Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

History

0

🕯️ 0

Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey

Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey

Ghana

1902 – 1963 (60 years old)

Founding father of Ghana, member of 'The Big Six', lawyer, and fearless political leader known as 'Liberty Lamptey'.

Accra, Ghana

0 Full Record →

Statesmanship & Statesmen

44

🕯️ 0

Sylvanus Olympio

Sylvanus Épiphanio Olympio

Ghana

1902 – 1963 (60 years old)

First President of independent Togo who steered the country to independence from French mandate rule in 1960 and was tragically killed in Sub-Saharan Africa's first post-colonial military coup.

Agoue, Benin

44 Full Record →

Sports & Athletics

20

🕯️ 0

Chadly Zouiten

الشاذلي زويتن

Tunisia

1894 – 1963 (69 years old)

Pioneering father of modern Tunisian athletics and sports administration who presided over Espérance Sportive de Tunis (EST) for three decades, after whom the historic Stade Chedly Zouiten in Tunis is named.

Tunis, Tunisia

20 Full Record →

Music

1

🕯️ 0

Kirsten Flagstad

Kirsten Marie Flagstad

Norway

1895-07-12 – 1962-12-07 (67 years old)

Legendary Norwegian dramatic soprano celebrated as 'the Voice of the Century', whose colossal, radiant performances of Wagner's Isolde and Brünnhilde dominated the Metropolitan Opera.

Oslo, Norway

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

4

🕯️ 0

Dame Mary Gilmore

Mary Jean Cameron Gilmore

Australia

1865-08-16 – 1962-12-03 (97 years old)

Iconic socialist poet, journalist, and social crusader who joined William Lane's utopian New Australia colony in Paraguay and championed women's and Indigenous rights for seven decades, featured on the $10 note.

Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia

4 Full Record →

Sciences & Discovery

34

🕯️ 970

Niels Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr

Denmark

7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962 (77 years old)

Danish physicist whose quantum model of the atom and Principle of Complementarity founded atomic physics and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, winning the 1922 Nobel Prize.

Copenhagen, Denmark

34 Full Record →

Statesmanship & Statesmen

39

🕯️ 590

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

United States

1884-10-11 – 1962-11-07 (78 years old)

Champion of human rights, racial equality, and women's rights; spearheaded the most universally recognized charter of human dignities in history.

New York City, New York, United States

39 Full Record →

Sports & Athletics

42

🕯️ 0

Ricardo Rodriguez

Ricardo Valentin Rodriguez de la Vega

Mexico

1942 – 1962 (20 years old)

Mexican racing prodigy and youngest podium finisher in 24 Hours of Le Mans history at age eighteen, who qualified on the front row for Scuderia Ferrari in his Formula One debut at age nineteen.

Mexico City, Mexico

42 Full Record →

Arts & Music

35

🕯️ 0

Natalia Goncharova

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Russia

1881 – 1962 (81 years old)

Russian avant-garde artist and Rayonist pioneer who synthesized traditional peasant icons with Cubo-Futurism and revolutionized theatrical design for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Paris, France

35 Full Record →

Arts & Music

5

🕯️ 0

Jacques Majorelle

جاك ماجوريل

France

1886 – 1962 (76 years old)

French painter who spent forty years in Marrakech, documenting Atlas Kasbahs and Berber life, creator of the world-famous Majorelle Garden and the cobalt 'Majorelle Blue' (Bleu Majorelle).

Nancy, France

5 Full Record →

Sciences & Discovery

33

🕯️ 0

Erich von Tschermak

Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg

Austria

1871 – 1962 (90 years old)

Austrian agronomist and plant breeder who independently rediscovered Mendel's principles of heredity in 1900 and applied Mendelian genetics to crop breeding, developing disease-resistant high-yield hybrid wheat, barley, and oat strains.

Vienna, Austria

33 Full Record →

Politics

2

🕯️ 0

Muhammad VIII al-Amin (Lamine Bey)

محمد الأمين باي (الأمين باي)

Tunisia

1881 – 1962 (81 years old)

The last ruler of the 252-year-old Husainid Dynasty, who supported the nationalist independence movement against French colonial authorities before the proclamation of the Tunisian Republic in 1957.

La Marsa, Tunisia

2 Full Record →

Art

1

🕯️ 0

Camilo Egas

Camilo Egas Silva

Ecuador

1889-12-10 – 1962-09-18 (72 years old)

Pioneering modernist painter who introduced Andean indigenous motifs into modern fine art in 1918 with 'Las Floristas' and directed the art department at The New School for Social Research in New York for three decades.

Quito, Ecuador

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

7

🕯️ 0

Karen Blixen

Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen

Denmark

1885-04-17 – 1962-09-07 (77 years old)

World-renowned Danish author writing under the pen name Isak Dinesen, acclaimed for her lyrical memoir Out of Africa and masterly Gothic tales including Babette's Feast.

Rungsted, Denmark

7 Full Record →

Art

1

🕯️ 0

Mungo Martin

Chief Mungo Martin

Canada

c. 1879 – 16 August 1962 (83 years old)

Legendary Kwakwaka'wakw master carver who almost single-handedly rescued Northwest Coast totem carving, traditional dance, and song from colonial extinction.

Alert Bay, Canada

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

34

🕯️ 0

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse

Germany

1877 – 1962 (85 years old)

German-Swiss 1946 Nobel laureate whose spiritual and philosophical novels Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and The Glass Bead Game explored Eastern mysticism and personal authenticity.

Collina d'Oro (Montagnola), Switzerland

34 Full Record →

Sciences & Discovery

33

🕯️ 0

Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Great Britain

1890 – 1962 (72 years old)

Titan of science acclaimed as the 'Father of Modern Statistics' and co-founder of Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, who invented analysis of variance (ANOVA), maximum likelihood estimation, randomized experimental design, and the concept of null hypothesis.

Adelaide (South Australia), Australia

33 Full Record →

Law

1

🕯️ 0

Thibaudeau Rinfret

The Right Honourable Thibaudeau Rinfret

Canada

1879 – 1962 (83 years old)

Ninth Chief Justice of Canada who presided over the historic end of appeals to the British Privy Council in 1949, making the Supreme Court of Canada truly sovereign and supreme.

Montreal, Canada

1 Full Record →