Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Ahmed Fakhry

أحمد فخري

Egypt

1905 – 1973 (68 years old)

Legendary Egyptian archaeologist and explorer celebrated as the 'Master of the Deserts', who excavated the Pyramids of Dahshur and mapped the lost pharaonic and Roman monuments of the Western Desert oases.

Fayoum, Egypt

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Sports & Athletics

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Jarno Saarinen

Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen

Finland

1945 – 1973 (27 years old)

Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion nicknamed 'The Flying Finn', who revolutionized motorcycle road racing by pioneering the knee-down 'hang-off' cornering style that became the universal modern riding technique.

Turku, Finland

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin

Jeannette Rankin

United States

1880 – 1973 (92 years old)

Première femme élue au Congrès des États-Unis (1916), militante suffragiste et pacifiste inébranlable, seule à voter contre l'entrée en guerre en 1917 et 1941.

Missoula, Montana, United States

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Politics

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Leslie Frost

Old Man Ontario

Canada

20 September 1895 – 4 May 1973 (77 years old)

Legendary Ontario premier whose twelve-year postwar boom leadership constructed Highway 401, built hospitals, and enacted Ontario's first Fair Employment and Accommodation Acts.

Lindsay, Canada

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Politics

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Fuad Chehab

فؤاد شهاب

Lebanon

19 March 1902 – 25 April 1973 (71 years old)

Revered President of Lebanon (1958-1964) and first Commander of the Lebanese Army, architect of the modern administrative state (Chehabism).

Ghazir, Lebanon

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Literature & Poetry

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Kamal Nasser

كمال ناصر

Palestine

1924 – 10 April 1973 (49 years old)

Eloquent Palestinian Christian poet and official PLO spokesman known as 'The Conscience', assassinated in Beirut alongside Kamal Adwan and Abu Youssef.

Beirut, Lebanon

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Arts & Music

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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Spain

25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973 (91 years old)

Supreme protean colossus of 20th-century art who shattered Renaissance perspective with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, co-invented Cubism with Braque, and painted the world's greatest anti-war monument, Guernica.

Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes), France

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Aboubacar Demba Camara

Guinea

1944 – 1973 (29 years old)

Iconic lead singer and lyricist of Bembeya Jazz National whose soaring tenor voice defined modern Guinean Manding music.

Conakry, Guinea

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Mikhail Kalatozov

Georgia

1903 – 1973 (69 years old)

Georgian film director who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for 'The Cranes Are Flying' and pioneered dynamic cinematography in cinema.

Moscow, Georgia

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Education

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Pe Maung Tin

ဖေမောင်တင်

Myanmar

1888-04-24 – 1973-03-22 (84 years old)

Distinguished scholar of Buddhist Pali literature and first native Rector of the University of Rangoon who translated 'The Glass Palace Chronicle' and the 'Atthasalini' for the Pali Text Society.

Yangon, Myanmar

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Katina Paxinou

Greece

1900 – 1973 (72 years old)

Academy Award-winning Greek stage and film actress, co-founder of the Greek National Theatre.

Athens, Greece

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Politics

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Jean-Jacques Bertrand

Canada

20 June 1916 – 22 February 1973 (56 years old)

Quebec premier who succeeded Daniel Johnson in 1968, creating the Ministry of Immigration and passing Bill 63 to promote French in education.

Cowansville, Canada

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Dimitar Peshev

Димитър Йосифов Пешев

Bulgaria

25 June 1894 – 20 February 1973 (78 years old)

Dimitar Peshev was the Deputy Speaker of the Bulgarian Parliament during World War II who led the courageous political rebellion that stopped the secret deportation of Bulgaria's entire Jewish population of 48,000 people to Nazi death camps in March 1943. Stripped of his parliamentary office for his defiance, his intervention saved every native Bulgarian Jew from the Holocaust.

Sofia, Bulgaria

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Titina Silá

Guinea-Bissau

1943 – 1973 (30 years old)

Heroic PAIGC guerrilla commander and martyr of Guinea-Bissau whose death date is celebrated as National Day of Guinean Women.

Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson

United States

1908 – 1973 (64 years old)

36th US President and legislative titan whose 'Great Society' domestic vision enacted Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Stonewall, Texas, United States

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Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral

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1924-09-12 – 1973-01-20 (48 years old)

Foremost intellectual strategist of African anti-colonialism whose liberation war fatally undermined the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship, precipitating the Carnation Revolution.

Conakry, Guinea

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Arts & Music

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