Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Poul Henningsen

Denmark

1894-09-09 – 1967-01-31 (72 years old)

Brilliant Danish cultural critic, architect, and lighting pioneer known universally as 'PH', inventor of the multi-shade glare-free PH-lamp series and PH Artichoke.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Literature & Poetry

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

Oliverio Girondo

Argentina

1891-08-17 – 1967-01-24 (75 years old)

Revolutionary Argentine avant-garde poet and member of the Florida group whose groundbreaking 1922 collection Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía brought Ultraist modernism to Latin America.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Mohamed Khider

محمد خيضر

Algeria

1912 – 1967 (54 years old)

Pioneering Algerian revolutionary leader, member of the historic 'Nine Chiefs' of the FLN, and manager of the revolutionary war treasury who oversaw the international logistics of the ALN.

Tetouan, Morocco

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Art

Resistance & Human Rights

Willie Seaweed

Canada

c. 1873 – c. 1967 (94 years old)

Master Nak'waxda'xw carver whose immaculate graphic precision, compass-drawn circles, and Hamatsa bird masks brought Northwest Coast ceremonial art to its technical peak.

Blunden Harbour, Canada

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Si M'hamed Oulhadj

سي امحمد أولحاج (أكلي مقراني)

Algeria

1911 – 1966 (55 years old)

Historic Colonel of the ALN and supreme commander of Wilaya III (Kabylie) during the War of National Liberation, whose integrity and military leadership held the Djurdjura maquis through Operation Jumelles.

Aït Bouaddou, Algeria

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History

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Domingos Ramos

Guinea-Bissau

1935 – 1966 (31 years old)

Heroic PAIGC military commander trained in China who led the northern front and died at the Battle of Madina do Boé.

Madina do Boé, Guinea-Bissau

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Mohamed Fawzi

محمد فوزي

Egypt

August 15, 1918 – October 20, 1966 (48 years old)

Brilliant Egyptian composer, singer, and musical entrepreneur who revolutionized modern Arabic musical theater, pioneered timeless children's classics like 'Mama Zamanha Gayya', and founded the Middle East's first vinyl record company (Misrphone).

Cairo, Egypt

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Business

Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu

Louis Philippe Odumegwu Ojukwu

Nigeria

1909-01-01 – 1966-09-13 (57 years old)

Nigeria's first self-made multimillionaire and transport titan who established Ojukwu Transport, chaired the Nigerian Stock Exchange, and financed West African commerce.

Nnewi, Nigeria

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Literature & Poetry

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Lao She

老舍

China

1899 – 1966 (67 years old)

Manchu-Chinese novelist and playwright celebrated for Rickshaw Boy and Teahouse, master of Beijing dialect humor and empathetic chronicler of urban working-class life.

Beijing, China

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Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph Powell

United States

1924 – 1966 (41 years old)

American jazz pianist who translated the lightning bebop syntax of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to the keyboard, laying the foundation for all modern jazz piano.

New York City, United States

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Mohamed Iguerbouchane

محمد إيغربوشن

Algeria

1907 – 1966 (58 years old)

Internationally renowned Algerian symphonic composer who composed over 100 orchestral suites and film scores, integrating Berber melodies and North African polyphony with classical European orchestration.

Algiers, Algeria

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Military

Andrew McNaughton

Andy McNaughton

Canada

18 June 1887 – 11 July 1966 (79 years old)

Canadian general and electrical engineer whose scientific artillery counter-battery methods won Vimy Ridge, and who commanded the Canadian Army in WWII.

Ottawa, Canada

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Sciences & Discovery

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Georges Lemaître

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître

Belgium

1894 – 1966 (71 years old)

Belgian Catholic priest, astronomer, and cosmologist who proposed the Big Bang theory of the universe.

Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

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Hans Arp

Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp

France

1886 – 1966 (79 years old)

French-German sculptor, painter, and poet who co-founded Zurich Dada and pioneered biomorphic abstraction and the artistic embrace of chance.

Basel, Switzerland

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Politics

2

Évariste Kimba

Évariste Kimba Mutombo

Congo

1926-07-16 – 1966-06-02 (39 years old)

Distinguished diplomat and journalist who was appointed Prime Minister of the DRC by President Kasa-Vubu in 1965, tragically executed by public hanging in Kinshasa on Pentecost Thursday 1966.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Art

Wäinö Aaltonen

Wäinö Waldemar Aaltonen

Finland

1894-03-08 – 1966-05-30 (72 years old)

Foremost monumental sculptor of independent Finland whose heroic bronze statues include the dynamic running monument to Paavo Nurmi, the Hämeensilta bridge figures, and the Aleksis Kivi memorial.

Helsinki, Finland

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History

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