Historical Archives & Public Figures

Tyrus Raymond Cobb

United States

1886 – 1961 (74 years old)

American Major League Baseball outfielder who spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, holder of the highest career batting average (.366) in MLB history.

Royston, Georgia, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Ahmed Rafiq al-Mahdawi

أحمد رفيق المهدوي

Italy

c. 1898 – 1961 (63 years old)

Venerated national poet of Libya who wielded his verse as a weapon against Italian fascist colonialism, endured decades of exile, and championed national unity in the independent United Kingdom of Libya.

Benghazi, Libya

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Literature & Poetry

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Ernest Miller Hemingway (Papa)

Ernest Hemingway

United States

21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961 (61 years old)

Titan of 20th-century American fiction and 1954 Nobel laureate whose spare, declarative 'iceberg theory' prose style and adventurous life in Paris, Spain, and Cuba produced The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea.

Ketchum (Idaho), United States

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Arts & Music

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Cheikh Raymond

الشيخ ريمون (ريمون ليريس)

Algeria

1912 – 1961 (48 years old)

Revered Algerian Jewish virtuoso of the Andalusian Malouf tradition, master of the oud, whose concert orchestra united Jewish and Muslim musicians in the shared sacred heritage of Constantine.

Constantine, Algeria

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Marcel Junod

Switzerland

1904 – 1961 (57 years old)

Médecin suisse et délégué légendaire du CICR, premier médecin étranger à pénétrer dans Hiroshima détruite en septembre 1945 avec 15 tonnes de médicaments.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Stephen Henry Hobhouse

Stephen Hobhouse

Great Britain

1881 – 1961 (79 years old)

Objecteur de conscience quaker et réformateur des prisons britannique, coauteur du rapport historique sur le système pénitentiaire britannique.

Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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Music

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Uuno Klami

Uuno Kalervo Klami

Finland

1900 – 1961 (60 years old)

Brilliant orchestral modernist who broke away from Sibelian late-romanticism by infusing French impressionism and Stravinskyan rhythms into Finnish national mythology, author of the monumental 'Kalevala Suite'.

Virolahti, Kymenlaakso, Finland

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Politics

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Frans Van Cauwelaert

Belgium

1880 – 1961 (81 years old)

Eminent statesman and intellectual leader of the moderate Flemish Catholic Movement who served 15 years as Burgomaster of Antwerp and presided over the Chamber of Representatives for fifteen crucial postwar years.

Hoboken (Antwerp), Belgium

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Philosophy & Thought

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

France

1908 – 1961 (53 years old)

French phenomenologist whose 1945 masterpiece Phenomenology of Perception placed the living human body (le corps propre) at the center of perceptual consciousness and existential experience.

Paris, France

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History

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Jacques Stephen Alexis

Haiti

1922 – 1961 (39 years old)

Master Haitian novelist, neurologist, and literary theorist who formulated 'Marvellous Realism', author of 'Compère Général Soleil'.

Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Haiti

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Politics

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Mbarek Bekkaï (Mbarek ben Mustapha El Bekkaï)

مبارك البكاي

Morocco

1907 – 1961 (53 years old)

First Prime Minister of independent Morocco (1955–1958) who signed the historic Declaration of Independence with France, decorated WWII officer who lost a leg in combat, and fierce royalist loyalist.

Rabat, Morocco

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Science

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Jules Bordet

Jules Jean-Baptiste Vincent Bordet

Belgium

1870 – 1961 (90 years old)

Belgian immunologist and microbiologist who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries relating to immunity, including complement fixation and the whooping cough bacterium (Bordetella pertussis).

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium

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Military

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Mengistu Neway

Ethiopia

1916 – 1961 (45 years old)

Commander of the elite Imperial Bodyguard who alongside his brother Girmame launched the December 1960 coup attempt to overthrow feudalism, walking to the gallows with serene dignity.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Mohammed V of Morocco

محمد الخامس بن يوسف

Morocco

1909 – 1961 (51 years old)

Sultan and King of Morocco revered as the 'Father of the Nation', who heroically protected Moroccan Jews from the Vichy Nazi regime, demanded full sovereignty in the 1947 Tangier Speech, and led the Revolution of the King and the People to triumph in 1956.

Rabat, Morocco

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Music

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Percy Grainger

George Percy Grainger

Australia

1882-07-08 – 1961-02-20 (78 years old)

Virtuoso concert pianist, folk song collector, and visionary experimental composer whose works (such as 'Country Gardens' and 'Lincolnshire Posy') and 'Free Music' machines anticipated electronic synthesizers.

Adelaide, Australia

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Arts & Music

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Zakaria Ahmed

زكريا أحمد

Egypt

1896 – 1961 (65 years old)

Foundational musical maestro and Azhari scholar known as 'Sheikh Zakaria', who composed over 1,000 melodies, transformed the taqtuqa song form, and composed sixty monumental classics for Umm Kulthum.

Cairo, Egypt

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Literature & Poetry

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Larbi Kabadi

العربي الكبادي

Tunisia

1880 AD – 1961 (81 years old)

Distinguished neo-classical poet and Ez-Zitouna scholar who revived classical Arabic meter in Tunisia and mentored legendary poet Abou el Kacem Chebbi.

Tunis, Tunisia

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