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Died: 1959–1959
John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles

18881959

American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States Secretary of State and significantly shaped Cold War foreign policy

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Mike Hawthorn

Mike Hawthorn

19291959

British Formula One World Drivers' Champion and endurance racing victor who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring

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Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

18781959

Argentine lawyer, politician, and diplomat who was the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient, recognized for authoring the Argentine Antiwar Pact of 1933 and mediating peace between Paraguay and Bolivia

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos

18871959

Brazilian composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist known for integrating Brazilian folk music with classical forms, creating over 2,000 works that made him a globally recognized South American composer

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Enrico de Nicola

Enrico de Nicola

18771959

Italy's first President and a distinguished jurist, politician, and journalist who guided the nation through its transition to a republic after World War II

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Adolf Windaus

Adolf Windaus

18761959

German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his research into the constitution of sterols and their connection with vitamins

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George Grosz

George Grosz

18931959

German artist known for his iconic caricatural drawings of 1920s Berlin life and his prominent role in Berlin Dada and New Objectivity

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Gérard Philipe

Gérard Philipe

19221959

French actor known for his influential roles in 32 films and his outspoken communist views, prominent in the poetic realism movement

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Boris Vian

Boris Vian

19201959

French polymath, writer, and jazz musician known for his avant-garde novels and controversial works published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan

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Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn

19091959

Australian actor known for his romantic swashbuckler roles during the Golden Age of Hollywood

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Owen Willans Richardson

Owen Willans Richardson

18791959

British physicist known for his Nobel Prize-winning work on thermionic emission and the discovery of Richardson's law

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

18691959

Scottish physicist and meteorologist who invented the cloud chamber and won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics

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