ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1888 โ€“ 1975 (86 years old)

Second President of India and preeminent philosopher of comparative religion who interpreted Indian Advaita Vedanta to the Western academic world, celebrated nationwide on Teachers' Day.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India
Chiang Kai-shek
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Chiang Kai-shek

่”ฃไธญๆญฃ (่”ฃไป‹็Ÿณ)
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1887 โ€“ 1975 (87 years old)

Leader of the Republic of China for nearly half a century, who led the Northern Expedition, fought Imperial Japan in World War II, and retreated to Taiwan in 1949, laying the foundation for Taiwan's economic takeoff.

Daxi District (Taoyuan), Taiwan
Mohammed Racim
Arts & Music
35
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Mohammed Racim

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๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1896 โ€“ 1975 (78 years old)

Peerless Algerian artist who revived and revolutionized Islamic miniature painting and manuscript illumination, blending traditional Persian-Ottoman aesthetics with Western perspective to depict the pre-colonial glory of Algiers.

Algiers, Algeria
Herbert Chitepo
Politics
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Herbert Chitepo

Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo
๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผ Zimbabwe
1923-06-15 โ€“ 1975-03-18 (51 years old)

First Black barrister in Southern Rhodesia and National Chairman of ZANU who conceived and directed the armed liberation struggle (Second Chimurenga) until his assassination in Lusaka in 1975.

Harare, Zimbabwe
J. M. Kariuki
Politics
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J. M. Kariuki

Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya
1929-03-21 โ€“ 1975-03-02 (45 years old)

Charismatic populist Member of Parliament and author of 'Mau Mau Detainee' who famously warned against Kenya becoming 'a nation of 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars' before his assassination.

Ol Kalou, Kenya
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