Remembered
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Toru Takemitsu
1930 – 1996
Composer
Toru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer who combined elements of Japanese musical tradition with modern classical techniques. His wide-ranging output included or…
Abdul Haque Faridi
1903 – 1996
Writer
Abul Faraḥ Muḥammad Abdul Ḥaque Farīdī (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996) was a Bangladeshi educator and author. In recognition of his contributions in the field o…
Gene Kelly
1912 – 1996
Film actor, Singer, Film director, Actor, Choreographer, Dancer
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and a…
Joseph Brodsky
1940 – 1996
Poet, Translator, Essayist, Playwright, Dramaturge, Lecturer
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), anglicized as Joseph, was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint…
N. T. Rama Rao
1923 – 1996
Actor, Filmmaker, Politician
N. T. Rama Rao was an Indian actor, filmmaker and politician who became a major star of Telugu cinema. He was especially known for portraying figures from Hindu…
François Mitterrand
1916 – 1996
Politician, Lawyer, Journalist
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was President of France from 1981 to 1995. He was the first left-wing politician to…
Abdur Rouf Choudhury
1929 – 1996
Writer
Abdur Rouf Choudhury (1 March 1929 – 1996) was a Bengali writer. Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdur_Rouf_Choudhury
Monajatuddin
1945 – 1995
Journalist
Monajatuddin (18 January 1945 – 29 December 1995) was a Bangladeshi investigative journalist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1997 by the Government of Banglad…
Dean Martin
1917 – 1995
Singer, Actor, Comedian, Film producer, Television actor, Boxer
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian and television host. Nicknamed the "King of Cool…
Abul Kashem Sandwip
1944 – 1995
Journalist
Abul Kashem Sandwip (1 April 1944 – 10 December 1995) was a Bangladeshi educationist, journalist and organizer. He is one of the founders of Bangladesh Betar, t…
Ken Saro-Wiwa
1941 – 1995
Writer, Environmental activist
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer and environmental activist from the Ogoni people. He led the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni Peo…
Gilles Deleuze
1925 – 1995
Philosopher, Historian, Writer, University teacher, Philosophy historian, Art theorist
Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death, wrote on a variety of subjects…
Yitzhak Rabin
1922 – 1995
Diplomat, Military officer, Politician
Yitzhak Rabin (; Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין, IPA: [itsˈχak ˈʁabin]; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister…
Alec Douglas-Home
1903 – 1995
Politician, Cricketer, Diplomat, Baron
Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), known as Lord Dunglass from 1918 to 1951 and the Earl of Home from…
Salil Chowdhury
1922 – 1995
Composer, Songwriter, Writer
Salil Chowdhury was an Indian composer, songwriter, writer and poet whose work crossed Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam cinema. He combined Indian folk and classica…
Michael Ende
1929 – 1995
Writer, Children's writer, Screenwriter, Science fiction writer, Short story writer, Fantasy author
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (German pronunciation: [ˈmɪçaʔeːl ʔanˈdʁeːas ˈhɛlmuːt ˈʔɛndə]; 12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy an…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 – 1995
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, University teacher
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American astrophysicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoreti…
Juan Manuel Fangio
1911 – 1995
Entrepreneur, Formula One driver, Racing automobile driver
Juan Manuel Fangio (Spanish: [ˈxwan maˈnwel ˈfaŋxjo], Italian: [ˈfandʒo]; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula O…
Ernest Walton
1903 – 1995
Physicist, University teacher
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "…
Jonas Salk
1914 – 1995
Physician, Epidemiologist, Inventor, Virologist, Immunologist
Jonas Edward Salk (; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first success…