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Marcel Cerdan
Sports & Athletics
38
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Marcel Cerdan

Marcellin Cerdan
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
22 July 1916 โ€“ 28 October 1949 (33 years old)

Marcel Cerdan was an adored French sporting icon and World Middleweight Champion renowned as one of the most powerful and technically gifted combination punchers in European boxing history. Compiling an astonishing 110 wins in 114 professional bouts with 65 knockouts, his romance with singer ร‰dith Piaf captivated France before his tragic death in an airplane crash in 1949 at age thirty-three.

Monte Redondo, Sรฃo Miguel, Azores, Portugal
Lรกszlรณ Rajk
Resistance & Human Rights
38
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Lรกszlรณ Rajk

Rajk Lรกszlรณ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด Romania
8 March 1909 โ€“ 15 October 1949 (40 years old)

Lรกszlรณ Rajk was a prominent Hungarian anti-fascist resistance veteran, communist politician, and foreign minister who became the central victim of Mรกtyรกs Rรกkosi's notorious 1949 Stalinist show trials. Tortured and executed on fabricated treason charges, his dramatic posthumous rehabilitation and solemn public reburial on 6 October 1956 drew 200,000 mourners and ignited the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Budapest, Hungary
August Krogh
Science
1
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August Krogh

Schack August Steenberg Krogh
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Denmark
1874-11-15 โ€“ 1949-09-13 (74 years old)

Pioneering Danish zoophysiologist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920 for discovering the motor regulating mechanism of the capillaries.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Vida Goldstein
Social
1
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Vida Goldstein

Vida Jane Mary Goldstein
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia
1869-04-13 โ€“ 1949-08-15 (80 years old)

Pioneering Australian suffragist and peace campaigner who became in 1903 one of the first four women in the entire British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament.

Melbourne, Australia
Politics
1
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Vladimir Nazor

Vladimir Nazor
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia
1876-05-30 โ€“ 1949-06-19 (73 years old)

Revered poet, novelist, and anti-fascist statesman who joined the partisan resistance in his late sixties, authoring 'Veli Joลพe' and serving as the first President of post-war Croatia's Parliament (ZAVNOH).

Zagreb, Croatia
Naguib el-Rihani
Arts & Music
11
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Naguib el-Rihani

ู†ุฌูŠุจ ุงู„ุฑูŠุญุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1889 โ€“ 1949 (60 years old)

Pioneering 'Father of Modern Arab Comedy', creator of the satirical rural archetype 'Kish-Kish Bey', and playwright whose humanist stage satires laid the foundation for 20th-century Arab theatrical arts.

Cairo, Egypt
Ali Douagi
Literature & Poetry
32
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Ali Douagi

ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ุฏูˆุนุงุฌูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1909 โ€“ 1949 (40 years old)

Brilliant Tunisian bohemian writer, playwright, caricaturist, and songwriter who founded the modern Tunisian short story and animated the celebrated 'Taht Es-Sour' literary circle in the Bab Souika quarter.

Tunis, Tunisia
Carmen Lyra
Literature & Poetry
4
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Carmen Lyra

Marรญa Isabel Carvajal Quesada
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ท Costa Rica
1887-01-15 โ€“ 1949-05-14 (62 years old)

Beloved Costa Rican children's literature pioneer, author of 'Cuentos de mi Tรญa Panchita', and militant educator who founded the country's first Montessori school and fought for working women's rights.

San Josรฉ, Costa Rica
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