Remembered

Cemal Gürsel

1895 – 1966

Politician, Military officer

Cemal Gürsel (13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish military officer and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1960 to 1966 after taking…

Georges Lemaître

1894 – 1966

Cosmologist, Mathematician, Catholic priest, University teacher, Physicist, Astrophysicist

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( lə-MET-rə; French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] ; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, a…

Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury

1906 – 1966

Politician, Writer

Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury (Bengali pronunciation: [ɦobibulːaʱ baɦaɾ t͡ʃou̯d̪ʱuɾi]; 1906 – 15 April 1966) was a politician, journalist, footballer and writer fr…

Evelyn Waugh

1903 – 1966

War correspondent, Novelist, Writer, Autobiographer, Screenwriter, Science fiction writer

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journali…

Frits Zernike

1888 – 1966

Physicist, Mathematician, Inventor, University teacher, Chemist

Frederik "Frits" Zernike (Dutch: [frɪt ˈsɛrnikə]; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his i…

Anna Akhmatova

1889 – 1966

Writer, Translator, Literary critic, Poet, Literary scholar, Librettist

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), known by her pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet poet. She was nominated for…

Buster Keaton

1895 – 1966

Comedian, Film producer, Writer, Film editor, Military personnel, Stunt performer

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent films, in which…

Sergei Korolev

1906 – 1966

Military flight engineer, Design engineer, University teacher, Military personnel, Scientist, Engineer

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906] – 14 January 1966) was a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led the developmen…

Lal Bahadur Shastri

1904 – 1966

Politician

Lal Bahadur Shastri (2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He p…

Bimal Roy

— – 1966

Film Director

Bangladesh-associated historical figure. Imported from the user-provided death-anniversary catalogue; biographical enrichment can be added after verification.

Girin Chakraborty

1918 – 1965

Singer

গিরীন চক্রবর্তী (৫ মে ১৯১৮ – ২২ ডিসেম্বর ১৯৬৫) ছিলেন কিংবদন্তি বাঙালি পল্লীগীতি তথা লোকসঙ্গীত ও নজরুলগীতি গায়ক, সুরকার ও সঙ্গীতগবেষক। অজস্র কালজয়ী বাংলাগান বি…

W. Somerset Maugham

1874 – 1965

Playwright, Novelist, Physician writer, Screenwriter, Prose writer, Literary critic

William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories. Born in Paris, wher…

Henry A. Wallace

1888 – 1965

Politician, Writer, Horticulturist

Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin…

Hermann Staudinger

1881 – 1965

Chemist, Engineer, University teacher, Organic chemist, Polymer chemist

Hermann Staudinger (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈʃtaʊ̯dɪŋɐ] ; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecul…

Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui

— – 1965

Bangladesh-associated historical figure. Imported from the user-provided death-anniversary catalogue; biographical enrichment can be added after verification.

Albert Schweitzer

1875 – 1965

Theologian, Philosopher, Physician, Organist, Physician writer, University teacher

Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʃvaɪtsɐ] ; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organ…

Le Corbusier

1887 – 1965

Architect, Painter, Writer, Urban planner, Photographer, Draftsperson

Here is a refined and fact-checked memorial biography of Charles‑Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, based on reliable sources and preserving only well-su…

Syngman Rhee

1875 – 1965

Politician, Journalist, Writer

Syngman Rhee (Korean: 이승만; Hanja: 李承晚; pronounced [iː.sɯŋ.man]; 26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965) (also known by his art name Unam (우남; 雩南)) was a South Korean poli…

Martin Buber

1878 – 1965

Philosopher, Existentialist, Translator, Pedagogue, Writer, Literary editor

Martin Buber (German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈbuːbɐ] ; Hebrew: מרטין בובר; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian-Israeli philosopher best kn…

Ullaskar Dutta

1885 – 1965

Revolutionary, Writer

Ullaskar Dutta (16 April 1885 – 17 May 1965) was an Indian revolutionary associated with Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar of Bengal, and was a close associate of B…