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Zaki Naguib Mahmoud
1905 births | 1993 deaths | cairo university alumni birthplace = deathdate = deathplace = nationality = Egyptian occupation = Philosopher notableworks = influences = awards = The State Incentive Award (1960), The State Merit Award (1970), Arab Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Award (1984), The American University in Cairo Honorary Doctorate (1985) }} Zaki Naguib Mahmoud (February 2, 1905- September 8, 1993) was an Egyptian philosopher, intellect and thinker. Considered as a leader pathfinder in modern Arabic philosophy. Best known with "The philosopher of authors and author of philosophers" as Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad called him. Mahmoud adhered to logical positivism and adopted science interpretation with social motivations to reconcile the Arab tradition with modernism. Mahmoud defines the "Arab tradition" as the configuration of techniques by which our ancestors lived. And he viewed logical positivism as the spirit of "Modernism".
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Zaki Naguib has authored many books and translations in addition to his numerous articles in magazines and newspapers including the Egyptian Al Ahram.Papa Williams
1913 births | 1993 deaths | cleveland indians players | major league players from mississippiFred (Papa) Williams (July 17, 1913 to November 2, 1993) was a Major League Baseball player. Williams played First base for the Cleveland Indians in the 1945 season. In 16 games, he had four hits in 19 at-bats, with one walk. Williams batted and threw right handed. He was born and died in Meridian, Mississippi.
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Jorge Carpio Nicolle
1908 births | 1993 deaths | assassinated diplomats | assassinated guatemalan people | assassinated guatemalan politicians | deaths by firearm in guatemala | terrorism deaths in guatemala | terrorism in guatemalaJorge Carpio Nicolle (June 26, 1908 – July 3, 1993) was a Guatemalan politician and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of the Unión del Centro Nacional (UCN) in 1984, and ran as the party's candidate for president in the elections of 1985 and 1990. He came in second in both elections. He was the director and editor of El Grafico, at one time one of Guatemala's largest newspapers. He also served as Guatemala's Ambassador to the United Nations. > He was assassinated in July 3, 1993, along with three other political leaders of the UCN, in the municipality of Chichicastenango, El Quiché. Surviving witnesses reported that the murders took place after the group was intercepted by members of a Guatemalan Civil Defense Patrol, a type of paramilitary unit under the control of the Army. >
Carpio's first cousin, Ramiro de León Carpio, was later appointed President after the failed auto-coup by Jorge Serrano Elias. >
Bill Seddon
1901 births | 1993 deaths | arsenal f.c. players | english footballers | gillingham f.c. players | luton town f.c. players | notts county f.c. players | people from hackney William Charles "Bill" Seddon (28 July 1901 — January 1993) was an English footballer.
Born in Clapton, London, he played junior football in London before joining Gillingham as an amateur, and had an unsuccessful trial with Aston Villa before joining Arsenal in December 1924. Seddon played as a half back and was mainly a second-string player, he played over 200 Football Combination matches for Arsenal Reserves, eventually rising to captain as the side won five Combination titles in the 1920s.
Johnny Bratton
1927 births | 1993 deaths | people from arkansas | welterweights | world boxing champions | world welterweight championsJohnny Bratton, also known as Honey Boy Bratton, (born 1927-09-09 in Little Rock, AR and died 1993-08-15), was a professional boxer in the welterweight (147 lb) division. He fought many of the best fighters of his era in the division >.
Amateur Career
Bratton started boxing at age 14 and competed in several Golden Gloves events before turning pro.Ariga Toragoro
1890 births | 1993 deaths | japanese photographersNihon shashinka jiten. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
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Thomas Warnock Hyde
1993 deaths | deaths by euthanasiaThomas Warnock Hyde Jr. (1963? - August 4, 1993) was the 17th known patient to receive assistance in suicide by Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Hyde, a landscaper who moved from California to Novi, Michigan, had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's Disease in 1992, about a year before his death.]]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/interviews/ At the time of his diagnosis, he was in the process of getting his life back together after serving time in prison and being convicted of a robbery. He had a daughter with his fiancee, Heidi Fernandez, in the summer of 1992. Hyde sought help from doctors after he noticed his muscles getting cold and falling off his motorcycle. He contacted Kevorkian in May 1993, and was interviewed by the pathologist in July, a month before Kevorkian helped Hyde end his life in the back of his 1968 Volkswagen Van in the parking lot behind Kevorkian's residence in Royal Oak. on August 4, 1993.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/interviews/hydescript.html Hyde inhaled carbon monoxide provided by Kevorkian at around 8:45 AM. Police later found Kevorkian with Hyde in his van at the thousand-acre park of Belle Isle in the Detroit River. At the time of his death, Hyde's speech was impared beyond comprehension, and he only had use of his left hand. Kevorkian was aquitted in court in 1994 after being charged with violating Michigan's law against assisted suicide.http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F03E1D91430F93AA15757C0A962958260
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David Lawrence McKay
1901 births | 1993 deaths | american latter day saints | leaders in the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints | mormon missionariesDavid Lawrence McKay (30 September 1901–27 October 1993) was the eighth general superintendent of the Sunday School of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1966 to 1971. McKay was a member of the general superintendency of that organization from 1949 to 1971.
McKay was born in Ogden, Utah, the oldest son of future LDS Church Apostle and President of the Church David O. McKay. David Lawrence McKay became the second assistant to George R. Hill, the general superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union in 1949. In 1952, he became Hill's first assistant, a position McKay held until 1966 when he succeeded Hill and became the eighth general superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union. McKay was released in 1971 and was succeeded by Russell M. Nelson.
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
1927 births | 1993 deaths | jazz bassists | oud players | people from brooklynAhmed Abdul-Malik(Born January 30, 1927 in Brooklyn; died October 2, 1993 in Long Branch, New Jersey) was a jazz bassist and oud player of Sudanese descent. He is noted for integrating Mideastern and North African music styles in his jazz music. He served as bassist for Art Blakey, Randy Weston, and Thelonious Monk among others. As an oud player he did a tour of South America for the United States Department of State and performed at an African jazz festival in Morocco.
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