He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Two countries: India and Pakistan. Hindu and Muslim.
Tushar Gandhi
( great-grandson )
【 Helen Keller 】
—-1880-1968(87)
Anne Sullivan—1866-1963.
US writer, blind and deaf from an early age, she learned how to read, type, and speak with the help of her tutor, Anne Sullivan.
budge
-make or cause movement.
- budge from her opinion.
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You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels, and will continue to quicken in other minds.
【 Martin Luther King 】
——1929-1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
King advanced civil rights through nonviolence, inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King Sr..
4. Leaders:
【 Winston Churchill 】
—- 1874-1965(90)
He was Prime Minister of the UK 1940-45, during the Second World War, and again 1951-55.
He was suffered the persistent cerebral arteriosclerosis, a brain disorder. Planning for the funeral was initiated after his stroke in 1953 while in his second term as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, began 12 years before Churchill's death.
His was the first state funeral for a non-royal family member, and as of 2020 it remains the most recent state funeral in the United Kingdom.
Celia Sandys
( Granddaughter )
【 Franklin D. Roosevelt 】
—- 1882-1945 (63)
32nd president of the US 1933-45.
He played an important part during World War II.
He was the only president to be elected to a third (and then a fourth ) term in office.
He didn’t just cope with his illness, he tried to find a cure.
【 Margaret Thatcher 】
1925-2013 （87）
① "Iron Lady" was the longest-serving British prime minister.
② She was the first woman to hold that office.
③ Known as Thatcherism.
Died of a stroke in London.
【 Nelson Mandela 】
1918-2013 (95)
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary political leader. He spent 27 years in prison, most of them isolated on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.
His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation.
The first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state, died after suffering from a prolonged respiratory infection.
5. Explorers
❶ Ernest Shackleton — 1874-1922(47) — an Anglo-Irish who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.
( He aimed to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent but died of a heart attack off South Georgia. He was buried on the island. )
❷ Gertrude Bell - 1868-1926(57) - English archaeologist and supporter of Arab independence. She helped support the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.
（She suicided, from an overdose of sleeping pills in her bedroom in Baghdad.
- Being a woman in a man's world was no picnic. ）
❸ Neil Armstrong 1930-2012 （82）
The first person to walk on the Moon.
1969 - The Apollo 11 Moon landing.
2012 - He died following complications resulting from a cardiovascular procedure.
❹ Jane Goodall 1934-now (87)
She is best known for her 60-year study of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960, where she witnessed human-like behaviours amongst chimpanzees, including armed conflict.
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Every single individual matter and has a role to play .. every single one of us makes a difference every single day. Hope makes the world meaningful.
6.Entertainers
Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977 (88)
A comic actor who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
His career spanned more than 75 years,
from childhood in the Victorian era
until a year before his death in 1977.
( He died peacefully in his sleep.
- He had been confined to a wheelchair and his speech, hearing and sight were impaired.
- He had been put on oxygen because of a deterioration in his breathing. )
Billie Holiday 1915-59 (44) US Jazz singer.
She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962 (36)
She was emblematic of the era's sexual revolution.
David Bowie 1947-2016 (69)
He was a leading figure in the music industry.
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7.Artists & Writers
Pablo Picasso 81-73(91) cubism
Virginia Woolf 82-41 （59）
An English writer, and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Alfred Hitchcock 99-80 (80)
He was an film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is one of the most influential and widely studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as the "Master of Suspense".
Quote
Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.
Andy Warhol 28-87 (58)
He was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.
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In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.