Who died in June 1963

Vietnamese Buddhist monk who self-immolated in 1963 to protest religious persecution, drawing worldwide attention to the plight of Buddhists under the Ngô Đình Diệm government

Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 1958 to 1963, remembered for his five years of leadership as Pope John XXIII

Turkish communist poet, playwright, and novelist whose lyrical work earned him international acclaim despite periods of imprisonment and exile