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Irene Parlby
Politics
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Irene Parlby

Mary Irene Marryat Parlby
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1868 โ€“ 1965 (97 years old)

Aristocratic English immigrant who became president of the United Farm Women of Alberta, the second female cabinet minister in the British Empire, and a signatory of the historic Persons Case petition.

Alix (Alberta), Canada
Martin Buber
Philosophy & Thought
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Martin Buber

ืžืจื˜ื™แŠ• ื‘ื•ื‘ืจ
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
1878 โ€“ 1965 (87 years old)

Jewish-Austrian philosopher whose 1923 existential masterpiece I and Thou founded dialogical personalism, contrasting authentic human communion (I-Thou) with utilitarian objectification (I-It).

Jerusalem, Israel
I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson
Politics
1
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I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson

Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Sierra Leone
1894-02-06 โ€“ 1965-05-10 (71 years old)

Militant Pan-Africanist organizer, journalist, and trade unionist who established the West African Youth League and mobilized mass anti-colonial consciousness across West Africa.

Freetown, Sierra Leone
Politics
2
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Fan Noli

Theofan Stilian Noli
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey
1882-01-06 โ€“ 1965-03-13 (83 years old)

Visionary scholar, diplomat, and Eastern Orthodox archbishop who founded the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, translated Shakespeare and Cervantes into Albanian, and served as Prime Minister in 1924.

Boston, United States
Malcolm X
Resistance & Human Rights
47
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Malcolm X

Malcolm Little (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
19 May 1925 โ€“ 21 February 1965 (39 years old)

Electrifying African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who championed Black empowerment, international anti-imperialist solidarity, and the fundamental right to self-defense.

Hartsdale, New York, United States
Viola Desmond
Human rights
1
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Viola Desmond

Viola Irene Desmond
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1914 โ€“ 1965 (50 years old)

Iconic Black Nova Scotian businesswoman whose courageous refusal to leave the whites-only section of a New Glasgow cinema in 1946 ignited Canada's modern civil rights movement, featured on the $10 banknote.

Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada
Politics
1
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J.B. Danquah

Joseph Boakye Danquah
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana
1895-12-18 โ€“ 1965-02-04 (69 years old)

Constitutional scholar, author, and statesman known as the Doyen of Gold Coast politics, who proposed the name 'Ghana' for the newly independent nation and co-founded the UGCC.

Kyebi, Ghana
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